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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 2011 Dr. Aizik Wolf Human Rights Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship was awarded to David Schmutzer (BA 2011, Political Science, Human Rights Minor). David received a Human Rights Internship in 2010 to work for Northwestern University Law School’s Center on Wrongful Convictions (CWC), which is dedicated to identifying and rectifying wrongful convictions and other serious miscarriages of justice. The CWC was instrumental in the abolition of the death penalty in the state of Illinois this past year. His year at the CWC will be spent primarily working on a research project that examines the social factors that lead to the wrongful conviction of women. This paper is particularly relevant because women are one of the fastest growing yet greatly understudied segments of the prison population.
Ignacio Martín-Baró Human Rights Essay Prize
The Ignacio Martín-Baró 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.
Winning essays from 2002 and later are available for download in PDF format (requires Adobe Reader); previous papers are available as html documents.
2011
- Undergraduate: Nurjannah Ahmat, Economics; "The Bibik in Malaysia: A Human Rights Perspective"
- Undergraduate: Sela Cowger, Political Science; "The Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Dominican Republic: The Problems of Implementation and Enforcement of Human Rights Standards"
- MA/Professional: Matthew Lebrato, MA - Latin American and Caribbean Studies; "Autonomy and Integration: Indigenous Rights in Southern Mexico"
- PhD: Gabriel Mares, Political Science; "Torture's Discourse and the Liberal State in Crisis"
2010
- Undergraduate: Samantha Wishnak, Political Science; "Slums, the Environment, and the ‘Public Interest’: Right or Recreation?"
- MA/Professional: Liz Austermuehle, Law; "CEDAW, the Universal Declaration, and Their Interaction with Single-Sex Public Transportation"
- Doctoral: Patrick Kelly, History; "'When the People Awake': The Transnational Solidarity Movement, the Pinochet Junta, and the Human Rights Moment of the 1970s"
2009
- College: Sean Dickson, Public Policy; "The Failure of Human Rights in Healthcare: Why a human rights framework leads to inefficient distribution of healthcare in the era of HIV"
- Masters/JD Level: James Tierney, Law School; "Sovereign Power, Human Rights, and Hypocrisy Costs"
- Graduate: Rachel Feinmark, History; "Pure But Decidedly Not Simple: the American Federation of Labor and its Quest for International Human Rights, 1939-1950"
2008
- College: Tyler Zoanni, Political Science; "For, Against, and With Gewirth and Rorty: An Effort to Rethink Foundationalism and Non-Foundationalism in Human Rights Philosophy"
- Graduate: Rocío Magaña, Anthropology; "Desolation Bound: The Enforcement of the Border on Migrant Bodies in the Arizona-Mexico Desert Region"
2007
- College: Grant Gordon, African and African-American Studies and Public Policy; “The Boundaries of Violence”
- Graduate: José Angel Hernández, History; “Historicizing Contemporary Deporation Raids, 1836-2006”
2006
- College: Adam Lebovitz, Political Science "The Gospel According to Giorgio Agamben: Reflections on Homo Sacer and the Rights of Man"
- Graduate: Mike Monteleone, East Asian Languages and Civilizations: "Knocking from Within: Contemporary Social Unrest and its Consequences for a Stable China"
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”
2004
- College: Kristin Greer Love, BA History (Human Rights), and Law, Letters, and Society "The Constitutional Right to Food in the Republic of South Africa: A Critical Examination of the History of Section 27 and an Evaluation of its Enforcement"
- Masters/JD Level: Holning Lau, JD Candidate, Law School "Sexual Orientation: Testing the Universality of International Human Rights Law"
- Doctoral: Ann Schneider, History "The 1910 Sailors' “Revolt Against the Lash”: The Military, Politics, the Body, and Rights in Brazil"
2003
- College: Margaret Darin Hagan, BA Comparative Literature "Human Rights Melodrama: A literary analysis of reports on police violence against Hungarian Roms"
- Masters/JD Level: Victor Boutros, JD Candidate, Law School "Punishing Sex Crimes Perpetrated During the Rwandan Genocide:The Case of Akayesu"
2002
- College: Michael Murphy, BA English Language and Literature, 4th Year
"Shitting Words: Dirty Protests. Dirty Wars, Dirty Civilization"- Masters/JD Level: Victor Boutros, JD Candidate, Law School
"Victory in Rwanda: An Analysis of US Decision-Making in Rwanda"- Doctoral: Shane Greene, Anthropology
"Intellectual Property, Resources or Territory? Reframing the Debate over Indigenous Rights, Traditional Knowledge, and Pharmaceutical Bioprospection."2001
- Undergraduate: Lea Bishop - "Anti-Nicaraguan Xenophobia and Newspaper Editorial Policy in Costa Rica: Analysis and Suggestions"
- Graduate: Andrew Sandoval-Strausz - "Travelers, Strangers, and Jim Crow: Law, Public Accommodation, and Civil Rights in Nineteenth-Century America."
2000
- Undergraduate: Tanja Bubbel, "Abortion and the European Convention on Human Rights."
- Graduate: Devin O. Pendas, "'Law Not Vengeance': Human Rights, the Rule of Law and the Claims of Memory in German Holocaust Trials."
1999
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