News

Phyllis Frye, a pioneer in the fight for transgender rights, delivered the 2022 Kirschner Human Rights Memorial Lecture on March 31, Transgender Day of Visibility.

Read Dr. Jane Dailey's new article published in The Nation on the attack on interracial marriage in the Supreme Court.

Doctoral students whose research intersects with human rights themes are invited to apply for this competitive yearlong fellowship opportunity. Fellows will meet throughout the academic year, typically twice per quarter, with members of the Pozen Center faculty. At the end of the academic year, Fellows will have made tangible progress on a piece of work and present it in the Doctoral Seminar.

Executive Director of Pozen Center, Kathleen Cavanaugh, has written a chapter of "Sharia Law in the Twenty-First Century", which consists of concise, detailed analytical studies on current critical discussions of Sharia in the Western and Muslim legal traditions.

Truth and Beauty in the Hard Places will be on display in Café Logan from Jan 27 - Mar 11, 2022, Don't miss!

Doctoral students interested in lecturing a course of their own design this academic year should apply!

The fellowship award supports one year of work after graduation at a non-governmental organization, government agency, or international body dedicated to human rights.

Matt Furlong, Pozen Center for Human Rights Social Science Teaching Fellow, is going to be instructing two courses in the upcoming Winter '22 quarter. HMRT 28215, Anthropological Approaches to Human Rights, and HMRT 23128, Sanctuary: Land Rights in Times of Rural Gentrification and Conservation Eviction, Interested students should register!

Spots are still open for this class taught by Nory Peters!

Watch Hedi Viterbo, from Queen Mary University of London, speak about his new book, Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine.

The Pozen Center is looking for Teaching Assistants for HMRT 25118, Islam, Politics and Gender and HMRT 24007, Human Rights in China.

The Human Rights Lab is pleased to announce our Human Rights Lab Graduate Fellow and Mass Incarceration BA Thesis Mentors!

With research funding from the Pozen Family Center of Human Rights, Sociology Ph.D. student Reyna Hernandez aims to further understand how former prison inmates who were wrongfully convicted and now exonerated experienced incarceration. This work shows how the legal system’s miscarriages of justice perpetually transform the prison experience.

The Pozen Center is looking for Teaching Assistants for our Winter Quarter 2022 course, Health and Human Rights, HMRT 21400!

The Human Rights Lab is pleased to announce our Lab and Mass Incarceration Working Group (MIWG) Fellows student team for the 2021-22 academic year.

The Human Rights Startup Fund offers UChicago students financial support for new and innovative human rights projects and events.

Check out these new episodes of "Entitled," a podcast hosted by Pozen Faculty Board members Claudia Flores and Tom Ginsburg that gets into the weeds of global human rights debates.

The Pozen Center is currently hiring for two full-time and two graduate student roles.

Check out the new podcast co-hosted by Pozen Faculty Board members Tom Ginsburg and Claudia Flores called Entitled, a podcast about why rights matter and what’s the matter with rights. Entitled explores current debates around rights through narrative storytelling and conversations with experts and advocates.

Paul Kohlbry and Hannah Ridge will join the Pozen Center for the 2021-22 academic year.

Congratulations to the 2021-22 cohort of Human Rights Lab BA Fellows!

The Pozen Center is proud to support this inspiring group of students from across the College and Graduate Schools!

Watch the Pozen Center’s 2020-21 Human Rights BA Fellows present their thesis research findings and analyses.