Professor Hannibal Travis has published widely on genocide, cultural survival, and human rights. His research in this area has appeared in edited volumes from Cambridge University Press, the University of Pennsylvania Press, Palgrave, Berghahn, and Bloomsbury, and in international law journals of the Cornell, Georgetown, Northwestern, Washington University, Arizona, and Brooklyn law schools. His work in genocide studies has appeared in the Middle East Quarterly, Genocide Studies, and Prevention: An International Journal (twice), Genocide Studies International (three times), The International Journal of Minority and Group Rights, and the Global Studies Law Review (Washington University). He is the editor of  The Assyrian Genocide: Cultural and Political Legacies (Routledge, 2017), and the author of Genocide, Ethnonationalism, and the United Nations: Exploring the Causes of Mass Killing Since 1945 (Routledge, 2012), and Genocide in the Middle East: The Ottoman Empire, Iraq, and Sudan (Carolina Academic Press, 2010). Since at least 2019, he has served on the editorial advisory board member of Genocide Studies International (University of Toronto Press) and has advised Edinburgh University Press on manuscripts in its Middle East minorities series.

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His research on the human rights situation of Assyrians, Armenians, and Greeks in modern Iraq, Syria, and Turkey has appeared in top journals of Middle East Studies, genocide studies, and international law, including the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Middle East Review of International Politics, the Middle East Quarterly, Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, and Cornell International Law Journal.  His books and book chapters have been reviewed in leading journals as well, including the Middle East Journal, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Slavic Review, Human Rights Review, and Genocide Studies International. 

 

Professor Travis also teaches and conducts research in the fields of cyberlaw, intellectual property, antitrust, international and comparative law, and human rights. His forthcoming book in this area is Platform Neutrality Rights: AI Censors and the Future of Freedom (Routledge, 2024), and his prior books include Harmonizing Intellectual Property for a Trans-Atlantic Knowledge Economy (Peter Mezei, Hannibal Travis, and Anett Pogácsás eds., Brill, 2024), and Copyright Class Struggle: Creative Economies in the Social Media Age (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He joined FIU after several years practicing intellectual property and Internet law at O’Melveny & Myers in San Francisco, California, and at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York. He has also served as the Irving Cypen Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Florida, a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Villanova University, and a Visiting Fellow at Oxford. He graduated summa cum laude in philosophy from Washington University, where he was named to Phi Beta Kappa, and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School.

 

Professor Travis also serves on the advisory board for the Assyrian Studies Association, has authored or edited several books on the Assyrian Genocide, and other related topics, and has edited this curriculum.