ISHR congratulates the winners of the 2026 Human Rights Essay Contest.
Graduate Winners
- Isabel Hou, (School of International and Public Affairs), Data, Deportation, and Due Diligence: Assessing Palantir’s Responsibility in U.S. Immigration Enforcement
- Madison Plemens-Schunk, (Human Rights Studies M.A.), Outside the Cis-tem: Legal [Non]Recognition for Gender-Nonconforming People in International Human Rights Law
Undergraduate Winners
- Hope Shinderman, (Columbia College), Mediterranean Necropolitics: Migrant Death at Sea as European Migration Governance
- Mara-Denisa Beteagu, (General Studies), Assessing UN Mechanisms Addressing Roma Ward Segregation
