Sociology major Jiara Sanders won the 2021 James Dysart Magee Award! This prestigious award is given to one outstanding social and behavioral science major each year.
Hearty Congratulations, Jiara!
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Cassi Pittman Claytor’s work on racism in the retail sector, Beyond Living the Dream, was featured in the Summer 2021 issue of Art/Sci. She was also the lead story in The Daily on August 10, 2021. In her book, Black Privilege: Modern Middle-Class Blacks with Credentials and Cash to Spend (2020)…
Four New Ph.D. Grads!
In the early summer, four students successfully defended their doctoral dissertations and all have accepted excellent employment opportunities.
- Luma al Masarweh
- Spencier Ciaralli
- Wenxuan (Cherry) Huang
- Jiao Yu
Congratulations, Graduates!
Professor Brian Gran participated in the Jefferson Science Fellowship Distinguished Lecture Series in July 2021, delivering a lecture on the Rights and Reintegration of Family Members of Foreign Fighters. In May 2021, Professor Gran gave a presentation to Oxford University’s Bonavero Institute of Human Rights on his book, The Sociology of Children’s Rights. Read more by clicking above.
During a recent CNN interview, Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, who is leading an NIH team in vaccine development, credited her former professor Jessica Kelley for sparking her interest in health disparities. Corbett, who studied with Kelley as a Sociology double major at UMBC, went on to discuss the importance of equitable vaccine distribution…
Professor Cassi Pittman Claytor, who recently worked with Sephora to release a large study on racial bias in retail sales was featured on a billboard in Times Square as part of Sephora's celebration of Women's History Month during March. Congratulations to Professor Pittman Claytor on this exciting accomplishment!