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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 ProgramGraduate Student Research in Human Rights Funding Proposals
The 2012 Dr. Aizik Wolf Human Rights Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship was awarded to Lucy Little (AB '12, Music). Lucy will be working with Heartland Alliance, in their Youth and Residential Services Division, in Chicago, IL. This division of Heartland Alliance works with homeless youth, youth in juvenile detention, and unaccompanied, undocumented immigrant youth who are undergoing family reunification services, and is dedicated to fostering "an atmosphere of family and security" as it attends "to the emotional, legal, medical, educational, and recreational needs of the children until they are able to move on to their next step." Lucy's year with HA will be two-fold. One aspect of the project will be to develop and implement short-term creative arts programming that can be taught to staff and volunteers. The other part will be spent leading group music/art/circus/theater workshops with the youth in these programs. The goal is that the creative arts programming will be able to work across the recreational, educational, and clinical services that HA provides, and is particularly exciting given the recent slew of evidence about how successful the arts can be as a tool in social service work.
Details for 2013-14 competition to be announced
2012-13 Call for Funding Proposals:
The Human Rights Program announces the 2012-13 round of grants to support graduate student research in Human Rights. The Human Rights Program seeks to support projects which will make a significant contribution to the field of human rights studies. Proposals are sought from graduate students from all the Divisions and professional schools. Preference will be given to PhD students and professional and MA or MPP students in multi-year programs. Students graduating in June 2012 are not eligible to apply. Proposals should be for projects that can be carried out between Summer 2012 and Spring 2013. Last spring, awards were made to 8 students with grants in the range of $1000 to $5000.
Grants will be made in the range of $1000 to $5000 for research by a graduate student to support her or his thesis project. While priority will be given to PhD students, applications are invited from MA and professional students. Grants may be used to support travel or for other research expenses, including expenses related to archival research and interviews, including recording devices. However, applications to cover the cost of transcription of interviews are not encouraged. Proposals should contain a statement of not more than 1000 words setting forth the purpose of the research and its relevance to Human Rights studies. Please include the C.V.s of the principal proponents of the research or conference initiative. Please include the list of faculty supervising the thesis or research project. Please include a tentative budget with a listing of support committed or requested from other sources.
Proposals are due by email to the Human Rights Research Committee c/o Sarah Patton Moberg, Program Manager, at spmoberg@uchicago.edu by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, April 30, 2012.
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.
2012
- Undergraduate: Vanessa Bernick, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; "The Anfal Campaign: A Politically Feasible Atrocity"
- Undergraduate: Michael Kenstowicz, Law, Letters, and Society; "Establishing Expectations for the Genocide Convention's Use: Politics as Usual?"
- MA/Professional: Erin Bradley, MA - School of Social Service Administration; "What Happened to the Woman with the AK-47? The Transformation of Women's Rights in Post-Revolutionary Nicaragua"
- PhD: Jeffrey Kahn, Anthropology; "Border Laboratories: Lawfare and the Rights of Haitian Asylum Seekers in the United States"
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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