Human Rights & Social Justice

Our Master of Arts (MA) program emphasizes social justice frameworks born out of anti-colonial, decolonial, anti-racist, transnational, and community-based knowledge processes and practices in the context of graduate studies. An integral aspect of the program will focus on the multiple and dialectical definitions of social justice as a field of conceptual, activated, and collective actions. It represents a creative and robust platform to offer dynamic courses, develop innovative pedagogical approaches, and forge a research agenda located within the interdisciplinary space carved out by the overlap between human rights and social justice as two fields of academic inquiry and political advocacy work.

Research Highlights

• Critical human rights and citizenship
• Public and global health
• Social movement and political cultures of solidarity
• Indigenous epistemologies and self-determination
• Socio-environmental justice
• Queer and trans rights and social justice
• Anti-terrorist/anti-security/anti-policing

Contact Information

Graduate Advisor, Paul Mkandawire