LLC Core Faculty

 

RAMON GOINGS, Ed.D., Associate Professor
rgoings@umbc.edu

Black male student success in K-12 and Higher Education, diversifying the teacher and school leader workforce, adult learners in higher education, gifted education, minority serving institutions

 

 

CHRISTINE MALLINSON, Ph.D., Lipitz Professor for AY 2023-2024 and Director of the Center for Social Science Scholarship   mallinson@umbc.edu

English language variation, language and educational inequality, the interface of sociolinguistics and sociology, research methodology

 

 


KIMBERLY MOFFITT
, Ph.D., Professor and Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences   kmoffitt@umbc.edu

Culture, media studies/criticism, Black hair and body politics, sports and media, and popular culture

 

CRAIG SAPER, Ph.D., Professor and Director of the Language, Literacy, and Culture Program csaper@umbc.edu

E-literacy, e-publishing and online scholarship, history of reading and reading devices, networked writing, cultural and media theory and interventions 

 

TANYA SAUNDERS, Ph.D., Associate Professor
tanyasau@umbc.edu

African Diaspora Studies, Black Feminisms, Black Queer Studies (race, gender, sexuality), Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Cultural Studies, Coloniality/ Postcolonial Studies, Hemispheric Studies