While working on his Ph.D. at the University of Connecticut, Ben has become passionate about researching and teaching human rights conceptualization, measurement, and fulfillment, and how human rights outcomes can be used as indicators of healthy, happy, societies.   He believes in an interactive environment in the classroom, since complicated subjects involving these social outcomes require that current understandings be constantly re-examined and injected with new perspectives.  He has found that students approaching human rights for the first time can offer wonderful insights about the nature and meaning of human rights, and other social phenomena.

Ben was born and raised in Northern Vermont and has also lived in New Hampshire and Connecticut.   He is an avid skier and cyclist, and enjoys anything that gets him outside.

• Carbonetti, Benjamin and Chapman, Audrey,  “Human Rights Protections for Vulnerable and Disadvantaged Groups: The Contributions of the UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.” Human Rights Quarterly (forthcoming 2011).
• Carbonetti, Benjamin.  “On What Does Leisure Rest?” Economic Rights Workshop, Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut, April 9, 2011 (co-authored with David L. Richards). 
• Carbonetti, Benjamin and Stockemer, Daniel.  “Why Do Richer Democracies Survive? The Non-Effect of Unconventional Political Participation.”  Social Science Journal 47, no. 2 (2010): 237-251.
• Carbonetti, Benjamin.  “Why Do Richer Democracies Survive? The Non-Effect of Unconventional Participation.”  Northeast Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, November 13-15, 2008 (co-authored with Daniel Stockemer).
  

• Arthur H. Hughes Award for Teaching Achievement, 2021