2022-23 Directors’ Report
“We are committed to ensuring that the Center continues to be a global and community leader in human rights research, pedagogy, and experiential engagement.”
LETTER FROM THE DIRECTORS
Dear Colleagues,
As the Pozen Center enters its 26th year at the University of Chicago, we want to take this opportunity to reflect on the events and accomplishments of the past year and share with you some of our plans as we move into the new academic year.
We marked our 25th anniversary year in 2022-23 with a series of University-wide events that ushered in an exciting new phase in the Center’s growth. We also launched a new College major in human rights that offers an innovative interdisciplinary program and integrates the center’s established human rights curriculum with immersive experiential learning. As we continue to deepen and thicken the Center’s commitment to experiential education, this year we welcome Pedro Gerson (MPP’14, JD’14) who will be directing the Center’s human rights practice space, developing new practice and experiential learning opportunities.
The Center also continues to invest in the next generation of scholars through its Doctoral Fellows Program, graduate research awards, and graduate lectureships. This past year, the Center hosted seven exceptional doctoral fellows drawn from departments across the Humanities and Social Science Divisions in a program designed to foster interdisciplinary research. Their innovative projects—ranging from the effects of wrongful conviction and exoneration in the US to Marxist humanist critiques of colonialism in the Third World through the concept of alienation—are mapping the future landscape of human rights research. Nine new PhD students will join us this coming year, and we are working to build a collaborative relationship with faculty and graduate students at the London School of Economics to further enrich the experiences offered in the Doctoral Fellows program.
Throughout this last year, Alice Kim has continued the amazing work of the Center’s Human Rights Laboratory. Alice and her team have brought together students and the wider Chicago community to build a truly innovative, diverse, and impactful set of initiatives and programs around the crisis of mass incarceration and criminalization. We are delighted that Alice will be able to continue to advance the work of this project beyond its initial five years of Pozen funding at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture with the support of the Provost’s Office.
We are very proud of the work that the Pozen Center has done over the last 25 years, and we are committed to ensuring that the Center continues to be a global and community leader in human rights research, pedagogy, and experiential engagement.
Mark Philip Bradley, Faculty Director Kathleen Cavanaugh, Executive Director25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: HUMAN RIGHTS AT THE CROSSROADS
The Pozen Center marked a quarter century of accomplishments, celebrating its 25th anniversary with a compelling colloquium, “Human Rights at the Crossroads.” Nine distinguished scholars and practitioners from various disciplines engaged in thought-provoking discussions on the politics and promise of human rights.
The discussants analyzed the current state of human rights and presented opportunities to positively address pressing human rights issues. They offered a critical analysis of academia’s impact on human rights discourse and urged the audience to promote significant change.
Alongside the colloquium, six special events fostered extended conversations with the speakers, while a celebratory dinner and networking event connected students and alumni. Over 450 participants joined the Pozen Center in commemorating 25 years and envisioning the future of human rights scholarship. More highlights and a video of the colloquium can be found here.
COLLOQUIUM PARTICIPANTS
(Below, left to right)
Mark Philip Bradley University of Chicago
Panelists:
Adom Getachew University of Chicago
Aslı Ü. Bâli Yale Law School
Darren Byler
Simon Fraser University
Ayça Çubukçu London School of Economics and Political Science
Kamari Clarke University of Toronto
Jessica Darrow
University of Chicago
Suketu Mehta
New York University
Evan Lyons Partners in Health
Samuel Moyn Yale University
Juno Richards Yale University
Howard Chiang
University of California, Davis
Johanna Ransmeier
University of Chicago
University of Chicago participants not pictured: Paul Alivisatos President
John Boyer Dean of the College (emeritus)
Tom Ginsburg
Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law
“We’re living in this moment when international organizations are unable or unwilling to hold the most powerful states accountable. Can they be instruments of global justice at all? I think that’s going to be the challenge for human rights thinking in the 21st century.”
Ayça Çubukçu, Associate Professor in Human Rights, London School of Economics and Political Science
THE POZEN CENTER LAUNCHES HUMAN RIGHTS MAJOR
In fall 2022, the Pozen Center launched its human rights major, an innovative interdisciplinary program that integrates the Center’s established human rights curriculum with immersive experiential learning. Students critically engage in human rights practice, bridging theory and real-world application through mandatory human rights fieldwork. In its first year, the major attracted 36 students and saw an inaugural cohort of 10 students graduate in the spring of 2023.
