Sanna Eriksson
E-mail: sanna.eriksson@york.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)1904 325830
Staff
Sanna Eriksson
Sanna Eriksson is the Centre Co-ordinator for the Centre for Applied Human Rights. She supervises the Protective Fellowship Scheme for human rights defenders at risk and also handles the Centre’s administration. She has an MA in East Asian Studies (University of Helsinki) and an E.MA in Human Rights and Democratisation (European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation). She has also studied at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and at SIM/Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Before joining CAHR, she worked at the Embassy of Finland in Beijing, China, and at EuropeAid in the European Commission.
Publications
'Chinese Cultural Values and International Human Rights: How to Conduct Empirical Human Rights Fieldwork in China', in European Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation. Awarded Theses of the Academic Year 2009/2010 in the series Ricerche. Venice: Marsilio Editori SPA, 2011.
'Fashioning Chinese Nationalism: Female Bodies as Political Signifiers in the Liangyou huabao magazine, 1933–1936' in New Perspectives from Japan and China, ed. Mikako Iwatake. Helsinki: Renvall Publications, 2010.