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Human Rights Track

The Human Rights track provides a deep, critical, and interdisciplinary understanding of human rights issues. The track offers graduate course options that approach the field of human rights and practice from multiple disciplinary and thematic perspectives within the regionally diverse geography of the Americas, thus enabling comparative and international perspectives. Students in this track benefit from a range of human rights initiatives at the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies: the Frances S. Patai Program in Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights , whose focus is cinema that deals with human rights; the podcast, hosted by Prof.  Danielle A. Zach, as well as the tri-divisional Human Rights Forum  and Human Rights Conference.

Students in this track will be able to conduct and apply original research, use technological tools appropriately, and communicate with varied audiences effectively. In particular, by giving students an appreciation of grave human rights violations as well as recent normative and institutional developments within and across borders, this track contributes to advancing one of the core missions of the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies: to encourage global citizenship. 

Taking advantage of the existing interdisciplinary framework of the MA in the Study of the Americas, the Human Rights track consists of four courses that count as part of the seven electives students must take. Students must fulfill the following Requirements: taking two foundational courses and completing either a Thesis or Capstone.

🎧  Podcast

With authoritarianism, nationalism, and xenophobia on the rise, gaping global wealth disparities, and the accelerating climate emergency, human rights appear increasingly fragile. Rights Talk is devoted to engaging contemporary challenges around the world across the human rights spectrum of civil and political rights; economic, social, and cultural rights; and solidarity rights, including to a safe and healthy environment. The podcast invites critical perspectives and questions the future of rights in the twenty-first century.

LATEST EPISODES

: "The UN in the 21st Century: Challenges and Contributions with CUNY Graduate Center Presidential Prof. Emeritus Thomas G. Weiss
: "Discontent on the African Continent: Youth, Inequality, and Rural Radicalism with CUNY Baruch Prof. Zachariah Mampilly
: "‘Power and Politics Lead, Rights Follow’: Advancing Rights in the 21st Century" with Columbia University’s Prof. Jack Snyder
: Creating a “Beloved Community” in the School House: Centering Black Women Leaders and Girls for Just and Inclusive Education with CCNY’s Prof. Terri N. Watson
: Genocide as “the Crime of Crimes” and Its Limitations with CCNY’s Prof. Dirk Moses
: Reproductive Oppression: An Expanding “Appetite to Criminalize” with CUNY School of Law Prof. Cynthia Soohoo
: Medicine, Science, and Human Rights with Christian De Vos and Payal Shah of Physicians for Human Rights
: Russia’s War on Ukraine Explained: Motivations, Dynamics, and Consequences with CCNY’s Prof. Emeritus Rajan Menon
: CCNY’s Hostile Terrain 94 Global Art Installation: Undocumented Migration and US Policy with CCNY Prof. Matthew Reilly and Students Catie Hernandez and Eloisa Martinez Jimenez
: Russia’s War Against Ukraine with Human Rights Watch’s Louis Charbonneau
: “A New Age of Impunity and Indifference”: Torture, Refugees, and Conflict Zones with CVT President and CEO Simon Adams
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