Daniel Brückenhaus
Daniel Brückenhaus studies how both prominent anti-colonial leaders and grass-roots members of anti-colonial movements used laughter as a form of resistance.
Working for social justice, equity, and change
What is your dream career?
Like Patrick Fraser’17, your path to a career might start with a first-year seminar on the U.S. war on terrorism, continue with an internship at Mothers at Risk in Brussels, Belgium, turn into winning a Fulbright Scholarship to teach in Malaysia, then lead to working as a civil rights advocate at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Vermont.
Or you might take your experience advocating for transgender rights on campus to the Iowa statehouse, fighting for healthcare equality like Tobias Gurl’12.
Or your time at Beloit working at the nearby Winnebago County Public Defender’s Office might launch a legal career with the Bronx Defenders, serving low-income Bronx residents in criminal, civil, child welfare, and immigration cases, like Harvard-educated criminal defense lawyer Ruth Hamilton’07.
Chart your own path
With support from professors, staff, and alumni mentors, you can take advantage of all Beloit has to offer. Courses that spark your passions, resources found only at Beloit, and internships and study opportunities across the globe are your stepping stones.
Your new professional network
Beloit’s long-standing commitment to human rights and social justice provides students with a wide variety of alumni and friends across the world. From embassies to the State Department to non-profits to grad programs, Beloiters around the world are here to guide and support you.
Justice & Rights
Justice & Rights
Your Mentors
Michael Dango
Michael Dango and his students examine contemporary art, media, and literature to see how people are developing frameworks for making sense of urgent political, social, and environmental questions.
Beth Dougherty
A political scientist with an international relations focus, human rights figure largely in Beth Dougherty’s research, teaching, and college service.
Rachel Ellett
Political scientist Rachel Ellett studies comparative judicial policies, rule of law development, gender and judging, and lawyers and the state in sub-Saharan Africa.
Katherine Johnston
Kate Johnston encourages students to consider the ways that inequities in the past influence our present and future.
COLLEGE TO CAREER
Opening Doors to College Access
Teddy Williams’18 benefitted from mentors and programs that made college accessible for students of color. Now, he opens doors for future generations through his work with the Schuler Scholar Program.
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Strategizing Climate Change Policy and Natural Resource Governance Solutions in Africa
Kidan Araya’13 advocates in the U.S. and abroad for communities adversely affected by environmental crime. Her education at Beloit College, both on and off-campus, helped prepare her.
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