Students

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

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.

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

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.

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.

"I am interested in both the objects and subjects of social change." —Allison Reed is a PhD student in Sociology. Her current research explores the social objective of expanding affordable housing.

The Pozen Center’s Human Rights Lab is in the news this week. Read about the new initiative and last week's lunch with Eric Blackmon.