Teresa Foster ’09, gender and women’s studies and history, ’11 M.A. historical studies, and a LLC Ph.D. candidate, is the winner of the 2013-2014 Wing Graduate Fellowship in Colonial Chesapeake History from the Maryland Historical Society.
The purpose of the Wing Fellowship is to assist a graduate student in undertaking a significant project in Chesapeake colonial history.
Clarence Lusane, professor of comparative and regional studies at American University, will present “The Black History of the White House: From Washington to Obama” at UMBC on Wednesday, March 27, 4:00 p.m. in the Albin O. Kuhn Library, 7th Floor.
This talk employs the White House as a prism to examine the historic and contemporary racial politics of the nation. From the building of the White House with slave labor to the “othering” of President Obama, Dr. Lusane explores the racial dynamics of one of the world’s most iconic buildings.
This Social Sciences Forum is co-sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities; the Language, Literacy and Culture Doctoral Program; the Departments of History, Africana Studies, American Studies, and Sociology and Anthropology.
Joan Shin, clinical assistant professor of education, recently published a chapter in the 4th edition of “Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language.” Jodi Crandall, professor emerita of Language Litercy and Culture, also has a chapter in the book.
“Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language” is the most widely used TESOL Methods book in the world.
Craig Saper, professor and chair of Language, Literacy, and Culture (LLC), has been named the Bearman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship.
“Dr. Saper is a scholar of large achievement and great energy, whose talents and interests make him a superb choice for the Bearman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship,” said John Jeffries, dean of the college of arts, humanities, and social sciences (CAHSS).
The Bearman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship was established by The Herbert Bearman Foundation to acknowledge and honor the contributions of Dr. Arlene Bearman to the UMBC community. This chair recognizes and supports outstanding teaching skills, an interest in entrepreneurship, and a strong record of scholarship in entrepreneurial studies or a field related to entrepreneurship.
“Since arriving on campus, Dr. Saper has been a whirlwind of research and teaching activity deeply anchored in commitments to social entrepreneurship,” said Bev Bickel, associate professor and former chair of LLC.
This three-year endowed position will provide Saper with funding to integrate entrepreneurship concepts into classroom instruction, advising, and scholarship. Saper will also work with the Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship and Kauffman grant activities, and with the Administrative and Managerial Sciences program.
“My research is deeply anchored in commitments to social entrepreneurship that I have been studying throughout my career,” said Saper. His recently-released book, Intimate Bureaucracies, examines social entrepreneurship during the creation of the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan in the 1960s-1980s.
Saper is planning two projects during the course of his Bearman chairmanship. The first will examine the social entrepreneurship involved in the building of shared memorials and monuments. His research will focus on the entrepreneurs who organized and made the memorials possible.
Saper’s second project will explore the possibility of establishing a digital e-press at UMBC, which is he doing in collaboration with colleagues in the Library, the English department, the media and communication studies program and LLC as part of the campus’s larger Digital Humanities efforts.
“I’m interested in being a participant-observer of this group-entrepreneurial effort that works within, and for, UMBC’s institutional structure and the larger demands of academia and legitimate scholarship,” he said.
But Saper’s objective as the Bearman Foundation Chair isn’t just to achieve his research goals – it’s to offer a new vision of what entrepreneurship can mean.
“Hopefully, at the end of my term I will have promoted a progressive model of entrepreneurship that offers an alternative to Ayn Rand’s outlaw heroes. In the new model, entrepreneurs are part of communities working cooperatively for public space, public schools and the public good not renegades and raiders,” he said.
Claudio Galindo of UMBC’s Language, Literacy, and Culture Ph. D. program was recently recognized by Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake for her work within the Latino community of the city and state, according to a statement from the regional community organization CASA de Maryland.
The mayor’s statement came as part of the city’s celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. Speaking on Dr. Galindo, Rawlings-Blake said that “when President Obama announced his program to allow immigrant students for deferred action and work authorization in the United States this past summer, Claudia was one of the first to volunteer to assist with the process. Since the first community DACA clinic at CASA de MD on August 16, Dr. Claudia Galindo has volunteered over 50 hours helping students fill out applications, and reviewing supporting documents”.
