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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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The Times of Israel

Jewish Soft Power and Yom Kippur at the United Nations

September 17, 2021 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

The story of how the world organization pegged the Jewish fast day as a holiday embodies the long history of the ‘shtadlan’s’ behind-the-scenes diplomacy.

ARHU Recognizes Staff for Their Length of Service

September 17, 2021 College of Arts and Humanities

Staff members have worked for 5, 10, 15, 20, 35 and 40 years at UMD.
The Washington Post

Carmen Balthrop, Renowned Opera Singer and Teacher, Dies at 73

September 15, 2021 School of Music, College of Arts and Humanities

She belonged to the third generation of major African American opera singers.

Professor of English Jessica Enoch Appointed ARHU ADVANCE Professor

September 14, 2021 English, College of Arts and Humanities

The position supports women faculty members’ career advancement at UMD.

Arts for All Launches With Expanded NextNOW Fest

September 14, 2021 The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Art, David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Campus initiative to integrate the arts, science and technology.

Soprano Carmen Balthrop, Voice and Opera Professor, Dies at 73

September 14, 2021 School of Music, College of Arts and Humanities

The School of Music bids farewell to an opera legend and a beloved faculty member of 36 years.
The Diamondback

“Lightning in a bottle”: UMD School of Music remembers voice professor Carmen Balthrop

September 14, 2021 School of Music, College of Arts and Humanities

An obituary for Professor Carmen Balthrop.
Maryland Today

Ten Can’t-Miss Features at NextNOW Fest 2021

September 13, 2021 Art, David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, English, School of Music, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Annual UMD arts extravaganza returns with immersive projections, art-making workshops and outdoor music pop-ups.

Patrick Warfield Appointed Associate Dean for Arts and Programming

September 13, 2021 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Music

Professor of musicology will direct campuswide Arts for All initiative and support programming in the College of Arts and Humanities.

The Diamondback

UMD Launches Initiative to Integrate Arts With Science and Technology

September 13, 2021 The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Arts for All initiative featured in the Diamondback.