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Written by Nicholas Tampio, Fordham University; Asim Ali, Auburn University; Patricia A. Young, professor of education UMBC, and Shital Thekdi, University of Richmond One of the most intense...

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...

Written by Meredith Oyen, associate professor of history and Asian studies, UMBC. An encounter in which a Chinese naval ship cut across the path of a U.S. destroyer in the Taiwan Strait on...

Family stories, told honestly, reach people in ways that reams of advice and pages in history books cannot. When personal narratives reach the classroom, students respond by opening up, say two...

It’s 4 a.m. in Puerto Rico, and Ellie Bare’s alarm is going off. Within an hour, she and her research colleagues are driving to their forested field site on the north side of the island to record...

UMBC’s Dresher Center for the Humanities recently partnered with the National Humanities Alliance to host Inclusion and Public Humanities: A Convening, one of the culminating events in the final...

Written by Loren Henderson, associate professor of public policy, UMBC and Ruby Mendenhall, associate professor in sociology, African American studies, urban and regional planning, and social...

Michelle Scott, associate professor of history, will discuss her new book T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners Booking Association in Jazz Age America(University of Illinois...

Written by Noorzehra Zaidi, assistant professor of history, UMBC For many Muslims breaking fast in mosques around the world this Ramadan, something will be missing: plastics. The...

Co-written by Alicia Sabatino ’20, M.S. ’24, geography and environmental systems, UMBC. When you think about location data on your mobile phone, tablet or laptop, what comes to mind? Mailing...