A sweeping account of Africa’s place in global economic history has earned a spot on the 2025 British Academy Book Prize shortlist. Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance by Bronwen Everill, a writer in Rutgers University–Camden’s Creative Writing MFA program, is one of six titles recognized this year. The prize carries an award of £25,000… continue reading
Detroit’s Black Bottom and Paradise Valley once pulsed with the energy of Black-owned businesses—barbershops, restaurants, professional offices—thriving amid the Great Migration’s influx of Southern migrants. Kendra D. Boyd, Assistant Professor of History, has launched an interactive digital map and database to bring this history back into focus. Debuting in June 2025, the project documents more… continue reading
Eshaa Gogia, an alum of the Data Science MS program at Rutgers–Camden, and Iman Dehzangi, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, coauthored a new study with Arash Dehzangi. Their article, “Automated Subregional Hippocampus Segmentation Using 3D CNNs: A Computational Framework for Brain Aging Biomarker Analysis,” was published in Algorithms as part of a… continue reading
Think working motherhood is a modern struggle? Try doing it in a corset. In What Can the 18th Century Teach Us About Working Motherhood? on the Rutgers–Camden Faculty Blog, Ellen Malenas Ledoux—associate professor and chair of the Department of English and Communication, which houses the Creative Writing MFA and English and Media Studies MA programs—traces… continue reading
Abneris Morales, a PhD candidate in Computational and Integrative Biology and Dr. David Salas-de la Cruz, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Chemistry and Molecular Technology Graduate Program, have coauthored a new article with Dr. Shu Yang of the University of Pennsylvania. Their article, “Understanding the Morphology of Cellulose Nanocrystal Films via Evaporated-Induced… continue reading
The Catastrophes, the debut chapbook by Rutgers–Camden MFA alum Marie Scarles, has been described as a powerful meditation on the aftermaths we live through—industrial, environmental, emotional. The poems trace what’s been left behind and what refuses to disappear, moving through landscapes shaped by labor, illness, memory, and ruin. Scarles examines what it means to keep… continue reading
