Kyle Edwards, graduate of our Master's program and adjunct instructor for SOCY 321 this semester, has produced several films with this being the latest to premiere locally.
The film is an exploration of the physical barriers that manifest as symbols of oppression for Black people in Washington DC. Below are the event details along with the trailer. The screening is part of Busboys and Poets monthly produced Focus In! Film series: "Cinema for a Conscious Community” which screens films focused on social justice, peace, art, music, and/or community value.
Click the link below to see the trailer.
2004 Martin Luther King Avenue SE
Washington, DC 20020
April 29, 2019
6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Please apply through UMBCworks (Job Posting # 9306890)
This is a 10-hour per week position beginning in the Fall 2019 semester. Weekly schedule is flexible and will work around students' academic schedule.
We are looking for an undergraduate student who is comfortable working with other students, staff, and faculty. Communication skills (both verbal and written) as well as interpersonal skills are very important, as this person is the 'face' of our department. We are looking for a student who will take the initiative to jump in and help our team as needed. Consistent close attention to detail is required.
Our student office staff assists with daily office task such as: answering the phone, filing, copying, and scanning, sorting mail and deliver packages, making sure the copiers are loaded and free from jams.
On a weekly basis, our office staff maintain our department laptops, run errands on campus as needed (picking off exams at SDS, deliver time-sensitive interoffice mail, take scantrons to the library to be graded), and respond to department inquiries via our website.
Ongoing administrative projects include keeping our bulletin boards up to date, creating departmental fliers, forwarding emails to faculty/staff, advertising events (groups, emails, posting flyers), updating course listings for each semester, keeping department directory up-to-date each semester, supporting the creation of our annual department newsletter, assisting with sensitive inventory, assisting with larger department events (such as Social Sciences Forums, End-of-Semester celebration, etc.), assisting with University events (such as Retriever Days, Transfer Student Open Houses).
Office staff report directly to our administrative assistant and support the entire SAHAP staff, which includes our program management specialist, accountant, department coordinator, advising coordinator, graduate program coordinator, department chair, and faculty. Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed.
2019 URCAD Alumni Keynote Speaker
Dr. Eric Grollman
Ph.D., Indiana University 2013
Sociology
M.A., Indiana University 2009
Sociology
B.A., University of Maryland, Baltimore County 2007
Sociology and Psychology
Dr. Grollman will speak from 12-1pm on Wednesday, April 24th, in UC 312.
Dr. Eric Anthony Grollman(they/them/theirs) is a Black queer non-binary intellectual activist and Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Richmond. Their research spans three areas: the negative impact of discrimination on victims’ health; sexual orientation differences in social and political attitudes; and, the limits of dominant group members’ tolerance of marginalized groups. They recently co-edited an anthology entitled Counternarratives from Women of Color Academics: Bravery, Vulnerability, and Resistance with Dr. Manya C. Whitaker. In promoting social justice in and through sociology, they founded the blog ConditionallyAccepted.com(a weekly career advice column for marginalized academics on Inside Higher Ed), co-founded Sociologists for Trans Justice, and pursued various initiatives to address sexual violence in academia.
Dr. Grollman(’07) began at UMBC as a MeyerhoffScholar majoring in math before leaving the program to double major in sociology and psychology, and pursue a certificate in gender and women’s studies. They served as secretary of the Freedom Alliance, and secretary and then president of the Student Events Board. As a scholar-activist, they pushed for the creation of a campus resource center for LGBTQ students (“the Rainbow Center”), using their honors thesis research to document the prevalence of anti-lesbian and -gay attitudes on UMBC’s campus as evidence that such a center was needed. They presented the findings of their honors thesis at URCAD in 2007, published their thesis in the UMBC Review in 2008, and later co-authored a paper in International Journal of Sexual Health with their advisor, Dr. IlsaLottes, using their honors thesis data.
Co-sponsored by the UMBCLGBTQFaculty and Staff Association (LGBTQ FSA)