Prof. Lynn CazabonProfessor of Art
Director, Center for Innovation, Research and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA)Lynn Cazabon is a multimedia artist whose projects are scalable, site-specific, and utilize public participation to engage with topics at the interface between environmental and social issues. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including with Witte Rook (Breda, the Netherlands), Maryland Center for History and Culture (Baltimore, MD), National Museum of Contemporary Art (Bucharest, Romania), Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center (Tainan, Taiwan), South Bend Museum of Art (South Bend, IN), WRO Art Center (Wrocław, Poland), Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (New Plymouth, New Zealand), The Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh, PA), Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (Buffalo, NY), and the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (Atlanta, GA). She has received grants and fellowships from the Fulbright Scholar Program, Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund, The Puffin Foundation, Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, Maryland State Arts Council, Franklin Furnace Archives, The Camargo Foundation, MacDowell, and Yaddo. Cazabon received an MFA degree in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and BFA and BA degrees from University of Michigan.
You can learn more about Prof. Cazabon here: www.lynncazabon.com
Dr. Lindsay DiCuirciAssociate Professor, English
Affiliate Faculty: Language Literacy & Culture (LLC)Lindsay DiCuirci is an associate professor of English, Graduate Program Director, and affiliate faculty in Language, Literacy, and Culture at UMBC, specializing in early American literature and the history of the book. Her award-winning book, Colonial Revivals: The Nineteenth-Century Lives of Early American Books (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019) examines the politics of collecting, preserving, and reprinting colonial books and manuscripts in the nineteenth-century U.S. Her scholarship has recently appeared in Reception, Early American Literature, Archive Journal and in edited collections. Her book-in-progress examines how spiritualist beliefs animated political movements like abolition, women’s rights, and prison reform in the antebellum U.S. Collaborative, student-led digital humanities projects are a critical part of Dr. DiCuirci’s pedagogy. These projects include Mill Girls in Nineteenth-Century Print (with the American Antiquarian Society); Digital Cruikshank: Etching & Sketching in Nineteenth-Century Englandand the Eileen J. Garrett Parapsychology Collection Digital Exhibition (both with UMBC Special Collections).
You can learn more about Dr. DiCuirci here: https://english.umbc.edu/core-faculty/lindsay-dicuirci/
Dr. Felipe A FilomenoAssociate Professor of Political Science & Global Studies
From 2021 to 2024, he served as associate director of the UMBC Center for Social Science Scholarship. In August 2024, he became director of the UMBC Global Studies Program. Filomeno holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Johns Hopkins University, where he was a Fulbright scholar. He is the author of three monographs: Monsanto and Intellectual Property in South America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Theories of Local Immigration Policy(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and Christian Cosmopolitanism: Faith Communities Talk Immigration (Temple University Press, 2024). In his research, he applies community-based, qualitative, and comparative-historical methods to investigate immigrant integration, intergroup relations, Latin America, and the Latin American diaspora in the United States.
You can learn more about Dr. Filomeno here:
https://facultydeia.umbc.edu/political-science/
Dr. Margaret Buck HollandAssociate Professor
Department of Geography & Environmental SystemsDr. Maggie Holland is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography & Environmental Systems (GES) at UMBC (on faculty since 2011). She currently serves as Department Chair of GES and as co-Chair of UMBC’s Inclusion Council. Since 2021, Dr. Holland has been a co-PI on a graduate research training grant (NSF-funded) known at UMBC as ICARE. Her research and teaching focus on the intersections between land relations and land justice, with global biodiversity conservation and climate policy goals. A central aim of her scholarship is to contribute to the design and implementation of forest conservation policies that seek to strengthen land tenure for communities, including current projects in Ecuador and Mozambique. Dr. Holland has more than thirty publications tied to this work and recently co-edited a book volume on Land Tenure Security & Sustainable Development, published by Springer/Palgrave Macmillan. Recent collaborations with graduate students have helped her develop a new line of research tied to urban forests and land tenure.
