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Looking to get more connected as a graduate student? Join us RIGHT NOW, Monday 9/22, from 12–2 PM on Commons Main Street for a special Graduate Student Organization (GSO) edition of Mini Involvement Fest!
This is your chance to:
✅ Meet current Graduate Student Organizations (GSOs)
✅ Meet your Graduate Student Association (GSA) representatives
✅ Learn how to get involved in the graduate student community
✅ Build connections beyond the classroom and lab
Stop by, say hi, and find the group that's right for you—because graduate life is better when you're connected!
Grab your free sweatshirt!
]]>Join the Economics Council x Accounting Club for Forensics Files: Mafia, a thrilling night of mystery, strategy, and deception. Come crack the case (or cover your tracks) TODAY from 6–8 PM in Commons 329.
Snacks will be provided, but trust no one…
]]>Calling all student affairs employees that have recently completed or are currently enrolled in a masters or doctoral degree program! In looking ahead to our December 16 Assessment 365 event happening from 1-2pm, we would like to do a session that highlights your unique experience as a professional and a student. This panel would focus on questions around the following topics:
If interested, please reach out to Mary Ellen Wade at mewade@umbc.edu Other than participating in the conversation on the 16, there is no other commitment or work required of you to participate in this panel discussion. Mary Ellen will touch base with you in advance to talk about the questions and conversation flow.
Thanks in advance for your consideration and expertise! ]]>September 22nd: Winter and Spring Break 2026 Faculty-Led Program Applications Due (TODAY!!)
September 22nd: CAHSS Dean's Scholarship for Education Abroad Due (TODAY!!)
October 10th: Most Non-Faculty Led Programs for Spring 2025 Applications Due
3pm-4pm | Virtual: Faculty-Led Study Abroad Virtual Drop-in Hours
Applications for Winter and Spring Break 2026 Faculty-led Programs are due today, on September 22nd! Stop by our Virtual Drop-In Hours with any last minute questions!
12pm-1pm | Virtual: Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship Information Session
Are you a U.S. citizen or national of the United States? Do you receive a Pell grant? Are you planning to study abroad? If so, you may be eligible for the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship! Join our virtual information session to learn more about the program, eligibility, and the application process. The deadline for the next application cycle, for students interested in studying abroad during the Winter 2026, Spring 2026, Summer 2026 or Fall 2026 is Friday, October 3, 2026, at 11:59 pm (PST).
3pm-4pm | UC207: Faculty-Led Study Abroad Drop-in Hours
Summer 2026 Faculty-Led Programs have been posted on our website! Applications will open in November, stop by office hours to get any questions about the programs or application answered!
1pm-2pm | Admin 218: Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship Essay Workshop Session
Are you a U.S. citizen or national of the U.S. receiving a Pell grant and planning to study abroad? You could be eligible for the Gilman Scholarship. If you would like guidance, tips, or feedback on your Gilman Essays, stop by our Essay Workshop!
Our Abroad Ambassadors are all in their host countries and are having amazing study abroad experiences! Read all about them in their Abroad Blogs!
Can't get enough? Follow along on the @UMBCLife and @UMBCeducationabroad as fellow Retrievers share their experiences abroad, insider travel tips, program highlights, and a glimpse into their life abroad.
We invite abstracts for chapter-length essays that will contribute to a new anthology in South Asian American studies, tentatively titled, "Power and Privilege in South Asian American Studies." The anthology will focus on issues of privilege and power in South Asian American representation, community, and identity. Scholars in South Asian American Studies in particular have noted that systems of class and racial capitalism mediate racialization processes, and that South Asian Americans have accrued disproportionate access and control over political, social and economic capital. This privileged status remains understudied. This volume will examine power and privilege as both a defining and under-examined feature of South Asian American identity and community formation. As a starting point, we ask: What does South Asian American studies mean now, and what can or should it evolve into? The anthology will begin by discussing the boundaries and analytical frameworks that define the field of South Asian American studies now, and how they could and should evolve.
We are particularly interested in the intersections of caste and class privilege, racial hierarchies (especially anti-Black racism), Indocentrism, Hinducentrism, heteronormativity, cis privilege, diasporic mobility, and able-bodied privilege, as these factors impact the future of South Asian American studies. The anthology will also examine praxis from a position of power and privilege in political and activist spaces. We hope to include both new and emerging scholars as well as established scholars who have helped shape the field. By placing these voices in conversation, we aim not only to build on the foundational work of the field but also to push it in new directions. This cross-generational dialogue will also put into practice a guiding ethos of the anthology: by providing opportunities for mentorship, support, and the co-creation of new frameworks for understanding South Asian American privilege.
The anthology will consist of three sections, each examining understandings of privilege through different lenses. The first section will focus on structures of power within the South Asian American community, including caste, masculinity, Indocentrism, Hinducentrism, and ableism. The second section will explore South Asian American privilege in relation to other racial groups -for example, how the model minority myth operates in South Asian American communities and upholds anti-Blackness. The third section would focus on SAA privilege in relation to institutional power, including the state and media, and how SAAs leverage their political and economic power.
We seek submissions of chapter abstracts (< 500 words) and a 1-page CV/Resume/or list of relevant experience by December 15, 2025. We have been in conversation with Temple University Press as a potential publisher for this volume. We welcome contributions from a range of disciplinary and methodological backgrounds—including, but not limited to literature, sociology, history, anthropology, cultural studies, and media studies—as well as from scholars engaging theoretical approaches such as critical ethnic studies, postcolonial studies, diaspora studies, feminist and queer studies, and other related frameworks that ground and advance South Asian American studies. Please send your submissions to Naomi Joseph (njoseph@ucsb.edu) and Tamara Bhalla (tbhalla@umbc.edu) with the subject line "Power and Privilege Anthology Submission." Naomi and Tamara will also be available at the 2026 AAAS conference in Hawaii to meet with potential authors and answer questions.
Possible topics include but are not exclusive to:
