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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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2015 awardees of the Annelise and Alfred Strauch Scholarship

April 09, 2015 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, German Studies

Germanic Studies majors receive the Annelise and Strauch Scholarship

Umd To Build Memorial Honoring Frederick Douglass In Hornbake Plaza

April 09, 2015 College of Arts and Humanities, History

University President Wallace Loh appropriated $375,000 for the project before recent budget cuts caused the hiring and construction freeze.

Three Arhu Faculty Among 2015-16 Advance Seed Grantees

April 08, 2015 College of Arts and Humanities, English, History, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Faculty members are either direct recipients of the prestigious awards or co-investigators.

Former students of German receive Fulbright Assistantship

April 06, 2015 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, German Studies

Germanic Studies students receive prestigious Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships

Professor Curlee R. Holton Receives Lifetime Achievement Award From Anyone Can Fly Foundation

April 02, 2015 College of Arts and Humanities, David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora

The annual award is given to an individual who has demonstrated a lifetime of impassioned dedication to enriching and making known the history of African American art and culture.

Assistant History Professor Awarded Acls Fellowship

April 01, 2015 College of Arts and Humanities, History

Colleen Woods will use fellowship to help complete book project.
The Diamondback

Her Canvas

March 31, 2015 Art, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College of Arts and Humanities, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Eight UMD women discuss their passion for the arts while navigating around gender bias in their field.

Access2Alumni Works For Arhu Students

March 30, 2015 College of Arts and Humanities

Hear how Kelsey Shields ’13 connected with Blair Barrett ‘02 to land an internship, and subsequently, her first job.