The Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute (HRI) continues a long tradition of support for student, faculty, and staff scholarship, research, and experiential learning. For more information about the awards and eligibility, this year’s recipients, individual projects and their impact, navigate to the pages linked in each award title. Congratulations to each of our more than two dozen awardees!<\/p>\r\n
The objective of the seed grant competition is to support and promote faculty research projects on human rights and to facilitate the writing of external grant proposals. Proposed research projects intend make a significant contribution to ongoing scholarly and\/or policy debates in the field of human rights.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Sarah Willen<\/strong>, Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director, Global\u00a0Health\u00a0and Human Rights Program<\/em> Our research grant competition for faculty and staff supports and promotes research projects on human rights related questions. Projects endeavor to make a significant contribution to ongoing scholarly and\/or policy debates in the field of human rights.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Kathryn Libal<\/strong>, Professor, Social Work and Human Rights\u00a0<\/em> Catherine Masud & Janie Cole<\/strong>, Assistant Professor In-Residence, Human Rights Documentary Filmmaking;\u00a0Assistant Professor of Musicology\u00a0<\/em> Michael Orwicz<\/strong>, Co-Chair, Research Program on Arts and Human Rights, Associate Professor, Art History<\/em>\u00a0 In an effort to support UConn graduate students writing doctoral dissertations with a human rights focus, the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute selected one dissertation fellowship awardee for the 2026-27 academic year.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Madeline Baird<\/strong>, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology\u00a0<\/em> To support primary research activities towards dissertation research, HRI selected one dissertation research fellowship awardee for the 2026-2027 academic year.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Craig Mortley<\/strong>, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Social Work\u00a0<\/em> The Human Rights Research Grant Competition supports and promotes research projects on human rights related questions among graduate students at UConn.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Jacob Harold Finnegan<\/strong>, Master’s\u00a0Student, Department of History\u00a0<\/em> Rojda Idil Arslan<\/strong>, Ph.D.\u00a0Candidate, Department of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies\u00a0<\/em> Elyse Smith<\/strong>, Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology\u00a0<\/em> The Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute offers tuition scholarships to academically outstanding undergraduate students who are majoring or minoring in human rights and enrolled full time at the University of Connecticut.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Eva Dannison<\/strong>, Class of 2027, Human Rights and Political Science Major, Social Responsibility and Impact in Business Minor<\/em> Gabriel Duffany<\/strong>, Class of 2028, Human Rights, Communication, and Political Science Major<\/em> Chevintha\u00a0Edirisinghe<\/strong>, Class of 2027, Physiology and Neurobiology Major, Human Rights Minor<\/em> Magnolia Hart<\/strong>, Class of 2027, Human Rights and Political Science Major, Economics Minor<\/em> Katrina Hatch<\/strong>, Class of 2027, Human Rights and Environmental Studies Major<\/em> Jimena Romero<\/strong>, Class of 2028, Chemical Engineering Major, Human Rights Minor<\/em> Kenzie Styles<\/strong>, Class of 2028, Human Rights and Sociology Major<\/em>
\u201cPublic Health in Crisis: Tracing the Multi-level Impact and Human Rights Implications of Gender-Based Violence Prevention Program Closures at CDC\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n2026 Small Grants for Faculty & Staff Research in Human Rights<\/a><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u201cSupporting Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the United States during an Era of Severe Restrictionism: Volunteer and Service Provider Perspectives\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u201cThe Making of Gabriel\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Translation for “Evidence at the Limits of the Visible: Art, Human Rights, and Environmental Justice” by Alice Miceli<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n2026 Dissertation Writing Fellowship<\/a><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u201cEmbodied Borders: Navigating Transit Migration and U.S. Asylum Access\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n2026 Dissertation Research Fellowship<\/a><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u201cThe Architecture of Precarious Belonging: How Asylum Law and Institutional Practice Shape the Structural Conditions of Belonging for LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n2026 Graduate Student Research Grant<\/a><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u201cDignifying Death and the Making of Veterans\u2019 Rights in the Grand Army of the Republic\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u201cEmpathy,\u00a0Hospitality\u00a0and the Human Rights Novel in\u00a0Kurdistan\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u201cCollaborative Ethnography on the Native American Political Ecologies of Peyote\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n2026 Undergraduate Scholarship Awardees<\/a><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Mark S. Rudy Award\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Mark S. Rudy Award\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Open Society Foundations Award\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Mark S. Rudy Award\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Wiktor\u00a0Osiaty\u0144ski\u00a0Award &\u00a0Laura Chapman Rubbo\u00a0Award\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Open Society Foundations Award\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Mark S. Rudy Award\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n