Join the Center for Social Science Scholarship for a virtual social science coffee hour.

Bring your own beverage and stay connected with the social science community.

The Center for Social Science Scholarship invites applications for Faculty Working Groups to promote intellectual exchange in the social sciences and across campus. These collaborative scholarly learning communities will meet regularly to engage in such activities as: working on research projects, reading key literature, exploring new methodological approaches, and/or engaging in matters of public interest related to the social sciences, across campus, or with community partners.

Up to four Faculty Working Groups will be selected by the center director and advisory board members. Groups should be faculty-led and must include at least one faculty member from a social science department at UMBC. Additional priority will be given to groups whose members and/or areas of interest are multi- or interdisciplinary. Advanced graduate students may participate as Faculty Working Group members but may not serve as leaders.

Faculty Working Groups can apply for up to $1,000 in annual support ($500 per semester); groups will also be able to apply for continuation funding. Groups may use funds for such items as: supporting regular group meetings; purchasing software, books, or other materials; hosting external speakers; creating scholarly resources; traveling to external sites for research or public engagement purposes; and other similar activities. A brief report of the group’s activities will be due at the end of the funding period.

Apply by May 31, 2021, for groups to begin in Fall 2021.

Click here to download the application form.

Applications should be submitted via email to socialscience@umbc.edu. Questions may be directed to Christine Mallinson, Director of the Center for Social Science Scholarship.

Join us April 12, 2021 for a lecture and panel discussion with George Ciscle on curating in the community. Ciscle is the founder and director of The Contemporary, an “un-museum” in Baltimore and an educator and trailblazer in community-based arts and public programming. His work challenges existing conventions for exhibiting art, how we engage public spaces, and how we define curation.

In addition to discussing his work in both the Baltimore and the larger art community, Ciscle will be joined in conversation with Sandra Abbott, curator of collections and outreach at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, and Ashley Minner, professor of the practice and folklorist, Department of American Studies and director of the American Studies minor in Public Humanities. Their discussion will address community curation beyond unilateral engagement strategies and routine public programming.

The event will be live captioned via Zoom, and ASL interpreters will be provided. 

For the discussion, sign up at https://umbc-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pcO-urD0vGdcE1FKykUATjLcoZ_stZSiy.

This lecture is sponsored by the Department of American Studies, Public Humanities, Maryland Traditions, Dresher Center for the Humanities,Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, and the Orser Center for the Study of Place, Community and Culture

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Call for Papers and Projects

• Social and regional origin, gender, religion, generation, social groups, migration,
• multilingualism, and language change and their influence on language, etc.
• Heterogeneity vs. homogeneity in the classroom
• Subjective factors of language attitudes and language ideologies
• Intersections between language and critical race theory, e.g. raciolinguistics, linguistic
• profiling
• Queer theory and queer linguistics
• Influences of sociolinguistics on education and language pedagogy
• Critical approaches to teaching with technology
• Varieties of language – Youth language; computer-mediated communication; spoken
• colloquial language
• Problematic aspects of contemporary applied linguistics research in which identity is a key construct
  

The following survey is a part of a senior capstone in the Classics at Washington University in St. Louis. This 10–20-minute survey aims to assess allyship within Classics Departments and potential methods for fostering allyship, equity, and inclusion within Classics Departments. This survey is open to anyone affiliated with their universities' Classics Department in any way at any level. All responses will be recorded anonymously. 

The link to survey is below.

The pandemic has changed almost every aspect of life, especially in the economic and career landscapes. People are thinking about their professional choices with a new lens to ensure they select careers that offer what they may believe to be a stable and secure future. Some may wonder if a degree in the social sciences, arts, and/or humanities will give them this security.