News

Dawn Shafer Successfully Presents

her Dissertation Proposal

The Language, Literacy & Culture Program is pleased to announce that Dawn Shafer, of LLC Cohort 19, successfully and skillfully presented her dissertation research proposal to her full...

Posted: August 16, 2019, 12:59 PM

Funding Opportunities

for Social Science Faculty & Graduate Students

Please see below for a curated list of upcoming funding opportunities. The Center for Social Science Scholarship and the Maryland Institute for Policy, Analysis, and Research (MIPAR) assist...

Posted: August 13, 2019, 11:42 AM

Of Note: Social Science Faculty, Students, and Alumns

Congratulations to the following faculty, students, and alumni for their recent accomplishments! Dawn Biehler, geography and environmental systems, writes an op-ed in response to President...

Posted: August 12, 2019, 2:23 PM

Tea & Theory Seminars

The Center for Social Science Scholarship hosts “Tea & Theory,” a monthly seminar-style workshop where we discuss social science theory. All faculty and advanced graduate students are welcome!...

Posted: August 12, 2019, 2:06 PM

Dr. Margie Burns Co-edits Collection The Female Precariat

Dr. Margie Burns, English department part-time faculty, published a co-edited collection earlier this year with Universitas Press titled The Female Precariat: Gender and Contingency in the...

Posted: August 12, 2019, 1:15 PM

Gail Orgelfinger's Book Reviewed in Philadelphia Inquirer

The Philadelphia Inquirer recently published a wonderful review of Joan of Arc in the English Imagination, 1429-1829 by Gail Orgelfinger, English senior lecturer emerita. The book was published...

Posted: August 5, 2019, 11:26 AM

Looking for UL elective credits? Learn while you serve!

Register now for SOCY 396

SOCY 396:  Reflections on Service-Learning and Community Engagement:  A Sociological Perspective.   See flyer for details!  Contact Michele Wolff:  wolff@umbc.edu for more information.  

Posted: August 5, 2019, 10:17 AM

Watch/Listen now - Prof. La Noue featured at book event

Discusses new book on academic freedom and policy debate

On July 30, the Bipartisan Policy Center in DC hosted Professor Emeritus George R. La Noue for a discussion of his new book Silenced Stages: The Loss of Academic Freedom and Campus Policy Debates....

Posted: August 2, 2019, 3:40 PM

2019 Annual Grants Conference

with the MD Governor's Grant Office

The objective of the conference is to bring together 600 + statewide grant professionals for affordable, targeted professional development to increase capacity for grant awards and compliance....

Posted: August 2, 2019, 3:30 PM

Great News Abounds in LLC!

The year of 2019 -- a Season of Accolades for our Program

In May, our esteemed program manager, Liz Steenrod, received the UMBC Presidential Distinguished Staff Award. Her nomination letter written by Drs. Bickel and Moffitt acknowledged, “Ms. Steenrod...

Posted: August 2, 2019, 3:11 PM