Dr. Carole McCann publishes new edition! Available in February 2013

The third edition of the Feminist Theory Reader anthologizes the important classical and contemporary works of feminist theory within a multiracial transnational framework. This edition includes 16 new essays; the editors have organized the readings into four sections, which challenge the prevailing representation of feminist movements as waves.

Introductory essays at the beginning of each section lay out the framework that brings the readings together and provide historical and intellectual context.



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Please join us in congratulating Lexx on reaching this step in the application process, and wishing her the best of luck moving forward.
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Studies in Feminist Activism—Kate Drabinski’s GWST 200 focuses on the history and present of feminist activist movements. Students will produce digital stories about local activist movements as well as their own activist projects at UMBC and in the surrounding community, creating an archive of what it means to do activism here at UMBC and beyond.

Read the full article and follow the BreakingGround blog here: http://umbcbreakingground.wordpress.com/get-involved/learn/spring-2013-courses/
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The Office of Undergraduate Education provides several workshops to students who want to submit a successful application!
http://www.umbc.edu/undergrad_ed/research/workshops.html

The deadline to apply is Monday, March 4. Don't delay in putting together this important piece of your undergraduate research experience!




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So how do you sort through them all? On http://my.umbc.edu/groups, you will see that each group is categorized, a great starting point. We wanted to highlight a few groups we strongly recommend based on the kind of information they provide.

UMBC Extra Credit - http://my.umbc.edu/groups/credit
This group talks about internships, research, post-graduation plans, etc. You can't go wrong signing up for this one.

Undergraduate Research - http://my.umbc.edu/groups/undergradresearch
Helps you get involved in doing some kind of research experience.

Off-Campus Student Services - http://my.umbc.edu/groups/ocss
Perfect for commuters to stay connected to campus.

Student Events Board - http://my.umbc.edu/groups/seb
What's happening on campus?

Career Services - http://my.umbc.edu/groups/careers
Land that job you've always wanted.

Shriver Center - http://my.umbc.edu/groups/shriver
Step outside the classroom with an internship, service-learning, or co-op.

 
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INDS 330 is a writing intensive course ideal for students who have completed ENGL 100 and have at least 45 credits. It is required of all INDS students but can also be taken by non-INDS students to fulfill their WI graduation requirement, so notify your friends! The section of INDS 330 with seats is on MWF 9-9:50 a.m.
Permission required - contact Carrie Sauter at casuter@umbc.edu

INDS 430 is a special topics course called "Food: An Interdisciplinary Exploration". The Schedule of Classes provides this thorough description:
          American farmer and writer Wendell Berry has written, "How we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used."  We may similarly assert that how the current food system is structured determines, to a large extent, how we eat.  Almost all food carries a complex story interwoven with politics, environmental consequences, human health and human history.  One intriguing story is how the American food system relies heavily on fossil fuel: the average food item is transported between 1,300 and 2,000 miles from farm to table.  Another story is about how the national school lunch program grew with multiple purposes: war readiness, commodity price support, and childhood nutrition.  These complexities resulted in nutritionally deficient foods in many school cafeterias.   Through case studies and other research, students will examine such questions as:  Who are the stakeholders in food system reform?  What are the implications for health care costs of food system reform?  What are the barriers/challenges to change?
Held on Tuesdays from 1-3:45. Ideal for juniors and seniors! INDS 430 is required of all INDS majors but is open to any student who has this interest.
Permission required - contact Jill Wrigley at wrigleyj@umbc.edu
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Amy Bhatt, assistant professor of gender and women’s studies, is the co-author of Roots and Reflections: South Asians Map the Pacific Northwest, which will be released by the University of Washington Press early next year.

The book examines the experiences of early South Asians who settled on the Pacific coast in the early 1890s through the 1990s. Though the east coast of the U.S. has some of the largest South Asian populations in the country today, these early settlers shed light on the development of South Asian communities across the U.S. and are an important location in understanding contemporary immigration patterns. Roots and Reflections highlights the gender, race, and class aspects of this immigration and settlement.

For an overview of the book, see the book trailer below.



Originally posted here: https://umbcinsights.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/amy-bhatt-gender-and-womens-studies-publishes-new-book/
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"NWSA Annual Conference: fascinating topics and challenging interactions


November 17, 2012 by tracylhawkins 

Last weekend I got to attend the National Women’s Studies Association annual conference. I went to the conference with a sense of dread (as is common for young professors going to their professional conferences) but it turned out to be a fantastic, if very challenging, experience.

I’m sure that you don’t want a play-by-play of my experiences (I took 4500 words worth of notes!), but I do want to give you the highlights to show you some of the things that some awesome people are thinking about. So, here are some of the really interesting panels and papers that I got to hear:

•A super helpful panel on strategies of publishing in academic journals. This is an essential skill for the young academic, so it was really good to hear from the editors of specific publications about what they look for and how they do peer reviews. Now I just need to submit some articles!

•An engaging panel on different approaches to teaching Intro to Women’s Studies (West Virginia University). This panel was based around using props, so we heard about teaching with cells (from a medical perspective), condoms (from a public health perspective), corsets (from a historical perspective), and blow up dolls (from an activist perspective).

•A paper by Danielle Henderson (University of Wisconsin-Madison) on her Feminist Ryan Gosling tumblr. You guys, she is awesome, and you really need to see her memes. Such an interesting critique/use of feminist theory!

•Two really useful papers by Jenn Brandt (High Point University) and Kate Drabinski (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) on using Twitter and Blogs in the feminist classroom. I am definitely going to try to incorporate these approaches in my spring courses. There are challenges to using those technologies, but I think that teaching students to write publicly and to engage in public debates is so important. ..."

Read the rest of the blog post at:
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INDS student Turrel David has been selected as the winner of the $500 Jospeh and Freida Faiman Eisenberg/VPC Endowed Scholarship Award for 2012-2013. Turrel's INDS major focuses on Biomimicry. He is the CEO and co-founder of a business called Dzxtinkt Originals, LLC, which is an art company that specializes in the creation of officially licensed alternative film and TV art posters.

Congratulations, Turrel!

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