Global Ideas, Local Impact '2022 |
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On March 31st, 2022, "Global Ideas, Local Impact," sponsored by the Duke Human Rights Center, featured a student research slam and talks by 3 Duke alumna who have gone on to work in human rights.
Briana Acosta (BA, 2017) did health-related research in Mexico, then did anti-trafficking work in Houston before starting a Master of Public Health at Harvard. Read more about her interview here.
Jasmeet Kaur Sidhu (BA, 1998) worked as a Program Associate with Amnesty International, then went on to law school and worked with the Innocence Project and the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Civil Rights, Special Litigation Section as a summer clerk. After several years in private practice, she joined Amnesty International’s research team. Read more about her interview here.
Arpita Varghese (BA, 2015) works at UN Women, which is the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls. She focuses on humanitarian work at UN Women’s Headquarters and periodically supports some of our country offices which are responding to humanitarian crises on the ground. In addition she's worked in Lebanon, Myanmar, and India on humanitarian issues. Read more about her interview here.
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2021 Juan E. Méndez Book Award Ceremony |
On February 22, 2022, a virtual panel talk was held with Robin Broad and John Cavanagh, the winners of the Juan E. Méndez Book Award 2021, as part of the award ceremony. They talked about their book, The Water Defenders: how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed (Beacon Press, 2021).
This is the thirteenth year of this prestigious award. The award is supported by the Duke Human Rights Center@the Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Human Rights Archive at the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscripts Library. The link to the Méndez Award playlist is available soon here.
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Rights & The Humanities: Critique, Scholarly Authority, and Academic Freedom |
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The Human Rights and the Humanities Lecture (Webinar) that is a collaboration of the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) and the Duke Human Rights Center at FHI (DHRC@FHI) was conducted on March 22nd, 2022 with Joan Scott as the guest speaker.
Theme: The enormous changes that have overtaken universities in the last fifty years have undermined the ability of academic freedom to protect free expression. Prof. Scott will raise questions about whether notions of consensus are still possible or if academic freedom has become a synonym for the individual right of free speech.
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Welcoming Corin Zaragoza-Estrera - DHRC@FHI Program Coordinator |
It is our pleasure to welcome Corin Zaragoza-Estrera, the new program coordinator for the Duke Human Rights Center @ the FHI.
Corin comes to us from her work as the Outreach Coordinator for the UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and as an English as a Second Language teacher in K-12 public schools. Corin holds a B.A. in English with a double minor in Spanish and Latin American Studies from Loyola University New Orleans and her M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction in ESL and Multicultural Education from Virginia Tech.
She is most passionate about immigration rights, women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and equity in education. Outside the office, you can find her cooking, reading, traveling, or exploring Durham with her daughter and loved ones.
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Koonz Prize 2022 - Winners Announced |
The Koonz Human Rights Prize award honors Oliver W. Koonz, Prof. Claudia Koonz’s late father. The prize honors the best essay/paper or alternative project prepared by an undergraduate for the academic year. The recipients of the 2022 Oliver W. Koonz Prize are Cydney Livingston for “BETWEEN THE STATE AND THE SCIENCE: The Eugenic Impulse of the Human Betterment League of North Carolina, 1947-1988.” and Kulsoom Rizavi for “THIS IS THE YEAR”.
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Human Rights Research Grant Awardees 2022 |
The Human Rights Research Grants are intended to strengthen global research opportunities for students interested in developing, implementing, and working in human rights.
Celebrating the 2022 grant recipients:
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Gabriela Nagle (graduate student): Assessing Policy Priorities for Protecting Human Rights of Latin American Climate Migrants in Urban Areas.
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Nikhita Gopisetty: Experience of Diabetes in Young Adults in Mysore District.
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Alexandra (Bailey) Griffen: The Medical Establishment and Midwives: Charting Duke University Hospital’s Relationship to Birthing post-1931.
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Stephanie Zempolich: Investigating Majority Muslim and non-Muslim Countries’ Response to China’s Ongoing Genocide of the Uyghur Population in Xinjiang.
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Congratulations Class of 2022! |
The Human Rights Certificate offers students an in-depth and rigorous interdisciplinary study of human rights history, theory and practice, cultivating life-long learners and engaged citizens who have a deep and nuanced understanding of human rights. This year 6 students are earning the Human Rights Certificate–Zac Johnson, Alexa Rooney, Graysen Airth, Vanessa Real Williams, Lizzy Kramer, and David Marin Quiros!
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The Duke Human Rights Center @ the Franklin Humanities Institute brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, staff and students to promote new understandings about global human rights issues. |
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