Students may fulfill the capstone requirement through project-based research projects for human rights NGOs, government bodies, or think tanks—an innovative alternative to a traditional BA thesis.
This fall, the Pozen Center welcomes Pedro Gerson, MPP’14, JD’14, as the director of human rights practice. In addition to teaching, Gerson will further develop the Center’s practice opportunities and experiential learning components, including “Human Rights Fieldwork,” a required course for human rights majors.
Through an integrated academic curriculum and real-world experience, the human rights major equips the next generation of scholars and leaders to critically address pressing human rights issues.
Preparing Future Human Rights Leaders
1,100 Enrollment in 53 human rights courses
36 Human rights majors
42 Human rights minors
Human rights major Watson Lubin, AB’23, presents his BA thesis, “‘She Deserved It’: How Incels Talk about Gender-Based Violence.”The inaugural cohort of human rights majors showcased their capstone research projects at a year-end symposium. Human rights major Cassie Wilson, AB’23, shown here, explains the findings in her BA thesis, “Criminalized Minds: The Production and Reproduction of Carcerality in Neuroscience.”
“[The Pozen Center] articulates in vivid ways the connection between liberal arts study and preparation for global citizenship in the 21st century.”
John Boyer, AM’69, PhD’75, Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of History and Dean of the College (emeritus)
“As one of the first human rights majors, I really enjoyed my classes and learned what I needed to succeed in my Pozen summer internship at Catholic Legal Immigration Network’s State and Local Advocacy team. I helped make real change by advocating for the rights and interests of immigrants at several state legislatures. I formed relationships and strengthened the skills needed for my future career in law and advocacy.”
Carlos Hevia-Aza Tomillo, AB’23 (Human Rights, Political Science)
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS
The Pozen Center recognized the work of undergraduate students with financial awards and support totaling $64,500.
Aizik Wolf Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship in Human Rights
This biennial fellowship grants a recent graduate a $60,000 stipend to work at a human rights organization, helping the recipient launch a career in human rights.
William Jaffe, AB’22, (Political Science), fellowship at Physicians for Human Rights
Ignacio Martín-Baró Human Rights
Essay Prize
This prize recognizes exceptional human rights research and writing.
Naomi Kebede, AB’23, (Economics), “On the Question of Nationalities in Ethiopia: Understanding Self-Determination as a Human Right through a Framework of Collective Rights”
Sanjana Natesan, AB’23, (Human Rights, Public Policy Studies), “Journalism and Voice in Chicago’s Police Torture Cases”
Alice Breternitz, AB’23, (Human Rights, Global Studies), “Citizenship, Ethnicity, and Hierarchy: The 1982 Myanmar Citizenship Law”
Best BA Thesis on Race and Human Rights
This prize recognizes undergraduate work focused on the intersection of race, structural racism, and human rights in the United States and globally.
Marsha Morabu, AB’23, (History, Philosophy and Allied Fields), “In Their Own Words: Anticolonial Resistance, Mau Mau, and Women’s Political Mobilization in Kenya, 1907-1960”
Noah Tesfaye, AB’23, (Political Science, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies), “Theorizing Black Self-Determination in the ‘United States’: The Revolutionary Vision of the Republic of New Afrika”
Amina Washington, AB’23, (English), “Crafting a Black Reality: Examining Toni Morrison’s ‘Song of Solomon’ as Contemporary Folklore”
Ben Laurence (right), coordinator of undergraduate studies, here with a student at a human rights event, was instrumental in the launch of the new human rights major.HUMAN RIGHTS INTERNS: PUTTING THEORY INTO PRACTICE
Our investment in undergraduate learning and practice also continued through our flagship internship program. Marking its 25th anniversary, the program placed 35 students in a range of domestic and international human rights organizations this past summer. The number of interns grew by 45%.
Interns received over $146,000 in stipends to support their 2023 summer internships. During the academic year, the interns formed a learning community connected by shared interests. Through their internships, students apply theory to practice, develop essential skills for human rights professionals, and explore career pathways as they prepare to become leaders in the human rights field.
