Professor Richard A. Wilson's latest book, Writing History in International Criminal Trials (Cambridge University Press, 2011) has been selected by Choice Review Online as one of the outstanding academic titles for 2012.

Professor Wilson is the Gladstein Chair, Professor of Anthropology and Law and Director of the Human Rights Institute at UConn. He is the author of numerous works on human rights, truth commissions and international criminal tribunals, including Maya Resurgence in Guatemala (1995) and The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa (2001) and the edited or co-edited books Low Intensity Democracy (1993), Human Rights, Culture and Context (1997), Culture and Rights (2001), Human Rights in Global Perspective (2003), Human Rights and the ‘War on Terror’ (2005) and Humanitarianism and Suffering: the mobilization of empathy (2008, Cambridge University Press). His most recent book, Writing History in International Criminal Trials, was released by Cambridge University Press in 2011.