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FAQ: Bridget Lowrie's 2026 Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship at Montgomery College
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Montgomery College's fellowship gives Bridget Lowrie exclusive access to Smithsonian resources, enhancing her curriculum and providing students with unique career advantages in criminal justice.
The MC-Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship connects Montgomery College classrooms with Smithsonian collections through seminars, virtual exhibitions, and projects that integrate museum artifacts into coursework.
This fellowship uses museum artifacts to help students explore civil disobedience and ethics, fostering critical thinking about justice and leadership for a better society.
Bridget Lowrie's fellowship project examines civil disobedience through Smithsonian artifacts, including partnerships with African American and American Indian museums for unique historical perspectives.
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The MC-Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship is a yearlong academic partnership that connects Montgomery College classrooms with Smithsonian collections, scholars, and digital resources, housed in the College's Paul Peck Humanities Institute and growing out of collaboration with the Smithsonian Office of Educational Technology and the Smithsonian Learning Lab.
Bridget Lowrie is a Montgomery College criminal justice professor and program coordinator who was selected for the 2026 fellowship cohort based on her proposal to develop a project on civil disobedience, leadership, and ethics that connects museum artifacts to contemporary questions in criminology.
The 2026 fellowship theme is 'Fostering a Culture of Critical and Ethical Learning to Shape Future Leaders,' focusing on leadership and ethics in a rapidly changing world.
Lowrie will develop a project on civil disobedience, leadership, and ethics that includes potential partnerships with the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the National Museum of the American Indian, as well as virtual artifact collections that help students examine the intersections of disability, protest and justice.
Lowrie's students will engage with the fellowship project in fall 2026 through class visits, virtual collections, and research assignments focused on leadership, ethics, and civic engagement, giving them concrete objects, stories, and images to ground conversations about power, fairness, and accountability.
This initiative is the first of its kind between the Smithsonian and a community college, and since 1998 has involved 256 Montgomery College faculty and more than 26,000 students and their families.
Fellows participate in seminars with Smithsonian curators and educators, explore on-site and virtual exhibitions, and design projects that embed museum resources into their courses.
Lowrie's students will begin engaging with the fellowship project in fall 2026.
For more information, visit the Paul Peck Humanities Institute's fellowship page on the Montgomery College website at https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/special-programs/paul-peck-humanities-institute/smithsonian-faculty-fellowships.html.
Lowrie teaches in the Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice Department at Montgomery College and serves as the Rockville and Takoma Park/Silver Spring coordinator for criminal justice. She began teaching in 2013 after nearly a decade in law practice as a Maryland attorney and prosecutor and as a judicial law clerk, holding a J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law.
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