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Dr. Rwany Ribaja has joined the department as one of UMBC's 2013-2015 Postdoctoral Fellows for Faculty Diversity. He completed his Doctoral Dissertation, “¡Animales! Civility, Disorder, and...
Prof. Scott received fellowship to study race andvaudeville!
Associate Prof. Michelle Scott is the recipient of a 2013-2014 Smithsonian Institution Senior Fellowship at the National Museum of American History to study the social functions and race relation...
The History Department is pleased to welcome Scott E. Casper as Professor of History. Dr. Caspar has been appointed as the new Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. He...
Dean John Jeffries retired at the end of June after forty years of service to UMBC. In recognition of his profound impact on UMBC, we are delighted to announce the establishment of the John...
Amy Froide, Associate Professor of History, has won a short term fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library for 2013-14 for a project on gender and accounting in early modern Britain.
Environmental and Public Health Disasters in US and USSR
Associate Prof. Kate Brown provides a taste of her new book, Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (Oxford 2013), in Slate
Dr. Constantine Vaporis, Professor of History and Director of the Asian Studies Program, has been chosen as the UMBC 2013-2016 Presidential Research Professor.
Prof. Jim Grubb is the recipient of a 2013 USM Regents' Faculty Award for Teaching. This award "is the highest honor that the Board bestows to recognize exemplary faculty achievement." His...
Denise Meringolo of History wins this year's National Council on Public History Book Award for her Museums, Monuments, and National Parks: Toward a New Genealogy of Public History (2012).