Research Centers and Institutes
Center for East Asian Studies
The Center aims to promote the study and appreciation of East Asian cultures by offering a wide range of scholarly, artistic, and community programs. Learn more.
Center for Global Migration Studies
An interdisciplinary home for the study of migration and immigration around the world both today and in the past. Learn more.
Center for Health Risk and Communication
A cross-disciplinary research center committed to advancing human health and well-being through the scientific study of communication processes and effects in addressing societal problems related to health, risk, and science. Learn more.
Center for Literary and Comparative Studies
UMD English’s hub for intellectual exchange in creative writing, English language, rhetorical, and literary studies. Learn more.
Center for Political Communication & Civic Leadership
Unites research, education, and public engagement to foster democratic communication by a diverse people. Listening to Diverse Voices, Speaking the Language of Democracy. Learn more.
Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity
CRGE promotes intersectional scholarship through issues of race, gender, ethnicity, and other dimensions of inequality. Learn more.
Driskell Center
The Driskell Center is a creative incubator dedicated to a world where Black artists exist at its center. We invite inquiry, experimentation, and dialogue to reexamine histories and shape shared futures. Learn more.
The Frederick Douglass Center for Leadership through the Humanities
Dedicated to engaging diverse communities—both at the university and well beyond—around issues of social justice and equity and creating leaders with values rooted in the humanities.
Herman Maril Gallery
The student-run exhibition space for the Department of Art at the University of Maryland. Learn more.
Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies
Dedicated to study and research on Israel in all its variety, but also to presenting political, cultural, and general interest programs featuring Israel and its place in the Middle East. Learn more.
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center
Promotes and builds a community of students and faculty interested in learning and actively engaging in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx history and culture. Learn more.
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
An interdisciplinary group of researchers who collaboratively advance the study of cultural heritage and arts using computational technologies while also training the insights and approaches of the humanities on the computational technologies that shape our world. Learn more.
Maryland Language Science Center
To advance an interdisciplinary science of language to address large-scale, complex problems in fundamental science and society. Learn more.
Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture
Fosters an environment of curious and resourceful inquiry into the digital humanities, specifically digital art history, to support student and faculty research and teaching. Learn more.
Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies
Brings together faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, and staff within the University of Maryland as well as scholars and teachers throughout the state of Maryland and the larger region to discuss important historical issues. Learn more.
National Foreign Language Center
Helping people understand each other and the world around them since 1986. Learn more.
Roshan Institute for Persian Studies
Plays a leading role in the effort to promote the study, teaching, and exploration of all subjects related to Persian culture and history. Learn more.
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
The Clarice leverages creativity, innovation, research and engagement—and the powerful resources of the university—to inspire and support artists, audiences and students while driving positive change in its community. Learn more.
University of Maryland Art Gallery
Committed to collecting, exhibiting, and interpreting art from around the world. Learn more.