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In this third installment, M.A.R. Habib, Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and Communication, shared details on his cross-cultural and academic exchanges at the Al-Azhar University in Egypt and the University of Johannesburg in South Africa.
In this second installment, M.A.R. Habib, Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and Communication, balances academic commitments, including guest lectures at Egypt’s AinShams University and an upcoming book contract, with warm hospitality from his host family and his Arabic tutor, whose home overlooks the Nile River.
While on sabbatical, M.A.R. Habib, Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and Communication, chronicled his international travels, where he was invited to give multiple university guest lectures and collaborate on research abroad. Rutgers–Camden Faculty Blog will publish excerpts of his accounts, along with the images he took from the places he visited, as part of a multi-part series.
Go behind the scenes of the “America’s Birthdays: The History of Celebration and Memory” class led by Carly Goodman, assistant professor of history, and the exhibit curated by her students now on view at the Robeson Library through the summer.
Mark Brennan, assistant professor in the Rutgers School of Business–Camden, shares details from a Boston-based project in which he helped spearhead that looked beyond standard metrics to make its streets safer for kids to travel to or from school.
As the Supreme Court weighs the constitutionality of ending birthright citizenship, Rutgers–Camden historian Carly Goodman explores its 19th century roots in the doctrine of jus soli, or “right of soil.”
A scholar of state and local public finance, Rutgers–Camden Associate Professor Michael Hayes makes the case for the property tax as a foundational pillar of local government despite its political unpopularity.
The proliferation of weight loss medication use raises the question: Does body image improve when a person changes their body?
Extracting from his work in the journal Cities & Health, Rutgers–Camden Assistant Professor Mark Brennan explains how mobility risk—the likelihood of being struck while walking or biking—is a public health disparity.