Turkish activist joins staff
Zebra Arat brings a passion for human rights to UConn
By Annie Pancak
This article is part of a series highlighting this year’s new professors who have outstanding achievements in their career and major plans to bring to UConn.
In her high school years, new professor Zehra Arat was an activist in Turkey. She moved to the U.S. to do graduate work in political science in 1980. Having taught for almost 30 years, she came to UConn to share her human rights background and plan on developing an exchange program with Turkish universities.
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