The UMBC community commends Dr. Galindo on her important work with the Latino community of Maryland, and wishes her well in her future endeavors with CASA de Maryland.
Language, Literacy, and Culture PhD candidate Amy Pucino ’15 was profiled by Diverse on September 18th for her volunteer work with UMBC’s Refugee Youth Project (RYP).
Pucino spoke with the magazine about her personal experience with aiding a family of Iraqis who fled their country during the Iraq War and relocated to Baltimore. She helped the family on issues ranging from English tutoring to navigating the city’s institutions in order to help them obtain housing and health care. The experience inspired Pucino to base her dissertation on “the relationships between Iraqi refugees and those who play an educational role in their lives.”
“Through working with the family, I’ve picked up that the Iraqi population is an increasing population across the U.S. It’s our social responsibility to figure out ways to better serve the increasing population here. It taught me the importance of the need to work better with diverse communities. I wanted to do research that had some sort of practical application,” she said.
The Dresher Center for the Humanities and the Language, Literacy, & Culture program invite you to save the date for a workshop led by Fred Moody on the future of scholarly publishing:
Date: June 14
Time: 3-5:30PM Lght refreshments will be served
Place: Rm. 422 ACIV-A Wing (LLC conference room)
RSVP by June 11 (see below for details)
Please join us for a workshop led by Fred Moody on “Anvil: NITLE’s
(The National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education’s) New
Tool and Platform for Scholarly Digital Publication.”
On Thursday, June 14, we welcome Fred Moody from the National
Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) to discuss
Anvil, a platform for digital humanists to publish nontraditional
scholarly work under the auspices of traditional outlets such as
university presses.
Mr. Moody is program officer for libraries and scholarly communication
at NITLE and previously served as Editor-in-Chief of Rice University
Press. His books include I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year with
Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier and The Visionary Position.
The event is sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities and
the Language, Literacy, & Culture doctoral program.
The workshop will be held June 14, 3- 5:30 PM at the LLC Conference
Room, Rm. #422 ACIV-A Wing.
Please RSVP to Mary Welsh <mwelsh@umbc.edu> (at the Dresher Center) at
the latest by June 11th. Thanks!
Craig Saper, associate professor of Language, Literacy and Culture, has published a new book under his alter-ego of dj readies.
Intimate Bureaucracies is a history from the future looking backward at our present moment as a turning point. Our systems of organization and control appear unsustainable and brutal, and we are feeling around in the dark for alternatives. Using experiments in social organization in downtown New York City, and other models of potential alternative social organizations, this manifesto makes a call to action to study and build sociopoetic systems. It is published by Punctum Books.
The book is also a part of the AK Press Tactical Media Project, which makes short, timely political interventions freely available in download and zine form. More information about the book, including a link where it can be downloaded for free, is available here.
Please join the Language, Literacy and Culture program and the education department on Wednesday, April 25, for event to celebrate the on-going career, and mark the retirement, of Jodi Crandall:
The event will be held on April 25, 2012 from 5 to 8 pm on the 7th floor of the Albin O. Kuhn Library.
Crandall will give a short, retrospective talk on her work in applied linguistics, followed by a sharing of tributes by current and former colleagues and students as well as a light reception. If you would like to contribute photos or stories to the reception, please send them to llcatumbc@gmail.com.
A fellowship in Crandall’s name to support faculty, student and alumni collaborative research will be announced during the event.
Craig Saper, associate professor of language, literacy and culture, will participate in “Digital Legacies of the Avant-Garde,” a two-day international conference that examines the continuing influence of avant-garde concepts and practices on contemporary digital culture. The conference will be held in the New School in New York on April 20.
Saper will participate in a panel entitled “The Legacy of the AvantGarde between Generative Art and Networked Art.”
