The Mgrublian Center for Human Rights provides an educational experience that combines classroom and hands-on learning, activism, and research to foster in students a deeper understanding of human rights in their lives, and to prepare interested students for careers and postgraduate work in related professions. The Center hosts leading scholars and human rights activists, sponsors academic travel, internships, student-led task forces, research projects, and supports local and global campaigns, thereby advancing the cause of human rights more broadly while helping students develop the ethical commitments and leadership qualities necessary to identify, prevent, and overcome human rights abuses in today’s world.
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Mgrublian Center celebrates 20 years of responsible leadership in human rights
CMC Professor Emeritus and moral philosopher John Roth called it an “oppression-resisting, hope-sustaining, death-defying, life-giving, and joy-creating place.” Jonathan Petropoulos, the John V. Croul Professor of European History at CMC, called it “the conscience of...
In Memoriam: CMC Professor Emeritus P. Edward Haley, Director (2008-14)
The Center is mourning the recent passing of a significant member of its foundation and community, CMC Professor Emeritus P. Edward “Ed” Haley. Ed joined the CMC faculty in 1968 and was a key figure in the founding of the Center 20 years ago, becoming one of its first...
“Hitler Did a Lot of Good Things”: Trump and the US Rehabilitation of Nazism
Originally published by Cambridge University Press, March 28, 2023 By Ben Kiernan A newly-excavated mass grave at Choeung Ek, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Photo: Ben Kiernan, September 26, 1980. As the mob incited by President Donald Trump ransacked the U.S. Capitol on...