2019 URCAD Alumni Keynote Speaker
Dr. Eric Grollman
Ph.D., Indiana University 2013
Sociology
M.A., Indiana University 2009
Sociology
B.A., University of Maryland, Baltimore County 2007
Sociology and Psychology
Dr. Grollman will speak from 12-1pm on Wednesday, April 24th, in UC 312.
Dr. Eric Anthony Grollman(they/them/theirs) is a Black queer non-binary intellectual activist and Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Richmond. Their research spans three areas: the negative impact of discrimination on victims’ health; sexual orientation differences in social and political attitudes; and, the limits of dominant group members’ tolerance of marginalized groups. They recently co-edited an anthology entitled Counternarratives from Women of Color Academics: Bravery, Vulnerability, and Resistance with Dr. Manya C. Whitaker. In promoting social justice in and through sociology, they founded the blog ConditionallyAccepted.com(a weekly career advice column for marginalized academics on Inside Higher Ed), co-founded Sociologists for Trans Justice, and pursued various initiatives to address sexual violence in academia.
Dr. Grollman(’07) began at UMBC as a MeyerhoffScholar majoring in math before leaving the program to double major in sociology and psychology, and pursue a certificate in gender and women’s studies. They served as secretary of the Freedom Alliance, and secretary and then president of the Student Events Board. As a scholar-activist, they pushed for the creation of a campus resource center for LGBTQ students (“the Rainbow Center”), using their honors thesis research to document the prevalence of anti-lesbian and -gay attitudes on UMBC’s campus as evidence that such a center was needed. They presented the findings of their honors thesis at URCAD in 2007, published their thesis in the UMBC Review in 2008, and later co-authored a paper in International Journal of Sexual Health with their advisor, Dr. IlsaLottes, using their honors thesis data.
Co-sponsored by the UMBCLGBTQFaculty and Staff Association (LGBTQ FSA)
As a result of our snow closure yesterday, the Race and Inclusion Scholars interest meeting has been rescheduled for Wednesday, February 27th
Please note the change and come to PUP 203 at noon on February 27th!!
University of Pennsylvania
“Sex-Selective Abortion in India: Victims, Villains and Other Ways of Seeing the World”
Over the past 30 years, selective abortion of female fetuses has become a disturbingly routine form of family planning in India, with expert estimates of the total exceeding half a million. Countless legal and policy measures aim to curb what has widely come to be seen as a public “crisis,” but we know almost nothing about the experiences of families seeking the service or clinicians providing it. Drawing on 18 months of clinic-based fieldwork, anthropologist and physician-in-training Utpal Sandesara shines new light on the lived drama of sex selection. Taking listeners through a secretive black market, the sitting rooms of common households,
and the dusty halls of government, Sandesara provocatively challenges longstanding approaches in public health. In the process, he illustrates the potential value of clinical research as a tool for understanding and addressing troubling social problems.
Reception to follow.
Sponsored by: Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Health Administration and Policy
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]]>Takashi Yamashita, PhD, MPH, MA is an associate professor of sociology and faculty in the Gerontology PhD program at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Dr. Yamashita's research focuses on social determinants of health and well-being over the life course, health literacy, wider benefits of lifelong learning, gerontology education, and social statistics education.