Investing in Human Rights Practice
$146,000 for 35 internships
45% growth in participation since 2022
650+ summer interns since 1998
After applying theory to practice during internships in human rights organizations, students share their insights upon returning to campus.
INTERN PROFILES
Alice Breternitz, Global Studies, AB’24 Intern at Entre Hermanos (Seattle)
“It was a great opportunity to get hands-on experience with LGBT-focused immigration advocacy. The reality of the emotional labor that goes into this work hit me quickly.”Students secure domestic and international internships that align with their interests.
“The
Catalina Mican Rivera, Global Social Development, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, & Practice, AM’23; Intern at Pratham Education Foundation (India)
challenges in accessing the human right of education prevent people from accessing decent jobs, decent housing. Expanding my understanding of the needs and challenges in different development settings and cultures has not only taught me on the academic-professional level but has been life-changing.”
Lena Maghraoui, Environmental Science, AB’25Remote Intern at World Commission on Environmental Law (Switzerland)
“Those attempting to hold the major carbon-emitting corporations accountable for their contributions to climate change often rely on human rights conventions and agreements. I worked as a legal researcher and editor for the Judicial Handbook on Climate Litigation; it will serve as a guide for litigators and judiciary members to advance the fight against climate change in courts worldwide.”Interns gain hands-on experience with advocacy and community organizing.
INVESTING IN THE NEXT GENERATION OF SCHOLARS
Doctoral Fellows Program
Continuing our commitment to developing the next generation of human rights scholars, the Center established a Pozen Human Rights Doctoral Fellows Program, an intensive yearlong interdisciplinary forum for scholarly exchange and opportunities to workshop student writings.
This year, our eight PhD Fellows—drawn from across social sciences and the humanities— participated in an end-of-fellowship seminar that brought the Fellows together with a panel of eight faculty for a thought-provoking and inspiring series of workshops. The faculty members were drawn from UChicago, Harvard, University of Maryland, Exeter, and Emory.
In 2023-24, the Center welcomes nine new fellows from across the University.
2022-23 DOCTORAL FELLOWS
Arwa Awan, Political Science
Research focus: Twentieth-century Marxist humanist critiques of colonialism in the Third World through the concept of alienation
Evelyn Kessler, History Research focus: History of consent in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Juan Wilson, History
Research focus: Latin American social and legal history, the history of constitutionalism, and the Mexican Revolution
Kévin Irakóze, Philosophy
Research focus: Conceptions of the human and human rights in relation to queer life in Africa
Reyna Hernandez, Sociology
Research focus: How law and the criminal legal system create and maintain inequities and how they affect justice-impacted individuals
Sonja Castañeda Dower, Political Science
Research focus: Political self-determination with a particular focus on settler colonial governments’ past and present assimilation campaigns and ways in which these shape— and do not shape—Indigenous political institutions and behavior
Stephanie Kraver, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Research focus: The discourse deployed by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and Israeli author and peace activist Dahlia Ravikovitch to address the inequalities that animate the Palestinian-Israeli divide
Professor Chiara Cordelli, Political Science, provides feedback on a work-in-progress to a Pozen Doctoral Fellow during their Spring Symposium, pictured on facing page. Arwa Awan, Political Science Doctoral Fellow and PhD Fellows research grant recipient
“The program has been intellectually enriching for me due to its interdisciplinary focus. The program also opened an avenue to explore the role of law in relation to my own research on anti-colonial projects of political and economic sovereignty, which has been very generative and helpful.”
Preparing Future Human Rights Scholars
$43,000 in research grants
9 new PhD fellows in 2023-24
Up to $5,000 in support for doctoral student research
“The doctoral program has been a great opportunity to turn a secondary research topic on anti-queer violence in Africa into an article paper and to receive feedback from colleagues and faculty experts. The workshop with other fellows, in particular, has been a wonderful space to learn about the relevance of human rights to various fields by engaging with the participants’ work.”
Kévin Irakóze (pictured Philosophy Doctoral Fellow and PhD Fellows research grant recipient
at left),
GRADUATE RESEARCH GRANTS
Awards of up to $5,000 support doctoral student research that significantly contributes to the field of human rights. The Pozen Center awarded $43,000 in research grants to nine PhD students. This ongoing commitment represents an investment in the next generation of human rights scholars.
