Dodd Impact
2023 Malka Penn Award Recognizes Beneath the Wide Silk Sky and The Tower of Life
Children’s literature selections honored for outstanding work addressing human rights issues and themes
September 7, 2023 | Jaclyn Severance
New Christopher J. Dodd Chair in Human Rights Practice to Direct Dodd Impact Programs
James Waller, eminent scholar of the Holocaust and genocide studies, will combine classroom learning with human rights practice
August 17, 2023 | Jaclyn Severance
UConn to Award 2023 Dodd Prize to Ukraine’s Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center
In addition to the awarding of the Dodd Prize, a panel about Babyn Yar will be featured at the inaugural Human Rights Summit to be held on October 25, 26, and 27, at UConn’s Dodd Center for Human Rights
August 1, 2023 | Jaclyn Severance
Northeast Human Rights Film Festival to Showcase Documentaries, Rally Audiences to Action
The inaugural film festival aims to connect filmmakers, human rights advocates, and community groups with the common goal of sustained, transformational impact
May 18, 2023 | Combined Reports
EPOCH Shares Community Histories, From Connecticut to Côte d’Ivoire
Now officially in partnership with Connecticut Humanities, EPOCH will be working with towns across the state – beginning with Bloomfield, Windsor, and Enfield – to collect their own community histories
February 23, 2023 | Mac Murray
Dodd Impact Team Seeks ‘A More Perfect Union’ Through Community Conversation
History professor Brendan Kane and other UConn experts hosted statewide discussions on the nation’s founding documents, funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Connecticut Humanities Council
February 13, 2023 | Mac Murray
The Darién Gap in Focus: Exhibition Centers the Stories of Migrants Traveling through Panama in Transit to the U.S.-Mexico Border
"The photographs connect us closer to the experiences of migrants transiting through Panama: shoes laying across the migratory reception center, two children under a tent sponsored by U.S. and E.U. aid, a Bible drying under the sun, children playing in the river, and border officials' increasing presence in Darién."
January 31, 2023 | Alex Branzell
Documenting the American Dream: In First-of-its-Kind Project, UConn Professor Directs Film for U.S. Congressional Committee
'Creating media that unites, that’s something that I really want to do with my films'
January 5, 2023 | Jaclyn Severance
UConn’s Dodd Human Rights Impact Campaign Raises $12.5 Million to Advance Human Rights Education, Outreach, and Engagement
The UConn Foundation's Dodd Human Rights Impact Campaign has raised more than $12.5 million, further solidifying the reputation of UConn as a preeminent academic institution for the study of, engagement with, and practice of human rights
December 9, 2022 | Meagan Fazio, UConn Foundation
New UConn Endowed Chairs in Human Rights Inspired by the Legacies of Dodd, Osiatyński
The new faculty positions will be part of the Human Rights Institute
July 26, 2022 | Stephanie Reitz