Walk In Advising Hours June 22nd-26th

Monday, June 22nd
None- Advising offices are closed

Tuesday, June 23rd
1:30pm-3pm

Wednesday, June 24th
None- Advising offices are closed

Thursday, June 25th
None- Advising offices are closed

Friday, June 26th
By appointment only

Advisors are also available by appointment. Our advising offices are located in ITE 202-206. Email and telephone contact information is available here.

**If you are a new freshman or transfer student, please be sure to sign up to attend orientation. You will meet with an advisor and register for classes on your orientation date. It will not be possible to register for classes in advance of orientation. If you have questions or concerns after you have attended orientation, you are welcome to email an advisor, attend walk-in advising hours, or schedule an appointment with an advisor.**

Juniors and Seniors, gain Psychology research experience with the Maton Lab!

Ideal candidates will have:

**SPSS Experience

**taken or be currently enrolled in PSYC 331

**GPA of 3.0 or higher

**interest in qualitative research

**excellent attention to detail

**ability to learn new tasks quickly

** At least 4 hours per week to commit (based on number of credits taken, 1-3)

EVENING HOURS are also available.

See an overview of Dr. Ken Maton's lab and research topics at

http://psychology.umbc.edu/people/corefaculty/maton-2/

Interested students should email:

1) letter of interest

2) Unofficial transcript

3) Resume or Curriculum Vitae (not required, but given priority)

to jhosler1@umbc.edu or sgodsa1@umbc.edu

An article published June 18 in the Baltimore Sun examined a digital history project documenting the unrest surrounding the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore. Denise Meringolo, an associate professor of history, is collaborating with the Maryland Historical Society and University of Baltimore to collect images, oral histories, and videos taken by everyday citizens documenting the events. Meringolo, who is featured in the article, set up a website for the project.

“I decided to establish a site that allows people to participate directly in the act of collecting,” Meringolo said. “When you study social movements from the past, sometimes what’s missing are the experiences and perceptions of the people who were in that moment. You find the official reports, but it’s very difficult to get a sense of what that protest was like viscerally from the ground view.”

To read the article in the Baltimore Sun, click here.  For additional coverage by the Associated Press, click here. To learn more about the project, visit baltimoreuprising2015.org.

Kimberly Moffitt, an associate professor of American studies, was interviewed by ABC 2 Baltimore for a segment that explored the fixed nature of race in society following up on the Rachel Dolezal story. “We’re so comfortable to fixate people into boxes to say this is where you belong because of skin hue because of the activities you do,” Moffitt said.

Commenting on race as a social construction, she added: “I also think that it proves to us that as much as we as individuals would want to embody or claim our own racial categories, the reality is society dictates that to us and we don’t have control over that.”

“For members of the black community it’s a major struggle because we are used to people appropriating blackness, but we’re not used to people trying to embody blackness and actually assume it by phenotypically changing aspects of who they are in order to be seen as something that they aren’t,” said Moffitt. “For those of us who live and breathe this every day, it’s not something that we can put on and then take off.”

To watch the full segment, which originally aired on WMAR-TV’s 11 p.m. newscast on June 16, click here.

On Thursday, June 18, Prof. Moffitt was again interviewed for a live segment on ABC 2’s 6 p.m. newscast about the Charleston church shooting. Check back here for video of the segment to be posted soon.

In a June 15 op-ed in Al Jazeera America, history professor Kate Brown examined the impact of Russia’s foreign agents law on the country’s civil society and environmental activists. The law requires organizations that receive funding from abroad to register as foreign agents, and the law as it was originally written excluded environmental advocacy groups.

However, Brown wrote in her column that the law has recently been used with broad application to abolish NGO’s that prevent development in Russia. “The ease with which the law can be abused could spell disaster both for Russian civil society and environmental regulation.”

With the way the law is constructed, Brown wrote that it makes it difficult for outside groups to intervene: “The multi-faceted utility of the law makes it an enticing tool, one that is increasingly difficult for NGOs to surmount. In part because of the U.S. history of spying on enemies and allies alike, there appears to be little that can be done from outside Russia without exacerbating charges of foreign meddling. As during the Soviet period, those in the United States can only watch and report,” she wrote.

To read the full column titled “Russia Uses ‘Foreign Agents’ Law to Muzzle Dissent,” click here.