Faculty
Peter Lucas
Part-Time Faculty, International Affairs
Peter Lucas has taught at Columbia University, New York University, and The New School. His research and teaching focuses on international studies in human rights, human rights and photography, human rights and media, the poetics of witnessing, peace education, human rights education, and documentary practice. His current projects include a study of seven photojournalists for the Rio-based web portal, Viva Favela. His book, Viva Favela: Photojournalism, Visual Inclusion, and Human Rights in Brazil is forthcoming.
Lucas was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for 2011 for his feature-length documentary The Last Hour of Summer, about pre-dictatorship Ipanema in the early 1960s.
Courses Taught
Human Rights and Media