Sabena Allen, Anthropology
“The Importance of Haa Kuusteeyí –‘Our Way of Life’: Tlingit Survivance Through Ongoing Apocalypse”
Nahomi Linda Esquivel, History
“Administrating Legality: Non-Resident Immigrants and the Making of Agriculture’s Labor and Legal Regimes”
Emma Gilheany, Anthropology
“Project to Repatriate Images to Hopedale, Nunatsiavut”
Zachary Klamann, Political Science
“Power Crisis: The Roots of South Africa’s Crises of Electricity and Democracy”
Emily Mulford, Anthropology
“‘Truth’ and Reconciliation? Enforced Disappearance, Material Evidence, and Conspiracy Theorists in Argentina”
Sebastian Ortega, Sociology
“The Settler Colonial Policing of Chicano/ Indigenous Street and Prison Gangs”
Hera Shakil, Comparative Human Development
“The Politics of ‘Providing’ Rights: How Democratic Rights are Being Curbed for Welfare Provision in India”
Sheila Shankar, The Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
“Surviving Supervised Visitation, Seeking Safety: Court-mandated Mothers Navigating Domestic Violence and Post-separation Parenting”
PHD FELLOWSHIP GRANTS
Annually, current and former doctoral fellows are invited to apply for grants to support their research. This year, two students were awarded grants.
Arwa Awan, Political Science
Project Title: Marxism and Humanism in Anti-colonial Thought
Kévin Irakóze, Philosophy
Project Title: Of Unburied Shame: African Queer Life Beyond Death
GRADUATE LECTURESHIPS
The Pozen Center awarded two lectureships to advanced doctoral students, each of whom designs and teaches one undergraduate human rights course.
Austin Clyde, Computer Science
Course Title: Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, and Human Rights
Sasha Crawford-Holland, Cinema and Media Studies
Course Title: Documenting State Violence from the Holocaust to Black Lives Matter
Doctoral Fellow Sonja Castañeda Dower, Political Science, engaging at the Spring Symposium.OUR FACULTY BOARD
The 26 faculty at the core of the Pozen Center are intellectual leaders from across the University undertaking research that advances human rights as a subject of study. Their work encompasses diverse areas, including new philosophical approaches, decolonization, cultural politics, human rights history, global authoritarianism’s impact, transitional justice, gender sociology, constitutionalism, social welfare, and health.
Together, this exceptional Faculty Board continues to shape the intellectual landscape of human rights studies and ensures that the Pozen Center remains a vibrant academic space.
This past year, the Pozen Center welcomed two new board members: professors Lisa Wedeen (Political Science), and Geoffrey Stone (Law). We are also delighted that James Sparrow (History), 2023 recipient of the Quantrell Award, has returned to the board.
NEW MEMBERS
FACULTY BOARD
Mark Philip Bradley Faculty Director, History
Tom Ginsburg Co-Chair, Law
Johanna Ransmeier Co-Chair, History
Dan Brudney
Philosophy
Kathleen Cavanaugh Pozen Center
Rachel Cohen
Creative Writing
Chiara Cordelli
Political Science
Jane Dailey History
Jessica Darrow
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, & Practice
Leah Feldman
Comparative Literature
Adom Getachew
Political Science
Kimberly Kay Hoang
Sociology
Ben Laurence Pozen Center
Reuben Jonathan Miller
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, & Practice
Monika Nalepa
Political Science
Emily Osborn History
Jennifer Pitts
Political Science
Haun Saussy
Comparative Literature
Renslow Sherer
Pritzker School of Medicine
Eric Slauter
English
James Sparrow History
Kaushik Sunder Rajan Anthropology
Geoffrey Stone Law
Rochelle Layla Terman
Political Science
Lisa Wedeen
Political Science
Tara Zahra History
Lisa Wedeen Political Science Geoffrey Stone Law Tom Ginsburg (Pozen Faculty Board Co-Chair) delivered the 2023 Convocation address Faculty Board member Reuben Miller honored as 2023 MacArthur Fellow James Sparrow HistoryPOZEN VISITING PROFESSOR: ARTS & HUMAN RIGHTS
The Pozen Center welcomed Zoe Butt in the spring of 2023. Butt is a curator and writer who lives and works between Chiang Mai, Thailand and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Her work focuses on critical, historically conscious artistic communities of the globalizing South. She founded the ‘in-tangible institute’ in 2022 to nurture locally responsive curatorial talent in Southeast Asia. Butt taught the seminar “Embodying Method: How Artists Catalyze and Sustain Knowledge,” which explored how artists must be resilient sleuths in engineering solutions to counter political, cultural, and ideological fear and state regulation.
