News – College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Brigid Starkey discusses human rights in North Korea on KJZZ

Brigid Starkey of the Global Studies program recently discussed human rights in North Korea on KJZZ radio. To hear her segment, in which she discusses international relations and the United...

Posted: May 30, 2018, 9:22 PM

Chris Curran, Public Policy, discusses violence prevention

Chris Curran of the Public Policy department recently published an article in which he argues that improving school climate, not just security, is key to violence prevention. Read more in The...

Posted: May 30, 2018, 9:17 PM

Summer Dissertation House - July 10 to 13, 2018

June 15th Application Deadline

Students who participate in this program will spend each day thinking, writing, and sharing ideas about their doctoral dissertations. Students will learn effective time-management skills; learn...

Posted: May 29, 2018, 10:49 AM

Congratulations to LLC's Newest Graduates!

May 23rd Commencement

Four LLC students received their PhD diplomas last week and we toasted their success at a reception immediately following commencement. Please join us in congratulating (from l-r) Dr. Erin...

Posted: May 29, 2018, 10:15 AM

Department of Human Resources Congratulates Mrs. Nottingham

Employee of the Quarter

Wanda Soares Nottingham, Administrative Assistant II for the Africana Studies Department, has been named UMBC’s Non-Exempt Employee of the Quarter effective April 1 thru June, 2018. Wanda began...

Posted: May 23, 2018, 5:18 PM

Dr. Curran speaks out on recent Texas School Shooting

Improving school climate not just security is key

Professor Chris Curran has a new piece out in the Conversation related to the recent school shooting in Texas:...

Posted: May 22, 2018, 7:57 AM

Call for GSA Senators and PPGSO members

getting involved in shared governance at UMBC

Subject: Call for GSA Senators and PPGSO members Dear Public Policy Graduate Students, For anyone interested in getting more involved on the UMBC campus beyond academics, there are two...

Posted: May 18, 2018, 12:06 PM

Sally S. Chan, 2017, co-author of article with UMBC profs

Chan, Miller, and Gindling collaborate on health article

Sally S. Chan, PhD 2017, is the co-author of a journal article with Thomas H. Gindling, Professor of Economics and Nancy A. Miller, Professor of Public Policy, accepted for publication in the...

Posted: May 17, 2018, 4:40 PM

Prof. Farrow's new textbook on Benefit -Cost Analysis publ.

Profs. Salkever and Greenberg contributed chapters to text

Scott Farrow, Professor of Economics, UMBC is the editor of a new textbook Teaching Benefit-Cost Analysis (Tools of the Trade) , which has just been published by Edward Elgar Publishing. (May...

Posted: May 17, 2018, 4:31 PM

Shreyasi Deb, PhD 2015 and Prof. Miller collaborate

Relationships among Race-Ethnicity, Gender& Mental Health

Shreyasi Deb, PhD, 2015 and Professor Nancy A. Miller, Public Policy, co-authored a research article published by Sage in the Journal of Disability Policy Studies, "Relationships among...

Posted: May 17, 2018, 4:15 PM