Welcome! I am Zoltán I. Búzás, an associate professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs. I founded the International Race and Rights Lab (IRRL) in February 2022 with the generous support of the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights. Its mission is to advance the study of the right to racial equality in an international context.

Instead of confining racial issues to the domestic realm, our unique vision is to integrate the racial and the international, highlighting the numerous ways in which they are intertwined. We aim to do so through high quality research, teaching, and workshops that produce knowledge and foster a scholarly community centered on the study of race, racism, and anti-racism.