Fortunately, I was given the opportunity
to work with Professor Chen. The project I am working on with Professor Chen
and Safa (another student) is comparing the human rights violations within China
and the United States. I help assist Professor Chen in gathering documents and
sorting out those documents that pertain to her research. On a weekly basis I
file away topics for research documents covering equal employment, equal pay,
and International law on women workers. Another project that I am helping
Professor Chen with is reading the documents more closely and summing up the
main themes for the articles. One thing I discovered this week is there is a
lot of coding and research that goes into a project before a book could be
written. The work that I am currently doing I can see it benefiting me sometime
within the near future. The work that I am doing allows myself to get familiarized
with jstor (a researching search engine) and being able to compare human rights
violations within different countries. Since my intended career is to practice
constitutional law, understanding human rights violations will set up a solid
foundation for myself. If I am rehired for the next school year within the same
department I can envision that the experience will definitely be a step up from
last year. The research will probably be more specific as to a certain
marginalized group of individuals being discriminated against within that
country. Also, the research will be more extensive and thorough.
