Sabah Uddin
Assistant Professor, Language, Literature, and Cultural Studies
Bowie State University
Project: “Exploring the Art of Digital Protest: The Unbecoming of British Muslims”
This project explores the ways in which British Muslims make use of digital media for an active process of both “unmaking” and “self-making,” and examines how expressive digital technologies can enable and restrict performances of identity.
Fall 2022
Eun-Jeong Han
Associate Professor, Communications
Salisbury University
Project: “Female Korean-American small business owners or employees’ interracial/interethnic experiences at workplace”
This project studies Korean American women’s interracial and interethnic lived experiences in the workplace, and considers how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated racism, impacted the economic health of small businesses, and complicated gender dynamics.
Spring 2023
LaMarr Jurelle Bruce, Associate Professor, American Studies, University of Maryland
Project: “The Afromantic”
UMBC Faculty Collaborator: Mejdulene B. Shomali, Assistant Professor, Gender, Women’s, + Sexuality Studies
Fall 2021
Mark Villegas, Assistant Professor, American Studies, Franklin and Marshall College
Project: “Geek Hop: Discipline, Science, and Orientalism in Hip Hop Culture”
UMBC Faculty Collaborator: Earl Brooks, Assistant Professor, English
Fall 2021
Morgan Smalls, Assistant Professor, School of Media Arts and Design, James Madison University
Project: “Exploring HBO’s Insecure and Black Women in media”
UMBC Faculty Collaborator: Michelle Scott, Associate Professor, History
Spring 2022
Vanessa Wills, Associate Professor, Philosophy, George Washington University
Project: “Black Woman Marxists on Race, Gender, and Class”
UMBC Faculty Collaborator: Michael Nance, Associate Professor, Philosophy
Spring 2022
Gina Lewis, Associate Professor, Fine and Performing Arts, Bowie State University
Project: “Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historic Park Ethnohistory: African American Communities in Context”
UMBC Faculty Collaborator: Denise Meringolo, Associate Professor and Director of Public History, History
Fall 2020
Krista Johnson, Associate Professor, African Studies, Howard University
Project: “Theorizing Racial Segregation and Imperialism in South Africa: The Travel Notes of Two African American Scholars – Ralph Bunche and Merze Tate”
UMBC Faculty Collaborator: Derek Musgrove, Associate Professor, History
Spring 2021
Chisu Teresa Ko, Associate Professor, Modern Languages and Latin American Studies, Ursinus College
Project: “Argentina: Race in a Raceless Nation”
UMBC Faculty Collaborator: Fan Yang, Associate Professor, Media and Communication Studies
Spring 2021
William Youmans, Associate Professor, Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University
Project: “Murder, Media & Memory: An Unsolved 1985 Assassination and the Arab-American Community Today”
UMBC Faculty Collaborator: Rebecca Adelman, Associate Professor, Media and Communication Studies
Spring 2021
Dr. Elizabeth Groeneveld
Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies
Old Dominion University
Project: “Embodying Lesbianism: How 1980s Lesbian-Made Pornography Reimagined Sex and Power”
UMBC Faculty Collaborator: Dr. Kate Drabinski,Principal Lecturer of Gender, Women’s, + Sexuality Studies and Director of the Women Involved in Learning and Leadership (WILL) Program
Dr. Tracy Perkins
Assistant Professor, Sociology and Criminology
Howard University
Project: “Digital Ward Valley and the Fight to Protect Tribal Lands”
UMBC Faculty Collaborator: Dr. Dillon Madmoudi, Assistant Professor of Geography and Environmental Systems
Fall 2019
Katherine Bankole-Medina
Professor, History, Coppin State University
Project: “African Americans as Specimens, Objects, and Agents: Race and Clinical Care in the Maryland Medical Journal, 1877-1918″
UMBC Faculty Collaborator: Dr. Shawn Bediako, Professor, Psychology
Theresa Runstedtler
Associate Professor, History
American University
Project: “Black Ball: Rethinking the ‘Dark Ages’ of Professional Basketball”
UMBC Faculty Collaborator: Dr. Nicole King, Chair and Associate Professor, American Studies