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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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Three Graduate Students Win the Fulbright

April 03, 2018 History

Three graduate students from the University of Maryland have been awarded the prestigious Fulbright research fellowship. Saswathi Natta (Sociology), Samuel Miner (History), and Thomas Messersmith (History) will spend 2018-2019 in India, Germany...

Research@ARHU Faculty Spotlight

April 03, 2018

Associate professor Sahar Khamis has co-edited Arab Women's Activism and Socio-Political Transformation: Unfinished Gender Revolutions, published by Palgrave/Macmillan and with co-editor Amel Mili (University of Pennsylvania). This book...
American Theatre

Plays About Guns, With Varying Aims

April 02, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

In the midst of the #NeverAgain movement, can theatre artists foster nuanced conversations on the polarizing topics of gun violence and gun control?

2018-19 ARHU FULBRIGHT RECIPIENTS

March 28, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities, History, Spanish and Portuguese, School of Music

Stay tuned for continuous updates on the ARHU Fulbright awardees.
Washington City Paper

At UMD's Driskell Center, Portraits of Who We Are Celebrates the Long History of Black Portraitists

March 14, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities, Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity

Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald's Obama portraits made a splash in the art world, but the long history of black portrait artists should also be celebrated.
The Toledo Blade

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY BUILDS GLOBAL SLAVE TRADE PAPER TRAIL

March 11, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities

How Michigan State is compiling the global slave trade's paper trail.

CFP: African American Digital Humanities Conference

March 10, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities

Call for Papers: African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities Conference October 18-20 2018.

UMD School of Music Alum Pledges $25,000 Scholarship Gift on Giving Day

March 08, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Music

The gift will support the newly-established Scholarships for Inclusive Excellence Fund.
The Diamondback

THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COULD GET A MAJOR ABOUT VIRTUAL REALITY DESIGN

March 06, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities

University officials hope the undergraduate major will be available by fall 2019.

Women's History Month 2018 at the College of Arts and Humanities

March 01, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities

ARHU female faculty members, students and alumni are engaging with some of society’s most pressing issues.