The Center for the Study of Human Rights serves as the umbrella organization for human rights projects and programs. Its director is Andrea Miller, PhD.
The center is guided by a steering committee that will provide advice to all academic programs in human rights; organize co-curricular human rights activities; seek funding for and financially support research and co-curricular projects; and coordinate scheduling and advertising of human-rights-related activities. 
The inaugural steering committee comprises representatives of Webster’s human-rights-related departments and programs.  These are:

    • Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences
      Don Conway-Long, PhD, associate professor and department chair
    • Department of History, Politics, and International Relations
      Kelly-Kate Pease, PhD, associate professor
    • Department of Religious Studies
      Chris Parr, PhD, professor
    • Legal Studies Program
      Robin Jefferson Higgins, JD, program director
    • Undergraduate Program in Human Rights
      Paul Moriarty, PhD, visiting assistant professor of philosophy, mentor to philosophy’s BA in human rights
    • Webster University Summer Institute for Human Rights
      Andrea Miller, PhD, institute director
    • Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
      Michael Hulsizer, PhD, center co-director and associate professor of behavioral and social sciences
    • Center for International Education
      Deborah Trott Pierce, PhD, center director

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