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February
Wednesday, February 4, 2026 | 12pm | Webex
“Navigating Career Changes and Transferring Skills from Academia to Government Evaluation”
part of the Demonstrating your Impact Beyond Academia Series
Tate Steidley, PhD
Suicide Prevention Evaluator
Office of Suicide Prevention
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Wednesday, February 4 | 12-1pm | Sherman Hall 445
“Multimodal and Monomodal Feedback in Second Language Writing: Issues in Research and Practice”
Ana Oskoz, Ph.D.
Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs & Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication
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Department of Eduation Seminar Series
Wednesday, February 11 | 12-1pm | Sondheim Hall, 001
“Reordering the more-than-human city: Stories of animals, urbanization, and green space in nineteenth-century New York.”
Dawn Biehler, PhD, Associate Professor, GES
GES Spring Seminar Series
Tuesday, February 17 | 11:30am – 12:45pm | PUP 367
“Did COVID Change the Black Neighborhood Startup Deficit? Evidence from the Startup Cartography Project”
Scott Stern, Ph.D.
David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology
Professor, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
MIT Sloan School of Management
Department of Economics & School of Public Policy Seminar Series
February 20 | 12-1:30pm | PUP 438
“Social Network Analysis: Building Web-Based Applications for Experiential Learning”
Steve McDonald, PhD
Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Professor of Sociology
University Faculty Scholar
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
North Carolina State University
Part of the Computational Social Science Series.
Wednesday, February 25, 2026 |4:30pm | AOK Library Gallery
CAHSS New Faculty Microtalks
Meet recently hired tenure-stream faculty and learn about their research interests.
Hosted by the Center for Social Science Scholarship, the CAHSS Dean’s office, the Dresher Center for the Humanities, and the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA).
Thursday, February 26, 2026 | 4pm | AOK Library Gallery
Psychology Distinguished Lecture
“Creating Inclusive Classrooms in Childhood: Theory, Research, and Applications”
Melanie Killen, Ph.D.
Distinguished University Professor, Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology
University of Maryland, College Park
Part of the Social Sciences Forum.
Friday, February 27, 2026 | 12pm | PUP 438
“A City in Motion: How Everyday Routines Channel and Control Crime in Baltimore”
Brian Soller, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Public Health, UMBC
Part of the Computational Social Science Series.
March
Wednesday, March 4 | 12:00-1:00pm | Sherman Hall 445
“We Ain’t New to this, We True to This”: Teaching Democracy and Citizenship: Through Black Educator Oral and Life Histories.
Brandon Beck, Assitant Professor, Department of Education
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Department of Eduation Seminar Series
Wednesday, March 4 | 12-1pm | Sondheim Hall, 001
“How Cool Are Your Trees? Heat and Vegetation in Cities”
Dexter Locke, PhD
Research Geographer, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Baltimore Field Station
GES Spring Seminar Series
Tuesday, March 24, 2026 | 11:30 am- 12:45pm | PUP 367
Department of Economics & School of Public Policy Seminar Series
Nuno Limao, Ph.D.
Wallenberg Chair in International Business and Finance
Georgetown University
Tuesday, March 31, 2026 | 4pm | AOK Library Gallery
Low Lecture (Department of History)
“Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom: Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era”
Warren Milteer, Jr., Associate Professor, U.S. History, Early America, Nineteenth-Century U.S.
The George Washington University
Part of the Social Sciences Forum.
April
Wednesday, April 1 | 12:00-1:00pm | Sherman Hall 445
“Cultivating a Rightful Presence: Inclusive Early Childhood STEM”
Michele Stites, Associate Professor of Early Education, Department of Education
Jonathan Singer, Professor, Department of Education
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Department of Eduation Seminar Series
Wednesday, April 1 | 12-1pm | Sondheim Hall, 001
“How a Medical Geography Research Program Informed a Global Policy to Prevent, Detect, and Respond to Novel Zoonotic Disease Outbreaks”
Sarah Paige, PhD, University of Heidelberg
GES Spring Seminar Series
Wednesday, April 8, 2026 | 4pm | AOK Library Gallery
“The Technological Future: Shifting the focus from what we build to who we build it for.”
Amber Spry, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Politics and Department of African and African American Studies
Brandeis University
Part of the Social Sciences Forum.
Friday, April 10, 2026 | 12pm | PUP 438
“Geospatial Analysis”
Krishna Mummadi, CS3 Graduate Assistant & GES Graduate Student, UMBC
Part of the Computational Social Science Series.
Tuesday, April 14 | 2-4pm | Walker Avenue, Suite 130 (Hybrid)
“Foundations of Large Language Models”
Led by: Dr. Josephine Namayanja, Executive Director, iHARP, UMBC
Rhoda Nankabirwa, iHARP Research Assistant and PhD Student, UMBC
Part of the Computational Social Science Series.
Monday, April 20, 2026 | 4pm | AOK Library Gallery
Eckert Lecture on Health & Inequality (Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Public Health
“Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better Movement”
Hannah Garth, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University
Part of the Social Sciences Forum.
Tuesday, April 21 | 11:30am – 12:45pm | PUP 367
Department of Economics & School of Public Policy Seminar Series
Nicholas Carollo, Ph.D.
Senior Economist, Labor Markets
Division of Research and Statistics
Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Wednesday, April 22, 2026 | 12-1:30pm | Webex
“Equity in Algorithms”
Dr. Kayla Schwoerer
Assistant Professor of Public Administration, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Part of the Computational Social Science Series.
Wednesday, April 29, 2026 | 12-1:30pm | Webex
“Evaluating LLMs for Credible and Rigorous Social Science Research”
Dr. Michael Overton, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration
University of Idaho
Part of the Computational Social Science Series.
May
Friday, May 1, 2026 | 12-1:30pm | PUP 438
“ML Models for Causal Inference Analysis + HPC”
Eric Stokan, PhD, Associate Professor, Poltical Science; Director, CS3
Roy Prouty, Assistant Director for Research Computing, UMBC DoIT; Director, UMBC Observatory
Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science, UMBC CSEE
Sai Vikas Amaraneni, iHARP Research Assistant and UMBC Ph.D. Student
Part of the Computational Social Science Series.
Wednesday, May 6 | 12:00-1:00pm | Sherman Hall445
“A Multilingual Perspective on Literacy: Monolingual Bias in Reading Instruction and the Positioning of Emergent Bilinguals”
Laura Ascienzo-Moreno, Ph.D., Professor, Childhood, Bilingual And Special Education, School of Education, Brooklyn College
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Department of Eduation Seminar Series
Thursday, May 7 | 11:30am – 12:45pm | PUP 367
Department of Economics & School of Public Policy Seminar Series
Andres Sarto, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Finance
Gies College of Business
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Thursday, May 7, 2026 | 4pm | AOK Library Gallery
Lipitz Lecture
“How People Make Nature Better: Measuring Progress Toward a World Where People and Nature Thrive Together using the Nature Relationship Index (NRI)”
Erle Ellis, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
Part of the Social Sciences Forum.
January
January 28, 2026 | 12pm | WEBEX
“A Decade of E-Administration Utilization in Europe: A Tale of Income, Education, and Age-Related Digital Divides”
Dr. Marco Albertini, University of Bologna
Organized by the Center for Health Equity and Aging (CHEA).
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