Felisa Tibbitts' research interests include human rights, global and democratic citizenship education and education for sustainable development; curriculum policy and reform; critical pedagogy; and human rights in higher education transformation. She has been an Adjunct Asst Professor at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights/Columbia University (2023-present) and Lecturer at Teachers College/Columbia University (2016-2022); a Human Rights Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2011-2013) and a Fulbright Fellow at Lund University, Sweden (Fall 2014) and the European Wergeland Centre (Fall 2024). She is a Visiting Professor at the Nelson Mandela University (South Africa).

She has published practical resources on curriculum, program development and evaluation on behalf of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, UNICEF, UNESCO, OSCE/ODIHR, the Council of Europe and non-governmental organizations such as Amnesty International and the Open Society Foundations. Dr. Tibbitts is widely read in the field of human rights education and her scholarship has appeared in numerous books and journals including Comparative Education,  Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, Journal of Peace Education, Intercultural Education, Prospects, and the International Review of Education.

Previously she was an adjunct faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the UN-mandated University for Peace. She remains active in civil society. She co-founded the NGO Human Rights Education Associates (HREA – www.hrea.org) which she continues to direct and co-founded the US human rights educator network HRE USA (www.hreusa.org). She received her Bachelor’s degree and two Master’s degrees (Public Policy, Education) from Harvard University and her D.Phil. in Political Science from the Otto-von-Guericke Universität of Magdeburg (Germany).