NEH Announces 2016 Summer Seminars & Institutes Faculty are Invited to Apply by March 1, 2016
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) offers tuition-free opportunities for college and university educators to study a variety of humanities topics in the summer. Stipends of $1,200-$3,900 help cover the expenses for these one- to five-week programs.

Applications (to the individual programs) are due by March 1, 2016.

Visit the NEH website for eligibility requirements and links to the programs and directors: http://www.neh.gov/divisions/education/summer-programs 

Contact Rachel Brubaker, Dresher Center Assistant Director, for assistance.

The seminars and institutes for summer 2016 will address the following topics: 
  • Alexis de Tocqueville and American Democracy 
  • American Maritime History
  • Beowulf and Old Norse-Icelandic Literature
  • Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
  • The Commonplace Book and Its American Descendants
  • Confucian Asia 
  • Ernest J. Gaines and the Southern Experience
  • The History of Political Economy
  • The Land Ethic, Sustainability, and the Humanities
  • Mapping, Text, and Travel
  • Modern Mongolia
  • Moral Psychology and Education
  • Native American Histories and the Land
  • The Ottoman Empire, Europe, and the Mediterranean World, 1500-1800
  • Presuppositions and Perception
  • Problems in the Study of Religion
  • Religion, Secularism, and the English Novel, 1719-1897
  • Teaching the Reformation 
  • Tokyo: High City and Low City
  • Urban Arts in Africa and the African Diaspora
  • Veterans in American Society
  • The Visual Culture of the Civil War and Reconstruction 
  • Westward Expansion and the Constitution
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Conducting a critical and creative study of Seamus Heaney as part of her honors project and for an Undergraduate Research award, Airhart, working under the tutelage of Professor Michael Fallon, has come to represent the heights of excellence our students can achieve with an interesting project, a passion, and a little hard work. Congratulations, Jackie. 

The profile can be read at http://ur.umbc.edu/home/our-researchers/research-profiles-15-16/jackie-airhart/.
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Shinogle Fellowship recipient Michael Abrams presented his dissertation research on the  impact of news coverage on the dissemination of prescription drug warnings issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration at a lecture in the Commons Skylight Room on December 4. Michael is a Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy, and a senior research analyst at the Hilltop Institute.

The family of Dr. Judith Shinogle established the award in her memory to provide support for outstanding doctoral students committed to health policy research.

Go to the website link below for a summary and video of his presentation.

Photo by Marsha Willis.

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We hope to "see" you in class in January!


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HIST 713: Seminar in Social History

Wednesdays 6:00-8:30 pm
Instructor: Marjoleine Kars Ph.D

In this course we will read examples of the most exciting and game-changing recent work on the histories of native peoples and people of African descent in the Americas, 1500-1850.

For more information about this course, please contact Dr. Kars, kars@umbc.ed


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AMST 422: Preserving Places, Making Spaces in Baltimore/AMST 680: Community in America

Thursdays 2:30-5:00 pm
Instructor: Nicole King Ph.D.

In the Preserving Places course students will analyze previous research from the Baltimore Traces project and conduct original research on historic neighborhoods in the city. Students will also conduct oral history interviews to better understand the connections between the decline in manufacturing and the rise of arts, entertainment, and tourism in Baltimore.

The semester will include a focus on places in the historic industrial hub of extreme south Baltimore—Brooklyn and Curtis Bay—for both the Mapping Baybrook website and the Mapping Dialogues event (funded by a Maryland Humanities Council grant) at the Baltimore Museum of Industry on April 5. The course connects the effects of deindustrialization in Baltimore with the exploration of a “new economy” where arts, entertainment, and tourism are touted as reviving, or as some say “saving,” the city. Will the arts help Baltimore grow or do arts districts lead to gentrification and replicate the history of structural inequality in the city?

Students will explore this and other questions in the process of producing a radio series for The Marc Steiner Show WEAA 88.9. Students will learn the skills of critical analysis, interviewing, radio production, and applied research in developing the skills to “meet people where they are” and explore the past, present, and future of Baltimore.




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EDUC 710 - Culture and the design of information and communication technologies.

Thursdays 4:30 - 7:00 pm
Instructor: Patricia Young, Ph.D.

This course investigates theories of culture and how cultures can influence the design of information and communication technologies (ICTs). It seeks to evaluate frameworks that focus on culture and the design of ICTs, critique existing ICTs that propose a cultural context and engage in design and analytic work that brings culture to the center of the design process.

Information sessions scheduled:

  • Thursday, 12/10/2015 3:30-4:30 pm, Sherman Hall 110.
  • Webinar - Friday, 12/11/2015 12 (noon) - 1:00 pm (Log on early to download Blackboard's launcher https://goo.gl/VQKf9n )
  • Monday, 12/14/2015 3:30-4:30pm, Sherman Hall 110.
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The 38th Annual Graduate Research Conference (GRC) will be held on March 23, 2016. The GRC is a collaborative effort of the Graduate Student Association (GSA), the Office of Graduate Student Life (OGSL), and the GSA Senate. The 2016 GRC is a campus wide event which provides a platform for graduate students, across all disciplines, to come together to share their research, network professionally, and engage in intellectual discussions on a multifarious scale. For the first time, GRC will have a three-minute thesis competition (3MT), to know more about 3MT please visit http://threeminutethesis.org/.

This year’s conference will also feature a keynote panel, professional development workshop, research information fair, and a three minute thesis competition.

All graduate students at any stage of their graduate work are invited to deliver their oral presentation, poster presentation, artist talk, performance and media presentation, or work in progress. All presentation formats are welcome!

The abstract submission deadline is January 22, 2016.

For more information about the conference, please visit the GRC website or contact Sourabh Arsey at grc.umbc@gmail.com.
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