Research and Innovation

Today, the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences (IADAS) announced the winners of the 4th Annual Anthem Awards, the largest and most comprehensive social impact award, presented by the Webby Awards.

We are thrilled to share the news that our book, Black Bodies, Black Health (a visual archive chronicling our 18-month research project supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation), was honored with an Anthem Award in the Health Awareness Book, Story, or Feature category!  This is the second award for this book, which previously won the Award of Distinction in the Educational Institution Print Content category at the 30th Annual Communicator Awards.

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 congratulate the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, its President and CEO Ryan Haygood and its Economic Justice Program Senior Counsel and reparations advocacy lead, Jean-Pierre Brutus, on the launch of the New Jersey Reparations Council. Co-chaired by Taja-Nia Henderson (Rutgers Graduate School-Newark Dean and Rutgers Law School Professor) and Khalil Gibran Muhammad (Harvard Kennedy School and ISGRJ consultant), the council is the first-of-its-kind to confront New Jersey’s deep and often overlooked involvement in slavery. In this unique collaboration between leading experts from various disciplines, many of whom are Rutgers and ISGRJ-affiliated,  the Council will be composed of nine committees, each of which will address an aspect of the enduring impact of slavery in New Jersey. Watch the launch of the council here.

View the flyer that explains the what and why of the Council

On April 17 at 6:30 p.m., the council will hold its fifth public session, this time hosted by the Public Safety & Justice Committee. Register here.