About

Photo credit Melissa Cormier
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 Director of the Center for Social Science Scholarship (CS3), supporting and advancing interdisciplinary, disciplinary, and inclusive research for faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students in the highly-ranked social sciences at UMBC and across the university. 
 
My interdisciplinary research, teaching, and engagement reflect my longstanding personal commitment to carry out and apply engaged academic work within a social justice framework. In brief, my research applies interdisciplinary knowledge to address bias, misinformation, and social inequality; promote and sustain linguistic diversity; and advance cultural, linguistic, and educational equity and inclusion.
I have received significant funding for my work, including several active awards from the National Science Foundation across linguistics and language sciences, education, data science, and research administration.
 
A former chair of the Ethics committee of the Linguistic Society of America and former associate editor of the journal American Speech (2008-18), I currently serve as an editorial board member of the Elements in Sociolinguistics series at Cambridge University Press and of Language and Linguistics Compass. I am also a member of two international university advisory boards: the International Academic Advisory Board of the Language Sciences Institute, a Global Research Excellence Institute at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and the Faculty Advisory Board of the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland.
 
Click here for my Google Scholar profile and my profile on Academia.edu. For more information, contact me at <mallinson AT umbc DOT edu>.