Saira Khan (English '09), currently the director of social media for The New Yorker, will be the recipient of an outstanding young UMBC alumna award on October 4. 

The Ben Jealous for Governor Fellowship involves joining the campaign this Fall of 2018. Fellows will be able to work in all areas of the campaign, including but not limited to communications, college organizing, digital and press, organizational building, grassroots fundraising, and issue-based organizing. We will also work with your college to ensure the fellowship counts for college credit.

To apply, follow the link: https://tinyurl.com/benjealous. The application includes some short questions, then applicants are expected to email their resumes to marylandblueleads@gmail.com. Once accepted, we will reach out to schedule interviews. 

Congratulations to the following faculty, students, and alumni for their recent accomplishments!  

Ian Anson, Assistant Professor of Political Science, published "Americans Distrusted US Democracy Long Before Trump's Russia Problem" in The Conversation.

Evan Avila, Economics and Political Science '20, won the iOme Challenge with ideas to help millennials save for retirement.

Erin Berry-McCrea, Doctoral candidate in Language, Literacy & Culture, received the NCTE Educator of Color Leadership Award for her research on college undergraduates' experiences with language and social media.  

Dana Bradley was appointed as the Dean of the Erickson School.

Timothy J. Brennan, Professor of Public Policy and Economics and a Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future, is participating on September 14 in the first set of Federal Trade Commission hearings on competition and consumer protection.

Erle Ellis, Professor of Geography & Environmental Systems, published "Overpopulation Is Not the Problem" in the New York Times.

Chris Haffer, MPS '91, Public Policy, and PhD '93, Public Policy, was named the EEOC's first chief data officer

Jane Lincove, Associate Professor of Public Policy, helped launch a national center for research on school choice

Christine Mallinson, Professor of Language, Literacy & Culture, was appointed as the Director of the Center for Social Science Scholarship.

The Dresher Center is pleased to have two internal fellows for the Fall 2018 semester:

Residential Faculty Fellow
Rebecca Boehling, Professor of History and Director of Global Studies and Judaic Studies Programs

Project: "Post-WWII Denazification as Transitional Justice"

Conceptualizing denazification as transitional justice requires positing the process as part of a reckoning with the recent past in pursuit of truth and justice, as prerequisites to reconciliation, and ultimately democratization. While the WWII Allies considered denazificaton as a prerequisite to reconciliation, the Germans least complicit with the Nazi regime usually had the most interest in denazification as transitional justice. Contradictions abound when military governments seek to impose democracy. Perhaps the best a foreign occupier can achieve in a country they have fought, invaded and defeated in war, is to set up legal and participatory political structures and regulate socio-economic frameworks in ways to restrict anti-democratic tendencies and promote opportunities for the growth of democracy. The lens of transitional justice will help reveal the limits of occupation and the necessity of removing anti-democratic obstacles to and setting up the framework and structures for civil society.

Aimi Bouillon, M.F.A Candidate, Intermedia + Digital Arts Graduate Program

Project: "Finding Ryukyu"

For her thesis project, Aimi aims to capture the hidden histories of local plant life, memorials, and landscapes in what are sometimes called somaesthetic structures, or affective environments that shape and perpetuate human behavior. Through images of the Okinawan environment, she seeks to discover indigenous Ryukyuan concepts used in maintaining healthy family, community, and societal relations with nature. She will be mining the symbolic capacity of documentary photography to represent known and unknown schematic narratives of Ryukyuan histories.