Global Human Rights Hub

The Global Human Rights Hub brings together ASU faculty members from across ASU’s four campuses, who are actively researching issues related to global human rights.  The Hub Fellows program provides networking and mentoring opportunities for ASU graduate students. ASU graduate students at any level and from any discipline whose work touches on human rights are invited to get involved in our work and be a part of our programming and publication opportunities. The Hub features biographies of each Hub Fellow on the GRH Hub website for the academic year. Fellows write a series of blog entries on topical issues in the field of human rights that are connected to their research. Our goal is to highlight the important work that ASU graduate students are doing while providing them with mentoring and networking opportunities.
 

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Dominik Drabent is a PhD student in the Gender Studies program in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. His research focuses on queer Muslims in the contexts of Somalia and Iraq and queer Muslim communities in the diaspora at the intersections of gender, sexuality, religion, and race, amongst other identities. His other research interests are queer studies, feminist pedagogy, transnational feminism, the Middle East, and Islamic feminism. He has authored pieces about Queer African activism and the Women, Life, Freedom movement in Iran for Ms. Magazine that discuss the human rights violations in those areas.

Gonzalo Galindo-Delgado is a PhD student in Justice Studies at Arizona State University, where he serves as a Graduate Teaching Associate in the School of Social Transformation and as a Global Human Rights Hub fellow at ASU New College. He holds a BA in Law from the University of Antioquia (Colombia) and an MA in Social Sciences from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (Mexico). Before embarking on his academic journey, he was engaged in cause lawyering and human rights advocacy in his home country. This early exposure to real-world challenges fueled his passion for exploring the intricate relationship between Law, Social Movements, and Progressive Politics in Latin America. His current research focuses on the strategies employed by social movements to harness the power of the legal system in their pursuit of social justice. He is particularly intrigued by the evolving landscape of social mobilization and progressive governance in Latin America. His work seeks to unravel the dynamic interplay between grassroots movements and policy changes, shedding light on the mechanisms that drive positive societal transformations.

İlkem Gök Karci is a second-year PhD student in Economics, with a primary research focus on the gender pay gap and employability disparities between genders. She explores how policy adjustments can be employed to mitigate these inequalities. Additionally, she examines the family outcomes resulting from female employment within households, with a particular emphasis on developing countries. Her prior research delved into the impact of Syrian refugees on the Turkish labor market and its correlation with intimate partner violence. Currently, she is actively involved in a research project centered on the effects of childcare policies on maternal employment in Peru.

Namrata Namrata is doctoral student in Women and Gender Studies at the School of Social Transformation, ASU. Her research interests focus on girlhood and social development in girls' education in the Global South. Previously she has worked on a project that explores appropriation politics (along the lines of caste, class and gender) against Dalit girls who belong to manual scavenging communities in India.

Adnan Turan is a PhD student in the Educational Policy and Evaluation program at Arizona State University. Adnan's research centers around the critical issue of refugee education in both formal and non-formal contexts. With a particular focus on the assimilation of refugees, decolonizing refugee education, and the crucial role of NGOs in promoting refugees' assimilation, Adnan is committed to making a positive impact on this pressing global challenge. Adnan's academic journey includes a master's degree from the University of Minnesota and a bachelor's degree in education from Turkey.