Welcome to the Rapoport Center

The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice serves as a focal point for critical, interdisciplinary analysis and practice of human rights and social justice. Our goal is to promote the economic and political enfranchisement of marginalized individuals and groups both locally and globally. We invite you to explore this site to learn more about our work at the intersection of academics and advocacy.

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August 8, 2022

Welcome our new Postgraduate Fellow, Cooper Christiancy!

August 8, 2022

Meet our new Postdoctoral Fellow, Bradley Cardozo!

June 24, 2022

The Rapoport Center Addresses the Ongoing Struggles for Reproductive and Sexual Justice

We write to express our own sense of grievance and injustice, anguish and anger over today’s Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturns Roe v. Wade.

May 2, 2022

New Working Paper — “A Clean Slate for No One: The Need for Automatic Expungement Policies”

Michael Hiestand provides a critical race perspective, through a comparative analysis in New Jersey and Alabama, to emerging literature on the uptake rate of expungement policies.

April 28, 2022

New Working Paper — “Precarity Capitalism and the Global Value Chain in Beef: The Plight of Meatpacking Workers at JBS Greeley”

John Fossum explores the phenomenon of "precarity capitalism" through a case study on the JBS USA Beef meatpacking plant and its workers in Greeley, Colorado.

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