Tim Raphael is Professor of Arts, Culture, and Media at Rutgers University-Newark. He is the founding director of the Center for Migration and the Global City, an incubator for academic research and public dialogue focused on New Jersey immigrant communities that disseminates its findings in multiple formats and media that engage a broader public.
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As a theater artist he has devised, directed, and produced more than 50 productions at venues that include The Kennedy Center, Theater for a New Audience, and New York Theater Workshop. He has also written extensively about the intersection of politics, popular culture, and performance for a wide variety of journals and in The President Electric: Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Performance. Tim's current project, Newest Americans, is a multidisciplinary investigation of immigrant life that publishes its findings through multimedia storytelling. Newest Americans is a collaboration between Rutgers University-Newark faculty and students, VII Photo, a visual documentary collective representing 24 of the world’s most accomplished photo-journalists, and Talking Eyes Media, an award-winning documentary media production company. Tim holds a doctorate in Performance Studies from Northwestern University and has taught classes on Theater, Performance Studies, and American Studies at Ursinus College, Dartmouth College, Wesleyan University, Georgetown University, and the Universidade Aberta in Lisbon, Portugal. He has won several awards for his teaching, including the Rutgers Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence.