Alexandra Cosima Budabin received her doctorate in Politics from the New School for Social Research. She is Senior Researcher at the Human Rights Center of the University of Dayton and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Minority Rights at Eurac Research. Her research on advocacy practices and non-state actors in human rights, conflict, humanitarianism and development has appeared in World Development, Perspective on Politics, New Political Science, Human Rights Quarterly, Journal of Human Rights, Humanity, and Third World Quarterly. Her first book is "Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development," with Lisa A. Richey (Copenhagen Business School) was published with University of Minnesota Press.