The Human Rights Institute is excited to announce the recipients of the Graduate Students Research Grants.  These scholars are researching contemporary human rights issues and we are proud to support their work.

The 2021 HRI Dissertation Writing Fellowship has been awarded to Shamayeta Bhattacharya for her project "SHAKTHI: Substantive Health and Human-rights Access among Kothi, Transgender, and Hijra Individuals".

Doctoral student Grace Felten, was recently selected as a recipient of UConn’s Human Rights Institute (HRI) Research Grant Award for the 2018-19 academic year. HRI’s competitive graduate student research grants support and promote projects on human rights related issues for graduate students in all disciplines at UConn.  The grant competition prioritizes a range of primary research […]