Meet Our Partners

Asian American Cultural Center documents and disseminates information about the artistic, scientific, social, and political contributions of Asian and Asian American people. It focuses on expanding multicultural and intercultural understanding among Rutgers undergraduate students, and providing a supportive environment for Asian and Asian American students.

Asian Studies Program was established in 1969 to cultivate, promote, and coordinate the study of all aspects of Asia. In addition to administering the undergraduate minor and the graduate certificate in Asian studies, the program also encourages research, develops curricula, and sponsors lectures and other cultural activities intended to enhance the understanding of Asia.

Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life promotes scholarly exchange on an international scale by bringing visiting scholars to Rutgers to teach special courses and to contribute to the intellectual life of the University community. The Center works closely with the Department of Jewish Studies offering a wide range of extracurricular programs for students and seminars for faculty. The Center's active agenda of community outreach includes public lectures and symposia, Jewish communal initiatives, the Rutgers New Jersey Jewish Film Festival, and the activities of the Herbert and Leonard Littman Families Holocaust Resource Center .

Center for African Studies promotes the teaching of Africa through curricular and faculty development. It informs a broader public through a vigorous outreach program of community projects and educators' workshops for K-12 teachers, and coordinates a large offering of Africa-related courses throughout the university system. The Center also supports faculty research in Africa and builds linkages with Africa-based scholars, institutions of higher learning and NGOs. The Center’s members serve as consultants to public officials, businesses, schools and NGOs.

Center for Comparative European Studies encourages a multidisciplinary and comparative study of 21st century Europe as it extends its borders, constructs new institutions, and integrates new populations. Our goal is to bring together people involved in scholarly research and policymaking to share ideas, engage in debate, and design collaborative projects.

Center for Latin American Studies fosters learning and research across disciplines and geographic boundaries. Academic courses together with concerts, visiting writers, film series, conferences and lectures highlight migration, literary innovation, linguistic and political change in Latin American contexts. The program moves beyond traditional regionalism for a more thorough understanding of culture throughout the Americas.

Center for Latino Arts and Culture's mission is to research, document, interpret and promote Latino, Hispanic, Caribbean and Latin American arts and culture. Through its programs and publications, the Center seeks to advance the appreciation and understanding of Latino artistic production, scholarship, and cultural traditions.

Center for Middle Eastern Studies promotes the teaching of Middle East through various courses, projects, events and outreach programs.

Center for Women’s Global Leadership develops and facilitates women's leadership in women's human rights and social justice worldwide. The Global Center works from a human rights perspective with an emphasis on violence against women, sexual and reproductive health and socio-economic well-being. The Global Center's programs are in two broad areas of policy & advocacy and leadership development & women's human rights education. Founded as a project of Douglass College in 1989, the Center is a unit of the Institute for Women's Leadership (IWL)—a consortium of six women's programs at Rutgers University created to study and promote how and why women lead, and to develop programs that prepare women of all ages to lead effectively.

At the forefront of interdisciplinary research since its founding in 1976, Institute for Research on Women has been a central force in establishing Rutgers University as one of the most distinguished research institutions in the world for the study of women and gender.

Paul Robeson Cultural Center focuses on the aesthetic contributions of African-Americans to America and world culture through literature, science and the arts. Center programs and services educate, develop and advocate a positive African-American concept at Rutgers University.

Portuguese and Lusophone World Studies is an interdisciplinary degree program that includes courses in Portuguese language and Lusophone literature, culture and history, while taking full advantage of Rutgers-Newark's proximity to the Portuguese-speaking community of the Ironbound, so that students can combine experiential learning with classroom instruction. A major/minor in Portuguese and Lusophone World Studies prepares students for careers in business and finance, foreign affairs, international trade, education, medicine, healthcare, and public service.

Recently established at Rutgers,South Asian Studies Program seeks to promote the study of South Asia and its diasporic communities through the development of an interdisciplinary set of courses, speakers' series, and public events.