Research and Innovation

Quilting Water is an international public art initiative that gathers interviews about water primarily from racialized communities from the U.S. and around the world. The interview is built upon five simple questions about an individual’s memories, observations, and dreams/wishes around water—simply, our past, present, and future. We’re honored to work with local Camden Black artists, and others, who will construct quilts inspired by the Quilting Water archive and serve as guides throughout the project. We hope the archive and quilts will allow us to see relationships between disparate communities and their stories through water.

The seminar Reparative and Restorative Paradigms for Environmental Justice, examines local and global perspectives to the existential challenges posed by climate change. The seminar will consider how reparative and restorative approaches to environmental justice may offer more inclusive opportunities to re-imagine the terms of citizenship and self-government; ones that embed the interconnectedness of humans and their ecology in culture, politics, and laws. 

Migration and Global Urban Studies at Rutgers builds policy-oriented, interdisciplinary and global knowledge about cities through innovative curriculum and research grounded in the social sciences.

The Hurt of the Past, the Wounds of the Present is a collaboration between Rutgers associate professor Emily Allen-Hornblower (School of Arts and Science, Classics, Rutgers–New Brunswick) and her partners: mainly, Nafeesah Goldsmith, Edward Kates, and Marquis McCray, survivors of the New Jersey carceral system and passionate criminal and social justice advocates. 

Professor Kim Butler Receives NEH Fellowship 2025

Criminal Justice at Rutgers University is the study of the individual and social dynamics of crime and the criminal legal system through multidisciplinary and collaborative approaches and using this understanding to achieve equitable justice practices that promote public safety. Programs aim to prepare graduates for the workforce or advanced study by developing the skills of critical thinking and factual inquiry, as well as an understanding and appreciation for the legal, political, and moral considerations relevant to assessing criminal justice systems in the United States and around the world.