Three professors at the Graduate School of International Studies have won the most prestigious awards the University of Denver bestows on its faculty members.

Micheline Ishay, professor and director of the MA Program in International Human Rights, is the recipient of the 2007-2008 Distinguished Scholar Award. Jack Donnelly, Andrew W. Mellon Professor and co-director of the PhD program, has been named University Lecturer, which is awarded solely on scholarly work. Barry Hughes, professor and director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures, has been selected as a John Evans Professor, the highest honor a faculty member can receive from the University of Denver.

The Office of the Provost announced the faculty award winners April 30. Three other University of Denver faculty members won awards for teaching or scholarship. They will be recognized along with Ishay, Donnelly and Hughes at the University’ of Denver’s fall convocation ceremony.

Ishay is the author of History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era (2004) and Human Rights Reader (1997); both have been widely translated and adopted for human rights courses in various disciplines and universities around the world. In addition to her responsibilities as director of the human rights program, she teaches courses in political theory, history and international studies at both the MA and the PhD levels.

Donnelly is a world-renowned human rights scholar, known foremost for his work arguing for a universalistic approach to implementing internationally recognized human rights. He has written more than 50 articles and book chapters, which have been translated into nine languages, and is the author of International Human Rights (third edition, 2006), Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice (second edition, 2003), and The Concept of Human Rights (1985).

Hughes is one of the world’s foremost experts in dynamic modeling. He is the developer of International Futures, a computer modeling system helps policy analysts forecast long-term global changes and trends in demographics, economics, the environment, and international politics. The system is widely used by such agencies as the European Commission, United States National Intelligence Council and United Nations Environmental Programme. Hughes has consulted for the governments of Germany, Iran, Egypt, the United States, and the European Union, and has taught in China and Costa Rica. He is the author of Exploring and Shaping International Futures (2006), Continuity and Change in World Politics (fourth edition, 2000), International Futures (third edition, 1999), Disarmament and Development (1990), World Futures (1985) World Modeling (1980), and The Domestic Context of American Foreign Policy (1978), as well as numerous articles.