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School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Spanish and Portuguese

Bad Bunny as Scholarly Subject?

UMD course explores Puerto Rico’s soundscape of protest and poetics.

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October 02, 2025 Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Roshan Institute to Establish Persian Digital Library

Supported by $1.8M private gift, project will be first of its kind.
September 18, 2025 Art History and Archaeology

Message From Met's Social Media Manager: Museums Are for Everyone

Alum uses digital platforms to spotlight overlooked voices.
September 08, 2025 English

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram on ‘Writing with Machines’

The poet and professor discusses computational poetics, the history of machine-made texts and their vision for UMD’s new Studio for Literary Technology.
September 08, 2025 Communication, Linguistics

UMD Researchers Will Use AI to Help Boost HPV Vaccine Confidence

New $2.8M NIH grant funds interdisciplinary chatbot project with UMB.
June 20, 2025 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Music

A New Spin on an Enduring Protest Album

ARHU dean’s new book examines messages of Fela Kuti.
May 21, 2025 Art History and Archaeology

A Future in Conservation

At UMD, graduating senior Lylah Messinger restored a 2,500-year-old Etruscan vase. Now she’s headed to graduate school in London.

May 20, 2025 Communication

From Fan to Force in Sports Media

Graduating senior Connor Perkins leverages creativity, drive and a love of sports to carve his path in digital content creation.

May 05, 2025 College of Arts and Humanities, English

How Matthew Kirschenbaum Sees AI’s Impact

The Distinguished University Professor of English is a leading voice on how AI is transforming the way we communicate, educate and govern.
April 26, 2025 Communication

Battling Misinformation in a Post-Pandemic World

Assistant Professor Becca Beets on the challenges of communicating about science.
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ARHU In The News

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver October 02, 2025

Netanyahu: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

An article, co-written by Ilai Saltzman, director of the Gildenhorn Institute, was recently featured on the HBO program.
The Independent September 11, 2025

Meet the Americans who love 'Downton Abbey'

Research Professor of History Julie Taddeo talks to The Independent.
Against the Grain August 29, 2025

"Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen"

Professor Neda Atanasoski, chair of the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, discusses her new co-edited book with KPFA's "Against the Grain."

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UMD Scholar Honored for Innovative Work on African American Theatre, Civil Rights and Inclusion

May 23, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities, English

Highly competitive awards reflect Julius B. Fleming, Jr.’s exceptional scholarship.

NEH Summer Stipends Limited Submission Memo

May 21, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities

LIMITED SUBMISSION MEMO   Subject:           NEH Summer Stipends Sponsor:         National Endowment for the Humanities

2018 ARHU SENIORS, WHAT'S NEXT?

May 18, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities

ARHU is proud to recognize the achievements of some of our 2018 graduating seniors.

GRADUATING FRENCH MAJOR WILL TEACH IN FRANCE AND WORK AT STATE DEPARTMENT

May 17, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities, History, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, French

Colton Seigel ’18 majored in French and government and politics with a minor in history.

TDPS Among The 2018 Helen Hayes Award Recipients

May 17, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities

Awards recognize and celebrate excellence in professional theater throughout the Washington metropolitan area.
The Baltimore Sun

To Understand Putin, You Must Understand Russian History

May 13, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities, History, Russian

History Ph.D. student Ala Creciun Graff weighs in on Putin's use of symbolism and history.

UMD Professor Julie Greene Wins 2018 China Residency Exchange Fellowship

May 11, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities, History

History professor will teach 10-day seminar in China on social responses to American industrialization.
UMD Writers Bloc

UMoves Lets Dance Students' Creativity Shine at the Clarice

May 09, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Annual dance concert is choreographed and performed by students in the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies.
University of North Carolina Press Blog

Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt: Wakanda Mexicana

May 08, 2018 History

UMD associate professor of history explores the connections between her new book and "Black Panther."
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine

NEW REPORT FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES, ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE: BRANCHES FROM THE SAME TREE

May 07, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities

Report urges development and evaluation of approaches that integrate STEMM fields with arts and humanities in higher education.