Thu, 02 Apr 2020 09:05:28 -0400

Social Science Research and Responses to COVID-19

Members of the UMBC social science community have been leading efforts to research and respond to COVID-19.

A new National Science Foundation-funded project will examine intensified discrimination against Chinese-Americans in response to the global pandemic.

UMBC faculty and students have provided expert commentary and written op-eds for outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, Huffington Post, Baltimore Sun, and more.

On April 17 at 1pm, the Center for Social Science Scholarship will host an interdisciplinary “Ask the Expert” virtual forum on social science responses to COVID-19, featuring faculty panelists from Emergency Health Services, History, Political Science, Psychology, and Public Policy. Visit our event page for more details.

The Center for Social Science Scholarship is also building an online repository of COVID-19-related research and responses by members of the UMBC social science community. Check out a video on disaster politics, a new Coronavirus Chronicles digital archive, and resources for those shifting to online research methods. We’ll be adding more in the weeks to come.

Send us your own contribution! Provide a short video, screencast, photograph, or quote that explains how your research is tackling issues related to COVID-19, or how insights from your research or discipline help us understand this global crisis, and we’ll feature them on the web and social media.