The Human Rights and Technology Lab serves undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty who have an interest in human rights and social science research. Currently, undergraduate research assistants, after being properly trained, work on all research projects associated with the lab. Graduate student researchers associated with the lab are integrated at all levels of the projects. This includes opportunities for on-the-ground training in qualitative and ethnographic methods on group fieldwork trips, as well as co-authorship opportunities.
Ongoing Projects
Technology and Changing Abortion Laws: Explores the intersection of technology and changing legal realities around reproductive justice and abortion access in the United States using a triangulated data analysis approach.
White Nationalism Online: Our lab, in an ongoing collaboration with Aaron Panofsky’s (Institute for Society and Genetics, UCLA), examines how white nationalists use scientific language and ideas in online discussions surrounding the intersection of race and gender, specifically regarding dating and procreation.
Tulsa 1921: This project, using a forensics-based human rights lens, examines the current exhumation efforts of victims of the Black Wall Street Massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma.