ISHR wishes to congratulate the winners of the 2026 Human Rights Thesis Competition.
On April 23, human rights students and alumni gathered on Zoom to participate in ISHR's annual Human Rights Thesis Competition. During the event, students transformed hundreds of hours of thesis research in the human rights discipline into 5-minute presentations. The range of topics included the human rights economy, clothes and political expression, and far-right digital spaces, among others. The faculty judges were Professor Shourideh Molavi, Professor Tracey Holland, and Professor Glenn Mitoma.
- Graduate Faculty Choice Winner: Maia Borchardt (Human Rights Studies M.A.)
- The Human Rights Economy: Mobilizing Rights for Redistributive Politics
- Undergraduate Faculty Choice Winner: Mara Bulzan (General Studies)
- Incitement in Eastern European Far-Right Digital Spaces: Testing the Rabat Plan of Action
- Audience Choice Winner: Roli Nyirenda (Columbia College)
- The Clothed Body: How Legal Frameworks Fail to Protect Wearable Political Expression
