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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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Insight Into Diversity

Modernizing the Humanities

June 27, 2018 Communication, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

How the disciplines can endure by becoming more inclusive of diverse perspectives.

Prof. Eric Adler's recent book reviewed

June 27, 2018 Classics, College of Arts and Humanities

Professor Eric Adler's 2017 book, Classics:  The Culture Wars and Beyond, has just been reviewed in the Classical Journal online.  Read the review here:  https://cj.camws.org/sites/default/files/reviews/2018.05.04%20McMenomy%20on%20Adler.pdf

Senior ARHU Lecturer Receives Provost's Excellence Award for Professional Track Faculty in Teaching

June 22, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities, English

Justin Lohr honored for teaching excellence.

Gift From Former Piano Professor Will Strengthen Teaching, Performance and Recruitment

June 21, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Music

Shared from the Fearless Ideas Campaign Newsletter, written by Chris Carroll.
The Washington Post

Janelle Wong Publishes Op-Ed in Washington Post

June 19, 2018 American Studies, College of Arts and Humanities

Professor of American Studies Janelle Wong weighs in on why white evangelicals support Donald Trump.
The Washington Post

Looking For District's Orchestra Highlight? Go To Maryland

June 17, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities

Anyone who wants to fall in love with orchestral music could do worse than go to Maryland in June.
"Late Night Live," Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Pneumatic Tubes: The Instant Messaging Technology That Transformed the World

June 13, 2018 American Studies, College of Arts and Humanities

Associate Professor of American Studies Jason Farman discusses his forthcoming book on communication technology and time.

Ira Berlin, Influential Historian of Slavery, Dies at 77

June 06, 2018 Center for Global Migration Studies, College of Arts and Humanities, History

Distinguished University Professor brought African-American history to audiences beyond academia.
New York Times

Fostering Connections Between Young and Old

June 05, 2018 School of Music

A new report on intergenerational programs calls for shared spaces to help combat isolation among the elderly.
Terp

A YA Book of His Own

June 03, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities, English

Alum writes the stories he didn’t see as a youth.