Onur Bakiner, PhD

Onur Bakiner is associate professor of political science at Seattle University.  His research and teaching interests include transitional justice, human rights, judicial politics, and technology & society, particularly in Latin America and the Middle East. His current research addresses the impact of artificial intelligence technologies on human rights. His book Truth Commissions: Memory, Power, and Legitimacy (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015) has been awarded the Best Book Award by the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association in 2017. His articles have been published in the