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Jason Loviglio Comments on Expanding Access to Podcasts

Offering analysis of lack of diversity in new tech

A National Journal article published November 23 examines why even with the recent boom in podcasts, there’s still a lack of underrepresented minorities in tech. Jason Loviglio, an expert in media...

Posted: November 30, 2015, 12:46 PM

Chris Curran, School of Public Policy, op-ed in the Sun

Chris Curran recently had an op-ed published in the Baltimore Sun, discussing the need for Baltimore schools to improve to attract families.  Speaking as a recent Baltimore transplant and a parent...

Posted: November 30, 2015, 12:42 PM

Marjoleine Kars, History, on WYPR's Humanities Connection

From 1763-1764, nearly 5,000 enslaved people in the Dutch colony of Berbice in South America rebelled. In studying the history of the rebellion on the surface, one might think it fits the pattern...

Posted: November 30, 2015, 12:38 PM

CFP: Special Issue of the Journal of Hate Studies

Hate and Heritage

In the spring of 2015, actor Ben Affleck appeared on PBS’s Finding Your Roots, hosted by Henry Louis Gates. In preparation for the show, which traces the genealogies of famous Americans, Affleck...

Posted: November 29, 2015, 10:07 PM

LLC Highlights: Ibrahim Er (Cohort 16)

We are proud to share Ibrahim’s latest academic contribution to the Sound and the Screen Symposium at the University of West London (London, UK) on November 20th, 2015. Ibrahim presented the...

Posted: November 29, 2015, 10:00 PM

LLC Highlights: Shani Fleming

We are proud to share Shani’s latest academic and professional contributions during the 2015 Physician Assistant Education Forum that took place in Washington D.C. on November 10-11, 2015. In...

Posted: November 29, 2015, 9:49 PM

Casting Call!

Greetings Everyone! Dr. Tyson King-Meadows is looking for volunteers for one day to help out with his research. Individuals must be available during one of several two hour slots on December...

Posted: November 27, 2015, 9:21 PM

AMST student and City Paper intern Nate Croll

on racist vandalism and Confederate monuments in Baltimore

Someone vandalized a sculpture of a pregnant black woman at the Copycat Building, scrawling "nigger" repeatedly across her belly, her arms, her chest, her legs—and the incident has become...

Posted: November 24, 2015, 11:10 PM

Op-ed by F. Cris Curran in the Baltimore Sun

on the importance of improving Baltimore City schools

The Baltimore Sun published an op-ed by Public Policy assistant professor F. Cris Curran on November 22. In the article, "Improve Baltimore schools to attract families," he argues that improving...

Posted: November 23, 2015, 3:05 PM