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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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Maryland Today

An Ever-Changing ‘Landscape’

September 09, 2021 David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora

Exhibition highlights overlooked Black artists in American artistic tradition.

Broadening the Arts Umbrella

September 08, 2021 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, School of Music, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, English, Art, Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland Art Gallery, David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora

New initiative expands offerings; unites arts, STEM and social justice.

Mellon Grant Funds Continuation of Persian and Arabic Digitization Project

September 03, 2021 Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

The $100k grant supports the development of user-friendly, open-source software to produce high-quality digital transcriptions of printed texts.
The Forward

With These 3 Moves, Bennett Can Begin Repairing the U.S.-Israel Relationship

August 26, 2021 Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Visiting Professor Scott Lasensky writes for The Forward.
Inside Higher Ed

UMD English Department Chair Amanda Bailey Weighs in on New Netflix Show "The Chair" for Inside Higher Ed

August 19, 2021 English, College of Arts and Humanities

The new Netflix series portrays a chair of a department at a moment when the position has never been more demanding and the humanities are at an inflection point, writes Amanda Bailey.

Professor's New Book Explores ‘Failed Promise’ of Reconstruction

August 18, 2021 English, College of Arts and Humanities

Literary historian chronicles Frederick Douglass’ disillusionment with Andrew Johnson.

Lifelong Learners Step Up to Enhance Graduate Students’ Success

August 16, 2021 College of Arts and Humanities, Art History and Archaeology

Gift from Helene Stein '74 and husband Michael '76 reflect shared love for art and travel.
New Yorker

UMD English Alum Jason Reynolds '05 Profiled in the New Yorker

August 09, 2021 English, College of Arts and Humanities

Best-selling alum discusses helping young readers discover their own stories.

Experience the Arts Together at The Clarice

August 09, 2021 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, School of Music, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

The performing arts at Maryland announce their Fall 2021 season.
Los Angeles Review of Books

Frederick Douglass and the Trouble with Critical Race Theory

August 02, 2021 English, College of Arts and Humanities

Distinguished University Professor Robert Levine's Essay Featured in LA Review of Books