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College of Arts and Humanities

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Watch our holiday message from Dean Stephanie Shonekan.

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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.
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.

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ARHU In The News

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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The African American Experience (Impact Research Digest: Vol. 4 No. 1, Spring 2009)

August 16, 2009 College of Arts and Humanities, American Studies, David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, English, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Read the Spring edition of Impact, spotlighting the research of ARHU faculty as it relates to the African American Experience.