Update - OPEN SPOTS: ARCH 350-01 Archaeology of the Greek City-State
This post corrects an error: the class is ARCH 350-01 not ANCS.

Sign up for ARCH 350-01 with Dr. Lane!

This course concentrates on different lines of argumentation to explain the emergence of the Greek "city-state" from the beginning of the Iron Age until the beginning of the Classical Period (ca. 1000–500 BCE). If focuses not just on the renowned examples of Athens and Sparta, known well from history and literature, but also on other small polities and confederations with different political organization. Discussion considers urban geography, settlement pattern data, written inscriptions, and competitive monument building at Panhellenic sanctuaries, among other lines of evidence. ]]> This post corrects an error: the class is ARCH 350-01 not ANCS. Sign up for ARCH 350-01 with Dr. Lane! This course concentrates on different lines of argumentation to explain the emergence... Flyer https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/attachments/7163a67604c9d5b57f72314d72eeea6e/6a00fe88/news/000/155/964/846fd5f01ceb2b2d67af234f833f981b/ARCH 350 Flyer 1.pdf?1769619854 https://dev.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/155964/guest@my.umbc.edu/4aa6ff6658afd43e9bb8eb7a9e976cbf/api/pixel Ancient Studies at UMBC https://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/ancientstudies https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/349/f32fe8b226a4303632d2c749bb9304cc/xsmall.png?1455895540 https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/349/f32fe8b226a4303632d2c749bb9304cc/original.jpg?1455895540 https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/349/f32fe8b226a4303632d2c749bb9304cc/xxlarge.png?1455895540 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/349/f32fe8b226a4303632d2c749bb9304cc/xlarge.png?1455895540 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/349/f32fe8b226a4303632d2c749bb9304cc/large.png?1455895540 https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/349/f32fe8b226a4303632d2c749bb9304cc/medium.png?1455895540 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/349/f32fe8b226a4303632d2c749bb9304cc/small.png?1455895540 https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/349/f32fe8b226a4303632d2c749bb9304cc/xsmall.png?1455895540 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/349/f32fe8b226a4303632d2c749bb9304cc/xxsmall.png?1455895540 Ancient Studies at UMBC https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/155/964/88e76e0370488c695b6bf172b3272d11/xxlarge.jpg?1769619614 https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/155/964/88e76e0370488c695b6bf172b3272d11/xlarge.jpg?1769619614 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/155/964/88e76e0370488c695b6bf172b3272d11/large.jpg?1769619614 https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/155/964/88e76e0370488c695b6bf172b3272d11/medium.jpg?1769619614 https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/155/964/88e76e0370488c695b6bf172b3272d11/small.jpg?1769619614 https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/155/964/88e76e0370488c695b6bf172b3272d11/xsmall.jpg?1769619614 https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/155/964/88e76e0370488c695b6bf172b3272d11/xxsmall.jpg?1769619614 Map of Greek colonies in Sicily + sanctuaries of Apollo at Delphi and Delos 0 0 true Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:04:58 -0500 Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:46:22 -0500 Announcing Jennifer Harrison's Retirement FDC Associate Director for Assessment retiring after 11 yrs.
Please see the following message from Ana Oskoz:

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to share that Dr. Jennifer Harrison, Associate Director for Assessment in the Faculty Development Center (FDC), is retiring at the end of January 2026. In her 11 years with the UMBC FDC, Jennifer has consulted with numerous faculty and programs to develop effective assessment practices, supported the institution's Middle States accreditation efforts, led programs around all aspects of assessment and faculty development, and developed and published curriculum mapping templates. She created dynamic, kinesthetic curriculum mapping workshops that empowered faculty to connect student-centered teaching, learning, and assessment practices in their programs and courses to constructively transform students’ learning experiences. She has presented for a range of higher education audiences, consulted on student-centered curriculum development at other universities, and co-authored a book, A Guide to Curriculum Mapping: Creating a Collaborative, Transformative, and Learner-Centered Curriculum (Routledge, 2024) with Dr. Vickie Williams. Jennifer has taught courses at UMBC in the College Teaching & Learning Science certificate program, the First Year Seminar program, and the English department.

