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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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ARHU Dean Receives President's Commission on Ethnic Minority Issues Award

May 02, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities

Dean Thornton Dill honored for fostering equality, diversity and inclusion across campus.

2018 Boren Scholarship Recipients

May 01, 2018 Arabic, College of Arts and Humanities, French, Jimenez-Porter Writers' House, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Eight UMD students awarded Boren Scholarships, which provide up to $20,000 for long-term language-focused study abroad.

UMD LEADS A STUDY ON IMPROVING HPV VACCINATION RATES AMONG AFRICAN-AMERICAN ADOLESCENTS

April 30, 2018 Center for Health and Risk Communication, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication

A $2.2 million grant will support research on improving cancer prevention through socially and culturally specific communication strategies.
TERP

Backing Beyoncé

April 30, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Guitarist plays in band at historic Coachella performance.
The Diamondback

Immersive Art Spring Exhibition Combined the Worlds of Stem and Art

April 30, 2018 Art, College of Arts and Humanities

ART x TECH pushed boundaries to turn technology into creativity.

Book published by Prof. Jorge Bravo

April 28, 2018 Classics

Congratulations to Professor Jorge J. Bravo III, whose book, Excavations at Nemea IV:  The Shrine of Opheltes, has just been published by the University of California Press. 
Her Campus

Partisan Identity is the Most Important: A Speech from NPR's Mara Liasson

April 21, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities

Chaos, polarization and resistance were focus points of an NPR journalist’s speech Wednesday at the University of Maryland, where she discussed the status of journalism under president Donald Trump’s administration.
TERP

“Triumph” of Collaboration

April 20, 2018 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Graduate students bring 400-year-old artwork to life.
New York Times

TRAILBLAZERS IN POLITICS AND CIVIL RIGHTS

April 19, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities, History

Robert Chiles', a lecturer in the department of history, new book is featured in the New York Times.
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Two UMD Faculty Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

April 18, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities

David C. Driskell has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.