Children’s and young adult literature is at the heart of current debates about race, justice, and education. This summer, Marilisa Jiménez García, Associate Professor of Children’s and Young Adult Literary Cultures in Rutgers University–Camden’s Department of Childhood Studies, published Ethnic Studies and Youth Literature: A Critical Reader (SUNY Press) with coeditor Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez of… continue reading
Genetic disorders like sickle cell anemia affect millions worldwide, and new approaches to treatment are urgently needed. In Major NIH Grant is Strengthening Rutgers–Camden Research, author Eileen Reinhard details how chemistry professor and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology (CCIB) member Jinglin Fu is leading work that could change the landscape of genetic medicine. Supported… continue reading
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