We are thankful for Jennifer's contributions to UMBC and the FDC and hope you will join us in wishing her well in retirement!

Ana Oskoz
Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs

Photo by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC.
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This summer, UMBC is offering "Global Health and Aging in Japan", a 2-week long study-abroad course led by Dr. Yamashita. 

This program would fulfill one of the following course options: 

For those of you looking for funding opportunities, we recommend looking into some of the many scholarships that UMBC has to offer: UMBC Study Abroad Scholarships

One in particular that we'd recommend:

The deadline for application is February 16th! Please see the following link for more details on the program and the application process:  

Global Health and Aging in Japan study abroad program information

UMBC flyer promoting a Summer 2026 faculty-led study abroad program titled “Global Health and Aging in Japan,” led by Professor Takashi Yamashita. The program offers SOCY 497, SOCY 698, and GERO 798 credit options. Applications are due February 16, 2025.

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The Center for Social Science Scholarship is pleased to continue our workshop series on generative AI, LLMs, and computational social science methods.

This series began with the basics of computing in R and how to use generative AI/LLMs in social science research workflows. Each session will be focused on getting faculty and students comfortable with deploying AI and generative AI models in their research, but with a deeper understanding of the ethical, equity, and environmental consequences of these models.

This series, which is supported through the Elkins Professorship, features several new speakers this spring. 

REGISTER

February 20 | 12-1:30pm | PUP 438 
Social Network Analysis: Building Web-Based Applications for Experiential Learning
Led by:  Dr. Steve McDonald, Professor of Sociology, NC State University

February 27 | 12- 1:30pm | PUP 438
A City in Motion: How Everyday Routines Channel and Control Crime in Baltimore
Led by: Dr. Brian Soller, Associate Professor of Sociology (SAPH), UMBC 

April 10 | 12-1:30pm | PUP 438
Geospatial Analysis: Integrating GIS, R, and GeoAI
Led by: Krishna Mummadi, CS3 Graduate Assistant & GES Graduate Student

April 14 | 2-4pm | Walker Avenue, Suite 130 & Webex (hybrid)
Foundations of Large Language Models
Led by:  Dr. Josephine Namayanja, Executive Director, iHARP, UMBC
Rhoda Nankabirwa, iHARP Research Assistant and PhD Student, UMBC

April 29 | 12-1:30pm | Webex
Evaluating LLMs for Credible and Rigorous Social Science Research
Led by:  Dr. Michael Overton, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Idaho

May 6 | 12-1:30pm | PUP 438
ML Models for Causal Inference Analysis + HPC Led by:  Dr. Eric Stokan, CS3 Director and Associate Professor of Political Science, UMBC
Roy Prouty, Assistant Director for Research Computing, DoIT; UMBC Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science, CSEE
Sai Vikas Amaraneni, iHARP Research Assistant and UMBC Ph.D. Student


 Hosted by the Center for Social Science Scholarship. Cosponsored by the Division of Information Technology, the Center for Scalable Data and Computational Science, and CGC-SCIPE.

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This spring semester, two UMBC faculty members and a graduate student were awarded fellowships from the Dresher Center.

Please join us in congratulating these fellows!

Keeping the Girls in Stitches: Embroidering Biblical Narrative in the Seventeenth Century
Michele Osherow, Associate Professor, English

This project examines seventeenth-century women’s embroidered pictures of the Bible as a form of biblical commentary. Michele Osherow argues that women’s renderings offer alternative readings of biblical narratives and challenge dominant interpretations head-on. Scholars of early modern women’s writing increasingly recognize the intersections among women’s visual and verbal textualities. Nonetheless, these biblical embroideries have largely gone ignored, dismissed as “stifling shows of feminine piety” (Orlin, Renaissance Culture). Such thinking suggests that the women behind these canvases interpreted biblical narratives through a prescribed lens, that their readings are inherited and unremarkable. But the assumption is flawed and unfair. Early modern women knew their Bibles and their representations are provocative. Stitched renderings were not bound to scriptural accuracy: characters are placed unexpectedly in scenes, and various episodes were often worked into a single stitched piece. What emerges is a stunning complexity of material in keeping with the textual intricacies of the Bible itself.

