Gallatin Global Fellowship in Human Rights Symposium 2023: Abigail Toomey, CLUSTER

Abigail is a master’s student at the Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies. After graduating from Bard College with a degree in Human Rights and Middle Eastern Studies, she received a Critical Language Scholarship to study Arabic in Morocco. She is interested in interdisciplinary approaches to questions of space, land sovereignty, and urban geography. In her undergraduate thesis, she examined American University in Cairo’s new campus as a site for environmental transformation and spatial segregation in Cairo, Egypt. This summer, she hopes to build upon this previous research to examine the right to the city and the role of informal and formal space in Cairo. She will work with CLUSTER Cairo, an organization that promotes urban justice in downtown Cairo through spatial dimensions. She hopes to examine the role of space in human rights through focusing on urban struggles for the right to public space and the tension between informal and formal practices in Cairo.
The Gallatin Global Fellowship in Human Rights is a year-long program that supports selected NYU students with funding to focus on these issues while working with human rights organizations. Fellows pursue extended projects and internships (including research and report writing) for the host organization during the summer. The fellowship aims to allow students to contribute to the host organizations’ work while gaining experience in the human rights field in ways that complement their academic trajectory at NYU.
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