Human Rights BA Fellowship
Opportunity Description:
The Pozen Center and Human Rights Lab are offering a new Human Rights BA Fellowship opportunity for rising fourth-year students whose BA theses examine issues relating to human rights.
The fellowship provides:
- A research grant of up to $500. After acceptance into the program, Fellows will submit a detailed budget for approval of up to $500 in funds to support research, including stipends for interviews, meals, books, local travel, and more.
- Support on methodology for human rights research and writing
- Facilitated peer workshops where students will have the opportunity to share drafts and give and receive feedback from other Fellows
- Opportunities to connect with scholars and community leaders with lived experience on related topics
- Access to shared work space in the Pozen Center
All students admitted to the program will be required to enroll in “Human Rights Research and Methods.” It will be offered as a one credit course in Autumn, Winter, and Spring Quarters; Human Rights BA Fellows will sign up for each of the quarters for a total of 3 credits over the academic year.
The Human Rights BA Fellowship Program will have two tracks:
Track One: Rising fourth-years writing a BA thesis in any department or program in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division who are working on a topic relating to human rights
Track Two: Rising fourth-year students writing a BA thesis in any department or program in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division whose work relates particularly to mass incarceration, policing, and the criminal legal system (e.g. solitary confinement, the criminalization of sexuality and reproduction, police misconduct and violence, felony disenfranchisement, selective enforcement, alternatives to incarceration)
The inaugural cohort of the Track Two program was run by the Human Rights Lab in 2019-20. See the current Fellows and their BA topics on the Lab Fellowship page.
Students should indicate the track they are applying for on their applications.
Application Process:
Apply:
>>>The 2020-21 Human Rights BA Fellowship application is now live. The deadline to apply is Sunday, May 17 at 11:59 p.m. (CST)
Please contact Faculty Director Mark Bradley or Lab Director Alice Kim with any questions.