Professor Simon Balto Named a 2022-2023 Carr Center Fellow at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy

Simon Balto headshotProfessor Simon Balto has recently been named as a 2022-2023 Carr Center Fellow at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy serves as the hub of the Harvard Kennedy School’s research, teaching, and training in the human rights domain. The center embraces a dual mission: to educate students and the next generation of leaders from around the world in human rights policy and practice; and to convene and provide policy-relevant knowledge to international organizations, governments, policymakers, and businesses.

Professor Balto is the author of the multi-award-winning ­Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power (University of North Carolina Press, 2019). He is also the recipient of numerous fellowships, including from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.