We are honored to share that several graduate students and alumni have recently received recognitions, published research, and/or presented their work at conferences. Congratulations! Below we highlight their work and awards. Dr. Lidong Xiang, graduate of 2023, received the Children’s Literature in Education Emerging Scholar Award 2025 for her article, “True Love or Best Friend?… continue reading
In this interactive talk focusing on her most recent book Black Girls and How We Fail Them, award-winning scholar Dr. Aria S. Halliday will highlight commonalities in popular streaming platform films and television to consider how Black girls are represented and how they respond. This talk promises to pique your interest in cultural studies, girlhood… continue reading
December 4th, 2025 • 4:30-6:30pm Featuring: • Zoe Bambara, Cultural Worker, Organizer, and Full Spectrum & Prison Doula • Michele Lamarr-Suggs, Certified Nurse Midwife, Penn Medicine • Lana Colquhoun, Full Spectrum Doula • Dr. Mali Collins, PhD,Assistant Professor of African American & African Diaspora Studies at American University and Visiting Professor at the Institute of… continue reading
We are delighted to share that Dr. Palak Vashist successfully defended her dissertation, “Stitching Age and Labor: Child Laborers, Factory Schools, and Colonial ‘Protection’ in Bombay Textile Mills (1880–1911),” on September 9, 2025. Dr. Vashist will soon join the Institute for Spatial History Innovation at the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of History as a Research… continue reading
Dr. Rashmi Kumari will be joining Mahindra University based in Hyderabad, India as an Assistant Professor in the School of Education.
We are pleased to announce that our first-year PhD student, Ameena Ruffin, has earned a prestigious Presidential Graduate Fellowship for her doctoral studies in Childhood Studies at Rutgers University–Camden. These highly selective fellowships recognize and support a small number of outstanding graduate student candidates at Rutgers. Congratulations to Ameena on this significant achievement! We look… continue reading