Making Darwin Soviet: The Moscow Darwin Museum and Ideas about Nature in the Soviet Union
Mirjam Voerkelius, Assistant Professor, History

“Making Darwin Soviet” will be the first book-length study in English on the reception of Darwinism in the Soviet Union. The Bolsheviks put Darwin on a pedestal. They drew parallels between Darwinism and Marxism as materialist theories of development and considered evolutionary theory a powerful “weapon” in their war on religion. However, Mirjiam Voerkelius' work intervenes in the existing literature to show that Darwinism remained surprisingly controversial in the Soviet Union. Darwin’s emphasis on gradualism and chance conflicted with the Bolshevik notion of history as advancing via revolutions. Moreover, Darwin conceptualized humankind as differing from animals in degree, but not in kind, which challenged the anthropocentric vision of our species as emancipated from and a conqueror of nature. Thus, although the Bolshevik revolutionaries made Darwinism the fulcrum in their revolutionary project, Voerkelius argues that Soviet scientists and ideologues struggled to reconcile Darwinism with their revolutionary worldview.

Breaking Bread, Breaking Cycles: Food, Trauma, and Generational Healing in Black
Women’s Writing
Neisha-Anne Green, Ph.D. Candidate, Language, Literacy, and Culture

Breaking Bread, Breaking Cycles: Food, Trauma, and Generational Healing in Black Women’s
Writing explores how Black women authors use food as both metaphor and method to narrate
intergenerational trauma, memory, and resilience. Reading works by Toni Morrison, Edwidge
Danticat, Ntozake Shange, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Tsitsi Dangarembga, Neisha-Anne Green traces how kitchens, gardens, and shared meals become sacred sites where silence, pain, and healing converge. Through a Black Feminist Critical Autoethnography, Green interweaves literary analysis with mirrors of my own personal narratives to consider how food practices such as cooking, eating, refusing, and creating carry legacies of both trauma and care. Having completed her comprehensive exams and initial analyses of each novel, this fellowship will allow Green to dedicate structured time for writing and deepening her analyses through participation in writing groups and retreats offered by Heart-Head-Hands, supporting significant progress toward completing my dissertation and sharing this work with broader audiences.
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Community Leadership courses offer practical leadership skills for UMBC undergraduates with 60+ credits!

Are you thinking about generating change on campus or off, before or after graduation? Do you want to build the skills that will help you become an effective changemaker?  In just 5 weeks you can take a one-credit Community Leadership Skills Course taught by subject matter experts.  Upcoming Spring 2026 skills courses include (1) Events & Programming for Inclusive Practice, (2) Asset Based Community Development, and (3) Budgeting for Community Impact.  See below for detailed descriptions of each course!  You can take one, two, or all three of these courses, which meet once a week for 5 weeks, on Wednesday nights from 4:30 - 7:00pm in the UMBC classroom at the Lion Brothers Building in southwest Baltimore City (on the UMBC Shuttle route).  You will learn from your classmates -- undergraduates, graduate students, and community learners -- as well as your instructors!  If you have any questions, please contact Community Leadership Graduate Program Director Sally J. Scott at sjscott@umbc.edu. 

