The Pozen Center for Human Rights supports doctoral student research that makes a significant contribution to the study of human rights. We grant awards of up to $5,000 to University of Chicago doctoral students in any year of their program.

Funding

  • Funds can be used to support travel or other expenses related to research projects such as books, software, copying, temporary lodging, and recording devices or cameras.
  • Funds will be available in late June of the application year.
  • Projects should be completed within one year.

Eligibility

  • Applicants must be UChicago PhD students.
  • Applicants must be working on a research project that engages human rights concepts and discourse.
  • Priority will be given to applicants who have not previously received this research grant.

How to Apply

Learn More

For more information about the Human Rights Doctoral research grant, please contact Deputy Director, Adam Avrushin

PhD Research Grantees

2023

  • Sabena Allen (Anthropology)
    “The Importance of Haa Kuusteeyí – “Our Way of Life”: Tlingit Survivance Through Ongoing Apocalypse”
  • Nahomi Linda Esquivel (History)
    “Administrating Legality: Non-Resident Immigrants and the Making of Agriculture’s Labor and Legal Regimes”
  • Emma Gilheany (Anthropology)
    “Project to Repatriate Images to Hopedale, Nunatsiavut”
  • Zachary Klamann (Political Science)
    “Power Crisis: The Roots of South Africa's Crises of Electricity and Democracy”
  • Emily Mulford (Anthropology)
    “'Truth’ and Reconciliation? Enforced Disappearance, Material Evidence, and Conspiracy Theorists in Argentina”
  • Sebastian Ortega (Sociology)
    “The Settler Colonial Policing of Chicano/Indigenous Street and Prison Gangs”
  • Hera Shakil (Comparative Human Development)
    “The Politics of “Providing” Rights:  How Democratic Rights are Being Curbed for Welfare Provision in India”
  • Sheila Shankar (The Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice )
    “Surviving Supervised Visitation, Seeking Safety: Court-mandated Mothers Navigating Domestic Violence and Post-separation Parenting”

2022

  • Andrew Atwell (Anthropology)  
    “Settling the Good: Ethical Imagination, Temporal Paradox, and the Settlement of Israel's Urban Interior”
  • Celina Doria (Crown Family School of Social Work)
    Cartographies of Reproduction: Mapping the Dynamics of Cross-border Abortion Care Between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez”
  • Anna Fox (Sociology)
  • Myungji Lee (Anthropology)
    “Between Authority and Authoritarianism: How Majoritarian Sensibilities Inform the Bureaucratic Governance of Religion in Turkey”
  • Sinja Leonelli (Booth School of Business)
    “Heterogeneity in Whistleblowing Concerns: Evidence from the Queer Community ”
  • Reed McConnell (Anthropology)
    “Imperial Abandonment: Contamination, the State, and Environmental Rights in Late Industrial California”
  • Helena Ratte (Anthropology)
    “Securing Women in War and Peace: Technocracy and the Politics of Gender after the Cold War”
  • Ellen Richmond (Anthropology)
    “Ecologies of Care: Landscape, Poetry, and Health in a Somali Border Town”
  • Madeleine Stevens (Political Science)
    “Habeas (Non) Corpus: Enforced Disappearance and Repertoires of Repression”
  • Matthew Zipf (Committee on Social Thought)
    “Photographing Civil Rights: A Legal Eye”

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