ALISON BRYSK is Chair and Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Global Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara. She is the author of seven books on human rights, democracy, global governance, social movements, gender rights, and Latin American politics. The latest, Abortion Rights Backlash: The Struggle for Democracy in Europe and the Americas will be published by Oxford University Press. Brysk has also edited numerous volumes, most recently Populism and Human Rights--featuring UCSB political scientists Kathleen Bruhn and Satyajit Singh. Brysk has been a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center; Fulbright Professor in Canada, India, and at Oxford; Visiting Scholar in Argentina, Ecuador, Sweden, Japan, South Africa, the Netherlands, Spain, Austria, France, and Taiwan; and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.