About Meredith Terretta Meredith Terretta is the Gordon F. Henderson Chair of Human Rights and Professor of History at the University of Ottawa where she teaches and directs student research in African and legal and human rights history. Books by Meredith Terretta Ordinary People, Extraordinary Actions Refuge Through Activism at Ottawa’s St. Joe’s Parish by (author) Stéfanie Morris, Karina Juma, Meredith Terretta & Patti Tamara Lenard series edited by Geneviève Tellier