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Faculty Highlight: Jackie Dugard
Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Jackie Dugard is a Senior Lecturer in the discipline of Human Rights and Director of Graduate Studies at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights. She joined ISHR in the Fall of 2022. With a background in law and social sciences - BA (Hons) & LLB (Wits); MPhil & PhD (Cambridge); and LLM (Essex) - Jackie focuses on power and exclusion. She has published widely on socio-economic rights (especially the rights to housing, land, and water), property law, access to justice, the role of law and courts in social change, protest and social movements, and gender-based violence.

Congratulations to HRSMA Alum on receiving the 2024 Outstanding Recent Alumni Award
Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Tetiana (Tanya) Kotelnykova, HRSMA 2023, was selected as a recipient of the 2024 Outstanding Recent Alumni Award. The award ceremony took place on May 6, 2024. 

Call for Human Rights Course Instructors
Tuesday, May 14, 2024

The Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University is looking for qualified human rights instructors to teach the following courses during the 2024-2025 academic year. Please note that these are part-time, adjunct appointments, with the possibility of continued teaching in subsequent semesters. 

Congratulations to Students Awarded Honors and Prizes
Wednesday, May 8, 2024

The Institute for the Study of Human Rights congratulates the following human rights students who received departmental honors and prizes: 

Phi Beta Kappa Inductees 

Alisha Arshad, Columbia College

ISHR wishes to congratulate the winners of the 2024 Human Rights Thesis Competition
Tuesday, May 7, 2024

On April 25, eight graduate and undergraduate human rights students gathered on Zoom to participate in ISHR's annual Human Rights Thesis Competition. During the event, students took hundreds of hours of thesis research in the human rights discipline and transformed it into 5-minute presentations. The faculty judges were Joseph Slaughter, Mila Rosenthal, and Glenn Mitoma.

Mallory Springstead (Human Rights Studies M.A. '24)

Thesis Title: Human Rights Greenwashing: Understanding the Impact of Fast Fashion on Labor Rights 

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