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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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New York Times

Advocating and Agitating, Connecting and Inventing

December 23, 2020 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

With their field rocked by unprecedented challenges in 2020, these people and groups—some notable, some new—stepped into the breach.

‘Learning it by doing it’: Marisa Fried ’20 Finds Her Calling in Linguistics Research

December 18, 2020 Linguistics, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Fried graduates with a double major, a minor, a certificate—and a bedrock of research and cultural experiences.

2020 Dean’s Scholars Awards Recipients

December 17, 2020 College of Arts and Humanities, Communication

ARHU students celebrated for academic excellence.

Linguist Phillips Named AAAS Fellow

December 17, 2020 Linguistics

Prestigious honor recognizes professor’s research, mentorship and long-term influence on the field of linguistics education.
The Diamondback

"Beauty in the Human Spirit"

December 17, 2020 David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora

David C. Driskell’s art legacy.

Creating Alternate Worlds Through Digital Performance

December 15, 2020 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Theater and dance students explore the intersections of art and technology in the virtual classroom.

Entrepreneur Rising

December 15, 2020 American Studies

Nazea Khan ’20 sharpened her skills at the intersection of critical thinking and meaningful experience.

New Major Explores Roots of Western Religions

December 14, 2020 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, History, Classics

‘Religions and Cultures of the Ancient Middle East’ pulls from Jewish studies, history and classics.
Smithsonian Magazine

Who Were America’s Enslaved? A New Database Humanizes the Names Behind the Numbers

December 11, 2020 History

The public website draws connections between existing datasets to piece together fragmentary narratives.
The Chicago Tribune

The Best Classical Recordings of 2020: CSO, Kevin Cole and James Lentini

December 09, 2020 The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

The National Orchestral Institute's "Gershwin Concerto in F" (Naxos) named a best classical album of 2020.