# Campus bonus episode: An interview with Kathryn Sikkink of Harvard Kennedy School

An episode of [Campus Talks by Times Higher Education](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/588209017), 1 Mar 2024, 24 min.

Audio: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/adn7q6/Kathryn-Sikkink-final-mix-bonus-episode.mp3

In this bonus episode of the THE podcast, we continue the theme of universities’ role in fostering civic engagement with an interview with renowned human rights scholar and award-winning author Kathryn Sikkink. Sikkink is the Ryan Family professor of human rights policy at Harvard Kennedy School, as well as faculty co-chair of the Harvard Votes Challenge, a non-partisan initiative that promotes student voter registration and turnout. Her books include The Hidden Face of Rights: Toward a Politics of Responsibilities (Yale University Press, 2020) and The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics (W. W. Norton & Company, 2011), which won the Robert F. Kennedy Center Book Award. In this discussion, we talk about the origins of Sikkink’s interest in human rights, what support students need to navigate the mechanisms of voting, and why showing up on election day is not just a right, it’s a responsibility.

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