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Ep.28: UMBC Review with Dr. April Householder, Clair Volkening, & Madelyn Pollack | Otter.ai

Ep.28: UMBC Review with Dr. April Householder, Clair Volkening, & Madelyn Pollack

Amy Barnes38min

Dr. Ian Anson

00:04

Hello and welcome to Retrieving the Social Sciences, a production of the Center for Social Science Scholarship. I'm your host, Ian Anson, Associate Professor of Political Science here at UMBC. On today's show, as always, we'll be hearing from UMBC faculty, students, visiting speakers, and community partners about the social science research they've been performing in recent times. Qualitative, quantitative, applied, empirical, normative. On Retrieving the Social Siences, we bring the best of UMBC's social science community to you.

Dr. Ian Anson

00:40

When I was an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina, I remember arriving on campus mostly in search of friends, tips on how to live with a roommate, and of course, free pizza. I had my course schedule ready to go. And I was excited to take my first classes in what would end up being a very long sequence as it turned out of political science classes. And what I didn't know at the time was that I would be embarking on a journey that would eventually lead me to this very microphone, and to the awesome university that I now call my academic home. My journey did involve quite a bit of travel, but at the end of the day, it was a research journey more than anything. From my first exposure to social science research in that very first semester of college, to the completion of an honours thesis at UNC, to my time in grad school and beyond, I've been motivated by the fascinating world of social science research. And perhaps if you're listening to this episode, you're also on your own research journey. And to that I say, well met fellow traveler.

Dr. Ian Anson

01:41

You know, what I didn't realize when I began this journey was that there are so many possible avenues to traverse, especially as an undergraduate researcher. And I've only more recently come to appreciate that at UMBC. These avenues are practically paved with gold. That is to say it's a fantastic time to be a student researcher at UMBC. As we'll learn today, in my conversations with several guests, one of the most unique and rewarding avenues for student research at UMBC is the UMBC Review, a fully student led academic journal that publishes peer reviewed student research. Today, I have the pleasure of bringing you my conversation with two of the editors of the UMBC review, Clair Volkening and Madelyn Pollack. Clair is a senior in the Department of English at UMBC, with a focus on communication and technology, while Madelyn is in the process of earning a degree at UMBC in History and Judaic studies. But not only that, in today's episode, we also hear from Dr. April Householder, the director of UMBC Undergraduate Research and Prestigious Scholarships, in her capacity as a supervisor of the UMBC Review. I'm really excited to bring you both of these conversations right now.

Dr. Ian Anson

03:07

So today, I am delighted to welcome Dr. April Householder to the podcast. Thank you again, so much for agreeing to be here.

Dr. April Householder

03:15

Oh, thank you so much. This is gonna be fun.

Dr. Ian Anson

03:18

Yeah, so Dr. Householder, in your role as the Director of Undergraduate Research and Prestigious Scholarships at UMBC obviously, you're working together with the student editors that we're going to hear from in a minute, on the production, the publication of the UMBC Review. And I wanted to ask you a little bit about your perspective, as somebody who's sort of been over this process a little bit more than the student editors who have only recently stepped into their roles. Tell me a little bit about sort of the history, the trajectory of the Review, sort of how did it begin? How did it start? And are there any new developments that you might be able to tell us about?

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