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Establishing presence, building relationships and trust, and being able to connect on a personal level with research subjects are all crucial aspects of conducting ethnographic research in education.

In the 1970s, citizens of Yugoslavia navigated multiethnic histories through an antifascist lens. The Monument to the National Liberation War and to Ilinden was one of the most impressive examples of the narration of these histories through the visual paradigm of socialist modernism.

America’s political stability requires stable—but not static—identities. It requires us, as citizens, to wade into identity discourses, even when they seem gross or uncomfortable. It requires these rhetorical behaviors just as surely as it requires us to vote, or submit testimony about legislation, or serve on juries.

Despite the vitally important health benefits to both the breastfeeder and the recipients of human milk, research on exclusive pumping is scant. We need evidence-based changes to both breastfeeding policy and practice, such as less focus on nursing and more support for feeding human milk no matter the method.

Historians rely on factual evidence, but they order, prioritize, and assemble these facts. This assembly of history is in many ways similar to how players and designers shape video games to create a historiographical experience influenced by both a game's historical scope and player agency.

“The Americans” challenges traditional assumptions of PTSD and trauma for war veterans, while stretching understandings of liminality and of the Russian people. The result is a demand for a rhetorical path forward, both for the fictional spies and actual Russians who are still dealing with the Soviet past.

In advocating for adoptee citizenship rights, Korean adoptees call upon their collective identity. Their identity exploration and concurrent advocacy not only challenges long-standing narratives that minimize international adoptees’ difference from their adoptive parents, but also demonstrates how identity change happens in the process of collective action organizing.

Welcome to GradTerp Forum: A Blog on the Research, Scholarship, and Practice of the graduate community at Maryland. This year marks the centennial of graduate education at the University, and we launch this blog as part of our celebration. GradTerp Forum celebrates the fearless research and work of our graduate students.