UMBC Global Studies

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The Global Studies Program combines interdisciplinary coursework, foreign languages, and study abroad to facilitate broad inquiry into the ecological, economic, cultural, ideological, and political issues of our day. Tracing the roots of these phenomena across time and place, GLBL students study and research global phenomena. Our undergraduate majors travel the world to study languages and cultures, on campus they study the global-local nexus and work on many projects, including the cultivation of urban green spaces and the resettlement of refugee families in Baltimore.

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    The Pi Sigma Alpha Undergraduate Research Conference
    (UMBC Center for Social Science Research, 2023-04-18) Anson, Ian; Forestiere, Carolyn; Averno-Ruby Jr., Eric; Cone, Tessa; Crummitt, Kathryn; Ferguson, Grace Chan; Kutishcheva, Maria; Mba-Jonas, Chinemerem Audrey; Moneke, Diana; Oluka, Oyinlola; Patel, Riya; Sizenbach, Hannah; Taylan, Magdanikka; Walker, Molly Quinn
    On today’s special episode of Retrieving the Social Sciences, we hear from the presenters at the 12th Annual Pi Sigma Alpha UMBC Undergraduate Research Conference, as well as our Pi Sigma Alpha Chapter advisor Dr. Carolyn Forestiere, Professor of Political Science at UMBC. The student presenters and their paper titles are listed below: UMBC Paw Poll: Age and Voter Turnout, Eric Averno-Ruby Jr. A Study of the Pro-Life Movement, Tessa Cone Cosmopolitanization in Baltimore City and Montgomery County Public Schools, Kathryn Crummitt Inequality and Homicide Rates: A U.S. State-level Analysis, Grace Chan Ferguson Video Games as Cultural Artifacts: How Pathologic Communicated the Trauma-Induced Nostalgia of Russian Citizens, Maria Kutishcheva Racial Gerrymandering and Educational Success, Chinemerem Audrey Mba-Jonas West African Women Mitigating Brain Drain, Diana Moneke Death Penalty Justification: Explaining the Impact of Biological Sex and Religious Importance, Oyinlola Oluka Immigrant Attitudes Toward Women’s Political Participation, Riya Patel Is Victim Blaming Universal? Understanding the societal impacts of genocidal rape in Central and Eastern Africa, Hannah Sizenbach Exploring Political Expression at UMBC: A Comparison of Party Identification and Comfort with Political Expression on Campus, Magdanikka Taylan Political Obedience in Democracies: How Educational and Conservative Environments Foster Trust of Governments, Molly Quinn Walker Check out the following links for more information on UMBC, CS3, and our host: The UMBC Center for the Social Sciences Scholarship The University of Maryland, Baltimore County Ian G. Anson, Ph.D.
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    The Economics of Immigration w/ Dr. Giovanni Peri
    (UMBC Center for Social Science Research, 2022-05-30) Anson, Ian; Peri, Giovanni; Filomeno, Felipe; Brown, Christopher
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    Ecocrtical Scholarship Toward Social Justice and Sustainability in Teacher Education
    (Issues in Teacher Education, 2018) Lupinacci, John; Happel-Parkins, Alison; Turner, Rita
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    Immigrant students and global education
    (University of South Florida, 2022) Filomeno, Felipe A.; Brown, Christopher
    Research on immigrant students in higher education often articulates a deficit narrative emphasizing the challenges immigrant students face in comparison to their native-born peers. In education for global competence, however, immigrant students’ life experiences give them a potential advantage. This study investigated whether project-based learning designed to take advantage of immigrant students’ intercultural life experiences could contribute to the development of global competence among undergraduate students. Developing and teaching a collaborative, project-based course where undergraduate students researched the intercultural experiences of their immigrant peers, researchers measured specific learning outcomes using quantitative and thematic analysis of student research papers and reflective essays. The study concluded that project-based assignments designed to take advantage of immigrant students’ intercultural experiences could yield significant contributions to the global education of immigrant and non-immigrant students alike.
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    Critical Transitions from Pastoralism to Ranching in Central Africa
    (The University of Chicago Press, 2021-02-15) Schareika, Nikolaus; Brown, Christopher; Moritz, Mark
    The goal of this paper is to explain why and how increasing commoditization and incorporation in the market economy are only now leading to a critical transition from pastoralism to ranching in Central Africa. While there are similarities between pastoralism and capitalism—in both systems, entrepreneurs are strategically maximizing their “stock”—there are also differences. We argue that these differences can be understood as two distinct types of logic that are embedded within larger sociocultural systems: cattle logic and capital logic. Understanding how these logics operate within different systems is critical for explaining the current shift from pastoralism to ranching in Central Africa. We outline a theoretical model that integrates concepts from practice theory and the literature on critical transitions in social-ecological systems to explain the shift. We illustrate the theoretical model using a case comparison of three different livestock husbandry systems: Woɗaaɓe pastoralists in southeastern Niger, peri-urban Fulani pastoralists in the Far North Region of Cameroon, and Fulani ranchers in the Adamawa Region of Cameroon. We then use these cases to explain the persistence of cattle logic among the Woɗaaɓe in Niger, as well as the shift from cattle logic to capital logic among Fulani in Cameroon. Studying the transition from pastoralism to ranching is important because it has major implications, including increasing economic inequality, weaker community relations, and potential degradation of grazing lands, for livestock husbandry systems in Central Africa.