Supported by a Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Spanning the full breadth of Rutgers University, the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice is a vibrant intellectual corridor, bringing together scholars and creatives doing humanistic research in a way that advances their research, increases its public relevance and impact, and allows them to reach and learn from communities and publics beyond the academy.
Image credit: Mahinour Abdou, The Golden Recovery No. 4; Self Portrait—Islamic Stitches
“With grant funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice will help leverage Rutgers’ own history and demographic complexity so that it can redefine what excellence looks like amidst long-standing national narratives that have suggested that the very people who make Rutgers distinct lack talent, drive, initiative, impulse control, and intelligence."
—Jonathan Holloway, Rutgers University President and University Professor
A collection of scholars who believe that the arts and humanities, in dialogue with other fields, can contribute powerful visions of a just society to effect change
Rutgers University is a welcoming place for scholars who are committed to the study of race and related systems of inequity that emerge from their instantiation in systems of governance, culture, commerce, and social control. Learn about support opportunities for early and mid-career scholars.
Rutgers boasts a distinguished roster of faculty whose work focuses on social justice, equity, and systemic racism. The institute serves as a central hub to coordinate, synergize, and amplify their scholarship toward meaningful action. Learn about support and engagement opportunities for senior faculty.
Rutgers has long served students from first-generation, low-income backgrounds, as well as immigrants and underrepresented minorities. Leveraging this demographic complexity, in 2021–2022 the institute supports a number of projects that address persistent inequities in educational settings. Learn about support for seminars, workshops, courses, and projects with educational, social and public policy impact.
The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice is a universitywide entity with a central administration in New Brunswick and collaborative centers at Rutgers’ three main locations—in Newark, New Brunswick, and Camden. Grounded by its uniquely diverse campuses across the state of New Jersey and abundance of scholarly disciplines and endeavors, the institute's reach is at once local, regional, and global.
Rutgers University–Newark is a primary anchor institution in New Jersey's largest city and is a leading urban research university that leverages diversity and high-impact scholarship to cultivate the talent essential to transform communities and change the world.
Rutgers University–New Brunswick and the aligned Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences conduct life-changing research and offer a premier education at a leading comprehensive public research university.
Located just minutes from Philadelphia, Rutgers University–Camden delivers groundbreaking work that impacts the world while offering its students an experiential education in an intimate, supportive environment.
In spaces both distinct from and embedded within academic units, faculty from across the campuses, and in collaboration with various constituencies and groups, work together to imagine how their research and scholarship can have a transformative impact in community contexts and in the public sphere.
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