AnneMerie Donoghue Human Rights Fellowships
The Center's AnneMerie Donoghue Human Rights Fellowship Program provides student grants of up to $3,500 to support projects that engage undergraduates in the field of human rights. The initial grants included support for student internships at Amnesty International in London and the Aegis Trust in the United Kingdom and Rwanda. In addition, faculty research fellowships will be awarded annually to scholars whose projects advance the Center's mission.

The fellowships are intended to cover a wide range of activities. These may include working for organizations that promote human rights or raise awareness about related issues, undertaking research for a scholarly project (including senior theses), or developing an independent program in a relevant field. The Center is particularly interested in proposals for projects or endeavors that deal specifically with women and children. In addition, at least one fellowship will be available for a student who will work with the Aegis Trust, a genocide prevention organization in the United Kingdom. (For more information about the Aegis Trust, consult its web site at: http://www.aegistrust.org.)

Academic Travel Fellowships
The Holocaust Center has offered Academic Travel Fellowships each of the past two years to improve CMC students' understanding of issues related to the Holocaust, genocide, and human rights. The fellowships are intended to support undergraduate research such as a senior thesis, an independent study project, or a paper in a course. In summer 2008 The Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights at CMC sponsored a fourteen-day academic travel program to Israel. Sixteen students joined Professors Jonathan Petropoulos and Gary Gilbert, and Christopher Walker, CMC Trustee and friend of the Center. The program included visits to important historical, political, and cultural institutions and meetings with leading figures in Israeli and Palestinian society. The events covered all three aspects of the Center's identity, including a visit to Yad Vashem, the Israel Holocaust Museum, and meeting David Silberklang, editor of Yad Vashem Studies; studying the Armenian genocide with a stop at the Armenian Museum and discussion with Professor Israel Charney, an expert in comparative genocides; examining human rights issues related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict enhanced by discussions with Knesset member Gilad Erdan, scholar Yossi Klein-Halevi, and Munir Nuseibah and Huwaid Arraf of the Human Rights Clinic of Al-Quds University; and visits to Givat Haviva (Jewish-Arab Center for Peace) and the Jewish-Arab Community Center in Jaffa. Student participants included:
   Nathan Barrymore '09
   Rebekah Binns '10
   Kyle Block '10
   Aaron Champagne '10
   Solon Christensen-Szalanski '10
   Emily Forden '10
   Becky Grossman '08
   Janae Hockensmith '09
   Hunter Jackson '10
   Anna Kheyfets '10
   Kevyn Klein '08
   David Nahmias '10
   Ritika Puri '09
   Brendan Sasso '10
   Max Wilson '09
   Jake Wyrick '11