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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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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!

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.

The Pozen Center is pleased to announce the appointment of Lindsay Gifford as Assistant Research Professor.

See pictures from the Pozen Center’s first-ever virtual holiday party.

Read updates from the inaugural cohort of Human Rights Lab Justice Interns.

The Pozen Center’s own Kathy Scott published one of her photos in the most recent issue of the UChicago Citizen.

Watch a recording of the 2020 Robert H. Kirschner, MD, Human Rights Memorial Lecture, “From D.C. to Damascus: The Architecture of Modern-Day Authoritarianism”