Retrieving the Social Sciences

On today's episode we hear about the subject of Critical Literacy from Dr. Amy Tondreau of the Department of Education at UMBC.

Dr. Amy Tondreau

Dr. Tondreau's recent paper in Teaching and Learning in Action

"Hello Goodbye Dog" by Maria Gianferrari

On today's Campus Connection, we hear about a recent co-authored paper by Dr. Jiyoon Lee, Associate Professor, UMBC's Department of Education.  

Dr. Jiyoon Lee

Assessing language learning in virtual exchange: Suggestions from the field of language assessment

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Retrieving the Social Sciences is a production of the UMBC Center for Social Science Scholarship.  Our podcast host is Dr. Ian Anson, our director is Dr. Christine Mallinson, our associate director is Dr. Felipe Filomeno and our production intern is Alex Andrews. Our theme music was composed and recorded by D’Juan Moreland.  Special thanks to Amy Barnes and Myriam Ralston for production assistance.  Make sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, where you can find full video recordings of recent UMBC events.

On today's episode we hear about the social science of LA's Green New Deal. This episode features a condensed re-broadcast of a lecture delivered by Dr. Kelly Kay of UCLA at the Spring GES Seminar Series. The GES series is sponsored by UMBC's Center for Social Science Scholarship and the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems.

Dr. Kay's profile

Link to the full lecture

On today's Campus Connection, we hear about a recent co-authored paper by Dr. Eric Stokan, Assistant Professor in the UMBC Department of Political Science.

Dr. Stokan's profile

Sustainability Synergies or Silos? The Opportunity Costs of Local Government Organizational Capabilities

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Retrieving the Social Sciences is a production of the UMBC Center for Social Science Scholarship.  Our podcast host is Dr. Ian Anson, our director is Dr. Christine Mallinson, our associate director is Dr. Felipe Filomeno and our production intern is Sophia Possidente. Our theme music was composed and recorded by D’Juan Moreland.  Special thanks to Amy Barnes and Myriam Ralston for production assistance.  Make sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, where you can find full video recordings of recent UMBC events.

On today's episode we hear about the social science of diabetes from Dr. Tasneem Khambaty, Assistant Professor in UMBC's psychology department.

Dr. Khambaty's Profile

On today's Campus Connection, we hear about a co-authored paper by Dr. Sarah Chard, chair of the UMBC department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health.

Dr. Chard's Profile

Successful Aging Among African American Older Adults With Type 2 Diabetes

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Retrieving the Social Sciences is a production of the UMBC Center for Social Science Scholarship.  Our podcast host is Dr. Ian Anson, our director is Dr. Christine Mallinson, our associate director is Dr. Felipe Filomeno and our production intern is Sophia Possidente. Our theme music was composed and recorded by D’Juan Moreland.  Special thanks to Amy Barnes and Myriam Ralston for production assistance.  Make sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, where you can find full video recordings of recent UMBC events.

On today's episode we hear about the economics of water resources and property values from Dr. Yusuke Kuwayama, Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy at UMBC.

Dr. Kuwayama's Profile

A More Comprehensive Estimate of the Value of Water Quality, Journal of Public Economics (2022)

On today's Campus Connection, we hear about a recent co-authored paper by Dr. J. Alan Yeakley, Professor and Chair of the UMBC Department of Geography and Environmental Systems.

Dr. Yeakley's Profile

Dr. Yeakley's co-authored paper in Land Economics

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Retrieving the Social Sciences is a production of the UMBC Center for Social Science Scholarship.  Our podcast host is Dr. Ian Anson, our director is Dr. Christine Mallinson, our associate director is Dr. Felipe Filomeno and our production intern is Sophia Possidente. Our theme music was composed and recorded by D’Juan Moreland.  Special thanks to Amy Barnes and Myriam Ralston for production assistance.  Make sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, where you can find full video recordings of recent UMBC events.

On today's special episode of Retrieving the Social Sciences, we hear a panel discussion about UMBC's social science Fulbright Scholars. Joining us on the panel is Maryam Elhabashy (UMBC '21), a Research Assistant at Rutgers University and a 2022 Fulbright recipient. Maryam's Fulbright project is entitled "Faith, Family, Food, and Fitness: Exploring Trends of Obesity among Kuwaiti Women."

Maryam Elhabashy

We also hear from Dr. Brian Souders, Fulbright Program Advisor and the Associate Director of Global Engagement Opportunities at UMBC

Dr. Brian Souders

UMBC Fulbright Program

Finally, our panel includes Dr. Bambi Chapin, Associate Professor of Anthropology at UMBC, and the research advisor of Maryam during her time at UMBC.

Dr. Bambi Chapin

Stay tuned for a special segment featuring our production assistant, Sophia Possidente, who highlights the work of several additional recent UMBC Fulbright Scholars!

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Retrieving the Social Sciences is a production of the UMBC Center for Social Science Scholarship.  Our podcast host is Dr. Ian Anson, our director is Dr. Christine Mallinson, our associate director is Dr. Felipe Filomeno and our production intern is Sophia Possidente. Our theme music was composed and recorded by D’Juan Moreland.  Special thanks to Amy Barnes and Myriam Ralston for production assistance.  Make sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, where you can find full video recordings of recent UMBC events.

