The T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center recognizes and continues the work of Timothy Thomas Fortune, an American orator, civil rights leader, journalist writer, editor, and publisher. He was the editor of the nation’s leading black newspaper The New York Age and the leading economist in the Black community.
SC&I and Alexander Library will host an event at the library featuring readings and performances by Rutgers undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and guests, including a performance of the Japanese storytelling art of Kamishibai and a dance by the Rutgers undergraduate Chinese dance troupe.
Lee, a faculty member at Korea University, is an expert in mediated communication and organizational communication network research.
A new study by Assistant Professor Sarah Shugars explores how the misgendering of online users in scholarly work can have significant down-stream impacts on questions of online gender disparities. For example, across their analyses Shugars et al. found that nonbinary users and others – both cisgender and transgender – who don’t perform their gender in a cis-normative way are systematically undercounted and frequently misgendered.
Hailing from Drexel University, Harvard University, and the University of Michigan, the three new faculty members will join the Library and Information Science Department.
By Evie Duvert, Rutgers University Communications
Nadirah Simmons spent many hours of her childhood immersed in '90s and 2000s hip-hop culture that years later would become the inspiration for her first book.
