Professors King & Shewbridge receive Hrabowski Grant!

Nicole King (AMST) and Bill Shewbridge (MCS) were awarded a grant from the Hrabowski Innovation Fund for their project, Emerging Media Across the Curriculum. “Baltimore Stories” is a collaborative...

Posted: December 23, 2014, 3:13 AM

Dr King featured in the UK's Guardian

Murder mystery is not just a whodunnit; it's real life

The podcast phenomenon has shone a light on the outskirts of the city where residents, police and amateur sleuths live with the fallout from a 1999 killing.

Posted: December 8, 2014, 4:56 PM

Call for Applicants: 2015 Inst. for Critical Social Inquiry

With Talal Asad, Simon Critchley & Patricia Williams

The Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) at the New School for Social Research is now accepting applications for Summer 2015 on a rolling basis. Each summer, we offer advanced graduate...

Posted: December 3, 2014, 12:05 PM

Call for Papers: 2015 CHASA Conference

Theme: Urban Places, Digital Spaces

The 2015 meeting theme “Urban Places, Digital Spaces” will investigate issues of place and space as well as the role of media and digital culture in an urban context. Papers may explore the impact...

Posted: December 1, 2014, 4:48 PM

NEW COURSE! AMST 369 Filipino American Cultural Studies

This interdisciplinary course offers a survey of Filipino American experiences, including, but not limited to analyses of labor migration from the Philippines to various points of settlement in...

Posted: November 20, 2014, 7:26 PM

NEW COURSE! Spring 2015: AMST 345 Indigenous Heritage

Students will engage with the key issues that pertain to Indigenous heritage, its making, uses, and safeguarding at international, national, and local levels. Indigenous heritage can be understood...

Posted: November 20, 2014, 6:45 PM