You can learn more about Dr. Holland here: https://ges.umbc.edu/margaret-buck-holland/
Dr. Tania LizarazoAssociate Professor
Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics & Intercultural Communication
Affiliate Faculty: Global StudiesDr. Tania Lizarazo is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) contributing to the Global Studies Program and the Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication. She is also the Director of the Minor in Critical Disability Studies, and Affiliate Faculty of Gender, Women’s + Sexuality Studies, and Language, Literacy & Culture. Her research and teaching contribute to challenging writing as the center of knowledge production by developing collaborative digital narratives and theorizing embodied knowledge. One of her recent digital storytelling projects, mujerespacificas.org, is a collaboration with the Gender Commission of COCOMACIA, one of the biggest Colombian Black peasant organizations. Her book Postconflict Utopias: Everyday Survival in Chocó, Colombia is based on this ongoing collaboration and part of the Dissident Feminisms Series at University of Illinois Press.
You can learn more about Dr. Lizarazo on https://mlli.umbc.edu/dr-tania-lizarazo/.
Dr. Rebecca UchillDirector
Center for Art, Design and the Visual Culture (CADVC)Dr. Uchill is Professor of the Practice and Director of the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC), a research center and art gallery at the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Prior to joining UMBC, she was Lecturer and Director of Community Engagement Initiatives at UMass Dartmouth. Uchill has also taught at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, the School of Architecture at MIT, and at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.
Uchill brings to her work a thorough appreciation of the value of interdisciplinary research, having served as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) at MIT, where she co-convened BEING MATERIAL, the second CAST symposium. She is co-editor of two CAST/MIT Press publications: Being Material (2019) and Experience: Culture, Cognition, and the Common Sense (2016), for which she was also the curator of the book’s many multi-sensorial artist contributions. Her research in the history and theory of modern and contemporary art and cultural stewardship has been published in numerous scholarly books and journals including Architectural Theory Review, Journal of Art Historiography, and Journal of Curatorial Studies, and others. She recently published her research on Nancy Holt as part of the Holt/Smithson Foundation Scholarly Texts Program.
Uchill has worked as a curator for institutions including the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and MASS MoCA.
You can learn more about Dr. Uchill here: R. Uchill CADVC
Dr. Lisa Pace VetterAssociate Professor, Political Science
Affiliate Faculty in Gender, Women’s & Sexuality StudiesLisa Pace Vetter is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science where she teaches courses in political theory. She is also an Affiliate Associate Professor in the Gender, Women’s, + Sexuality Studies Department. An alumna of UMBC, Vetter earned an MA and PhD from Fordham University. She is the author of two books: “Women’s Work” as Political Art: Weaving and Dialectical Politics in Homer, Aristophanes, and Plato (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005) and The Political Thought of America’s Founding Feminists (New York: New York University Press, 2017). As a broadly trained political theorist with an interdisciplinary approach, Vetter seeks to uncover marginalized and silenced voices in mainstream American political thought, with particular focus on women and African Americans. She has published several articles, chapters, and papers on thinkers such as Harriet Martineau, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Wright, Sarah and Angelina Grimke, Sojourner Truth, and others. Vetter is currently working on a manuscript-length overview of American political thought that seeks to recast the traditional narrative by reexamining the recent controversies surrounding The 1619 Project, exploring previously neglected time periods, and incorporating thinkers and perspectives that have been overlooked. The project expands on recent efforts to reframe American political thought to address current political concerns.
Dr. Brandy H. WallaceAssociate Professor
Sociology, Anthropology, and Public HealthDr. Wallace studies racial and gender inequities in healthcare; chronic disease management strategies of mid-life and older African American women; and, health care workers’ quality of life. Dr. Wallace is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, and has served as Co-Investigator on grants funded by the National Institute on Aging. Her work has been published in The Gerontologist, Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, and Journal of Aging Studies. She also serves on the editorial board of The Gerontologist. Her most recent project, “Black Women in White Coats: Exploring the Intersection of Race and Gender on the Educational and Work Transitions of Black Women Physicians” examines the ways in which African-American women in medicine successfully navigate medical school and healthcare environments.
