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Fall 2018 Opening Meeting

Dear Members of the UMBC Community, Each year, at the start of the fall semester, the UMBC community comes together to welcome colleagues and students back to campus, celebrate our...

Posted: August 14, 2018, 11:51 AM

Meet and Greet Dr. Dorothy Roberts - Nov. 14, 2018

Fine Arts Building room 558 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Dorothy E. Roberts, the 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology, and Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil...

Posted: August 6, 2018, 10:15 AM

Department of Human Resources Congratulates Mrs. Nottingham

Employee of the Quarter

Wanda Soares Nottingham, Administrative Assistant II for the Africana Studies Department, has been named UMBC’s Non-Exempt Employee of the Quarter effective April 1 thru June, 2018. Wanda began...

Posted: May 23, 2018, 5:18 PM

AFST Student Award Winners at the CAHSS Awards Reception

Congratulations!

Mariah Dailey----- for Fannie Lou Hamer Distinguished Service Award Selam Kubrom & Andrea Davis ---- for Academic Excellence (AFST Minors) Damarius Johnson ---- for Mary Akaras...

Posted: May 1, 2018, 12:44 PM

Africana Council Elections

May 9 @ 12pm in Fine Arts 018

Are you a major, minor, or student in an Africana Studies course? Do you want to join the Africana Council?  The Africana Council promotes the study of peoples of African descent by broadening...

Posted: April 27, 2018, 3:39 PM

AFST Presentations at URCAD!

Tomorrow in UC 310

Mehki Adams Super Predator  Mentor(s): Maleda Belilgne UC 310 | 2:45 – 3:00 p.m. Luwam Gebreyesus | Africana Studies  Trauma and the Invocation of Sound in Afro-diasporic Literature ...

Posted: April 24, 2018, 11:23 AM

Dr Belilgne Wins Woodrow Wilson Fellowship

Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Junior Faculty Fellowship

DEPARTMENT OF AFRICANA STUDIES  Maleda Belilgne Wins Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Junior Faculty Fellowship  Dr. Belilgne has been named a 2018 Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement...

Posted: April 20, 2018, 2:34 PM

Women & The Nigeria-Biafra War

UMBC Hosts International Conference, May 8-9, 2018

May 8th, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. May 9th, 9 a.m.–2 p.m. Banquet of African Food and Music May 9th, 7p.m.–10 p.m. UMBC University Center Ballroom 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250 UMBC...

Posted: April 16, 2018, 10:48 PM

Dr. Chuku Publishes Two New Book Chapters

“Women Entrepreneurs, Gender, Traditions, and the Negotiation of Power Relations in Colonial Nigeria,” in Entrepreneurship in Africa: A Historical Approach, edited by Moses E. Ochonu (Bloomington,...

Posted: March 29, 2018, 3:34 PM

UMBC Event Center Open House

EVENT CENTER OPEN HOUSE FREE TO UMBC COMMUNITY

UMBC Event Center Open House Join us tomorrow, Wednesday, January 31 as we celebrate the completion of the UMBC Event Center with an Open House hosted in the new building. The Open House will...

Posted: January 30, 2018, 3:21 PM