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October 06, 2025 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.
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.
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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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NBC News

Viral Images Show People of Color as Anti-Asian Perpetrators. That Misses the Big Picture.

June 15, 2021 American Studies

A new analysis reveals misconceptions about perpetrators, victims, and the general environment around anti-Asian hate incidents. These can have "long-term consequences for racial solidarity," researcher Janelle Wong said.
Baltimore Sun

Marin Alsop Made History When She Took the Baton at Baltimore Symphony

June 11, 2021 The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

She exits now with pride—and many frustrations.
UC Riverside News

University of Maryland Scholar is UCR’s Next CHASS Dean

June 11, 2021 College of Arts and Humanities

Daryle Williams is the co-director of the online database Enslaved.org.

The Elizabeth and Richard Dubin Family Lecture

June 10, 2021 College of Arts and Humanities, Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Featuring David E. Sanger From The New York Times.

Music Education Ph.D. Wins Outstanding Dissertation Award

June 09, 2021 School of Music, College of Arts and Humanities

Adam Grisé’s dissertation focused on access, representation and equity in music educational settings.

Spanish Ph.D. Wins Distinguished Dissertation Award

June 07, 2021 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Lisa W. Carney’s dissertation explored the stories told about dreams in Kichwa, a Quechuan language spoken in Ecuador.

In Black Radical Artists, Professor Finds Methods to the ‘Madness’

June 04, 2021 American Studies

From Nina Simone to Dave Chappelle, new book explores mad undercurrent in Black expressive culture.

2021 National Fellowships and Scholarships

June 04, 2021 College of Arts and Humanities

ARHU students win prestigious national awards.

2021–22 ARHU Fulbright Recipients

June 02, 2021 American Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, History, Spanish and Portuguese, French

Five ARHU students and alumni receive the prestigious grant.

2021–22 ARHU Boren Recipients

June 01, 2021 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

The scholarships provide up to $20k for two semesters of critical language study.