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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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All Things Considered

Enslaved.org Shares Lives and Experiences of the Enslaved

December 09, 2020 History

Daryle Williams, associate professor of history, featured on NPR's "All Things Considered."

Blowing in a New Direction

December 08, 2020 The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, School of Music

UMD Wind Orchestra’s improvisational project premieres tonight.

Five Faculty Members Named AAAS Fellows

December 08, 2020 Linguistics

Professor of Linguistics Colin Phillips named a fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Fast Company

This Massive Database Reveals the Names and Stories Behind the History of Slavery

December 08, 2020 History

Enslaved.org includes historical records of more than 500,000 individuals who were transported to the Americas as part of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Philip Resnik Recognized as 2020 ACL Fellow

December 08, 2020 Linguistics

Professor of Linguistics honored for extraordinary research.
Maryland Today

Senior Named 2021 Marshall Scholar

December 08, 2020 Linguistics

Double-degree student, sixth in UMD history to win national scholarship, to pursue master’s in speech, language processing in UK.
Maryland Today

Reconstructing Fragmented Lives

December 01, 2020 College of Arts and Humanities, History

UMD researcher co-leads new digital collection piecing together histories of enslaved peoples.
Washington Post

A Massive New Effort to Name Millions Sold into Bondage During the Transatlantic Slave Trade

December 01, 2020 History

Enslaved.org featured in the Washington Post

The Diamondback

College Park’s Lakeland is Remembered Through Archived Documents, Photos at Virtual Event

November 21, 2020 American Studies, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities

Virtual event was in partnership with the Department of American Studies and Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities.