Opportunities for Students: Undergraduate Students

Rapoport Center undergraduate Communications Interns bring energy, expertise, and professional skillsets to the Center’s research, programming, and educational projects. In addition to possessing excellent communications skillsets, we are particularly interested in interns who have expertise or interest in human rights and social justice, particularly the Center's thematic priorities: environmental justice and climate justice, reproductive justice, and peace, among other focal points.

The Rapoport Center offers fall, spring, and summer internships to undergraduates who are interested in working in the field of human rights and social justice. Interns play an important role at the Rapoport Center, and support various initiatives depending on their backgrounds, interests, and the needs of the Center.

The Barbara Harlow Endowed Internship in Human Rights and Social Justice honors the life and work of Barbara Harlow (1948-2017), who held the Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor of English Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. She was a committed colleague, friend, and mentor to countless students, activists, and intellectuals. As a collaboration between the Rapoport Center and the Bridging Disciplines Programs (BDPs), the internship aims to introduce BDP students to Harlow’s scholarship and activism, and to encourage them to imagine future trajectories for her work.

The Rapoport Center invites submissions to its undergraduate writing prize contest on human rights and social justice with an emphasis on reproductive justice, environmental justice, and peace. The First Prize winner will receive a $500 scholarship and all finalists’ papers will be considered for publication in the Rapoport Center’s Working Paper Series or Human Rights Commentary.

Law students in the Immigration Clinic gain hands-on experience representing vulnerable low-income immigrants from all over the world before the immigration and federal courts and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The Immigration Clinic also offers annual undergraduate legal internships for students considering law school and/or interested working in the fields of immigration and human rights.

The Rapoport Center is currently soliciting papers for its Working Paper Series (WPS). We encourage submissions from scholars of all disciplines as well as from activists and advocates.

The Undergraduate Concentration in Human Rights & Social Justice, offered in collaboration with the Bridging Disciplines Program (BDP), introduces students to the interdisciplinary study and practice of human rights at home and around the world.

This list of human rights organizations, while by no means comprehensive, can be used as a starting point for students to search for opportunities around the world. Organizations where former Rapoport Center Fellows have worked are marked.

UT offers a wide array of undergraduate courses related to human rights.

NYU's Center for Human Rights & Global Justice maintains a page for job postings and similar opportunities in the human rights field that may be of interest to current students as well as postgraduates.