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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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How The Clarice is Creating Connection

August 26, 2020 The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

From a reimagined orchestral institute to a virtual NextNOW Fest, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center takes the arts online during dual pandemics.

Teaching Innovation in the Arts and Humanities

August 24, 2020 College of Arts and Humanities

Fifty-one ARHU proposals received Teaching Innovation Grants to enhance student learning and engagement for Fall 2020.

Washington Post

Glenda León’s Elegant Online Videos Seem To Ponder the Universe and the Self

August 04, 2020 University of Maryland Art Gallery

UMD Art Gallery exhibition reviewed by the Washington Post.
CNN

Iranian and American Musicians Join Forces To Spread Joy Amid the Pandemic

August 01, 2020 Roshan Institute for Persian Studies

Roshan Institute for Persian Studies partnership featured on CNN.
The Baltimore Sun

Schools Quickly Pivot to a Virtual World

July 31, 2020 College of Arts and Humanities

New initiatives with students in mind adapt on the fly.

Understanding Race, Equity, Inclusion and Justice Through the Arts and Humanities

July 31, 2020 College of Arts and Humanities

Explore a range of courses offered this fall taught by outstanding ARHU faculty.

ARHU Grad’s Beauty Business Gets a Boost

July 29, 2020 American Studies

Amid a national reckoning over racism, Mia Chae Reddy Ph.D. ’12 finds her voice as a Black business owner.

Fall Update from ARHU

July 23, 2020 College of Arts and Humanities

Hear from Dean Bonnie Thornton Dill on what to expect this academic year.
The Washington Post

What’s in a Name? Konshens the MC Talks Music, Education and the Powerful Consciousness That Drives Him

July 22, 2020 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Music

UMD music students collaborate with Konshens the MC to form Classically Dope.

American Studies Professor Among Editors of Award-Winning Book on Planned Communities

July 20, 2020 American Studies

Mary Corbin Sies was one of three editors of the book, which received an International Planning Historical Society 2020 prize.