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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

Mill Stories: Deindustrialization as Public History

Michelle Stefano & Bill Shewbridge featured in Cross Ties

Public historians at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) accepted the challenge of collecting video oral histories of workers associated with Bethlehem Steel’s Sparrows Point,...

Posted: November 21, 2015, 7:42 PM

CFP: Graduate Student Conference - Southern Capitalisms

Johns Hopkins University

The Johns Hopkins Graduate Student Conference SOUTHERN CAPITALISMS March 4-5, 2016 The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland Recent years have witnessed renewed attention on the part...

Posted: November 19, 2015, 3:40 PM

Internship Opportunity!

http://my.umbc.edu/groups/undergradresearch/posts/55865

Posted: November 18, 2015, 5:15 PM