News & Events
Welcome first-year graduate students!
Yaxuan (Vicky) Li – MA Program Where is home for you? I’m originally from Beijing, China. I attended high school in Georgia and completed my undergraduate degree at the University of Washington in Seattle, where I majored in Sociology and minored in LSJ.
Ph.D. Candidate Daniel Fredes Garcia Received Third Place in the ASC Gene Carte Student Paper Award
Daniel Fredes García, a Ph.D. candidate, received third place in the ASC Gene Carte Student Paper Award for his paper, Cascades of State Violence in Chile (1973–2020).
Dr. Alexa Singer Named New Program Director of Undergraduate Program and Lecturer at UMD’s Shady Grove Campus
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Alexa Singer as the new Program Director of Undergraduate Program and lecturer at the University of Maryland’s Shady Grove campus, effective August 23rd.
Study Challenges One-Size-Fits-All Policies for Illegal Wildlife Trade
GEOG Professor Meredith Gore and CCJS Associate Professor Greg Midgette co-author paper showing how scarcity drives demand for rare species and why dominant policy responses may be counterproductive
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