Claremont McKenna College

Welcome to The Mgrublian Center for Human Rights

The Mgrublian Center for Human Rights provides an educational strategy that combines classroom and experiential learning, activism, and research to prepare students for careers and postgraduate work in human rights. Through its programs of teaching, visiting scholars and human rights leaders, academic travel, internships, student-led task forces, research opportunities, and service, the Center enables students to understand the causes and legacy of the Holocaust and to develop the ethical commitments and leadership qualities necessary to prevent and overcome human rights abuses in today’s world.  

 

Our Programs

Research Opportunities

The Center offers a robust student/faculty research fellowship program; a post-graduate fellowship; and an annual best thesis and best research in human rights award.

Fellowships & Prizes

The Center supports summer internship experiences with leading human rights organizations involved in policy, activism, development, education, and humanitarian aid around the world.

Student Activism

Student-led Human Rights Task forces raise awareness on campus and address a full range of current national and global human rights issues.

 

Human Rights Sequence

The Human Rights sequence provides interdisciplinary coursework that provides students with the knowledge, skills, and moral insight needed to identify, analyze, and combat human rights abuses.

News

Summer 2019 Human Rights Internships

Sponsored Internship Program: Applications are now being accepted for our 2019 Sponsored Internship program. The program provides students with grants of up to approximately $5,000 to support internships that engage undergraduates in the field(s) of human rights,...

An Interview with Professor Lower

I sat down with returning Director Wendy Lower to learn more about her time on leave from the Mgrublian Center as she directed the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s (USHMM) Mandel Center in Washington, D.C. Below is an excerpt from our conversation. Q: What...

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