News

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.

We’re excited to announce our new Human Rights Startup Fund, an opportunity for UChicago students to receive 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.

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

Watch all four events in our series presented in conjunction with the Spring 2021 course “Human Rights in China,” led by Associate Professor Johanna Ransmeier and Pozen Visiting Professor Teng Biao.

Congratulations to the inaugural winner and two honorable mentions for the Pozen Center Prize for Best BA Thesis on Race and Human Rights!

A blog post from Lab Director Alice Kim on the six-year anniversary of Chicago’s historic reparations legislation for survivors of Jon Burge police torture, her solidarity-centered pedagogical practice, and student projects “reimagining justice.”

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.