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TIME recently asked 21 historians, including Faculty Director Mark Bradley, to write about their picks for worst moments from American history “that hold a lesson—and what they think those experiences can teach us.”

Check out great photos from this year's graduates alongside messages from Pozen Center faculty.

Faculty Board member Kaushik Sunder Rajan recently curated an excellent and timely conversation in The India Forum.

Watch the 2019-20 Human Right Lab Fellows present on their fascinating BA theses.

The Pozen Center is hard at work developing new initiatives to serve students in the College.

Despite unprecedented challenges, this year's cohort of Human Rights Interns prepare for a summer of rich experiences.

We're thrilled to lift up the amazing work these students will be doing in the coming academic year!

Mark Bradley addresses the killing of George Floyd and the Pozen Center's commitment to racial equity and inclusion.

Learn about the Pozen Center's latest Dr. Aizik Wolf Post-Baccalaureate Fellow and Dissertation Completion Fellow.

The Human Rights Lab presented an urgent and thought-provoking panel earlier this week to discuss “The Long Term: Decarceration and Freedom in the COVID-19 Moment and Beyond.”

Explore some of the amazing work students produced in Postdoctoral Instructor Amy Krauss's Winter 2020 course, “Pain and Representation.”

The generous support from Richard and Ann Pozen extends the pilot period of the Lab from three years to five.

Incoming Executive Director Kathleen Cavanaugh brings decades of experience and a slate of exciting new courses to the Pozen Center.

Learn about how Human Rights Lab Artist-in-Residence Dorothy Burge has diverted her creative energy in light of the ongoing pandemic.

Human Rights Lab Director Alice Kim on the unprecedented threat COVID-19 poses for incarcerated populations.

Learn about 2019-20 Graduate Lectureship recipient Anna Band's experience teaching Grey Zones: Ethics and Decision-Making in the Holocaust.

Read about what the College’s updated Pass/Fail grading policy in Spring 2020 means for Human Rights minors and students in the virtual Vienna study abroad course sequence.

Doctoral candidate Sandra H. Park recently published her essay, "Finding the Taejon Massacre in Independence, Missouri" on #AsiaNow, the blog of the Association for Asian Studies.

Faculty Director Mark Bradley writes to the Pozen Center community in this uncertain time.

Four former Pozen Center Interns returned to campus for an enlightening career panel at the annual symposium.

Learn about all of the incredible events the Human Rights Lab put on this Fall!

UChicago's student newspaper covers the Pozen Center's full slate of Fall programming.

The Institute on Memory and Human Rights explores the role of memorials in reckoning with racial inequality and state violence, and how individual and collective memory shapes public narratives of past and present injustices. In September 2019, UChicago students, faculty, and members of Chicago Torture Justice Memorials traveled to Alabama to learn more about liberatory memory work and civil rights.

Albert Woodfox, who will deliver the Pozen Center's Fall 2019 Kirschner Lecture on November 7th, has been named a finalist for the National Book Award.

Hong Kong was the site for three weeks of an investigation into human rights locally and across Asia as part of the College’s new September courses.