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Ignacio Martin-Baro Human Rights Essay Prize:
Deadline for submissions: April 10, 2009.
2009 Submission Information
History of the Ignacio Martín Baró Endowed Program
 
The Dr. Aizik Wolf Human Rights Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship Program
Jack Jin, Gary Lee photoThe first Dr. Aizik Wolf Human Rights Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship was awarded to Jack Jin, Gary Lee, a 4th year in the College, majoring in Sociology. Gary received a Human Rights Internship in the Summer of 2006, and used his Post-Bac Fellowship to work with the Garment Worker Center in Los Angeles, using spatially-oriented research methods (such as Geographic Information Systems or "GIS") to inform and support worker organizing and empowerment projects.
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The Human Rights Program sponsors annual awards and grant programs for both undergraduate and graduate students.

The Program supports the training of human rights scholars through grants to University of Chicago Ph.D. students to develop and teach new human rights courses in the College.

Dr. Aizik Wolf Human Rights Post-Baccalaureate
Fellowship Program

The 2008 Dr. Aizik Wolf Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship in Human Rights was awarded to Rochelle Terman, a 4th year in the College, majoring in Political Science. Rochelle received a Human Rights Internship in Summer 2007, during which she worked for Women Living Under Muslim Laws. She will return to work with Women Living Under Muslim Laws, an international solidarity network that provides information, support and a collective space for women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said to derive from Islam. Rochelle will be researching the Iranian women’s rights movement and writing for publication, organizing the Women’s Empowerment in Muslim Contexts research consortium, and serving as a campaign team leader for the Global Campaign to Stop Stoning and Killing Women!. Rochelle will also conduct field research in Iran, interviewing key women’s rights activists, and presenting her own research at various workshops.

The Ignacio Martin Baro Human Rights Award commemorates the life and work of a University alumnus assassinated by the Salvadoran army in 1989, by recognizing the best human rights papers by students.

Ignacio Martin-Baro Human Rights Essay Prize Winners

Winning essays from 2002 and later are available for download in PDF format (requires Adobe Reader); previous papers are available as html documents.

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2007

2006

2005

  • Kristin Greer Love "The Xenophobic Frustration of Rights: The Trouble with Locating Non-Citizens in South Africa’s New Constitutional Human Rights Regime"
  • Ana Raquel Minian "Researching Beyond Explicit Goals: The Political, Social and Cultural by-products of the Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights Movement”
  • Abra Pollock "The Power of Taking a Risk: Human Rights and the Seeds of Peace”
  • Maureen Tracey-Mooney "Carving Out Economic and Social Rights in the U.S.: The Transformation of Hill-Burton and the Right to Health Care”

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