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Each year, the Center for Cultural Analysis sponsors numerous Working Groups and provides administrative support to several Affiliated Groups as part of our commitment to critical inquiry and interdisciplinary research. Bringing together scholars from across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, these groups meet regularly to explore common interests, discuss salient questions, and plan small- and large-scale events. Convened to support faculty and graduate student research, they are an integral part of our mission to enhance interdisciplinary scholarship across Rutgers University.

Working Groups

Art and Aesthetics

This working group aims to initiate and sustain dialogue between philosophers, literary critics,...

Cooperation Across Domains

Cooperation occurs at all levels of biological and social organization, from the genome to the...

Gospel Materialities - Archive and Repertoire

The year 2021 marks fifty years since the death of one of gospel music’s most iconic figures,...

Marxism and Materialism

This group aims to explore the contemporary uses across historical, humanistic, and social...

Pragmatism

For the past several years, the Pragmatism working group has explored the background and...

Public Humanities

  This working group includes scholars from across the Rutgers campuses who are interested in the...

Race and the PreModern World

This working group draws upon the strengths of scholars across the Rutgers campuses and across...

Society&Design Lab

  The Society&Design Lab brings together scholars and practitioners from different disciplines to...

Sound Studies / Media Studies

Our working group considers a range of important intellectual and political questions emerging...

The Cliché

We cordially invite you to this fall´s last session of our working group „The Cliché“ on Dec 9,...

Urban Humanities

In the wake of the so-called “urban turn” in the humanities and social sciences in recent years,...

Affiliated Groups

Americanist Seminar

Affiliated with the Center for Cultural Analysis (CCA), the Americanist Seminar fosters...

EMRG @ RU: Early Modern Research Group at Rutgers

The purpose of the EMRG @ RU: Early Modern Research Group at Rutgers will be to provide a forum...

Modernism and Globalization Research Group

Modernism and Globalization Research Group (MGRG)

Seminar on Literature and Political Theory

Seminar on Literature and Political Theory (SLPT) The Seminar on Literature and Political Theory...

The Rutgers Book Initiative

The Rutgers Book Initiative is designed to introduce a diverse group of undergraduate and graduate...

Working Groups Archive

Artwork in the 21st Century

The Artwork in the 21st Century Working Group brings together artists and scholars from a range of disciplines...

Atlantic Studies

The movement of persons, things, and ideas throughout the Atlantic world transformed the...

Book History & Media Studies

  Book History & Media Studies

Critical AI

Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) today is an emergent set of machine technologies with revolutionary...

Digital Humanities

 Digital Humanities Founded by Ann Fabian and Meredith McGill in 2012, the Digital Humanities...

Experiencing the Salon

  The CCA Salons Working Group brings together scholars from departments across Rutgers to explore...

Global Asias

This working group brings together scholars across Rutgers in order to foster ongoing...

Language, Imagination, and Meaning

 A collaborative research project between the Departments of English, Philosophy, and Computer...

Medical Humanities

Given Rutgers' planned merger with UMDNJ, the Medical Humanities Working Group is sponsoring a...

Neoliberalism: Past and Present

The three-year project Neoliberalism: Past and Present investigates the deep historical roots and...

Religion and Theology in the 21st Century

Religion and Theology in the 21st Century

Religion in Public

The Religion in Public working group will explore critically the intersections of religion, race,...

Resilience: Places, Cultures, and Environments in Latin America

Resilience: Places, Cultures, and Environments in Latin America

Slavery + Freedom Studies

This interdisciplinary Working Group brings together faculty across departments whose work engages...

Technopolitical Natures

Technopolitical Natures draws on conceptual insights from feminist theory, critical race theory,...

The Arts and Aesthetics of Power Relations and Demography

The Arts and Aesthetics of Power Relations and Demography

The Future of the Ancient?

This working group seeks to explore the ways in which Rutgers might develop global and inclusive...