If you are considering our department or our university, we would be happy to arrange for you to sit in on one or more of our classes or to meet with our advisor and some of our faculty.

Our focus is on health, education, violence, gender, poverty, and identity formation through cutting-edge research and innovative teaching.

Our courses are some of the most sought-after on the whole campus because of the passion that our lecturers bring to them and their commitment to supporting the intellectual growth of our students. I am proud to call our department not just an intellectual home for our students but also a place for nurturing the whole self. It is hardly surprising that our students come out of our program with strong skills in critical thinking, research methods, and the ability to apply their training to a range of career options. Recent graduates have gone on to prestigious law schools such as Georgetown and Howard, top-ranked graduate programs at the University of Michigan and the University of Florida, and been sought after by a range of state and federal agencies.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions you have about the department.

Sangeetha Madhavan, Ph.D.
Professor, African American Studies and Sociology
Faculty Associate, Maryland Population Research Center