Alison Dundes Renteln is Professor of Political Science, Anthropology, Law, and Public Policy at USC where she teaches Law and Public Policy with an emphasis on comparative and international law. She also served as Director of the Unruh Institute of Politics for three years. She has a B.A. in History and Literature (Modern Europe) from Harvard-Radcliffe, a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from UC Berkeley and a J.D. from the USC Gould School of Law. Her publications focus on international human rights, particularly cultural rights. She was a Fellow at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences where she conducted research on incentives for civic engagement and the Human Rights Consortium of the School of Advanced Study at the University of London where she studied images in human rights and humanitarian campaigns. Her current research is at the intersection between sociolegal studies and sensory studies.