Dr Cora (Corina) Lacatus
Career Development Fellow (US Equivalent: Visiting Assistant Professor) 1 June 2017
Thesis Title: The design of national human rights institutions: global patterns of institutional diffusion and strength (2017)
Supervisor: Dr Ulrich Sedelmeier
Cora is a Career Development Fellow at University of Edinburgh and has a double affiliation with the Institute of International Cultural Relations (IICR) and the Politics and International Relations (PIR) Department. She is currently working on a book that investigates institutional strength in the case of national human rights institutions. She is contributing to the development of a new eMSc programme at IICR and also designs core courses on research methods and methodology; the politics of human rights; and different aspects of culture that are relevant for the study of international politics.