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Chinese migration to US is nothing new – but the reasons for recent surge at Southern border are
Written by Meredith Oyen, associate professor of history, UMBC The brief closure of the Darien Gap – a perilous 66-mile jungle journey linking South American and Central America – in February...
Posted: April 10, 2024, 9:53 AM
Mellon Foundation grants CAHSS $750K to establish Global Asias Initiative
Kimberly Moffitt, dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Socials Sciences, and co-pi Tamara Bhalla, associate professor of American studies and director of the Asian American studies minor,...
Posted: April 3, 2024, 11:06 AM
James Clavell’s ‘Shōgun’ is reimagined for a new generation of TV viewers
Written by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis, professor of history, UMBC In 1980, when James Clavell’s blockbuster historical novel “Shōgun” was turned into a TV miniseries, some 33% of American...
Posted: March 25, 2024, 10:46 AM
How to stay in touch—4 steps to being a prolific pen pal
Headshot of Winona Caesar ’09 in her letter writing “command station.” (Marlayna Demond ’11/UMBC) With Winona Caesar ’09, American studies and history As a first-year student—before...
Posted: March 22, 2024, 10:05 AM
Meet a Retriever—Madelyn “Maddy” Pollack ’24, Humanities Scholar and Honors College member
Madelyn (“Maddy”) Pollack ’24, history, is a Humanities Scholar and a member of the Honors College. She is pursuing minors in public history and Judaic studies, and she is active in Hillel and...
Posted: March 12, 2024, 12:36 PM
Turkey will stop sending imams to German mosques – here’s why this matters
Written by Brian Van Wyck, assistant professor of history, UMBC For decades, the Turkish government has sent imams to work in mosques across Germany. But the German Ministry of the Interior...
Posted: February 20, 2024, 1:07 PM
Noor Zaidi, history, receives prestigious NEH faculty fellowship to complete book project
Noor Zaidi, assistant professor of history, received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship to research and write Translations of Zaynab: Gender, Sectarianism, and Citizenship in...
Posted: January 29, 2024, 11:23 AM
Taiwanese election may determine whether Beijing opts to force the issue of reunification
Written by Meredith Oyen, associate professor of history and Asian studies, UMBC When the votes are being tallied in Taiwan’s presidential election, it won’t be only the 23.6 million...
Posted: January 9, 2024, 10:23 AM
Historical lens—3 stories that scratch the surface of a 5,400 image archive
One of the most influential sets of historical photos in UMBC’s Special Collections is an archive of more than 5,400 images documenting the harsh conditions of child laborers in early 20th-century...
Posted: December 7, 2023, 12:28 PM
Handle with care—students help digitize and rehouse thousands of historical photos
A nine-year-old stands at the mouth of a coal mine covered in coal dust, wearing a small headlamp. A woman holds her baby on her lap as she packs boxes in a warehouse along with her 5-, 8-, and...
Posted: December 7, 2023, 12:15 PM
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