Ignacio Martin-Baro Human Rights Essay Award: • Deadline for submissions: April 11, 2008. • 2008 Submission Information • History of the Ignacio Martín Baró Endowed Program   The Dr. Aizik Wolf Human Rights Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship Program • The 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. • Read more about the Fellowship Program

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.

The Dr. Aizik Wolf Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship in Human Rights funds one year of work for a University of Chicago graduate at a non-governmental organization, government agency, or international body dedicated to human rights.  Born in Bogota, Colombia, Dr. Aizik Wolf, AB ’77, practices neurosurgery in Miami and regularly donates medical services and equipment to projects in Latin America.  He has created this post-baccalaureate fellowship to help University of Chicago College students launch their careers in human rights and related fields of social justice activism.

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.

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

• Risha Foulkes, "Supporting Culture, Supporting Women: The Challenge of Universal Human Rights."
• Thomas Liddy, "The International Criminal Court as Factor in the Global Human Rights Regime."