Daniel Rothenberg

ASU Future of War Fellow

As an ASU Future of War Fellow, Daniel Rothenberg is writing a book on the role of narrative in explaining why people defend politically significant ideas where clear evidence undermines their position. Rothenberg is currently Professor of Practice in the School of Politics and Global Studies and the Lincoln Fellow for Ethics and International Human Rights Law at Arizona State University. He is the co-editor, with Peter Bergen, of Drone Wars: Transforming Conflict, Law and Policy, to be published by Cambridge University Press. Previously, he was a managing director at the International Human Rights Law Institute at DePaul University College of Law, a senior fellow at the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan and a fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows. From 2004 through 2010 he worked in Afghanistan and Iraq designing and managing human rights and rule of law projects. Rothenberg is a graduate of Brown University, has a M.A. in anthropology from the University of Chicago and is a Ph.D. candidate in international law at the University of Nottingham. Rothenberg will also be the co-director of the Future of War program at New America.