Research

Cohort feedback, financial support, and professional advice helped her improve her dissertation -- then develop it into a book.

Historian explores human rights ideals by exploring the backlashes often inspired by universal ideals.

With a new academic year comes a new cohort of participants in the Pozen Center Human Rights Doctoral Fellows Program, an intensive yearlong...

Will direct work of interested students, in collaboration between Human Rights Lab and the Law School.

‘I find myself invested – more than I might have guessed in the past – in the urgency of human rights institutions and human rights pedagogy.’

What does it mean to return an artwork to its 'rightful' home? After a Pozen workshop on the subject, the conversation continues.

What does it mean to restore artworks to their 'rightful' homes?

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 fellowship award supports one year of work after graduation at a non-governmental organization, government agency, or international body dedicated to human rights.

With research funding from the Pozen Family Center of Human Rights, Sociology Ph.D. student Reyna Hernandez aims to further understand how former prison inmates who were wrongfully convicted and now exonerated experienced incarceration. This work shows how the legal system’s miscarriages of justice perpetually transform the prison experience.