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Who gets to tell the story? The tricky back story of how radio shows can promote empathy but also build up cultural divides
In his new book, Empathy Machines: This American Life, Podcasting, and the Public Radio Structure of Feeling, Jason Loviglio, professor of media and communications, critiques and analyzes the...
Posted: June 30, 2026, 9:33 AM
Humanities Books: A Room in Bombay
Manil Suri moved to the United States after spending the first 20 years of his life living in a 400-square-foot room in Bombay, India, with his father, Ram, and mother, Prem, to whom he dedicated...
Posted: June 4, 2026, 4:35 PM
Author Kristina Gaddy ’09, collaborates with Rhiannon Giddens, Grammy Award-winning musician, on the history of Black American music
Kristina Gaddy came to UMBC as a Sondheim Public Affairs Scholar. Her passion for history and languages—Swedish, German, and Spanish—led her to graduate with a dual degree in history and modern...
Posted: March 12, 2026, 4:30 PM
Author Kristina Gaddy ’09, collaborates with Rhiannon Giddens, Grammy Award-winning musician, on the history of Black American music
Kristina Gaddy ’09, saves and gathers manuscripts, sheet music, pictures, maps, drawings, and anecdotes, sharing them on her blog to make public what she finds hidden in archives, private...
Posted: March 12, 2026, 4:30 PM
Can anything be read as poetry? Keegan Cook Finberg, English, is opening students’ eyes to the poetic world
Keegan Cook Finberg, an assistant professor of English, started graduate school at UC Santa Cruz during the financial crisis of 2008, in a moment of extreme recession. “Privatization and austerity...
Posted: March 12, 2026, 4:26 PM
Laughing in the dark—UMBC’s Erin Hogan writes about Spain’s cinema after Franco
Asking Erin Hogan to choose her favorite film is like asking her whether she prefers to study Iberian or Latin American films—both of which she researches and fell in love with as an undergrad....
Posted: December 16, 2025, 12:59 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