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A Fitting Introduction to Human Rights

By Human Rights Graduate Student, Veronica Smaldone The newest cohort for the MA in Human Rights visited the Museum of the Bible as part of the program’s orientation held on Friday, August 26. After an introduction by Program Director William Saunders, the University’s Provost, Aaron Dominguez, Professors Bradley Lewis and David Walsh, and Chinese human […]