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.

Graduate Students: Apply for a Human Rights Scholarship

Call for Papers: Audre Rapoport and Zipporah B. Wiseman Prizes

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May 5, 2023

Undergraduate interns Lesly Chávez-Valencia and Jeremiah Baldwin named COLA 2023 Dean’s Distinguished Graduates

Congratulations to Spring 2023 Rapoport Center undergraduate interns, Lesly and Jeremiah!

April 18, 2023

Emma Brush is our 2022 Zipporah B. Wiseman Writing Prize Winner!

We are pleased to publish Emma Brush's paper, "Plain Reading the Constitution: Frederick Douglass, Textualism, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice."

February 1, 2023

Statement on Investigation of Pregnancy Outcomes in Mission, Texas

A statement on the Mission, Texas Police Department’s decision to investigate the report of a discovery of fetal remains.

October 27, 2022

Arti Gupta is our 2022 Audre Rapoport Writing Prize Winner!

We are pleased to publish Arti Gupta's paper, "The Unhappy Marriage of ‘Queerness’ and ‘Culture’: The Present Implications of Fixating on the Past."

October 6, 2022

2021-2022 Annual Review Now Available

Check out our latest Annual Review, which highlights the celebration of Sissy Farenthold's life, the Farenthold lecture delivered by Arundhati Roy, our webinar on post-Roe strategies, and much more!

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