Postdoctoral Fellowship for Faculty Diversity: 2015-2017

Deadline for applications: 14 November 2014

UMBC will appoint recent recipients of the Ph.D as Postdoctoral Fellows for a two-year term beginning July 1, 2015.  The fellow will receive a starting stipend of $40,000, health benefits,...

Posted: August 18, 2014, 4:58 PM

Congratulations to our AMST graduates of 2014!

Congratulations to our American Studies graduates of 2014! Left to right: Jennie Williams (honors: magna cum laude, minor: sociology); Dustin Roddy (second major: media and communication studies);...

Posted: May 23, 2014, 10:15 AM

Bringing the Green Back

Nicole King & Steven Bradley on their Baltimore project

When Nicole King moved to Baltimore in 2008, she wasn’t very familiar with the city. Six years later, she’s developed deep connections within local communities. Firmly grounded in the...

Posted: May 14, 2014, 7:22 PM

Graduate student fellowships: Deadline April 25

Dresher Center • Fall 2014

The Dresher Center for the Humanities invites applications for two graduate student research fellowships. Funding is intended to support and promote promising research in the humanities among...

Posted: March 31, 2014, 10:20 AM

Drs. King and Stefano featured in the Baltimore City Paper

City Folk: Days of Their Lives

Courtney Speed points out the Union Baptist Church in Turner Station from the backseat of an SUV. Her friend, Miss Kitty, stops to chat. When a car horn blows, Speed says, “They must not be from...

Posted: March 26, 2014, 4:01 PM

Paid internship: Federal Judiciary Center, Washington DC

May-Aug 2014. Deadline: 4 April 2014

The Federal Judicial Center in Washington, DC, seeks to hire a paid intern to work in the FJC’s Federal Judicial History Office during the summer of 2014. The position is available from mid-May...

Posted: March 17, 2014, 10:37 PM

Professor Gonzalves is featured in UMBC Magazine

An interview with Max Cole and Prof. Michelle Scott (HIST)

Music is more than entertainment. It is woven inextricably into the fabric of our culture – and investigating that complex weave can tell us many things about ourselves. Theodore Gonzalves, an...

Posted: February 28, 2014, 4:48 PM

Professor King's blog post

"How to be an AMST Public History Private Investigator"

Andrew Ross has famously framed the work of American studies (or at least his work) as “scholarly reportage,” by which he means the “blending of ethnography and investigative journalism.” In a...

Posted: February 18, 2014, 7:31 AM