Irish Centre for Human Rights – PhD graduations

Dr Kelsey Rhude and Dr Rania Muhareb.
Jul 09 2025 Posted: 10:13 IST

Congratulations to our newest Drs - Dr Kelsey Rhude, Dr  Rania Muhareb and Dr Beatrice Canossi,  and to their supervisors, Dr Anita Ferrara, Professor Shane Darcy and Dr Edel Hughes!

Pictured here at the recent PhD conferring ceremony, Dr Kelsey Rhude and Dr Rania Muhareb.

Dr Kelsey Rhude, a Hardiman Research scholar, completed her PhD thesis, under the supervision of Dr Anita Ferrara, on transitional justice processes in Liberia.

Dr Rania Muhareb, an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland PhD scholar, completed her PhD thesis under the supervision of Professor Shane Darcy and Dr Edel Hughes, on the mobilisation of the apartheid framework by grassroots organisers and human rights organisations in the pursuit of international justice and accountability in Palestine.

Also graduating on June 12 was Dr Beatrice Canossi, an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland PhD scholar , who was awarded a PhD for her thesis completed under the supervision of Dr Anita Ferrara, on the subject of transitional justice in Colombia.

Rania and Kelsey

Kelsey and

Rania and supervisors

Rania and family

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