Research and Innovation

We're pleased and excited to announce two signature ISGRJ Teaching and Research Labs on Race, Social Justice, and the Human.

In these multi-modal spaces, scholars, students and faculty investigators pair arts, humanities, and cultural studies research methods with social and behavioral science and stem approaches, producing collaborative, multi-genre, cutting-edge research on race. Each lab aims to contribute innovative research and pedagogy that can lead to the disruption and transformation of racial formations of the human.

The book, Black Bodies, Black Health (a visual archive chronicling the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice's 18-month research project supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) has won the Award of Distinction in the Educational Institution Print Content category at the 30th Annual Communicator Awards. The publication was compiled, curated and produced by the Institute's Director of Marketing and Communications, Tania Bentley who is also named as a recipient of the award.

The Black Bodies, Black Health research project brought together researchers from diverse fields of knowledge from across Rutgers University to engage in interdisciplinary work in exploring and unpacking structural racism in service of creating equitable health outcomes while maintaining a humanistic approach and frame.

To close out the year, we're delighted to share our second ISGRJ Newsletter, which lays out some of our activities and accomplishments of the year.

With our thanks again to Rutgers’ leaders, President Holloway, Chancellor Cantor, Chancellor Conway, Chancellor Tillis and Chancellor Strom, and the generous Deans and Provosts who have worked with the members of the ISGRJ team over the course of the past three years on any number of academic initiatives and administrative challenges.

The Black Bibliography Project. a Mellon-funded collaboration between Rutgers and Yale, led by co-PIs Dr. Jacqueline Goldsby and Dr. Meredith McGill and a Rutgers Research Initiative of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice is pleased to announce the launch of its series of blog posts from graduate fellows on their archival work within local repositories like the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. These posts will be released bi-weekly and can be found on the Black Bibliography Project website under the tab, Fieldnotes From The Archive.

We're thrilled to announce the new digital publication, and immersive story of our ISGRJ and sponsored research projects!

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. 

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!