Wikipedia:Visiting Scholars/Participating institutions/Rutgers University

Wikipedia Visiting Scholars

About Rutgers University

College Avenue campus in New Brunswick

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is a public research university in New Jersey. Founded as Queen's College in 1766 (renamed in 1825), Rutgers-New Brunswick is the eighth oldest institution of higher education in the country, one of the nine colonial colleges established before the American Revolution. It is also the largest higher education institution in the state, with nearly 50,000 undergraduates and 20,000 graduate students at three campuses: New Brunswick, Newark, and Camden.

About the Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures

The Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures (AMESALL) was established in 2008. Part of the School of Arts and Sciences, it offers a major and four minors through the New Brunswick campus. The Department provides instruction in languages such as Akan (Twi), Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Persian, Sanskrit, Swahili, and Turkish, as well as introductory and specialized courses taught in English on a broad spectrum of topics, including literature, folklore and translation.

With a diverse student body comprising students from almost every conceivable ethnic, religious, and linguistic background, Rutgers provides many opportunities to explore the world's languages and literary traditions from both global and personal perspectives.

AMESALL website

Overview of library resources

The Archibald S. Alexander Library is the main university library, located on the New Brunswick campus

A Rutgers Visiting Scholar would gain remote access to over 700,000 ebooks and hundreds of databases like Academic Search Premier, HathiTrust Digital Library, JSTOR, ProQuest Social Sciences Premium Collection, ProQuest Sociology, Africa-Wide Information, AnthroSource, African Writers Series, Anthropology Plus, eHRAF World Cultures, Current Contents Connect, Asia-Studies Full-Text Online, Ethnologue: Languages of the World, PsycINFO, Web of Science, Project Muse, Women's Studies International, Cambridge Histories Online, Access World News, Communication & Mass Media Complete, and Dissertations & Theses Global.

In addition to the main library resources, Rutgers University Libraries has recently added Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute as an affiliate. Beth Mardutho is a nonprofit organization based on New Jersey which promotes Syriac heritage and language, providing access to relevant resources in Syriac, Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, and Latin, as well as less common languages like Aramaic, Armenian, Coptic, Malayalam, and Turkish.

Past Visiting Scholars

Staticshakedown

Staticshakedown (talk · contribs) was a Visiting Scholar at Rutgers University in 2014-15, focusing on health care, jazz, and other topics consistent with the university's strategic plan of "Cultures, Diversity, and Inequality — Local and Global."

Highlights

Among the 24 articles she created or improved, Daniela worked on several music-related topics like Melodears and Viola Gertrude Wells as well as cultural subjects like limited English proficiency and cultural competence in health care.

Media

What happens when you give a Wikipedia editor a research library? - Wikimedia Foundation blog (17 March 2015)
Experience of Writing a Wikipedia Article - Cultural Competence in Health Care - Poster presentation at 2014 Rutgers University Libraries State of the Libraries Showcase (4 November 2014)

Position announcements

Rutgers University is currently accepting applications.

Current call for applications

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and the Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures (AMESALL), is looking for a Wikipedian interested to use its resources to improve articles on endangered languages.

The Visiting Scholar would gain remote access to Rutgers University Libraries’ 700,000 ebooks, hundreds of databases, and specialized collections. In addition, the Visiting Scholar would have access to resources through the Research Library of Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, a Rutgers affiliate. Beth Mardutho promotes Syriac heritage and language, providing access to relevant resources in Syriac, Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, and Latin, as well as less common languages like Aramaic, Armenian, Coptic, Malayalam, and Turkish.

Examples of topic areas relevant to this opportunity: the global phenomenon of language endangerment; endangered languages of Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia; language ideologies; formal and informal language policies; linguistic engineering; linguistic nationalism; and ethno-linguistic minorities.

This Visiting Scholars opportunity comes with a $350 honorarium.

The contact person for Visiting Scholars at Rutgers is Charles Haberl.

To apply for this position, send a copy of your resume or CV to visitingscholars@wikiedu.org and head to the Visiting Scholars application.