Bard College Berlin alumna, journalist, and activist Wafa Mustafa ’20.

Student Opportunities

Affiliated Programs

Students are encouraged to undertake summer internships and participate in programs off campus, including the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program in New York City and Bard Abroad programs at Central European University, American University of Central Asia, and Bard College Berlin.

Internships and Opportunities

Human Rights Project Internship Program

If you are interested in the Human Rights Project internship program, click here.

Travel Reimbursement
The Human Rights Project has some funds allocated for covering the travel costs of students hoping to attend conferences or other relevant academic events outside of Bard. If interested, please email [email protected] prior to making plans.

Get involved
If you want to work as a research assistant at the Human Rights Project, or you’re interested in getting involved with Human Rights Radio, send an email to [email protected].
Bard Immigrant Coalition

Formally known as Organizing for Undocumented Students’ Rights (OUSR), the Bard Immigrant Coalition continues the original mission of OUSR to promote the rights of undocumented students on Bard’s Hudson Valley campus, and to follow the national movements on immigrants rights. However, we now seek to expand our efforts in fundraising and raising awareness of the broader issue of immigration in the United States.
The Draft

The Draft is both a student publication and a community of activists, organizers, aspiring journalists, and artists. Our goal is to provide a space where student work pertaining to both international and local issues of social, political, economic, and cultural inequality can be shared with a larger audience. Contact Austin Dilley, editor, at [email protected] for more information or to submit to the journal.
Human Rights Radio

Produced by the Human Rights Sound Lab, Human Rights Radio features sound pieces created by students; edited talks from the Human Rights Project lecture series; interviews with leading human rights scholars, practitioners, activists, and artists; and stories from Bard’s network campuses around the world. If you’re interested in joining the Sound Lab’s student media collective or have an idea for a sound project and want to make it happen, contact the Human Rights Project at [email protected].
Publications Accepting Undergraduate Submissions
OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College

The OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College (CHRA) researches, inspires, and supports the intersection of art and human rights. At its heart is a perspective that looks beyond art institutions and nonprofit organization industries to engage with international practices of activism, art, and knowledge production.

The center is committed to creating networks of collaboration and solidarity and to enriching the conversation on the political potential of contemporary art within human rights discourse. Through its postgraduate masters of art program, it opens a space for activists, artists, and scholars to colearn and cocreate. Through its public program—operating locally in New York’s Hudson Valley (occupied homelands of the Munsee and Muhheaconneok people) and internationally—the center engages with innovative art practices that investigate human rights violations and grassroots activism that uses creative tools of resistance.

CHRA supports multidisciplinary and collaborative knowledge production through annual resident research fellowships, research grants for students and faculty, yearly commissions for artists, public talks series, free and accessible publications, and a multidisciplinary biennial arts festival in partnership with the Fisher Center at Bard and other OSUN institutions and art venues around the world.

To learn more about the CHRA Masters Program, click here. For fellowship and grant opportunities, click here.

Recent Senior Projects in Human Rights

“How Undocumented Youth Perform Citizenship”
“Politics and Human Rights: Reading Rancière and Arendt”
“Thinking of Doggerland: Experiments in Climate Fiction and Narratives of Human Rights”