Rebecca Gordon

Rebecca Gordon received her PhD from Graduate Theological Union. Her latest book is American Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes. She publishes regularly at Tomdispatch.com, a project of The Nation Institute.

Prior to teaching at USF, Rebecca spent many years as an activist in a variety of movements, including for women's and LGBTQ+ liberation, the Central America and South Africa solidarity movements and for racial justice in the United States. Her courses focus on issues of war and peace, justice and collective responsibility, asking each other how we can "change the world from here." Students will deal with serious subjects with passion, rigor, and humor.

• Political philosophy
• Theories of justice

• MDiv, Starr King School for the Ministry
• PhD, Graduate Theological Union
• BA, Reed College

• The House the Torture Built: Race, Power, and Pain in the United States of America (Forthcoming. Haymarket: 2021)

• American Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes (Hotbooks: 2016);

• Mainstreaming Torture: Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 Period Oxford: 2014

• How the U.S. Created the Central American Immigration Crisis (http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176598)

• From Mowing the Grass to Cutting the Flesh: How Young Women Learn to Hate Their Genitals (http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176536)