The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University has named Patrick Rosal (CRF 2019) and Gregory Pardlo (CRF 2019) co-directors of the Rutgers-Camden campus. “The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers (ISGRJ) named four of the university’s most distinguished academic scholars in civil rights, history, literature, and creative writing as directors of campus branches across the university and launched a postdoctoral program supporting research in anti-racism and social inequality. The directors, who will lead the institute’s work at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Rutgers University-Newark and Rutgers University-Camden, will use humanistic theories, methods and approaches to study global issues of race and social justice.”
Pardlo is an associate professor of creative writing and director of the MFA program in the Department of English at Rutgers-Camden. A poet and memoirist, Pardlo won the Pulitzer Prize in 2015 for his poetry collection, Digest. Rosal is a professor of creative writing in the Department of English at Rutgers-Camden. A writer, poet and interdisciplinary artist, Rosal received an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and earned fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and the Fulbright Senior Research Program. Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Elise Boddie were named directors of Rutgers-New Brunswick and Rutgers-Newark respectively. Read the article. #CivitellaRanieri