Professor of Anthropology & Sociology

Courses Taught

• Cultural Anthropology
• Anthropology of Children and Childhood
• African Peoples and Cultures
• Law and the Family
• Anthropology of War
• Israeli Society and Culture
• Criminal Law

Research Interests

Prof. Rosen's research interests are in the relationship between law and culture. He has carried out research in Kenya, Sierra Leone, Israel and the United States.

Education

• Ph.D, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• J.D., Pace University School of Law

Selected Publications

• Armies of the Young: Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism. Rutgers University Press, 2005
• Un Esercito di Bambini: Giovani soldati nei conflitt internazionali. Milan: Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2007 [Italian Edition of Armies of the Young]
• “Child Soldiers in Literature or how Johnny Tremain became Johnny Mad Dog,” in Maartje Abbenhuis and Sara Buttsworth (eds.) Restaging War in the Western World: Noncombatant Experiences, 1890-Present (Palgrave MacMillan, In Press)
• “Child Soldiers, International Humanitarian Law, and the Globalization of Childhood,” American Anthropologist, 109 (2) 296-306, June 2007.
• “The Rights of Children: Public Policy Statement,” Medical Anthropology Quarterly, June 2007, Vol. 21, No. 2: 234-238 [with Cindy Dell Clark, Maria Claudia Duque Paramo, and Elisa J. Sobo]
• “Children's Rights and the International Community,” Anthropology News, April 2008: 5-6

Selected Presentations

• “The Making and Representation of Child Soldiers and the Contemporary Discourse on the Child.”  (Co-authored with Susan Rosenbloom, Drew University) Paper presented to the conference Re-Presenting Childhood and Youth (2nd International Conference) University of Sheffield, UK. July 8, 2008
• “Annie Gets Her Gun: Girl Soldiers in Contemporary Armed Conflicts.” Rutgers Center for Children and Childhood Studies, April 10, 2008