Of Note: Humanities Faculty

Last week, several UMBC humanities faculty took part in the major national conferences in their fields. Marjoleine Kars, Associate Professor and Chair of History, received two prizes for her American Historical Review article, "Dodging Rebellion: Politics and Gender in the Berbice Slave Uprising.” She was awarded the Vanderwood Prize, sponsored by the Conference on Latin American History, and the Carol Gold Prize, sponsored by the Coordinating Council for Women in History.

At in the Modern Languages Association conference in New York

• Maleda Belilgne, Assistant Professor, Africana Studies and English, presented on James Baldwin's Speculative Imagery with her paper, "Nobody Escapes Anything: Proleptic Sound in Sonny’s Blue."
• Lindsay DiCuirci, Assistant Professor, English, presented on Nathaniel Hawthorne with her paper, "A Is for Archive: (Un)Dead Things in Hawthorne’s ‘Custom-House.”
• Jessica Berman, Professor and Director of the Dresher Center, presided over a session sponsored by the MLA’s Publication Committee on the creation, preservation, digitization, and critique of archives.

At the American Historical Association conference in Washington, DC

• Kate Brown, Professor, History, was the featured speaker at the AHA Modern European History Section Luncheon. Her lecture was titled, "The Great Chernobyl Acceleration: How Writing European History has Changed in the Age of the Anthropocene."
• Christy Ford Chapin, Associate Professor, History, participated in the round table, "Late Breaking: Revolt against Regulation in the Time of Trump: Historical Perspectives.”
• Meredith Oyen, Associate Professor, chaired the round table, "After War: Recognizing, Representing, and Remembering Veterans in American Society, 1945-2016.”
• Scott Casper, Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences and Professor of History, chaired the "Teaching with Material Culture and Historic Site" roundtable.