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The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

UMD Awarded $3.6M Mellon Foundation Grant to Advance Indigenous Archives

Project will develop tools, standards and reparative practices to restore Indigenous histories.

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February 04, 2025 Art, David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, University of Maryland Art Gallery

A Well-Framed Career for Driskell Center Staffer

Art grad’s print to be featured in spring exhibition.
February 03, 2025 College of Arts and Humanities, Douglass Center, History

New Douglass Center Director on Humanities, History and Expanding Ideas of Leadership

Associate Professor of History Quincy Mills on the future of the center.

December 19, 2024 College of Arts and Humanities

Happy Holidays from ARHU!

Watch our holiday message from Dean Stephanie Shonekan.
November 21, 2024 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Signs of Accessibility in Performing Arts

New TDPS director is school’s first deaf leader.
November 01, 2024 College of Arts and Humanities

Mentorship, Boundaries, Vision: Black Women University Leaders Share Tips for the Next Generation

ARHU Dean Stephanie Shonekan and her trailblazing “sister scholars” share guidance and strategies to thrive in leadership.

October 02, 2024 English

UMD Grad Jason Reynolds Awarded MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’

Popular author of YA, children’s books about kids of color to receive $800K.
September 30, 2024 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

In UMD Visit, Kermit Makes a Rainbow Connection With Terps

Famed frog (and his performer) talk with ARHU dean about Jim Henson ’60, Miss Piggy and life lessons from the Muppets.
September 25, 2024 College of Arts and Humanities

‘Find Something Bigger Than Yourself’

Maryland First Lady and alum Dawn Moore shares priorities, passions in conversation at UMD.
September 17, 2024 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Honoring ‘Las Muertes’

Terps highlight how D.C.’s Salvadoran diaspora uses art to grapple with painful past in new documentary.
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Inside Higher Ed February 18, 2025

Asian Americans Got Played on Affirmative Action

Let’s not get played again, OiYan Poon and Janelle Wong, Professor of American Studies, write.
The Diamondback February 17, 2025

‘Cuckoo’ Uses Iconic Rice Cookers to Tell South Korea’s Story

Read The Diamondback's review of the production from the Clarice Presents.
The Diamondback February 11, 2025

‘Deepe Darknesse’ Challenges Contemporary Dance Expectations

Read The Diamondback's review.

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Maryland Today

A Well-Framed Career for Driskell Center Staffer

February 04, 2025 Art, David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, University of Maryland Art Gallery

Art grad’s print to be featured in spring exhibition.
Maryland Today

UMD Awarded $3.6M Mellon Foundation Grant to Advance Indigenous Archives

February 04, 2025 The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Project will develop tools, standards and reparative practices to restore Indigenous histories.

Step Into NarraSpace: UMD’s Hub for Immersive Storytelling and Inclusive Scholarship

February 03, 2025 College of Arts and Humanities, English

With VR headsets and tactile tools, UMD's new lab is redefining what scholarship can look—and feel—like.

New Douglass Center Director on Humanities, History and Expanding Ideas of Leadership

February 03, 2025 College of Arts and Humanities, Douglass Center, History

Associate Professor of History Quincy Mills on the future of the center.

The Baltimore Sun

After 138 Years, Black American Opera Composer Edmond Dédé‘s Masterpiece Makes its Debut

January 31, 2025 School of Music, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Read the article in the Baltimore Sun.
Maryland Today

10 Faculty Receive UMD Independent Scholarship, Research and Creativity Awards

January 29, 2025 Art, Communication, English, Philosophy

Grants to support individual projects in arts, AI, architecture and more.

HuMetricsHSS’ New Leadership Institute Receives Second Grant

January 17, 2025 College of Arts and Humanities

Funding from the Hewlett Foundation supports the VELI program to transform the culture of higher education leadership.

The New York Times

Here Comes the Bride (Just Not to That Song)

December 20, 2024 School of Music

Craig Kier, director of Arts for All, talks to The New York Times about Wagner's "Bridal Chorus."

Happy Holidays from ARHU!

December 19, 2024 College of Arts and Humanities

Watch our holiday message from Dean Stephanie Shonekan.
Smithsonian Magazine

See the Groundbreaking Work of 20th-Century Printmakers Who Formed an Innovative Arts Society in Japan

December 19, 2024 Art History and Archaeology

Professor of Japanese Art Alicia Volk is quoted in Smithsonian Magazine.