She addressed themes in human rights and the arts through “Sidebar: Empowering Method with Zoe Butt & Tiffany Chung,”
a conversation co-organized with the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, and “Making and Showing Art in Transnational Spaces,” a collaboration with the Center for East Asian Studies.
Made possible through a gift from Richard and Ann Pozen, the Visiting Professor Program brings a senior scholar or practitioner with a distinguished career in human rights to campus for one quarter of each year. In spring 2024, we will welcome Professor Louise Mallinder from Queen’s University Belfast, an internationally recognized expert in amnesty laws.
Zoe Butt, Pozen Visiting Professor
“Students desire to hear from someone who lived outside academia, who would be speaking from experience in their dedication to context.”Zoe Butt (right); Zach Cahill (middle), Gray Center for the Arts; and Mark Philip Bradley (left), History, highlighting the creativity of artists in the Global South who resist restrictions on free expression.
HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE COMMUNITY
Our commitment to raising human rights awareness is fostered through our public events that connect speakers with our University faculty, students, and the wider community. Through an exploration of human rights topics of current interest, our events engage, challenge, inspire, and promote an exchange of ideas that animates and expands the theory and practice of human rights.
The Pozen Center sponsored 54 public events reaching 2,793 participants. We highlight three signature programs from 2022-2023.
DEMOCRACY AND A.I.—THE ENCROACHING MACHINE: REFRAMING RIGHTS IN THE AGE OF A.I.
March 31, 2023
GUANTÁNAMO’S
LEGACY: FROM A LEGAL BLACK HOLE TO A BATTLEGROUND IN THE FIGHT AGAINST TORTURE
November 8, 2022
Marking the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the American military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the Center brought together Lisa Hajjar, Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Cheryl Bormann, one of the defense attorneys in the 9/11 Walid bin ‘Atash case, and Darryl Li, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College. The panelists discussed Hajjar’s new book, The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture, and focused on the legal battles over the treatment of people detained at Guantánamo Bay.
Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard University, discussed what happens to human rights when machines developed to enhance our powers seem ready to assert power over us, in a panel with Aziz Huq, Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law, University of Chicago; Torsten Reimer, University Librarian and Dean of the University Library, University of Chicago; and David Gunkel, Professor of Media Studies, Northern Illinois University. Presentations by students from UChicago and Harvard followed the keynote and discussion. More highlights and a video can be found here.
SIDEBAR: EMPOWERING METHOD WITH ZOE BUTT AND TIFFANY CHUNG
April 5, 2023
Curator and Pozen Visiting Professor Zoe Butt and Vietnamese contemporary artist Tiffany Chung discussed how artists explore migration, conflict, and shifting geographies in the wake of political and natural upheavals. They were in conversation with moderators Zachary Cahill, director of programs and fellowships at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, and Mark Philip Bradley, Bernadotte E. Schmitt Professor of History and the College and Pozen Center Faculty Director.
POZEN CENTER PODCAST: HUMAN RIGHTS IN A NEW KEY
The Human Rights in a New Key podcast was created and co-hosted by two affiliates of the Center: fourth-year student Manaeha Rao, AB’23, and Social Science Teaching Fellow Matthew Furlong, PhD’21. Six episodes highlighted student perspectives and voices in conversation with activists, academics, and other human rights experts about a range of timely human rights topics, including indigenous rights, workers’ and animal rights in industrial farms, and high-tech surveillance of human rights leaders.
Engaging the Community
54 public events
2,793 participants
Democracy and A.I. panel discusses the impact of A.I. on human rights.
HUMAN RIGHTS LAB: MASS INCARCERATION & CRIMINALIZATION
Led by Director of Practice Alice Kim, the Human Rights Lab inspired critical thinking about the crises of mass incarceration and racialized policing through research, activism, art, and community-building.
