2020 HRI Awards & Fellowship Announcements
The Human Rights Institute is proud to announce our 2019-2020 Faculty, Graduate, and Undergraduate funding recipients!
2020 Seed Grant Recipient
Prakash Kashwan, Associate Professor, Political Science
“Economic and Social Rights Outcomes in a Climate Changed World”
2020 Small Faculty Grants for Human Rights Research Recipients
Gerlinde Berger-Walliser, Assistant Professor of Business Law
The Future of International Corporate Human Rights Litigation: A Transatlantic Comparison
Maria D. LaRusso, Assistant Professor in Human Development and Family Sciences
Healthcare Providers’ Perspectives on PANS, Mental Health Symptoms, and Children’s Rights to a Healthy Development
Read more about their projects
2020 Dissertation Writing Fellowship Fellowship Recipient
Erica MacDonald, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science
“Formally Informal: Sex Work, Stigma and Institutions”
2020 Dissertation Research Fellowship Recipients
David Evans, PhD Candidate, Department of History
“Hunger for Rights: The Human Right to Food in the Post-War Era”
Mayte Restrepo-Ruiz, PhD Candidate in Public Health
“Intimate Partner Violence in Armed Conflict Contexts: The Case of Colombia”
Read more about their projects
2020 Human Rights Research Grant Recipients
Mary Bugbee, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology
Topic: Tracing the Social Life of the Right to Health in Mexican Health System Reform
Vivian Laurens, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology
Topic: Examining the Link Between the Right to Health and Peacebuilding Efforts in Rural Colombia
Samantha Lawrence, PhD Candidate, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences
Topic: Discriminatory victimization of transgender and gender nonbinary (T&GN) youth
Mayte Restrepo-Ruiz, MA, MPH, PhD Candidate, Department of Public Health Sciences
Topic: Intimate Partner Violence in Contexts of Armed Conflict: The Case of Colombia
Read more about their projects
2020 Scholarship Awardees
Natalie Casanova – Human Rights & Political Science – Open Society Foundation Award
Brianna Dyer – Human Rights & Global Studies – Open Society Foundation Award
Vernessa Kingsbury – Human Rights & Anthropology – Open Society Foundation Award
Shreya Murthy –Human Rights Finance, & Criminology – Open Society Foundation Award
Aarushi Nohria – Human Rights & English – Alan B. Slifka Award
Megan Paige –Human Rights & Psychology – Wiktor Osiatynki Award
Melita Seibel – Human Rights & Communications – Open Society Foundation Award
Olivia Swanson – Human Rights & Natural Resources – Open Society Foundation Award
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The Human Rights Institute is proud to announce our 2019-2020 Faculty, Graduate, and Undergraduate funding recipients!
2020 Seed Grant Recipient
Prakash Kashwan, Associate Professor, Political Science
“Economic and Social Rights Outcomes in a Climate Changed World”
2020 Small Faculty Grants for Human Rights Research Recipients
Gerlinde Berger-Walliser, Assistant Professor of Business Law
The Future of International Corporate Human Rights Litigation: A Transatlantic Comparison
Maria D. LaRusso, Assistant Professor in Human Development and Family Sciences
Healthcare Providers’ Perspectives on PANS, Mental Health Symptoms, and Children’s Rights to a Healthy Development
Read more about their projects
2020 Dissertation Writing Fellowship Fellowship Recipient
Erica MacDonald, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science
“Formally Informal: Sex Work, Stigma and Institutions”
2020 Dissertation Research Fellowship Recipients
David Evans, PhD Candidate, Department of History
“Hunger for Rights: The Human Right to Food in the Post-War Era”
Mayte Restrepo-Ruiz, PhD Candidate in Public Health
“Intimate Partner Violence in Armed Conflict Contexts: The Case of Colombia”
Read more about their projects
2020 Human Rights Research Grant Recipients
Mary Bugbee, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology
Topic: Tracing the Social Life of the Right to Health in Mexican Health System Reform
Vivian Laurens, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology
Topic: Examining the Link Between the Right to Health and Peacebuilding Efforts in Rural Colombia
Samantha Lawrence, PhD Candidate, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences
Topic: Discriminatory victimization of transgender and gender nonbinary (T&GN) youth
Mayte Restrepo-Ruiz, MA, MPH, PhD Candidate, Department of Public Health Sciences
Topic: Intimate Partner Violence in Contexts of Armed Conflict: The Case of Colombia
Read more about their projects
2020 Scholarship Awardees
Natalie Casanova – Human Rights & Political Science – Open Society Foundation Award
Brianna Dyer – Human Rights & Global Studies – Open Society Foundation Award
Vernessa Kingsbury – Human Rights & Anthropology – Open Society Foundation Award
Shreya Murthy –Human Rights Finance, & Criminology – Open Society Foundation Award
Aarushi Nohria – Human Rights & English – Alan B. Slifka Award
Megan Paige –Human Rights & Psychology – Wiktor Osiatynki Award
Melita Seibel – Human Rights & Communications – Open Society Foundation Award
Olivia Swanson – Human Rights & Natural Resources – Open Society Foundation Award