Our Team

Co-Directors of the Orser Center for Public Humanities (2025-2028)

Nicole King nking@umbc.edu and Sarah Fouts sfouts@umbc.edu

Acting co-director (2025-2026) Michael Casiano mc12@umbc.edu

Project Team for BFS 2.0 below for more info on BFS 3.0 or to apply, see Application

Sarah Fouts

2023: Principal Investigator

University of Maryland, Baltimore County Department: American Studies & Public Humanities

Nicole King 

2023 Co-Investigator

University of Maryland, Baltimore County Department: American Studies & Public Humanities

Tahira Mahdi 

2023 Evaluator  

University of Maryland, Baltimore County Department: Psychology

Buffy Illum

2023 Program Coordinator

University of Maryland, Baltimore County