Prison Education
The Lab collaborated with the Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project (PNAP) to develop educational programs at Stateville and Logan Correctional Centers, including UChicago’s first mixed enrollment course, which brought together UChicago and incarcerated students at Stateville Correctional Center. Co-taught by Alice Kim and Cathy Cohen (Political Science), inaugural Chair of the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity, the course explored narratives of transformation and social struggles.
Artist for the People Fellowship
In partnership with the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (CSRPC), the Lab hosted a yearlong “Artists for the People” Practitioner Fellowship for artist Dorothy Burge and curator Michelle Daniel Jones. The fellowship culminated in “Makes Me Wanna Holla: Art, Death, and Imprisonment,” an exhibition at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts exploring the injustices of the carceral system through the voices and art of those who have experienced them firsthand.
BA Thesis Fellowship
Nine students were awarded the Human Rights Lab BA Thesis Fellowship, receiving support for their theses on topics related to mass incarceration, policing, and the carceral system.
Mass Incarceration Working Group (MIWG)
Six undergraduate students and three graduate students worked as fellows with the Mass Incarceration Working Group (co-convened by CSRPC) on various projects throughout the year including supporting a Think Tank at Stateville Prison and a series of workshops at Logan Prison for women. Nine travel scholarships were awarded to students and community members to attend the Beyond the Bars conference hosted by the Center for Justice at Columbia University. The MIWG also provided research support to incarcerated scholars by fulfilling research requests from students taking PNAP courses at Stateville and Logan Correctional Centers.
Community Engaged Learning and Praxis
The Human Rights Lab project on mass incarceration has offered a unique space on campus where theory and practice intersect. Alice Kim will continue to advance its work beyond its initial five years of Pozen funding at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture with the support of the Provost’s Office beginning in September 2023. A video spotlighting the impact of the Human Rights Lab is here.
Makes Me Wanna Holla multimedia exhibition explores the injustices of the carceral system.
THE INTERSECTION OF THEORY AND PRACTICE
“This mixed enrollment course has been the best class I have ever taken. While I loved some of the classes I took on campus, nothing compares. This class is very real, and the discussions and tasks we complete have a direct relation to the worlds we live in.”Reflection from a student in “Narrating Social Change,” a class held at Stateville Correctional Center with UChicago and incarcerated students Cathy Cohen (upper left), Chair of the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity, and Alice Kim (second from right front), director of practice, Human Rights Lab, with UChicago’s first mixed enrollment course for UChicago and incarcerated students. Amber Ginsburg (left), Visual Arts, and La Tanya Jenifor-Sublett, Chicago Torture Justice Center, presenting at Remaking the Exceptional: Abolition, Feminism, and Freedom, which weaves together artwork, poetry, legal testimony, research, and experiences of creative resistance by imprisoned people, activists, and artists.
Artist for the People Practitioner Fellows celebrating their exhibition Makes Me Wanna
Holla. Above: Michelle Daniel Jones (in yellow dress) and the Mourning Our Losses team on opening night. Below right: Dorothy Burge (right) with her daughter, Maya.
“We are so grateful and impressed with the quality of the students who have committed themselves to human rights at the University of Chicago. They’re really what has kept us supporting the program.”
The Pozen Center is deeply grateful for the ongoing support of Richard and Ann Pozen. Their commitment to making human rights part of the academic landscape at UChicago has made the work of the Center possible.
Richard, AB’69, and Ann Pozen
“The Center in its 25 years has done so much on such an important topic for the world. I’m sure that in the next 25 years the Center will grow and evolve— and its impact will become even greater.”
Paul Alivisatos, President, University of Chicago
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Photo Credits: Reuben Miller photo courtesy MacArthur Foundation; James Sparrow and Tom Ginsburg photography by Jean Lachat; 25th Anniversary panel, Doctoral Fellows Symposium, Zoe Butt, AI and Democracy panel photography by Beth Rooney; Intern photos courtesy Alice Breternitz, Sanjana Natesan, Abigail Sudit, and Warren Wagner; Makes Me Wanna Holla photography by Sarah Elizabeth Larson