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ARHU Professor and Dean Emerita Bonnie Thornton Dill Awarded 2025 UMD President’s Medal

The pioneering feminist scholar receives the highest honor bestowed upon a member of the UMD community at Convocation on September 17.

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Today at #UMD’s convocation, we celebrated outstanding ARHU faculty for their excellence in service, teaching and research. Join us in congratulating them! Learn more about each recipient at our link in bio. 2025 President’s Medal - Bonnie Thornton Dill Professor and Dean Emerita, Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 2025 Distinguished Scholar-Teachers - Robyn Muncy Professor of History, Department of History - James Stern Professor of Violin, School of Music - Michael Votta, Jr. Professor of Conducting and Ensembles, School of Music The 2025 Provost’s Excellence Awards for Professional Track Faculty (PTK): - Gregory Bucher Principal Lecturer, Department of Classics – Excellence in Teaching (not pictured) - Robert Chiles Senior Lecturer, Department of History – Excellence in Teaching - Sarah Dammeyer Senior Lecturer, Department of English – Excellence in Service (not pictured) - Regina Haag Associate Clinical Professor and Undergraduate Advisor, German Studies – Excellence in Service. 📷: Taneen Momeni
Congratulations to Professor and Dean Emerita Bonnie Thornton Dill, this year’s recipient of the University of Maryland’s President’s Medal! With groundbreaking research linking gender, poverty, race and other areas of inequality, Thornton Dill reimagined the field of women’s studies at UMD and across the nation. In the process, she transformed ARHU through her visionary leadership. She’ll receive the highest honor bestowed upon a member of the UMD community at Convocation today. Click the link in our bio to read more about Thornton Dill and scroll through the gallery to see some memorable moments from her career. 1. Thornton Dill at the David C. Driskell Center prior to her retirement as dean. Photo by John T. Consoli. 2. Thornton Dill, who was a leader in the establishment of the Frederick Douglass Square, at the unveiling on Hornbake Plaza in 2015. Photo by John T. Consoli. 3. Thornton Dill with activist and teacher Angela Davis, who was part of the ARHU Dean’s Lecture Series for the 2011-12 academic year. 4. Thornton Dill with history alum and founder of The Reciprocity Effect Rehan Staton at Commencement in 2018. Photo courtesy of Nicky Everette.
Poet Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, associate professor of English, teaches students to see artificial intelligence not as a shortcut, but as part of a creative and critical practice. This fall, they’re launching UMD’s new Studio for Literary Technology, a space for exploring the history, risks and possibilities of computer-generated text. Read our full Q&A with Bertram to learn more about computational poetics, the 70-year history of machine-made texts, and what the new studio means for campus. Link in bio.

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