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’re excited to share that four graduate students in the Rutgers-Camden Childhood Studies Department will present at the Childhood Application Seminar Series (CASS), sponsored by the Stockton University Childhood Studies Minor. CASS is designed to showcase acclaimed scholars and cutting-edge research related to childhood. These presentations will be virtual. The Zoom links to attend are below. November 18th, Tuesday, from… continue reading
The Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University seeks proposals for a multidisciplinary conference on Transnational Desires and Childhoods of Empire as a means of continuing a critical, multidisciplinary dialogue around Black childhoods and childhoods of color. We seek to convene scholars, writers, practitioners, artists, and advocates for children interested in wrestling with the tensions around diasporas… 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
