Joining the Lab

The lab trains student researchers to use the internet as a critical tool for fact-finding and evidence gathering for human rights violations and to promote social justice. We accept students in any major, in all divisions. We also accept graduate students.

Student researchers reflect a wide range of fields and disciplines, including, but not limited to, Latin American and Latino Studies, Environmental Studies, Film and Digital Media, Politics, Philosophy, Feminist Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Psychology, Biology, Mathematics, Spanish Studies, and Legal Studies.

When funding permits, we also sponsor Graduate Student Researchers. Our graduate students have been from Anthropology, Latin American and Latino Studies, Feminist Studies, and Film & Digital Media. 

Students are primarily accepted into the lab one time per year in spring quarter. Students receive most of their research training in September before the official start of fall quarter. Students must be available to participate in our September training sessions in order to be eligible for consideration.

Priority is for students who can commit their entire academic year to the lab. Students are required to participate in weekly seminars (LALS 187 L/F) and weekly research lab meetings, with occasional Saturday meetings if needed.

Please check back in spring 2025 for the next cycle of recruitment applications.