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The Pozen Center is pleased to announce our 2018 student award recipients:

Ignacio Martín Baró Human Rights Essay Prizes

Recognizes excellence in writing related to human rights.

Elizabeth Dia (College, History)
Essay title: “I Swore an Oath to the Constitution. Is that Not Enough?”: The Contested Rights of Noncitizen Soldiers and Veterns in the US Military

Natalee Goto (College, Political Science)
Essay title: “Straight Political”: The Political Instrumentalization of Graffati and Its Criminalization in Detroia

Leonie Oostrom (Medicine)
Essay title: The Burden of Proof for HIV Positive Asylum Seekers in the European Union


Pozen Research Grant for PhD Students

Supports pre-dissertation and dissertation research projects that make a significant contribution to the study and field of human rights.

Jasmine Benjamin (Political Science)
Jerel Ezell (Sociology)
Ann Heffernan (Political Science)
Noriko Kanahara (History)
Allison Reed (Sociology)
Ellen Richmond (Anthropology)
Shruti Vaidya (Comparative Human Development)


Graduate Lectureship in Human Rights

Awarded to advanced doctoral students to teach one undergraduate Human Rights course of their own design during the 2018-19 academic year.

Ashley Cureton Turner (School of Social Service Administration)
Course title: Stolen Childhoods: The Human Rights of Child Migrants and Refugee Youth

Erin McFee (Comparative Human Development)
Course title: Peacebuilding

Brandon Truett (English Language and Literature)
Course title: The Arts of Civil War


Dr. Aizik Wolf Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship in Human Rights

One year-long fellowship awarded to a graduating College student to support work at an organization or agency dedicated to human rights.

Alex Y. Ding (Anthropology, Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies)
Fellowship year at Siskel/Jacobs Productions