Danielle Celermajer is the director of Master of Human Rights and Democratisation (Asia Pacific Regional Program), a European Union funded project establishing networked postgraduate human rights education across the Asia Pacific region. 

Her primary areas of research are human rights and political theory.  In the area of human rights, her research focuses on transitional justice and the question of how contemporary states and societies can deal with past violations, the relationship between human rights and religious norms and institutions and human rights education.  Her primary research areas in political theory include collective responsibility, conceptual frameworks for human rights and the relationship between secular philosophical and theological thought. 

She has held teaching positions at the University of Sydney and Columbia University and received her Ph.D. in political theory (summa cum laudae) from Columbia University. Prior to entering academia, she was Director of Policy at the Australian Human Rights Commission, where she authored numerous reports on Indigenous human rights and was principal speech writer to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner.  Her book, Sins of the Nation and the Ritual of Apology, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2009 and she is editor of a forthcoming collection on Hannah Arendt, Power, Judgment and Political Evil, to be published by Ashgate in 2010.

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Dr Danielle Celermajer

Faculty of Arts

The University of Sydney, Australia

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