CLDR 410-01, Events & Programming as Inclusive Process with Ashley Bush (Baltimore City Parks & Recreation) and Katie Long (Friends of Patterson Park).  
When/Where: Wednesday nights, 4:30 - 7:00pm, 1/28/26 - 2/25/26 at the Lion Brothers Building classroom in Southwest Baltimore City (on the UMBC shuttle route).
Course Description: This course will guide students through the steps of program development and implementation that reflects community culture and priorities. "Events and Programming as Inclusive Process" seeks to help students develop programming which connects multiple communities through shared activities and spaces, and addresses the importance of creating programs and events which respond to community needs, feedback, and assets. The course will equip students with an understanding of the concept of inclusive programming and the value of community engagement to create sustainable community programs and events.
CLDR 410-02, Asset Based Community Development with Jess Wyatt (UMBC Alumni Relations and Asset-Based Community Development Institute)
When/Where: Wednesday nights, 4:30 - 7:00pm, 3/4/26 - 4/8/26 at the Lion Brothers Building classroom in Southwest Baltimore City (on the UMBC shuttle route).
Course Description: This course will address the fundamentals of Asset Based Community Development (ABCD), how to practically implement ABCD in students' daily professional practice while developing a community of practice using ABCD, as well as, becoming ABCD practitioners in the field. Working through an ABCD process, participants can move towards whole-community mobilization through mapping the capacities assets of individuals, associations, and institutions while building relationships.
CLDR 410-03, Budgeting for Community Impact with Candace Chance (Baltimore Nonprofit Strategist and Director of the Vision, Performance & Impact Firm)
When/Where: Wednesday nights, 4:30 - 7:00pm, 4/15/26 - 513/26 at the Lion Brothers Building classroom in Southwest Baltimore City (on the UMBC shuttle route).
Course Description: Have you heard the saying, Put your money where your mouth is? If not, it is a saying that means to follow through on something you said. Organizations say a lot through their marketing, their grant proposals, and ultimately through their vision, mission, and values. But there's one major way to see if they're really walking the walk or just talking: their BUDGET! An organization's budget is their accountability to the things that they say. This course will teach students how to align their values and their intended impact with their budgets so that they can stand in integrity.
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The Maryland Historical Trust (MHT) seeks candidates for its 2026 Summer Internship in Archaeology. Interns serve a maximum of 400 hours over a period of 10 consecutive weeks to begin on or about May 18, 2026. Current graduate students in anthropology/archaeology are preferred. We also encourage applications from students who are currently enrolled in or have recently graduated from an accredited undergraduate program in anthropology/archaeology or another closely related field.

This is a paid internship. Students will receive a total amount not to exceed $7,200.00 paid in bi-weekly increments based on the number of hours worked at a base rate of $18.00 per hour. Application materials must be received no later than 11:59 PM EST on Friday, February 13, 2026. See the full announcement at the link below for more info!
The announcement and application information are available HERE.
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Community Leadership Skills Courses

Community Leadership courses offer practical leadership skills for UMBC undergraduates with 60+ credits!

Are you thinking about generating change on campus or off, before or after graduation? Do you want to build the skills that will help you become an effective changemaker?

In just 5 weeks you can take a one-credit Community Leadership Skills Course taught by subject matter experts.


Upcoming Spring 2026 Skills Courses

See below for detailed descriptions of each course!

You can take one, two, or all three of these courses, which meet once a week for 5 weeks, on Wednesday nights from 4:30 - 7:00pm in the UMBC classroom at the Lion Brothers Building in southwest Baltimore City (on the UMBC Shuttle route).

You will learn from your classmates -- undergraduates, graduate students, and community learners -- as well as your instructor!

If you have any questions, please contact Community Leadership Graduate Program Director Sally J. Scott at sjscott@umbc.edu.


  • CLDR 410-01: Events & Programming as Inclusive Process

Instructors:

Ashley Bush (Baltimore City Parks & Recreation)
Katie Long (Friends of Patterson Park)

When/Where:

  • Wednesday nights, 4:30 - 7:00pm
  • 1/28/26 - 2/25/26
  • Lion Brothers Building classroom in Southwest Baltimore City (on the UMBC shuttle route)

Course Description:

This course will guide students through the steps of program development and implementation that reflects community culture and priorities. "Events and Programming as Inclusive Process" seeks to help students develop programming which connects multiple communities through shared activities and spaces, and addresses the importance of creating programs and events which respond to community needs, feedback, and assets. The course will equip students with an understanding of the concept of inclusive programming and the value of community engagement to create sustainable community programs and events.

  • CLDR 410-02: Asset Based Community Development

Instructor:

Jess Wyatt (UMBC Alumni Relations and Asset-Based Community Development Institute)

When/Where:

  • Wednesday nights, 4:30 - 7:00pm
  • 3/4/26 - 4/8/26
  • Lion Brothers Building classroom in Southwest Baltimore City (on the UMBC shuttle route)

Course Description:

This course will address the fundamentals of Asset Based Community Development (ABCD), how to practically implement ABCD in students' daily professional practice while developing a community of practice using ABCD, as well as, becoming ABCD practitioners in the field. Working through an ABCD process, participants can move towards whole-community mobilization through mapping the capacities assets of individuals, associations, and institutions while building relationships.

