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This cash prize is awarded to the rising Columbia College senior majoring in Human Rights who submits the best proposal for a summer or term-time human rights internship, and is intended to be used to help defray the expenses of the internship.
This prize is awarded annually to the Columbia College student majoring in human rights who has the highest grade point average and a superior record of academic achievement in Human Rights.
This cash prize is awarded to the rising Columbia College senior majoring in human rights who submits the best proposal for a summer or term-time human rights internship, and is intended to be used to help defray the expenses of the internship. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis throughout the year, with priority deadlines of early December for Spring term submissions, and early April for Summer submissions. Alternatively, for general research or internship funding, students should review ISHR's undergraduate financial resources page. Please apply here: APPLICATION: Myra Kraft Human Rights Prize
Grace Bickers graduated with honors from Columbia College in 2014, majoring in Human Rights with a concentration in Middle Eastern Studies. Her undergraduate thesis, an abridged version of which won the 2016 Ignacio Martín-Baró Human Rights Essay Competition at the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights (University of Chicago), analyzed the lack of accountability mechanisms within the economic, social, and cultural human rights regime, arguing that an over reliance on state-based checks on power and state-granted rights leaves people without meaningful modes of legally accessing universal rights. As her research focused in particular on the case of Tajikistan, she traveled there to live and teach after receiving her B.A. While at Columbia, Grace worked for two years as a research assistant with the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations.
After obtaining an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Chicago, Grace is back at Columbia, where she is now a Ph.D. student in the Department of Religion studying medieval Islamic history.
Carrie Montgomery graduated from Columbia College in 2013, with a double major in History and Human Rights. During her time at Columbia, she co-founded the Public Service Initiative which offered personal statement and scholarship essay workshops to local high school students. She was also a member of the Intercultural Resource Center and Multicultural Recruitment Committee. Carrie studied abroad at Columbia University Middle East Research Center/University of Aquaba in Amman, Jordan. She plans to pursue a career in law.
