Dignity Online provides a platform for sharing academic and creative human rights content in a variety of formats including photography, poetry, book reviews, and much more. This site offers easy access to Dignity’s academic journal and displays the imaginative ways in which students explore the human rights field.
2021-2022
Essay by Bow Rudolph: A City Distant From Its’ Locals
Asheville's rise in popularity only adds gas to the fire of gentrification, …
Essay by Emma Appleby: An Evaluation of Global Prison Conditions using the Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor 2019 Country Reports on Human Rights
As a part of assisting with undergraduate research, I spent a semester …
Visual Arts by Nora Maybury
This painting is inspired by my work as a Research Assistant in …
Essay by Nora Maybury: The Pharmaceutical Industry
The pharmaceutical industry regularly finds itself in the midst of controversy, often …
Visual Arts by Olivia Sullivan: Rainbow Woman
A faceless self-portrait describing the complex balance of existing and surviving. As …
Film Review by Jessie Frank: Analysis of A Taxi Driver
INTRODUCTION A Taxi Driver is a fictional movie loosely based on real-life …
2020-2021
Film Review by Soma Samadhi: Analysis of Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom
In the first minutes of the Netflix documentary Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s …
Visual Arts by Elina Morrison: Human Rights: A New Generation
About This Project. A storymap is a visual narrative, traditionally used for …
Essay by Tatianna Wilkins: Black Identity Is…
What comes to mind when you think of Brazil? Carnaval? Brazilian waxes? …
Book Review by Savannah Dicus: Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
The Black Lives Matter movement has inspired an emergence of prison abolitionist …
Poem by Katherine Magley: The Raging Fire
A journey through a time of injustice and inequality. A desire to …
Essay by Leila Yow: Breaking the Curse: A Review of the Resource Curse, Civil Conflict, and Role of Policy
Classical economic theory suggests that an abundance of natural resources is expected …
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