Who We Are
RIGS is a faculty-driven initiative that is a fluid network of scholars based at Montclair State University. Hailing from a variety of disciplines and fields, we aim to:
- provide opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborations, research support, and resource sharing;
- highlight the global interconnectedness and impact of faculty scholarship; and
- showcase the University’s expertise and engagement through scholarly achievements, research, events, and activities.
We invite you to join us in exploring the many under-told narratives of intersections among social, political, economic, cultural, racial and gender-related phenomena from a global perspective.
For inquiries or further information please contact Arnaud Kurze or Timothy Gorman.
For faculty associated with our network, please go to our member page
What We Do
The mission of RIGS is to support a vibrant and synergistic community of scholars who traverse disciplinary and geographical boundaries. It facilitates collaboration and advances innovative, critical scholarship, advocacy, and practice. RIGS faculty support includes providing networking opportunities that may lead to teaching, publishing, and grant collaborations as well exchanges of work-in-progress (WIP) for feedback. Activities that showcase faculty in an exchange of ideas include but are not limited to: talks, roundtables/panels, workshops, book launches, and film screenings that engage with local, national and international issues and media and that strive to tackle some of the most pressing challenges of our time. We also offer curated, crowdsourced educational resources for classroom instruction and to support broader efforts of public knowledge dissemination.