Leadership

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.

These projects and initiatives housed administratively at or affiliated with ISGRJ contribute to the Institute’s overall direction and vision regarding the need for a humanistic, interdisciplinary, systems approach to examining racialization and racism.

The Institute works together with primary investigators to support, encourage, advise on, and help generate collaborative, interdisciplinary, research projects designed by ISGRJ’s Campus Directors and other Rutgers faculty. These projects include ISGRJ signature research projects, Rutgers research initiatives and research partnerships. 

Professionals and practitioners from around the university were invited to share their experiences as Black professionals: the highs, lows, most impactful lessons and their advice to the next generation. 

Michelle Stephens Among Top Rutgers Black History Month Researchers and Leaders 

It is with great pleasure that we share the publication of the first edition of our newsletter.

Here we are chronicling and reflecting on all of our signature projects, initiatives, programs and people who have begun the journey with us, in the first 2 years of our existence, one quiet and planning, the other launching and live.

Thank you so much for your generous support in this first phase of our launch as an important presence on the Rutgers campuses!

Read the publication of the first edition of our newsletter, chronicling and reflecting on all of our signature projects, initiatives, programs and people who have begun the journey with us, in the first 2 years of our existence, one quiet and planning, the other launching and live.

Thank you so much for your generous support in this first phase of our launch as an important presence on the Rutgers campuses!