Faculty in the News

A lunchtime book discussion by the Department American Studies featured a conversation between SAS professors Jameson Sweet and Maya Mikdashi, the only Native American faculty members on the Rutgers University–New Brunswick campus.

When Americans commemorate World War II, the observances typically recall the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the D-Day landing at Normandy in 1944. Rutgers professor Jochen Hellbeck’s new book on the war shifts the focus away from those familiar settings for a thorough re-examination of the...

Rutgers professor Dámaris M. Otero-Torres was intrigued but skeptical when two of her students suggested she teach a course on Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican singer, rapper, and music producer.

Camilla Townsend, a historian whose facility with languages helped her tell the story of the Aztec people through their own words, has been elected as a fellow of the British Academy, the UK’s venerable national academy for the humanities and social sciences.

The performer who visited a recent Rutgers creative writing class began by snapping a mousetrap on his tongue. The man, a carnival entertainer known as a human blockhead, progressed to closing a mink trap on his finger and then a wolf trap on his hand.

Three professors with the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University-New Brunswick – Leah DeVun, Eric Gawiser and Jane Ashton Sharp – have received fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study for the 2025-26 academic year.

Andy Urban has kicked off a three-year Mellon Foundation-funded effort to create public art exhibits, monument installations, and educational and cultural programs that recognize the contributions of immigrant and migrant workers in New Jersey.

The Rutgers University professor grew up in Puerto Rico, deeply rooted in the public institutions that dominated the fabric of everyday life. His father was a professor at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), and his mother was a researcher in the commonwealth’s department of education.

Five School of Arts and Sciences professors have received fellowships with the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) and will spend the 2024-2025 academic year pursuing research at the renowned center in Princeton. 

Rutgers mathematician Alex Kontorovich usually spends summers quietly digging into daunting research topics like analytic number theory and harmonic analysis.

Two School of Arts Sciences professors who developed an AI-driven course management system to accommodate the growth in data science education at Rutgers University have received the school’s 2024 Grossman Innovation Prize.

The Rutgers University Board of Governors appointed SAS professors Jing Li and Dimitri Metaxas as Board of Governors Professors during its June 2024 meeting. The designation celebrates the most decorated academic scholars at the university.

Kempner chronicles the group’s underground efforts over decades to develop clinical-grade dosing protocols as well as its ongoing battle to obtain acceptance from medical and legal authorities.

In the 1960s, Rutgers achieved a distinction few other schools in the world could match: It was home to a growing number of women mathematicians.