  • CLDR 410-03: Budgeting for Community Impact

Instructor:

Candace Chance (Baltimore Nonprofit Strategist and Director of the Vision, Performance & Impact Firm)

When/Where:

  • Wednesday nights, 4:30 - 7:00pm
  • 4/15/26 - 513/26
  • Lion Brothers Building classroom in Southwest Baltimore City (on the UMBC shuttle route)

Course Description:

Have you heard the saying, Put your money where your mouth is? If not, it is a saying that means to follow through on something you said. Organizations say a lot through their marketing, their grant proposals, and ultimately through their vision, mission, and values. But there's one major way to see if they're really walking the walk or just talking: their BUDGET! An organization's budget is their accountability to the things that they say. This course will teach students how to align their values and their intended impact with their budgets so that they can stand in integrity.
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Building strong relationships with industry partners can open new avenues for funding and collaborative research.  In this webinar, we offer practical strategies for building successful industry partnerships, emphasizing the importance of understanding cultural differences and aligning goals for mutual benefit.  Attendees will learn how to communicate effectively, initiate collaborations, and leverage a wide range of engagement opportunities.

Webinar: Engaging with Industry Partners
Date: Thursday, January 29th
Time: 12pm ET / 9am PT
Speakers:
Rob Guroff - Managing Grants Consultant, Hanover Research
Clinton Doggett - Senior Grants Advisor, Hanover Research 

REGISTER 

Unable to attend? Register and receive a copy of the recording and slides after the webinar.

About Hanover Research: Hanover provides research development, grant writing, and strategic advising support to a wide range of organizations. Our professionals deliver customized proposal review, revision, and production support, while also helping to align strategic priorities to funding trends and opportunities at all levels.  To learn more about Hanover Research, visit www.hanoverresearch.com.
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In four parts, this series presented by NCPH and the American Conservation experience (ACE) will ask experts to help public historians and public humanitarians tackle questions like: what do we mean when we talk about gen AI? How do we recognize it, and what AI tools have potential use cases for the public humanities? How can we ethically engage with generative AI tools as public historians, museum practitioners, writers, archivists, and educators?

For all four events, closed captioning and American Sign Language interpretation will be provided. Registrants will receive resource lists and recordings of the events for which they register. Register for all four events, or choose the ones that are most meaningful to you. This event uses our "pay what you can" model, which allows us to design programming for all members of our community regardless of their financial status; if you can afford to select one of the paid registration tiers, we are deeply grateful for your support in subsidizing free registrations for those who need it most. 

Part 1: Defining and Demystifying "AI" and "Machine Learning"
Thursday, January 29, 2026 | 4:00 pm Eastern
Facilitator: Jessica Dauterive, Program Manager, Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies, and Digital Humanities Consultant, ACE
Speakers: Zoe LeBlanc, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jeri Wieringa, Assistant Director, Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University

Part 2: The Ethics of AI: What's the Harm?
Thursday, February 12, 2026 | 12:00 pm Eastern
Facilitator: Jessica Dauterive, Program Manager, Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies, and Digital Humanities Consultant, ACE
Speakers: Adio-Adet Dinika, Research Fellow, Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research (DAIR) Institute
Adrienne Williams, Research Fellow, Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research (DAIR) Institute; Public Voices Fellow, The OpEd Project; activist and organizer

Part 3: Ethical AI Use in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM)
Thursday, February 26, 2026 | 2:00 pm Eastern 
Facilitator: Angela Fritz, School of Library and Information Science, University of Iowa
Speakers: Additional speakers from the upcoming Collections special issue on AI, TBA

Part 4: AI and History Education
March 17, 2026 | 2:00 pm Eastern 
Facilitator: Lindsey Passenger Wieck, Director of Public History, St. Mary's University
Speakers: Wendi Manuel-Scott and George Oberle, Center for Mason Legacies, George Mason University
Victoria Sanchez, 6th Grade World Cultures Educator, Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders

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