The Mayoral Campaign for Mary Washington is looking for interns that can dedicate their time to her campaign efforts. Duties include phone-banking, canvassing, organizing events, and more. This opportunity will give interns the experience of not just how a political campaign functions, but also of how to build connections in the community in Baltimore. If you are interested, you can fill out the interest forms on the following website.

https://www.marywashingtonforbaltimore.com/volunteer/

Please join ASCOM tomorrow from noon until 1 p.m.

Professor Gloria Chuku, Chair of the Department of Africana Studies, publishes a new article, "Youth Activism and Ethnic Violence in Nigeria: From Decolonization to the Nigeria-Biafra War, in the journal, Afrika Zamani. Read Dr. Chuku's article in Volume 26 (2018) of Afrika Zamani, pages 77-107. 

 

Inscription is an innovative new peer-reviewed journal which addresses the theme of the material text from a range of perspectives, bringing together the critical, historical, theoretical and creative.

The theme for the inaugural edition is "beginnings," planned for September 2020. Submitted articles should be between 6 to 8,000 words that approach this theme from imaginative angles.

Please see the attached flyer for details.

Submissions should be sent electronically by June 1, 2020.

I wanted to make you all aware that Mr. Akil Patterson is running for a position on the Baltimore City Council and he is looking for students who are interested in participating in his campaign efforts. Mr. Patterson is running for the 13th District seat, which is being vacated by Councilwoman Shannon Sneed. His campaign is being led by a recent UMBC Political Science Alumni. If you are interested in learning more about his campaign, you can visit his campaign's website at  https://akil4bmore.com/. 

The latest issue of Res Classicae (Fall 2019) is now available on the "Home" and "Files" pages of this group site as well as the Ancient Studies Department Website (http://ancientstudies.umbc.edu).  

Happy Reading!

Best regards,

Emily Hubbard

Administrative Assistant

Ancient Studies

The Economics and Public Policy Research Seminar line-up is here! This series is open to all, and starts in March.

Come meet some of greatest minds at the intersection of economics and public policy and pick their brains!

Sponsored by Office of the Dean of CAHSS, the Office of the Vice President for Research, and the Center for Social Science Research.

See the full lineup here: 

LLC is pleased to announce that Laurel Burggraf Bassett, of Cohort 20, successfully and skillfully presented her dissertation research proposal to her committee on January 31, 2020. Her topic is titled, "Daggers and Stars: Putting the Paratext back in Fingal."

After Laurel's presentation, she and her committee had a substantive discussion surrounding her topic and methodological approach. It was determined that her project was worthy of doctoral study and provided useful advice on how to move forward with her research.

Many thanks to Laurel's committee members:

Please join us in congratulating Laurel on reaching this significant milestone! She can now apply for candidacy.

Zachary Riggins, '18, is a former UMBC English student who is a PhD student in English at Texas A&M University. Read about his experience at UMBC and post-graduation work below:

When I first started at UMBC in the fall of 2015, I thought of myself first and foremost as a pre-med student focusing on obtaining a degree in biology but entertaining the possibility of also majoring in English. However, after my first experiences within the English department, my passion for literature became undeniable. While it was the course content which solidified my interest in the major, I found my interaction with the department’s faculty to be truly invaluable. As a first generation college student, it was easy to feel adrift; I was unfamiliar with the expectations of academia and frequently accosted by friends and family who demanded explanations about my career path. The faculty helped both to familiarize me with academia and to provide a language with which I could articulate the skills I developed and their value to the modern world.

After graduating from UMBC in May of 2018, I have spent the past year and a half in the English PhD program at Texas A&M University. I am still working on refining my scholarly interests, but recently I have been most interested in exploring the connections among trauma, identity, subjectivity, and gender in 20th and 21st century texts; I am planning on obtaining a graduate certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies. Besides taking classes, I also hold a Graduate Assistantship. In my first year I worked as a research assistant for the World Shakespeare Bibliography, a searchable electronic database for Shakespeare scholarship. In that capacity I prepared and submitted annotated entries for recent monographs, book chapters, and journal articles which had a focus on Shakespeare in any form. For the remainder of my assistantship I will work as an instructor; I am currently teaching a rhetoric and composition course intended for underclassmen. As I continue to explore the world of academia, this time from the position of course instructor, I hope to pass on what I learned from my professors at UMBC and serve as a liaison for other first generation students unfamiliar with or intimidated by academia.