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 2018 Internship Reflections
Anita Shenoi ‘20 — Claremont Canopy (Claremont, CA) This past summer, Anita Shenoi interned for Claremont Canopy, a local grassroots organization that serves recently resettled refugees in the Inland Empire. Anita was attracted to Canopy’s quest to support newly...
Welcome to the 2018-19 Academic Year!
This year we welcome the return of Professor and Center Director Wendy Lower. We look for- ward to meeting new students and to reconnecting with those who are returning to campus from study abroad and summer internships. We are sponsoring an exciting year of...
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