Robert Harding
Countries of Expertise
Specialties
- Climate-Related Issues
- Coercive Population Control
- Deportees/Criminal Deportees
- Ethnic Discrimination/Persecution
- Gang-Related Violence/Non-State Actors
- Gender-Based Violence (GBV)/Domestic Violence/Family Violence
- Government/State Actor Persecution
- Journalist Persecution
- LGBTQ
- Mental Illness
- Political Persecution
- Prison Conditions
- Religious Discrimination/Persecution
- Risk Of Retaliation
- Safe Internal Relocation
- Sexual Abuse/Assault
- Sufficiency Of Protection
- Torture
- Trafficking
- Tribal Discrimination/Persecution
About Robert Harding
Dr. Harding earned a Ph.D. in International Studies from the University of Miami with specializations in Latin American Politics, Foreign Policy Analysis, and International Relations. His major professor and dissertation chair was the late Dr. Enrique Baloyra, a renowned Cuba-born scholar. He has held full-time academic appointments in Virginia, Alabama, and most recently Georgia, where he is Professor of Political Science at Valdosta State University. He is the author of three books and several book chapters as well as over a dozen journal articles. He has been an invited presenter on Latin American politics in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. He has been a federally recognized asylum expert since 2018, working for asylum attorneys throughout the United States as well as the UK and and the Netherlands.
