Assistant Professor of Women's Studies Specialization in LGBTQ Studies

We invite applications from persons whose scholarly production falls within the more traditional meaning of monographs and refereed journal articles and those whose scholarship is evidenced in performative and other creative venues or in a policy work. The successful candidate will be able to work across multiple disciplines and have expertise in one or more of the following areas:

• Critical Race, Queer, or Transgender Theory/Studies/Policy

• Disability Studies/Crip Theory

• Transnational Genders and Sexualities, esp. Masculinities Across Racial Lines

• Gender and Sexuality in Performance Studies and Visual Culture

Applicants must have a Ph.D. or compatible terminal degree by the time of application.

Best consideration Date: Sept. 23, 2016

For information on how to apply - wmst.umd.edu

Marjoleine Kars and Kate Brown, both professors in UMBC’s history department, have been awarded prestigious fellowships to study at the European University Institute (EUI) in Italy for fall 2016.

Kars and Brown are recipients of the Fernand Braduel Senior Fellowships, which “provide a framework for established academics with an international reputation to pursue their research at the EUI. Fellowships last for up to ten months in one of the EUI’s four Departments which in turn invite fellows to participate in departmental activities (seminars, workshops, colloquia, etc.),” according to a description on the EUI website.

During her fellowship, Kars will finish her writing her current book project Freedom Marooned: An Atlantic Slave Rebellion in the Early Modern Dutch Caribbean. She is in the midst of finishing a ten-year research project about a little known but immense eighteenth-century slave rebellion in a Dutch colony in South America (now the Republic of Guyana). Kars has previously written a book about a farmers’ rebellion in pre-revolutionary North Carolina:“Breaking Loose Together”: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), and she was a Dresher Center fellow in spring 2015. Read more about her work in the EUI’s announcement of her fellowship.

For her Fernand Braduel Fellowship, Kate Brown will work on her research project Circumnavigation: History’s Renovation in the Age of the Anthropocene. Brown is currently working on a research project about the communities circling the Chernobyl Zone. Earlier this year, Brown was named a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow and she has received significant recognition for her 2013 book Plutopia: Nuclear Families in Atomic Cities and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (Oxford 2013). Read more about Brown’s work and research in theEUI announcement.

As part of their residencies, Kars and Brown will also participate in the EUI’s Summer School in Comparative and Transnational History: Theories, Methodology and Case Studies. Kars will present Caribbean Slave Rebellions, Transnational History, and Nationalism and Brown’s talk is titled Soft Bodies: the child centered communities at ground zero of American and Soviet nuclear complexes. 

Learn more about the European University Institute and its prestigious fellowships and research programs on the EUI website.

The UMBC Ancient Studies Department will conduct its 51^st annual study tour in Spain March 17-26, 2017. The price of $3,400.00 (based on a group of 30) includes all air and land travel, twin-share accommodation for eight nights at four-star hotels, eight buffet breakfasts, three dinners, two lunches, and entrance to all archaeological sites and museums on the itinerary. Single rooms are available at an additional cost. ANCS majors and minors, UMBC students, faculty, staff, alumni, and members of the community are invited to join us. The trip can be taken as a three-credit course in the Winter 2017 term (ANCS 301; winter semester tuition applies). Scholarships are available to Ancient Studies majors taking the course for credit. Places are limited, so reserve yours today! An initial deposit of $350.00 is due with your registration.

The tour begins with four nights in Barcelona. We will visit the City Museum of Barcelona, the Roman Walls and Carrer del Pardis (four columns from a temple of Augustus), the Plaça Vila de Madrid (Roman Necropolis) and the fabulous Picasso Museum. After a free day (all museums and sites are closed on Monday), we will make a day trip to nearby Tarragona to explore the remains of the city’s Roman infrastructure and to tour the museum. The following day we hit the road for Zaragoza (ancient Caesaraugusta), where we will visit the Museum of the Forum of Caesaraugusta and the Museum of the Public Baths. The next day we travel to Madrid for a tour of the incomparable National Archaeological Museum of Spain. Then we travel to the colonial town of Mérida (ancient Merita Augusta) to explore the Moorish palace and fortification Alcazaba before ending the day at the Mérida National Museum of Roman Art. The final day of the trip is devoted to a thorough exploration of Mérida, which became the capital of the Roman province of Lusitania, and has a wealth of Roman remains.

This is a wonderful opportunity to see Spain in the off season in fine spring weather. Drop off your registration form and deposit with Domonique Pitts at dpitts@umbc.edu or at 410-455-6265 (5-6265 from campus).