On today's episode we hear about the critical work of doulas in providing support for Black mothers, in a rebroadcast of the 2022 SSF Korenman Lecture, presented by the Department of Gender, Women's, + Sexuality Studies and the Center for Social Science Scholarship. The lecture was presented by Dr. Jennifer C. Nash, the Jean Fox O'Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University.

Dr. Nash's Duke University Homepage

On today's Campus Connection, we hear about recent work by Dr. Nancy Kusmaul, Associate Professor in the UMBC Department of Social Work. 

Dr. Kusmaul's Faculty Profile

Who’s in the House? Staffing in Long-Term Care Homes Before and During COVID-19 Pandemic

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Retrieving the Social Sciences is a production of the UMBC Center for Social Science Scholarship.  Our podcast host is Dr. Ian Anson, our director is Dr. Christine Mallinson, our associate director is Dr. Felipe Filomeno and our production intern is Sophia Possidente. Our theme music was composed and recorded by D’Juan Moreland.  Special thanks to Amy Barnes and Myriam Ralston for production assistance.  Make sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, where you can find full video recordings of recent UMBC events.

On today's episode we hear about pedagogical simulations and the immigrant experience in educational settings from Dr. Kerri Evans, Assistant Professor of Social Work at UMBC.

Dr. Evans' CV

Dr. Evans describes an ongoing project to develop a board game designed to enhance experiential learning surrounding the experience of immigrant children in the K-12 educational setting in the United States. The project, which was sponsored by a Hrabowski Innovation Grant, has led to the development of materials that can be seen by clicking this link.

Collaborators on the project include two other UMBC faculty members:

On today's Campus Connection, we hear about the work of the UMBC Faculty Development Center, as well as a recent Hrabowski Innovation Grant-sponsored project created by Drs. Diane Alonso, Eileen O'Brien, and Anne Brodsky of the UMBC Department of Psychology.

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Retrieving the Social Sciences is a production of the UMBC Center for Social Science Scholarship.  Our podcast host is Dr. Ian Anson, our director is Dr. Christine Mallinson, our associate director is Dr. Felipe Filomeno and our production intern is Sophia Possidente. Our theme music was composed and recorded by D’Juan Moreland.  Special thanks to Amy Barnes and Myriam Ralston for production assistance.  Make sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, where you can find full video recordings of recent UMBC events.

On today's episode we hear about the economics of immigration from Dr. Giovanni Peri, Professor and Chair of Economics at the University of California - Davis. 

Dr. Peri's Profile

Dr. Peri's remarks were delivered at the 2022 Mullen Lecture, sponsored by the UMBC Center for Social Science Scholarship (CS3) and the UMBC Department of Economics.

On today's Campus Connection, we hear about a recent paper co-authored by Dr. Felipe Filomeno, Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Studies and Associate Director of the Center for Social Science Scholarship (CS3), and Dr. Christopher Brown, Lecturer in the Global Studies Department. 

"Immigrant Students and Global Education" - Journal of Global Education Research (2022)

Dr. Felipe Filomeno

Dr. Christopher Brown

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Retrieving the Social Sciences is a production of the UMBC Center for Social Science Scholarship.  Our podcast host is Dr. Ian Anson, our director is Dr. Christine Mallinson, our associate director is Dr. Felipe Filomeno and our production intern is Sophia Possidente. Our theme music was composed and recorded by D’Juan Moreland.  Special thanks to Amy Barnes and Myriam Ralston for production assistance.  Make sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, where you can find full video recordings of recent UMBC events.

Today's episode features the remarkable work of the UMBC/UMB doctoral program in Gerontology.

First we hear from Dr. John Schumacher, co-director of the program and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health at UMBC.

Dr. Schumacher's profile

In the episode, we also hear from three current Ph.D. students working on dissertations in gerontology:

Min-Kyoung Park

Rachel McPherson

Jenn Haddock Kirk

And finally, we hear from Dr. Rob Millar, Policy Analyst Advanced at the Hilltop Institute, and Dr. Sarah Holmes, Assistant Professor in the University of Maryland School of Nursing:

Dr. Roberto Millar

Dr. Sarah Holmes

• The UMBC Center for the Social Sciences Scholarship

Retrieving the Social Sciences is a production of the UMBC Center for Social Science Scholarship.  Our podcast host is Dr. Ian Anson, our director is Dr. Christine Mallinson, our associate director is Dr. Felipe Filomeno and our production intern is Sophia Possidente. Our theme music was composed and recorded by D’Juan Moreland.  Special thanks to Amy Barnes and Myriam Ralston for production assistance.  Make sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, where you can find full video recordings of recent UMBC events.

On today's episode we hear about four fantastic presentations from UMBC's Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day, also known as URCAD. During URCAD, students from across the social science disciplines presented their excellent research to the campus community and beyond. We caught up with four students to hear more about their wonderful research projects:

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