Affiliated Scholars have access to the intellectual and to the administrative support that the Center provides.  This includes secretarial support, photocopying, letterhead, and library access.   Moreover, should an Affiliated Scholar wish to host or otherwise develop a project associated with the Center (including research, conferences, and symposia) we are eager to help. The position is offered as a renewable one-year term.  The Affiliated Scholar position is not remunerated, nor does it include benefits.  Please write to admin @cca.rutgers.edu if you are interested in applying.

Affiliated Fellows

Derek Baron

Derek Baron received their PhD in Historical Musicology in 2023 from the Department of Music at New York University's Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences. Their dissertation, "The Geopolitics of Voice: Sound, Music, and Language in Early American Settler Colonialism," explores the role that vocal and sonic imaginaries played in the construction of United States settler-colonial law, science, racial ideology, and institutional complexes from the colonial period to the turn of the twentieth...

George Kovalenko

George Kovalenko is a Visiting Scholar in the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. He works on problems in Marxist poetics, comparative modernisms, and philosophical aesthetics. His research has received financial support from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, and he was most recently a Visiting Researcher at the New York Public Library’s Vartan Gregorian Center for Research in the Humanities. A practicing poet and...