We’re excited to announce our graduate scholarship program is back! Between now and February 14, 2020, at 11:59 p.m. ET, Sallie Mae is accepting applications from future and current graduate students for a $20,000 Bridging the Dream Scholarship for Graduate Students. Four inspiring students will be awarded $20,000 each for their graduate or professional degree.

Do you know an upcoming or current graduate student who:

• Has a dream they want to achieve with their degree?
• Has an interesting story to tell?
• Could use financial help to further their education?

This #BridgingTheDream Scholarship Program supports our mission of helping people reach their next goal. You can also help even more students find scholarships with our free Graduate School Scholarship Search at SallieMae.com/GradScholarships. It matches students with scholarships based on skills, activities, and interests.

¹ No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited. Valid 1/3/20 at 12 p.m. ET – 2/14/20 at 11:59 p.m. ET. See official rules athttps://bridgingthedream.scholarsapply.org/information.php.

Join Drs. Kimberly Moffitt (LLC) and Heather Harris (Stevenson University) to celebrate the release of their co-edited volume, Michelle Obama and the FLOTUS Effect, along with contributors Sherella Cupid (LLC cohort 18), Shawntay Stocks (LLC PhD ‘19), Tahira Mahdi (PSY PhD ‘18), and Leticia D. Williams (Howard University PhD). This event will be moderated by Sonya Crosby (LLC cohort 20). 

Their book emphasizes the significance of Michelle Obamain relation to her politics and positionality as the first African American woman to serve as First Lady of the United States of America. 

Panelists will: 

• Reflect on their chapters

• Offer insights about her evolving legacy

• Provide motivations for their involvement

• Describe the publishing process

• Discuss collaborative research projects 

Dr. Craig Saper (LLC), Chair

Dr. Amy Froide (HIST), Co-chair

Dr. Orianne Smith (ENGL)

Dr. Tita Chico (UMD - English)

Sally Shivnan (ENGL)

Reminder!

Applications are now being accepted for the 2020 Center for Social Science Scholarship/CAHSS Summer Faculty Research Fellowship

Deadline: Saturday, February 15, 2020

Download the Fellowship Application here.

Applications are now being accepted for the Center for Social Science Scholarship/CAHSS Summer Faculty Research Fellowship (SFRF). The purpose of this fellowship is to support significant social science research among tenure-track and tenured faculty in CAHSS, resulting in a submittable product by December 2020.

Applications are welcome from any tenured or tenure-track faculty doing social science research in any CAHSS department. Fellows will receive a $6,000 award during the summer of 2020. Up to three fellowships will be awarded.

By December 2020, each Fellow agrees to complete a submittable product, which can include an external grant or fellowship proposal, journal article, policy paper, book manuscript, or book chapter; upon completion, Fellows shall provide a copy of this submitted product to the Director of the Center for Social Science Scholarship. Fellows who are preparing an external proposal are expected to work with MIPAR for pre- and post-award assistance.

Interested faculty should complete and submit an application (linked above) by the specified deadline.

Applications will be reviewed and ranked by members of the Center for Social Science Scholarship Advisory Board, according to the following criteria:

• Quality of proposed research project;
• Significance of the project in its field;
• Publishing/funding potential of the work;
• Qualification of the faculty member to carry out the work, including the requisite expertise in the topic area and prior research productivity;
• Likelihood that the proposed work can be successfully completed with fellowship support and that it will result in a submittable product within the specified time period;
• Approval and recommendation of faculty member’s department chair.

Funds for this fellowship are provided by the Center for Social Science Scholarship, the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS), and the UMBC Vice President for Research.

Residential Faculty Research Fellows

Graduate Student Research Fellow