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The IRW is an ideal place to situate
individual projects within a community of scholars who meet at
a weekly seminar to discuss their work-in-progress as it addresses
a common theme. IRW Global Scholars typically hold academic
appointments elsewhere but wish to be in residence at the Institute
for a semester or a year.
IRW Global Scholars typically receive funding from their home universities as well as individual grants from a wide range of foundations, including the Fulbright Foundation, the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), Association of American University Women (AAUW), United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, the Korean Ministry of Gender Equality, and the Ford Foundation's Institute for International Education.
Although the IRW is unable to provide stipends or financial awards of any kind, Global Scholar appointments
include access to libraries and recreational
facilities, a private office, and participation in University
lectures, colloquia and seminars. Scholars also receive University
email accounts and modest photocopying and long-distance telephone
support.
Global Scholars are joined in the IRW's weekly seminar by Rutgers faculty and graduate students whose work explores the seminar theme from a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives. In addition to engaging in dialogues about fellow seminar members' works-in-progress, the lunch session after each seminar provides an opportunity for informal networking. The 2008-2009 seminar theme is "The Culture of Rights/The Rights of Culture", an exploration of the tensions and questions raised by the linkage of "rights" and "culture," and their associated discourses, practices and assumptions.
Please contact the
IRW if you have any questions about our Global Scholar Program.
Information about this
year's Visiting Scholars is now available.
Lists of Visiting
Scholars from past years are also available.
Additional information about future
seminar themes is available.
Since the IRW interdisciplinary research seminar began in the 1996-1997 academic year, the IRW has hosted more than 45 visiting scholars and Rockefeller Resident Fellows in the Humanities. Intern Ariel Zander (Women's and Gender Studies) has just completed a web project compiling information and weblinks about who's been at the IRW and their subsequent publications as well as their projects during their terms at Rutgers.
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