DEAN'S UNDERGRADUATE ADVISORY BOARD
The College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU) Dean's Undergraduate Advisory Board serves the college by representing the undergraduate ARHU student in monthly meetings with the dean. Students on the board act as liaisons with their ARHU departments, keeping the dean aware of concerns, issues and activities within the college.
Mission
- To provide a forum for voicing student ideas and concerns about pertinent university issues
- To provide the dean of the College of Arts and Humanities input on college issues and concerns
- To provide representation at college and/or department committees and functions
Meet the Dean
Dear ARHU Students,
I'm excited to be on this journey with you as humanists, artists, scholars, and performers. Like you, I deeply believe in the power of the arts and humanities to pave the way to a just future for us as well as for future generations. As dean, I am eager to work with faculty and staff to ensure that our students have everything they need to be ready to contribute to that path to a just future. I'm thrilled to get to work closely with an excellent advisory board comprising undergraduate student representatives from each of the departments in ARHU. I trust their feedback and advice and hope that all ARHU students feel comfortable sharing their concerns, questions, and stories with this advisory Board.
Together, we hope to continue to cultivate ARHU as an intellectual space where established ideas and theories about our society and world are tested, updated, and revised, and where new ideas find their way to light our path to the future.
Ultimately, ARHU disciplines provide us with the space to imagine and think about our society -- who we were, who we are, and who we hope to be. I'm glad we are here together.
Sincerely,
Stephanie Shonekan
Meet Your Student Representative
Department of American Studies
Mace Viemeister | American Studies
Department of Art
Aoife Gill | Studio Art
Department of Art History & Archaeology
Connor Grabowski | Art History
Department of Classics
Maggie Malone | Classics
Department of Communication
Fatima Privitt | Communication
Department of English
Grace Marshall | English
Department of History
Kriya Shah | History
Joseph & Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies
Eitan Cassway | Jewish Studies
School of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Anna Liston | Romance Languages
Department of Linguistics
Leia Spagnola | Linguistics
School of Music
Bianca Fuentes Rosales | Music-Professional Program
Department of Philosophy
Angeliki Papageorgiou | Philosophy
School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
Taraja Samuel | Dance
Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Wren Massey | Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Advisory Board Contact
Tiara Lowe
Senior Academic Advisor, Office of Student Affairs, College of Arts and Humanities
1120 Francis Scott Key Hall
College Park
MD,
20742
