{"id":4,"date":"2010-07-21T20:35:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T03:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2026-03-08T18:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T01:37:30","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/?page_id=4","title":{"rendered":"Advisory Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2025-2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Co-directors: (2025-2026)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Michael Casiano, American Studies<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Fouts, American Studies<\/p>\n<p>Nicole King, American Studies<\/p>\n<p><strong>UMBC Advisory Committee: (2025-2026)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dena Aufseeser, Geography and Environmental Systems<\/p>\n<p>Tamara Bhalla, American Studies<\/p>\n<p>Nicole Belfiore, Social Work<\/p>\n<p>Melissa Blair, Public History<\/p>\n<p>Iris Blake, American Studies<\/p>\n<p>Priya Bhayana, Global Asias<\/p>\n<p>Forrest Caskey, Language, Literacy, and Culture<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Castro-Velez, Public Humanities student representative<\/p>\n<p>Mar\u00eda C\u00e9lleri, Gender, Women&#8217;s &amp; Sexuality Studies<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Dowty, American Studies<\/p>\n<p>Kate Drabinski, Gender, Women&#8217;s &amp; Sexuality Studies<\/p>\n<p>Keegan Finberg, English<\/p>\n<p>Foad Hamidii, Information Systems<\/p>\n<p>Courtney Hobson, Dresher Center for the Humanities<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Jewett, Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Keniston, Shriver Center<\/p>\n<p>Lindsey Loeper, Special Collections archivist<\/p>\n<p>Dillon Mahmoudi, Geography and Environmental Systems<\/p>\n<p>Elaine MacDougall, LLC &amp; English<\/p>\n<p>Nicole Morse, LLC<\/p>\n<p>Sally Scott, Community Leadership<\/p>\n<p>Joby Taylor, Shriver Center<\/p>\n<p>Mika Thornburg, Global Asias<\/p>\n<p>Amy Tondreau, Education<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Welcome, Anthropology<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Uchill, CADVC<\/p>\n<p><strong>External Members:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Josh Davis, History, University of Baltimore<\/p>\n<p>Nicole Fabricant, Anthropology, Towson University<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Stefano, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emeritus Members:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Elaine Eff, Maryland Traditions co-founder, folklorist<\/p>\n<p>Ed Orser, American Studies<\/p>\n<p>Bill Shewbridge, Media &amp; Communications Studies<\/p>\n<p>Linda Shopes, Expert in Oral History<\/p>\n<p>Kimberly Moffitt, Howard University, Dean of the School of Communications<\/p>\n<p>Pat McDermott, American Studies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-2026 Co-directors: (2025-2026) Michael Casiano, American Studies Sarah Fouts, American Studies Nicole King, American Studies UMBC Advisory Committee: (2025-2026) Dena Aufseeser, Geography and Environmental Systems Tamara Bhalla, American Studies Nicole Belfiore, Social Work Melissa Blair, Public History Iris Blake, American &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/?page_id=4\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}