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The Art and Humanity of AI

From classrooms to research labs, the College of Arts and Humanities is shaping how we understand artificial intelligence and guiding its responsible future.

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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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Arts and Humanities Colloquium: Robert Levine Discusses Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

December 21, 2021 English, Douglass Center

The talk is part of a series centering ARHU faculty expertise on issues of systemic racism, inequality and social justice.
Washington Post

Clarice Smith, Artist and D.C. Philanthropist, Dies at 88

December 17, 2021 The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Art History and Archaeology, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Read Clarice Smith's obituary in the Washington Post.

Engineering New Opportunities

December 17, 2021 Art History and Archaeology

Andreas Osiander ’21 is finding creative ways to blend his majors in art history and engineering to make an impact on the arts.

A Message to Winter 2021 Graduates

December 17, 2021 American Studies, Art History and Archaeology, Art, Classics, Communication, English, History, Linguistics, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Dean Bonnie Thornton Dill addresses graduating students.

Barbara Haggh-Huglo Named Honorary Member of the American Musicological Society

December 16, 2021 School of Music, College of Arts and Humanities

Professor of musicology at UMD is a renowned and pioneering researcher of medieval and Renaissance music.

Comparative Literature Professor Wins Modern Language Association Award

December 15, 2021 English, College of Arts and Humanities

Ralph Bauer’s “The Alchemy of Conquest” revises our understanding of the language around conquest and discovery in the early Americas.

Creating Community Connections

December 15, 2021 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

During her years at UMD, graduating senior Erin Namovicz ’21, a double major in Spanish and criminology and criminal justice, took her language skills and interest in law to the local community.
The Diamondback

UMD’s Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols Returns to Memorial Chapel

December 14, 2021 School of Music, College of Arts and Humanities, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

The annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols returned for its 20th year after last year’s virtual performance.
Maryland Today

A Portrait-Worthy Legacy

December 13, 2021 The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Art History and Archaeology

Clarice Smith, major supporter of the arts at UMD, dies.
The Diamondback

UMD, Two Other State Schools Get $3 Million Grant to Increase Campus Leadership Diversity

December 13, 2021 American Studies, College of Arts and Humanities

The Diamondback covers Breaking the M.O.L.D.