Rutgers logo
Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice

Program Feature: The ISGRJ Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

ALL ISGRJ Post Docs

Proudly, we celebrate the completion of our ISGRJ Postdoctoral Fellowship program. 

Launched in 2021 and completed this year, this humanities-centered fellowship has supported sixteen doctoral recipients whose research demonstrated a deep investment in the areas of inquiry related to anti-racism and social inequality.

Since their time with us, nine of these scholars have gone on to tenure-track positions at distinguished academic institutions across North and South America  — such as the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University, Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, Lehman College-CUNY, Barnard College at Columbia University, Temple University, Towson University, Fordham University and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in fields ranging from Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies; Education and Urban Studies, and Criminal Justice to Language and Literature; Culture and Politics; History, and the Humanities and Social Sciences — while the remainder continue in prestigious research and teaching positions

ISGRJ is proud of our role in successfully launching all three cohorts and contributing to their future success.

Our thanks to all the Rutgers faculty who served as colleagues and mentors, and we wish them all well in their next endeavors!

Click through the slideshow below to meet our Postdocs. 

Meet Our Postdocs

Michael Conteh, Postdoctoral Associate in Public Policy and Administration, Rutgers–Camden > Visiting Scholar, NYU's Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora (CSAAD)

andie millares, Postdoctoral Associate in English, Rutgers-Camden

Dario Hernan Vasquez Padilla, Postdoctoral Associate in Latino and Caribbean Studies, Rutgers-New Brunswick > Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2025)

Sasha Ann Panaram, Postdoctoral Associate and Cheryl A. Wall Postdoctoral Fellow in English, Rutgers-New Brunswick > Assistant Professor, English, Fordham University (on leave, Spring 2025) 

Hugo Bujon, Postdoctoral Associate in Africana Studies, Rutgers–Camden > Tenure Track Professor, Lehman College-CUNY, department of language and literature (2025)

Ezgi Cakmak, Postdoctoral Associate in Africana Studies, Rutgers–Newark > Assistant Professor, History, Towson University (2024)

Jaime Coan, Postdoctoral Associate in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers–New Brunswick > Faculty, Literature of the Americas, Bard High School Early College (BEC), Brooklyn (2024)

Eun-Jin Keish Kim, Postdoctoral Associate in American Studies, Rutgers–Newark > ISGRJ Named Term Chair (2024 – 2029)

Victor Peterson II, Postdoctoral Associate and Cheryl Wall Postdoctoral Fellow in English, Rutgers–New Brunswick > Assistant Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (2023)

Teona Williams, Postdoctoral Associate and Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in Geography, Rutgers–New Brunswick > ISGRJ Named Term Chair (2024 – 2029)

Baba Badji, Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Literature (appointed in 2023)

Minju Bae, Postdoctoral Associate in History, Rutgers–New Brunswick > Assistant Professor in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University (in 2023)

Jessica Calvanico, Postdoctoral Associate in Childhood Studies, Rutgers–Camden > Archival Producer Researcher, Writer, A+E Networks, The History Channel (in 2022)

Melinda González, Postdoctoral Associate in Sociology and Anthropology, Rutgers–Newark > Assistant Professor and Provost's Distinguished Faculty Fellow in the Culture & Politics, Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service (2023)

Amelia Herbert, Postdoctoral Associate in Urban Education, Rutgers–Newark > Assistant Professor of Education and Urban Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University (2023)

Franklin Moreno, Postdoctoral Associate in Psychology, Rutgers-Newark > College of Liberal Arts, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Criminal Justice, Temple University (2023)