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Zareen Taj earns her Ph.D., publishing the first autoethnography by a Hazara Afghan woman about the ongoing genocide of Hazara women under Taliban rule
This spring on Thursday evenings, students filled room 424 in the Fine Arts building for their Asian Diaspora in Motion: Media, Culture, Identity, and Activism class. At the head of the classroom...
Posted: May 5, 2026, 3:29 PM
The chase and thrill of researching erotic worlds
A couple of years ago, Jessica Floyd was enjoying delicious olive flatbreads in Opio, France, a village on the French Riviera, thanks to the hospitality of Judith Legman, who owned the olive grove...
Posted: December 15, 2025, 4:29 PM
Meet a Retriever—Rishi Nixon, Honors College senior, Parkinson’s researcher, and performing storyteller
Rishi Nixon, a senior biological sciences major and member of the Honors College, brings a kaleidoscope of interests and skills to his time at UMBC after transferring from Montgomery College. He’s...
Posted: October 22, 2025, 4:21 PM
Meet a Retriever—Tanzila Malik, gender and women’s studies major, and multi-semester on-campus intern
Meet Tanzila Malik, a senior majoring in gender and women’s studies and minoring in political science and anthropology. Tanzila is an intern with UMBC’s University Communications and Marketing...
Posted: September 17, 2025, 9:22 AM
This is what it looks like when you’re welcomed into UMBC’s community of change-makers
Menstrual health can be a financial burden that many people quietly carry. On average, menstruating people spend $20 a month on period products, a total of around $18,000 in their lifetime. When I...
Posted: September 4, 2025, 12:51 PM
The Mellon Foundation awards UMBC’s Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies department $100,000 as part of its ‘Affirming Multivocal Humanities’ initiative
UMBC’s Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies (GWST) department has received a $100,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to implement its Advancing Gender and Sexuality Studies in Community...
Posted: April 23, 2024, 10:49 AM
American Council of Learned Societies spotlights UMBC’s CoLab as an interdisciplinary leader
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has chosen UMBC’s Interdisciplinary CoLab for its “Undergraduate Spotlight” series. ACLS is a nonprofit federation of 80 scholarly organizations...
Posted: February 2, 2024, 11:54 AM
Creating Queer Arab Joy
Seven years ago, Mejdulene Bernard Shomali began a search for her queer Arab women “banat” ancestors. Shomali, a queer Palestinian poet, was looking for mirrors and searching for hope in other...
Posted: July 31, 2023, 1:54 PM
Rooted in Advocacy—Giese ’99 ensures federal programs meet community needs
Danielle Giese ’99, political science and Africana studies, remembers her first paychecks were hot and cheesy pizza lunches. They were the reward for volunteering at the Southern Maryland...
Posted: February 27, 2023, 3:52 PM
Community-building in Baltimore through public humanities
Over the last decade Nicole King, professor of American studies and director of the Orser Center for the Study of Place, Community, and Culture, has worked with colleagues to develop public...
Posted: October 19, 2022, 10:52 AM
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