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Watch all three events in the Lab’s “Understanding and Responding to Mass Incarceration” series.

2020 Human Rights Lab Artist-in-Residence Dorothy Burge has been awarded a BAC + Art Center Residency for Summer 2021!

Learn about the Human Rights Lab’s collaboration with White Snake Projects on a powerful new opera, Death By Life, which explores the intersection of systemic racism and mass incarceration in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.

Learn about the work of Thomas Hagan, AB’21, our 2021 recipient of the Dr. Aizik Wolf Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship in Human Rights!

Catch up on a jam-packed quarter of Human Rights Lab event programming!

The Human Rights Lab and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture are pleased to announce our inaugural 2021 Practitioner Fellows.

The Pozen Center is pleased to announce a new prize for excellence in BA essay projects about race and human rights in the United States or globally.

Watch Dr. Lydia Z. Dixon discuss her new book, “Delivering Health,” in conversation with Pozen Center Postdoctoral Instructor Amy Krauss.

Watch Pozen Faculty Board member Jane Dailey discuss her latest book, “White Fright,” in conversation with Faculty Director Mark Bradley.

Watch the recording of the Lab and IOP’s virtual letter writing program for folks currently incarcerated in Illinois.

The Pozen Center is pleased to announce the appointment of Lindsay Gifford as Assistant Research Professor.

Read what students have to say about Autumn Quarter’s innovative Human Rights course bundle.

Learn about some of the amazing work undertaken by members of the 2020 Human Rights Internship Program.

See pictures from the Pozen Center’s first-ever virtual holiday party.

Read updates from the inaugural cohort of Human Rights Lab Justice Interns.

The Pozen Center’s own Kathy Scott published one of her photos in the most recent issue of the UChicago Citizen.

Watch a recording of the 2020 Robert H. Kirschner, MD, Human Rights Memorial Lecture, “From D.C. to Damascus: The Architecture of Modern-Day Authoritarianism”

Check out recordings from the Human Rights Lab’s powerful Autumn 2020 programming

Lab Director Alice Kim and Lab Graduate Assistant Durrell Washington led this vital conversation about what universities can and should do to help end mass incarceration.

Texts from the Human Rights in World Civilizations Core sequence are being featured in a campus-specific augmented reality commission.

Rebecca Ewert (PhD Candidate, Sociology), a 2019 Pozen PhD Research Grant awardee, makes a timely examination of how people with different social characteristics (i.e. race, class, gender, urban/rural locale) are recovering economically and emotionally from a 2018 megafire disaster in Northern California.

Learn more about the inaugural cohort of Human Rights Lab Justice Interns.

The Pozen Center is seeking our next Postdoctoral Instructor in Human Rights!

The Lab welcomes Alex Y. Ding as our Summer 2020 Activist-in-Residence.

Check out the amazing projects that students produced during the Lab’s “Narrating Social Change” course last Spring.