We are pleased to announce that the Law School will now be participating in the Gallatin Global Fellowship in Human Rights. 2L and LLM students are eligible to apply.
This is a year-long program. Fellows will enroll in a no-credit seminar and 2-credit directed research in the Spring semester, will do a rights-based internship over the summer, and will present their work at a symposium in the Fall after returning. 2L students in the program will be funded primarily by PILC Summer Funding and will receive an additional stipend of $1000 from Gallatin, for a combined total of $7500 of funding.
To apply for the fellowship, students must secure a host organization and a professor to sponsor the directed research by the November 3 application deadline. The program defines human rights organization broadly to include any organization using a legal framework to promote rights. Domestic civil rights work also qualifies under this definition, the placement need not be using international law. The application components include:
- An application form,
- Personal statement (which should also state what organization you will do project with),
- Budget (although the fellowship stipend is fixed, they want students to break down the costs including flight, housing, food, immunizations, visa, etc.),
- Description of what you would do with 2-credit independent study (here they want you to acknowledge your knowledge gaps and how you would address them before starting the internship),
- The application also calls for a letter of recommendation from the professor who will supervise directed research. However, if that person doesn’t know you well yet, you are encouraged to submit a second letter, which can come from a professor or former employer.
Students will be notified if they receive the fellowship by the week of November 17.
Note: If you are also planning to apply to the International Law and Human Rights Fellowship (ILHR), which has a deadline of November 12, you may apply to both and will be withdrawn from the ILHR process if you receive the Gallatin Global Fellowship.
The full announcement about the program is below, along with a link to the application. This year’s Symposium, where last year’s fellows will present their work, will take place on Tuesday, October 21, a flyer is attached. Feel free to contact Sara Rakita in PILC at sara.rakita@nyu.edu if you have any questions about the program.
-PILC
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Dear Student,
We are pleased to announce a very exciting opportunity for NYU students studying international human rights, broadly defined. The Gallatin Global Fellowship in Human Rights will provide several selected NYU students with a stipend for extended internships or research projects to be conducted in Summer 2015.
Students will propose their own Summer projects. These should be affiliated with organizations that position themselves as working in a human rights framework and have the capacity to host students and incorporate them in the substantive aspects of their work. The host organization should also have the administrative capacity to assist students with the logistics of their stay in the country. The projects will be uncredited and, normally, unpaid. It is anticipated that the fellowship will allow students to contribute to the organization’s work while gaining experience in the human rights field in ways that complement their academic trajectories at NYU.
We take a broad and interdisciplinary approach to human rights and are open to diverse types of engagements and locales. The following are examples of the kind of projects that would qualify:
- Working on-site with a rural community group in Kenya seeking to ensure access to potable water
- Interning with a museum in Santiago to create an archive of material related to human rights memorials in the region
- Building a website for an organization in Delhi on an international campaign to advance affordable access to anti-retrovirals
- Interning at an NGO in Washington, D.C., that investigates and publicizes human rights abuses related to the War on Terror
- Working with a Roma organization in France to raise awareness of anti-discrimination laws
- Conducting research with an academic team at a Mexican university studying how farmers’ cooperatives practice sustainable agriculture to advance food security
- Working with an environmental group in Abuja to address corporate accountability for oil spills in the Niger Delta
- Working with a theater company in Johannesburg on a play about women and the truth commission in South Africa
- Interning with the United Nations in Geneva on development policy and indigenous communities
The Fellowship Program entails a year-long commitment that involves the following:
I. Spring 2015
Fellows are required to attend and participate actively in a 0-credit biweekly seminar. Fellows must also enroll in a related 2-credit independent study with a faculty mentor (their adviser or another NYU faculty member) in which they explore some aspect of their intended project.
II. Summer 2015
Fellows must commit 9-12 weeks of full-time work on the project. If the project is located abroad, this means living on-site for 9-12 weeks. Fellows must write and publish at least four blog posts about their experiences.
III. Fall 2015
Fellows must present their work to the NYU community at the group’s annual Human Rights Symposium. This will involve a substantial 10- to 12-page paper and / or a panel presentation.
Eligibility
The program is open to all undergraduate students in degree-granting programs at NYU and to master’s students at Gallatin, Wagner, Tisch, Steinhardt, the Global Institute of Public Health, the Law School, and the Graduate School of Arts & Science. All Fellows must plan to be in residence in NYU Washington Square in Spring 2015, and undergraduate fellows must plan to graduate no earlier than January 2016.
Students selected to be Fellows must commit to participate in all elements of the program as outlined above, including the seminar, independent study, blog posts and final report and presentation.
Deadline
Applications are due by 5 p.m. on Monday, November 3.
Application Process
Propose a viable human rights-related project with a specific organization that has agreed to host you as a Fellow; propose a related independent study project for Spring 2015.
See the Gallatin Global Fellowship in Human Rights Application form for specific instructions and requirements.
You can find the application here:
http://gallatin.nyu.edu/utilities/forms/human-rights.html
Interested students should plan to attend one of the following Information Sessions, all of which will take place in the Gallatin Building, 1 Washington Place:
Tuesday, Sept. 30, 11-Noon, Rm. 801
Friday, Oct. 3, 2-3 pm, Rm. 401
Friday, Oct. 10, 2:30-3:30 pm, Rm. 401
Also, meet the 2014 Human Rights Fellows at the Gallatin Global Fellowship in Human Rights Symposium:
Tuesday, Oct. 21, 5:30-7 p.m., with reception to follow
NYU School of Law, D’Agostino Hall, 108 West 3rd St.
Prof. Vasuki Nesiah is the academic director of the Gallatin Global Fellowship in Human Rights; Assistant Dean Patrick McCreery is the group’s administrative director.
For more information, visit www.gallatin.nyu.edu/humanrightsfellowship or contact Gallatin’s Office of Global Programs at: gallatin.global@nyu.edu
Documents attached through CSM:
Gallatin Human Rights Fellowship: https://law-nyu-csm.symplicity.com/u/MbzfmLju; Human Rights Symposium: https://law-nyu-csm.symplicity.com/u/QGudcfpz