Douglass Faculty Fellows

Students will work on all aspects of a Rutgers-wide, tri-campus survey, documenting situations and conditions under which trans and non-binary Rutgers students negotiate pronoun use and misuse, the challenges they find in ensuring that peers, colleagues, professors, and supporters appreciate and engage students following their preferred pronouns, and the attendant challenges connected to pronoun misuse.

Students explore how transforming our K-12 system to be more diverse, inclusive, accessible and just will create a pipeline to success for marginalized groups. Through an entrepreneurial lens, students ask the research question: What are the systems, resources, structures, and processes needed to hire educators and leaders to transform the educational system so that every student can reach their full potential? Apply now!

Promotoras (Latina community health workers) have been successfully used as trusted sources in a myriad of Latinx-based health interventions and may be an effective way to combat health misinformation by disseminating evidence-based content on social media.Students working with Dr. Rivera will assist in identifying, adapting, and developing digital health literacy training materials for promotoras in New Brunswick, NJ and Comerío, Puerto Rico.

The “total work of art” or “all-embracing art form” (deriving from the German word “Gesamtkunstwerk”) is a utopian concept to transcend the daily life of people and make them better human beings through art and high-quality craftsmanship. This year’s DRC-HC Faculty Fellows Cohort will use this as a starting point for understanding the relationship between art, design, and everyday life.

As members of this learning community, students will meet with visiting artists, and they will learn how images engage questions about gender, with an emphasis on queer and trans creators. Students will also make their own artwork using digital, analog, and experimental photo-based techniques