The Center for Social Science Scholarship
[From Dean Scott Casper,] the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences is pleased to announce the creation of The Center for Social Science Scholarship (CS3). Research, education and engagement strongly rooted in the Social Sciences are essential to UMBC’s mission to address the most pressing social challenges of our times . . .
The result of many years of discussion and a year-long planning process involving UMBC and national Social Science scholars, the CS3 has a four-fold mission:
a) to seek out, nurture, and promote excellence in the Social Sciences;
b) to support and strengthen Social Science scholarship at UMBC, including by convening and connecting scholars with shared interests across disciplines;
c) to spotlight Social Science scholarship (research, teaching, and community and professional engagement) at UMBC; and
d) to enhance the future of innovative, collaborative, cross- and inter-disciplinary, and cutting edge Social Science scholarship at UMBC.
The CS3 will be available to all who do Social Science work, including those from other fields who collaborate with Social Science scholars. The CS3 will act as an administrative core for units, programs, sub-centers, and activity clusters such as the Maryland Institute for Policy, Analysis, and Research (MIPAR), the Collaborative for Interdisciplinary Promotion of Health Equity Research (CIPHER), the Social Science Forum (SSF), and other endeavors to be created.
Over time, the CS3 will provide events, training, visibility, and support for grants, activities, and other Social Science initiatives. CS3 programming will embrace all Social Sciences-related scholarship at UMBC, with a special focus on innovative spark, cross-disciplinary opportunity, and the potential to make a difference and deepen understanding within and beyond the academy.
Established with funding from the CAHSS Dean’s Office, the Provost’s Office, and the Office of the Vice President for Research, the CS3 will be led by a faculty Director, to be identified through an internal search in Spring 2018.
