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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.

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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.
September 03, 2024 College of Arts and Humanities, Douglass Center

Freedom Teaching: Douglass Center Connects Local Educators and UMD Professors to Share Tools

The Second Annual Summer Humanities Institute drew 60 area middle and high school educators to campus.
September 03, 2024 Art, Art History and Archaeology, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

NextNOW Fest 2024: Handpicked Highlights From Curators

Arts extravaganza to feature nearly 70 activities, performances, exhibitions.
August 29, 2024 Philosophy

John Horty Named Distinguished University Professor

The professor of philosophy was among the first to apply formal logic developed within artificial intelligence to address complex questions of moral reasoning.

August 07, 2024 History

Inside the Nooks of ‘The Bookshop’

In new book, history alum traces the long story of bookstores.
July 01, 2024 History

The Supreme Court Turns the President Into a King

Burke Chair of American Cultural and Intellectual History Holly Brewer writes for The New Republic.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education October 31, 2024

AI May Ruin the University as We Know It

English Professor Matthew Kirschenbaum on AI and ed-tech in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Stories Beneath the Shell October 16, 2024

University of Maryland Faculty and Students Collaborate to Increase Voter Participation

Stories Beneath the Shell highlights the VOTE (Fearlessly)! initiative.
The Diamondback October 15, 2024

Zine Club Relaunch Invites Students to Create, Connect Through Design

BookLab Zine Club featured in The Diamondback.

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2012-13 Recipients Of James F. Harris Arts And Humanities Visionary Scholarship Announced

March 01, 2013 Classics, College of Arts and Humanities, English, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Spanish and Portuguese, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Three ARHU students awarded first-ever James F. Harris Visionary Scholarship for outstanding achievement in the arts and humanities.

Adichie's Long Story Short

March 01, 2013 Center for Literary and Comparative Studies, College of Arts and Humanities, English

Storyteller from Nigeria visits campus to share insight into her writing and her culture.

ARHU Insights with Mary Helen Washington

February 28, 2013 English

Research explores expressions of race and the "Negro" experience in 1950s black literature, music and art.
Future of Information Alliance

ARHU Students And Faculty Awarded Fia-Deutsch Seed Grants

February 22, 2013 American Studies, College of Arts and Humanities, Digital Cultures & Creativity, Linguistics

Out of 22 FIA grantees, 11 ARHU students and faculty win FIA-Deutsch Seed Grant Competition.

Audio: Kari Kraus Talks With Kojo Nnamdi

February 20, 2013 College of Arts and Humanities, English

English Professor Kari Kraus was a featured participant on The Kojo Nnamdi Show for a conversation about the digital humanities.
City Paper

Somebody's Watching Me

February 20, 2013 Art, College of Arts and Humanities

UMD Art Professor Hasan Elahi turns surveillance into art.

Audio: Dean Thornton Dill Interviewed On Women'S Media Center Live

February 16, 2013 College of Arts and Humanities

ARHU Dean Thornton Dill interviewed on intersections of race, gender and class for Women's Media Center Live with Robin Morgan.

Pending Novel Looks At Experience Of African Immigrants In America

February 14, 2013 College of Arts and Humanities

Chimamanda Adichie has been invited to speak at the University of Maryland, College Park on Tuesday, Feb. 19 as part of the WORLDWISE Arts and Humanities Dean's Lecture Series.

The David C. Driskell Center Awarded Prestigious Grant From The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

February 11, 2013 College of Arts and Humanities

The Driskell Center was recently awarded a $251,700 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, through the Council on Library and Information Resources [CLIR].

UMD’S Driskell Center Receives $2.2 Million Art Collector Bequest

February 06, 2013 College of Arts and Humanities, David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora

More than 225 collected artworks from the estate of the late Sandra Anderson Baccus and her husband, Lloyd T. Baccus, added to Driskell Center collection.