Celebrating human trafficking research on World Day Against Trafficking in Persons
President Reynolds featured the Human Trafficking Research Lab as one of the four performance learning opportunities at Millikin University in his state of the university speech last May. This got lab members thinking about the uniqueness of the lab in the United States and the opportunities we provide for hands on research with a complex topic topic such as human trafficking. So the HTRL's newest research assistant Maggie Schrage's first job assignment was conducting an investigation on other research entities focused on human trafficking around the United States. Here is what she found:
I was tasked with compiling data on other academic institutions conducting research on human trafficking. After many hours of researching and contacting universities across the United States, I located many legal clinics that help survivors of human trafficking with legal issues in the United States but there were fewer that focused on academic research. I found that the Human Trafficking Research Lab at Millikin University is one of 35 academic based human trafficking research institutions in the United States.
It is one of four human trafficking research institutions that is open to students and it is the only lab that employs students strictly at the undergraduate level in the United States. Stanford University, University of Georgia, and Brown University are all have research assistants at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, but Millikin is the only one completely devoted to undergraduate student research assistants.
In areas of research collaborations with non-profit organizations, government entities, and academic based institutions, the HTRL is the lone human trafficking research lab in the entirety of the state of Illinois and one of eight in the entire Midwest. We were surprised to find many research and flagship universities had research centers or parts of centers devoted to human trafficking but found that the HTRL is also only undergraduate focused private university that has a research entity devoted to human trafficking in the United States.
This truly makes the HTRL unique not only in our region but now we know just how unique these undergraduate research opportunities are in the United States!
In recognition of World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, I encourage you to look at the 33 other university research programs and further your education from many new perspectives from the list below!
- Human Trafficking Collaborative at the University of Michigan
- Stanford University Human Trafficking Data Lab
- Trafficking in Persons Risk to Resilience Lab at the University of South Florida
- Human Trafficking and Vulnerable Populations Research Lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Center for the Study of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at the University of Central Florida
- Human Trafficking Vulnerability Lab: Partnership between University of California-Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, and York University in Canada
- Human Trafficking Research Initiative at the University of Louisville
- The Program on Human Trafficking and Forced Labor at American University
- University of California Berkeley Law Anti-Trafficking Project
- Human Trafficking and Social Justice Institute at the University of Toledo
- Center on Human Trafficking Research and Outreach at the University of Georgia
- Institute of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault at University of Texas at Austin
- Violence and Justice Research Lab at Northeastern University
- Anti-Slavery and Human Trafficking Initiative at University of Kansas
- The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
- Project NO REST at the University of South Carolina
- Center for Human Trafficking Research and Training at the University of Southern Mississippi
- Sex Trafficking Intervention Research at Arizona State University
- The Global Center on Human Trafficking at Montclair State University
- Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University
- The Human Trafficking Community Research Hub at William James College
- Bowling Green State University’s Labor Trafficking Education and Research Initiative
- The Sex Trafficking Analytics For Network Detection and Disruption at the University of Alabama
- Partners Against Exploitation at the University of San Diego
- Coalition for Research and Education Against Trafficking and Exploitation at Nova Southeastern University
- The Anti-Human Trafficking Research and Policy Development program at the University of Washington
- Human Trafficking & Health Equity Academic Collaborative at Northern Kentucky University
- The Human Trafficking Data Research Project at Southern Methodist University
- The Human Trafficking Initiative at Creighton University
- Program on Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking at Harvard University
- The Human Trafficking Initiative at John Hopkins University
- The University of Maryland’s Safe Center for Human Trafficking Survivors
- Sex Trading, Trafficking, and Community Well-Being Initiative at the University of Minnesota
- The Center of Research Excellence to Counter Human Trafficking (CRECHT)
- Human Trafficking Project at the University of Illinois Chicago
- Law Clinic at Case Western Reserve University School of Law
- Boston University School of Law Human Trafficking Clinic
- Human Trafficking Clinic at the University of Arkansas
- Human Trafficking and Exploitation Law Project at Florida State University
- Human Trafficking Clinic at Regent University
- Human Trafficking Prevention Project at the University of Baltimore Law School
- Rutgers University Law School Immigrant Rights Clinic
- University of California Berkeley Law Anti-Trafficking Project
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