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Design a t-shirt for the AMST department!

Winning Prize: $100 Gift Card for the UMBC Bookstore!

Guidelines: Your design can use color, but should also be able to be printed in one color without substantial loss of impact. The designs should function in the traditional print landscape (PMS...

Posted: February 18, 2013, 1:27 PM

Using new media to document a dying industrial past

Folklorist-in-Residence Michelle Stefano & Breaking Ground

When Mike Lewis graduated from Patterson High School in 1978, he rapidly secured job offers at the post office, a General Motors plant and a paint factory, before accepting a position at the...

Posted: February 13, 2013, 9:18 AM

Emek Ergun presenting at Spaces and Silences Conference!

Emek Ergun will be giving a presentation entitled "Breaking Taboos, Silences, and Codes through Feminist Translation: The Turkish Virgin Facilitation Critical Dialogues on Virginity," based on her...

Posted: February 4, 2013, 12:16 PM

Dr. Carole McCann publishes new edition!

Available in February 2013

The third edition of the Feminist Theory Reader anthologizes the important classical and contemporary works of feminist theory within a multiracial transnational framework. This edition includes...

Posted: January 29, 2013, 4:23 PM

Studies in Feminist Activism

GWST 200 is BreakingGround

Gender + Women's Studies is in the news! Studies in Feminist Activism—Kate Drabinski’s GWST 200 focuses on the history and present of feminist activist movements. Students will produce digital...

Posted: January 25, 2013, 3:11 PM

Apply for an Undergraduate Research Award!

Undergraduate Research Awards provide up to $1,500 to undergraduate students to support their research or creative work with a UMBC faculty mentor on an original project. This is ideal for...

Posted: January 24, 2013, 4:12 PM

Helpful myUMBC Groups to Join

myUMBC contains a lot of information, and it can be an overload of information at times. One of the most helpful ways to receive specific information is to join a group, like this...

Posted: January 18, 2013, 12:17 PM

Spring 2013 INDS Courses

Looking to add another course?

A few seats remain in INDS 330 Ways of Knowing and INDS 430 Interdisciplinary Studies Seminar for Spring 2013! INDS 330 is a writing intensive course ideal for students who have completed ENGL...

Posted: January 11, 2013, 4:42 PM

Dr. Amy Bhatt publishes new book: Roots and Reflections

Available in January 2013

Amy Bhatt, assistant professor of gender and women’s studies, is the co-author of Roots and Reflections: South Asians Map the Pacific Northwest, which will be released by the University of...

Posted: December 10, 2012, 5:05 PM