The 2022 winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism for her writing appearing in The New York Times.
The Arts
Alumnus Greg Besner and his wife appear on TV’s Shark Tank to promote their Sunflow Chair.
Steven Kemper, a Mason Gross School of the Arts music professor, created the soundtrack for In Memoriam: COVID in New Jersey.
Erica Armstrong Dunbar, a Rutgers University–New Brunswick history professor, is the co-executive producer of HBO’s The Gilded Age and a guest historian in Ken Burns’s PBS documentary about Benjamin Franklin.
Alumna Sheryl Lee Ralph stars as Barbara Howard, the all-knowing kindergarten teacher in ABC’s hit sitcom Abbott Elementary.
The Starbucks Been There coffee cup series features a Rutgers mug festooned with university iconography.
Maura Reilly leads the museum at Rutgers University–New Brunswick with a unique perspective on presenting art.
Alumnus Dan Richer, owner of the Jersey City restaurant Razza, authors a new cookbook about his sublime pizza.