Discover how Rutgers University's Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice (ISGRJ) creates compelling digital stories that connect research across multiple campuses. In this insightful conversation, Dr. Michelle Stephens (Founding and Executive Director) and Tania Bentley (Director of Marketing and Communications) share how they've transformed their approach to communicating complex academic research.
The "Rutgers Researchers On Race" database is an innovative, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary showcase of Rutgers University's scholars deeply engaged in race and ethnicity studies. This directory, reflecting our commitment to inclusive scholarship, comprises experts from diverse fields like Cultural Studies, History, Sociology, Political Science, and Ethnic Studies. Each profile details the researcher's academic background, research interests, publications, and ongoing projects. This resource aims to facilitate collaboration, mentorship, and a broader understanding of race and ethnicity among Rutgers researchers, students, and the wider academic community.
Read the third edition of our newsletter, at the beginning of ISGRJ’s fifth year as a research institute devoted to advancing the humanistic study of race, supported by a generous Higher Learning grant from the Mellon Foundation. As we enter the final two years of grant-funded activity, we write to introduce new members of the ISGRJ community, update everyone on our continuing programs and initiatives, and share key milestones and events from the past academic year.
Congratulations to Rutgers Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice Founding and Executive Director Michelle Stephens for being honored with the Rutgers Global Health Institute's Champion in Global Health Award for 2024!!
The Champion in Global Health is awarded to extraordinary leaders in our global fight for health equity who have made a significant difference in addressing health inequity in New Jersey and around the world.
Stephens was one of 3 recipients of the award presented by Rutgers Global Health Institute Director and Henry Rutgers Professor of Global Health, Richard Marlink at the RGHI Membership virtual meeting on October 10, 2024.
Meet Our Faculty: In this Rutgers Global Health Institute content series, we highlight our core faculty members.
She may not have realized it at the time, but Michelle Stephens’s apparently disparate professional roles – as the dean of humanities at Rutgers’ School of Arts and Sciences and as a psychoanalyst – placed her perfectly to create a major scholarly initiative examining the interplay between race and health. That endeavor, Black Bodies, Black Health, is a signature project of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, founded at Rutgers in 2020 by Stephens, who also serves as its executive director.
Congratulations to the ISGRJ faculty who received awards in the 2024-2025 year from the Rutgers Research Council Awards. The program offers grant opportunities to support faculty research and especially to encourage scholarship in tackling challenging disciplinary problems in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and creative arts. The council is made up of Rutgers faculty from across the campuses and has been providing internal awards to the Rutgers faculty for over 80 years. It is the only peer-to-peer funding program at Rutgers.
The following ISGRJ faculty members were honored with a Research on Social and Racial Justice Award: Early Career Faculty Fellow Julio Alicea, and Alex Hinton, Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights - an Affiliate Center of the ISGRJ.