At a time of hope and need for justice and healing in the nation, Rutgers Today, in marking Black History Month, asked faculty from across Rutgers—including Elise Boddie of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice—to share their reflections, add context to this moment in history, and help chart a course for a better future.
The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice named four of the university’s most distinguished academic scholars in civil rights, history, literature, and creative writing as directors of campus branches across the university and launched a postdoctoral program supporting research in anti-racism and social inequality.
Michelle Stephens is steering the work of the new institute, funded through a $15 million five-year grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, that will bring together scholars from across the university to use humanistic theories, methods and approaches to study global issues of race and social justice.