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Problem Solving in the Urban Black Community

AFST 385/ AFST POLI 340

 AFST 385/POLI 340 SEATS STILL AVAILABLE Problem-Solving in the Urban Black Community AFST 385/POLI 340 Instructor(s) Dr. Tyson King-Meadows Meets Wednesday 4:30pm - 7:00pm...

Posted: February 1, 2016, 3:26 PM

Dresher Center 2016 SFRF Applications Due February 15th

Deadline Approaching for Summer Faculty Fellowship Proposals

The application deadline for Dresher Center Summer Faculty Research Fellowships (SFRF) is February 15, 2016.  Full-time, tenure-track faculty pursuing humanities research in the College of...

Posted: February 1, 2016, 11:28 AM

Call for Paid Summer Research Assistants

Civil Rights in Black and Brown Oral History Project

Call for Paid Summer Research Assistants Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Oral History of the Multiracial Freedom Struggle in Texas A Collaborative Research Project Housed at TCU – Texas...

Posted: January 30, 2016, 9:38 PM

UMBC faculty provide 2016 election analysis

Featured in local and national media outlets

With the Iowa Caucuses just days away, UMBC faculty have been in the news weighing in on the current state of the presidential race. Kimberly Moffitt, an associate professor of American studies,...

Posted: January 29, 2016, 3:48 PM

Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Opportunity

Dear Students, The CBCF Emerging Leaders: US-China Study Delegation is a study abroad program designed to provide African-American students living or attending school in Congressional Black...

Posted: January 28, 2016, 11:04 AM

Black Ethnic Identity and Immigration

Black Culture, Africana Studies, African, Identity

BLACK ETHNIC IDENTITY AND IMMIGRATION  Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM UC Bldg Rm 310 Christina Greer, Associate Professor, Political Science, Fordham University There has...

Posted: January 28, 2016, 9:59 AM

POLI 409 is now open to all students

Hi Everyone! Quick announcement:  Dr. Grodsky's online POLI 409 (Disaster Politics - Spring 2016) class is now open to all students. If you would like to register, please email Ms. Ashley...

Posted: January 25, 2016, 9:50 AM

New book from Dr. Marina Adler, Sociology & Anthropology

Marina A. Adler of UMBC and Karl Lenz of the Dresden University of Technology in Germany have published a new book entitled Father Involvement in the Early Years: An International Comparison of...

Posted: January 23, 2016, 7:11 PM

LLC Alumni Highlights: Dr. Uzma Rashid

Dr. Uzma Rashid, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Management and Technology in Lahore, Pakistan, has recently been appointed as Associate Dean for the School of Social...

Posted: January 22, 2016, 12:49 AM