DAVID R. PENNA
Dept. of Government,
Gallaudet University.,
800 Florida Ave, NE,
Washington, DC 20002-3695,

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

• Ph.D. (Aug. 1993) Graduate School of International Studies, University. of Denver. Areas of Specialization: International Politics, Human Rights, Africa.
• J.D. (June 1985) University of Denver, College of Law.
• M.A./B.A. (December 1982) Duquesne University. Major: Political Science. Minor: English Literature Honors.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• "Democratization and Pluralism in South Africa: Policy and Process in the Post-Apartheid Transition," in Democratization and the Protection of Human Rights, Patricia J. Campbell and Kathleen Mahoney-Norris, editors, Praeger, 1998.
• "Human Rights and Culture: Beyond Universality and Relativism," (Co- authored with Patricia J. Campbell) Third World Quarterly, vol. 19, pp. 7-27, 1998.
• "Structural Adjustment and the Right to Personal Security," in Economic Justice in Africa, George W. Shepherd, Jr. and Karamo N. M. Sonko, eds. Greenwood Press, 1994.
• Africa, Human Rights and the Global System. (Co-editor,authored one substantive chapter plus co-authored the Introduction.) 1993, Greenwood Press.
• Racism and the Underclass, (co-editor; co-authored 2 chapters), Greenwood Press , 1991.
• "Regulation of the Environment in a Traditional Society as the Basis for a Right to a Satisfactory Environment, " Africa Today, 1st Quarter 1993.
• "The United Nations, Self-Defense and International Law in the Post-Cold War Era," 1991, Denver Journal of International Law and Policy.
• "Apartheid, The Law and Reform in South Africa," Africa Today, v. 37, no. 2, July 1990.
• "Social Movements and Human Rights in South Africa," Global Justice, vol. 1, no. 1 (June/July 1990).
• "A Woman's Right to Political Participation in Africa," Africa Today, v. 37, no.1, pp.49- 56, 1990 (with K. Mahoney-Norris).
• "Remedies for Discrimination in the United States," chapter from Racial Conditions in the United States: The Second Decade of the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination, CORD report submitted to UN., 1990.
• "Right to Fair Trial in East Africa," (with John Rusk) Africa Today, v. 36 nos. 3 & 4, pp. 98-102(1989).
• "Human Rights in the Indian Ocean Nations," Africa Today, v.36, no.2 38-40.
• "Selected Bibliography," in V. Nanda, ed. The Refugee Dilemma, 1989, Greenwood Press.
• "Press Freedom in Southern Africa: 1988," Africa Today, v. 36, no. 1, pp. 72-73 (1989).
• Various book reviews and research notes in African Studies Review, Global Justice, Africa Today and the International Practitioners' Notebook.