Barbara Keys

Barbara Keys is the author of two books: Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s (Harvard University Press, 2014), which offers an explanation of the origins of the human rights “boom” of the 1970s in the United States; and the prizewinning Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s (Harvard University Press, 2006), a transnational study of the emergence of international sports competitions as a significant political and cultural force in the interwar years. She has a PhD in History from Harvard University and has taught at the University of Melbourne since 2006. Her current research projects are on transnational campaigns against torture since 1945; the influence of Henry Kissinger and his consulting firm Kissinger Associates on Sino-American relations from 1971 to the present; and the idealisms associated with international sport.