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<Title>AMST lecturer Cliff Murphy on country music's Northern roots</Title>
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<Summary>This past June, radio conglomerate Clear Channel (now known as iHeartRadio) announced it was converting Boston’s 101.7 FM to a country station. The story they told the Boston Globe was a familiar...</Summary>
<Website>http://theconversation.com/stand-by-your-maine-country-musics-northern-roots-33005</Website>
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<PostedAt>Tue, 28 Oct 2014 19:09:41 -0400</PostedAt>
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<Title>Scholarships for AMST Department Teacher Candidates</Title>
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<Summary>American Studies majors who are enrolled in a UMBC teacher certification program are eligible for several scholarships distributed through the Education Department. Two scholarship opportunities...</Summary>
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<Title>AMST students visit the Beyond Bollywood exhibit in DC</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"> Many thanks to Smithsonian docents Salim <span>Mawani </span>and Anna Stewart.<br></div>
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<Summary> Many thanks to Smithsonian docents Salim Mawani and Anna Stewart.</Summary>
<Website>http://smithsonianapa.org/beyondbollywood/</Website>
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<Title>Dr. Michelle Stefano returned from a conference in Havana</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">A close and dear relative of the critical heritage studies movement is the International Movement for the <a href="http://www.minom-icom.net/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">New Museology (MINOM) of ICOM</a>, which has been promoting socio-museological thinking and activity at the local level since the late 1970s. Read about the meeting in the link.<br></div>
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<Summary>A close and dear relative of the critical heritage studies movement is the International Movement for the New Museology (MINOM) of ICOM, which has been promoting socio-museological thinking and...</Summary>
<Website>http://www.granma.cu/cultura/2014-10-17/expertos-en-museologia-reconocen-labor-de-marta-arjona</Website>
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<Title>Watch the segment featuring Baltimore's painted screens!</Title>
<Tagline>Featuring AMST's former folklorist-in-residence, Elaine Eff</Tagline>
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<Title>AMST's former Folklorist-in-Residence to be featured on CBS!</Title>
<Tagline>CBS Sunday Morning features Elaine Eff's new book</Tagline>
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    <div class="html-content">Tune in on Sunday, October 19, 2014, 9 to 10:30AM. CBS Sunday Morning will feature the new book by AMST's former Folklorist-in-Residence Elaine Eff, <a href="http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1594" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">The Painted Screens of Baltimore: An Urban Folk Art Revealed</a> (University Press of Mississippi). <br><br><br></div>
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<Title>Prof. Kimberly Moffitt was featured on the Marc Steiner Show</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">Listen to a discussion about the complexities, challenges, and joys of raising and educating boys. With: <strong>Jack Pannell</strong>, founder of Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys, a Baltimore City Public Charter School scheduled to open in 2015; <strong>Dr. Kimberly Moffitt</strong>, Associate Professor of American Studies at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and co-editor of <em>Blackberries and Redbones: Critical Articulations of Black Hair/Body Politics in Africana Communities</em>; and educator <strong>David Banks</strong>, President and CEO of the <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001JnAao4Tt52SAu2TMlY-fZNLPhmwLBMBRyS2Qv0-zKsWAPPfUITXuBx-iUpz7M-OMDgU99MZaWw4B04Vgg7FmEhZ0xMx-dhjHtMcZSe2tZD_tE_buSoB_-HMeNh5fSp_DIRzhYUeMH_WTMCv_tQGvkhCHZsJnyU5YUi4z9PHKA8nH2sIP8fxoQv19rKCaYlaB&amp;c=aWlk2ieXgZtsKep0ptqCzQ1fyy0B_lcV-MatMvVYLyNDOVT3Wkt4ww==&amp;ch=Y-R6kYWVtvmRXDfaKKR96982MstIlB1JD9BWmfOrUXynSGGIEJPCHg==" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Eagle Academy Foundation</a>, founding principal of the Eagle Academy for Young Men in the Bronx, and author of<em>Soar: How Boys Learn, Succeed, and Develop Character</em>.</div>
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<Website>http://www.steinershow.org/podcasts/racism/raising-and-educating-black-boys/</Website>
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    <div class="html-content">Congratulations to our American Studies graduates of 2014! Left to right: Jennie Williams (honors: magna cum laude, minor: sociology); Dustin Roddy (second major: media and communication studies); Hannah Hollamon; Jennifer Jong Mee Herzog; and Bonnie Bowen (honors: magna cum laude, certificate: education). Not pictured: Stephany Bartz, Nicole De Leon, William Conor Finch (second major: media and communication studies), and Thomas Conroy (second major: sociology). <br><br>Graduates minoring in American Studies: Kathleen Foster, Allison Frances Baudoin, Stefan P. Bautista, Brianna Marie Beach, Travis John Cahill, Maria Elizabeth Del Rosario, Tobias Essuah-Mensah, Will M. Fejes, Melissa A. Hom, Shannon Kim, Kayla Nicole Martinez, Mallory N. McIntyre, Sarah L. Patterson, Chase Donnovan Plummer, Stephanie B. Smith, Shane Michael Vlasic, Meghan A. Carpenter, Meg Alexander Davis, and David Juhan Pak.<br></div>
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<Title>Bringing the Green Back</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">When <strong>Nicole King</strong> moved to Baltimore in 2008, she wasn’t very familiar with the city. Six years later, she’s developed deep connections within local communities. Firmly grounded in the Brooklyn-Curtis Bay (Baybrook) neighborhood, her class—Preserving Places, Making Spaces in Baltimore—teaches social entrepreneurship, civic engagement and environmental justice.<br><br>[Click to read more.]<br></div>
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