Global Initiatives

The Center for Population-Level Bioethics (CPLB) at Rutgers and EthicsLab at the Catholic University of Central Africa have started a year-long seminar series focused on the intersections of population ethics and health in African spaces. Led by Nir Eyal (Professor of Bioethics, Rutgers Global Health Institute and Director, Center for Population-Level Bioethics, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research) and Thierry Ngosso (Political Philosopher, Center for Population-Level Bioethics)

The Sonia Pierre Political School is a summer educational project training young leaders in racial and social justice in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, as part of a broader set of exchanges between the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies and the GLEFAS (Grupo Latinoamericano de Estudio, Formación, y Acción Feminista) in the 22-23 school year. Led by Zaire Dinzey-Flores, Associate Professor, Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies and the Department of Sociology.

This qualitative research study is a joint project between the Rutgers Global Health Institute and the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice which explores whether current decolonization efforts fall short of addressing the harm that colonization has caused and how we stop institutions from around the globe from perpetuating these inequities. Led by Arpita Jindani and Richard Marlink (Rutgers Global Health Institute).

Throughout the 17th century and up the present, quilombos in Brazil have contributed to the struggle for and study of global racial justice by resisting slavery and its afterlives. Quilombo communities in Piauí demand the right to their territory and affirm African, indigenous and rural religiosities, values and forms. By Laura Lomas, Professor of American Studies, English, Women's and Gender Studies, Center for Migration and the Global City at Rutgers-Newark, June-August 2023

This project lies at the intersection of social psychology and Puerto Rico's colonial history. It examines the role of colonialism in Puerto Ricans’ racial identities and stereotypes. Two studies will (1) examine the interrelations among identities and stereotypes; and (2) test how they are shaped by a colonial mentality. This work can have implications for education policies and curriculum. Led by Luis Rivera (Psychology, Rutgers University-Newark)

The Center for Migration and the Global City is developing a research project with two Colombian universities in Bogota to explore the impact of mass migration through the Darién Gap connecting Colombia and Panama. The project will investigate the role the Darién is playing in global migration; who is crossing the Darien and why, and the impact this is having on the places that immigrants are migrating from and to. Led by Tim Raphael, Dir., CMGC; Professor in Department of Arts, Culture and Media.

This humanities-centered lab proposes the Cybercene as a new gathering principal to study the current ecocultural era in our planetary history. As lands burn, oceans boil, species go extinct almost unnoticed on a daily basis, and political/economic/cultural conflicts (local, regional, and global) multiply, we aim to explore interdisciplinary yet realistic pathways towards healing and restored habitability. Led by Vetri Nathan, a Rutgers Mellon Named Term Chair, the Cybercene is now based out of UCLA.