Received the Outstanding Journal Article Award from the Association of Educational Communications & Technology -- Design & Development Division; recently authored Instructional Design Frameworks & Intercultural Models, which provides an instructional design framework to build culture-based information and communication technologies. Learn more >

A dedicated research mentor to students who work with her to study the basic cellular and molecular mechanisms of central nervous system development and the underlying causes of neural birth defects; NIH funding continues grant support for research that began with an NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Learn more >

A leading researcher in high-speed optics, director of UMBC’s Center for Advanced Studies in Photonics Research and deputy director of the NSF Engineering Research Center MIRTHE (Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment), who served as the 2002 president of the Optical Society of America. Learn more >

Graphic designer whose work has been featured in Ellen Lupton and Jennifer C. Phillips’ Graphic Design: The New Basics and Lupton’s Indie Publishing: How to Design and Publish Your Own Book; co-authored Type and Code, Processing for Designers with Yeohyun Ahn. Learn more >

Developed the ASPIRE program to teach social science research methods to Baltimore area high school students. Awarded an Innovators in Hemoglobinopathies Academic Career Development Award from the National, Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute to study clinical implications of sickle cell disease stigma. Learn more >

Conducts research on mediated representations of marginalized groups; co-editor of Blackberries and Redbones: Critical Articulations of Black Hair and Body Politics in Africana Communities and The Obama Effect: Multidisciplinary Renderings of the 2008 Campaign. Learn more >

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Dr. Viviana MacManus received her Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego in the Department of Literature. Her research interests lie in 20th-century Latin American literary and cultural studies, and critical gender studies. Dr. MacManus' work centers on transnational Latin American state violence, gender politics, the politics of memory and the politics of human rights. As a postdoctoral fellow at UMBC, Dr. MacManus has continued her research in these areas and has submitted an article for publication entitled, " 'We are not victims, we are protagonists of this history': Latin American Gender Violence and the Limits of Women's Rights as Human Rights." Currently, she is conducting research for an upcoming research trip to Mexico City, where she will interview women who were former participants in the guerrilla movements during Mexico's "Dirty War."

UMBC Faculty Publications on Diversity Issues

Promoting Diversity in Optics, by Dr. Anthony Johnson, UMBC, and Dr. Ursula Keller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Minority Women Scientists: At the Culture-Gender Crossroads, by Dr. Anthony Johnson, UMBC

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