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Arts for All, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, School of Music

UMD Professor’s Poem Becomes Play-Opera About Women in Prison

Inspired by real accounts, “For Women Serving Time” opens March 20 at Dupont Underground.

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March 02, 2026 Communication

ARHU Scholar Looks to Indonesia for AI Lessons

Communication lecturer Lamia Zia received a Council on Foreign Relations fellowship to support the new project.

February 23, 2026 College of Arts and Humanities, English

Professor Emerita Merle Collins Recovers Overlooked Life of Louise Little

Collins received the Barbara T. Christian Literary Award for “Ocean Stirrings.”
February 10, 2026 Arts for All, David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora

Driskell Center Receives $100,000 Terra Foundation Grant to Support Spring Exhibition ‘America Will Be!’

The exhibition presents artworks that critically engage the image and symbol of the U.S. flag.

February 06, 2026 History

Meet Environmental Historian Jayson Maurice Porter

The assistant professor of history reflects on his research, teaching and the CEDAR Gallery, a student-centered space he is developing at UMD.
February 04, 2026 History

Rethinking the American Revolution as a Global Conflict

Professor of History Richard Bell’s new book reframes America’s founding conflict as a war fought across empires, oceans and everyday lives.
December 19, 2025 Arts for All, College of Arts and Humanities, School of Music, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Students Turn Climate Change Into Sound

Clarice Assad’s Arts for All residency culminates in a student-created album.

December 08, 2025 American Studies, Arts for All

Material Culture, Collective Memory and the Work of Repair

American studies Ph.D. student Hannah Brancato combines scholarship, art and community to understand trauma and possibility.
December 05, 2025 English

How Professor John Drabinski Wrote Three Books at Once

How Black vernacular culture, Baldwin and the Atlantic world shape his latest scholarship.
December 04, 2025 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

UMD Launches Global Culture and Thought Major

New program emphasizes international cultures and languages to prepare graduates for an increasingly globalized world.

ARHU In The News

WTOP February 12, 2026

Bad Bunny’s Cultural Impact Lands in UMD Classroom

Bad Bunny is one of the biggest artists in the world and also the subject of a new course at the University of Maryland.
Maryland Theatre Guide February 11, 2026

Dance Review: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company ‘Still/Here’ at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Read the review in Maryland Theatre Guide.
Broadway World February 09, 2026

Review: STILL/HERE at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Bill T. Jones' masterwork remains urgently, defiantly alive.

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UMD Professor’s Poem Becomes Play-Opera About Women in Prison

March 03, 2026 Arts for All, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, School of Music

Inspired by real accounts, “For Women Serving Time” opens March 20 at Dupont Underground.

ARHU Scholar Looks to Indonesia for AI Lessons

March 02, 2026 Communication

Communication lecturer Lamia Zia received a Council on Foreign Relations fellowship to support the new project.

Gildenhorn Family Gift Supports Signature Lecture Series at the University of Maryland

February 26, 2026 College of Arts and Humanities, Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies

Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shapiro, will be the inaugural speaker on March 24

TDPS in the 2026 Helen Hayes Award Nominations

February 25, 2026 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Congrats to the TDPS alumni, faculty and student nominees!

Democratizing Design, Building Community

February 23, 2026 Art, Arts for All

MFA student expands community 3D sculpture and printing workshops.

Professor Emerita Merle Collins Recovers Overlooked Life of Louise Little

February 23, 2026 College of Arts and Humanities, English

Collins received the Barbara T. Christian Literary Award for “Ocean Stirrings.”

Spring 2026 ARHU Accolades: Faculty and Staff Awards and Honors

February 18, 2026 Center for Global Migration Studies, Communication, History, Jimenez-Porter Writers' House, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Read a roundup of recent accomplishments
Maryland Today

The Highs and Lows of the New ‘Wuthering Heights’

February 17, 2026 English

UMD English professor ‘broods’ on movie’s interpretation of classic tale of romance and revenge.

Rediscovered Ukrainian Opera Presented at The Clarice

February 16, 2026 College of Arts and Humanities, Russian, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

This program explored Harkusha and the evolution of Lysenko’s vocal music in conversation with influential works.

Celebrating Community and Culture at UMD’s Nyumburu Cultural Center

February 13, 2026 American Studies

American Studies Professor Psyche Williams-Forson leads the center as it celebrates its 55th year.