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Arts for All, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, School of Music

UMD Professor’s Poem Becomes Play-Opera About Women in Prison

Inspired by real accounts, “For Women Serving Time” opens March 20 at Dupont Underground.

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March 02, 2026 Communication

ARHU Scholar Looks to Indonesia for AI Lessons

Communication lecturer Lamia Zia received a Council on Foreign Relations fellowship to support the new project.

February 23, 2026 College of Arts and Humanities, English

Professor Emerita Merle Collins Recovers Overlooked Life of Louise Little

Collins received the Barbara T. Christian Literary Award for “Ocean Stirrings.”
February 10, 2026 Arts for All, David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora

Driskell Center Receives $100,000 Terra Foundation Grant to Support Spring Exhibition ‘America Will Be!’

The exhibition presents artworks that critically engage the image and symbol of the U.S. flag.

February 06, 2026 History

Meet Environmental Historian Jayson Maurice Porter

The assistant professor of history reflects on his research, teaching and the CEDAR Gallery, a student-centered space he is developing at UMD.
February 04, 2026 History

Rethinking the American Revolution as a Global Conflict

Professor of History Richard Bell’s new book reframes America’s founding conflict as a war fought across empires, oceans and everyday lives.
December 19, 2025 Arts for All, College of Arts and Humanities, School of Music, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Students Turn Climate Change Into Sound

Clarice Assad’s Arts for All residency culminates in a student-created album.

December 08, 2025 American Studies, Arts for All

Material Culture, Collective Memory and the Work of Repair

American studies Ph.D. student Hannah Brancato combines scholarship, art and community to understand trauma and possibility.
December 05, 2025 English

How Professor John Drabinski Wrote Three Books at Once

How Black vernacular culture, Baldwin and the Atlantic world shape his latest scholarship.
December 04, 2025 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

UMD Launches Global Culture and Thought Major

New program emphasizes international cultures and languages to prepare graduates for an increasingly globalized world.

ARHU In The News

WTOP February 12, 2026

Bad Bunny’s Cultural Impact Lands in UMD Classroom

Bad Bunny is one of the biggest artists in the world and also the subject of a new course at the University of Maryland.
Maryland Theatre Guide February 11, 2026

Dance Review: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company ‘Still/Here’ at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Read the review in Maryland Theatre Guide.
Broadway World February 09, 2026

Review: STILL/HERE at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Bill T. Jones' masterwork remains urgently, defiantly alive.

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The Art and Humanity of AI

October 08, 2025 American Studies, Art, Arts for All, Communication, English, Linguistics, Maryland Language Science Center, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

From classrooms to research labs, the College of Arts and Humanities is shaping how we understand artificial intelligence and guiding its responsible future.

NEH Awards $300K to UMD Project Chronicling History of Emancipation

October 07, 2025 History

Funding supports the next volumes of “Freedom,” a landmark history series 50 years in the making.

Eight ARHU Faculty Receive Teaching Innovation Grants

October 07, 2025 Art, English, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Projects integrate Universal Design for Learning to create more inclusive, accessible classrooms across the humanities.
Maryland Today

A Peek Inside … American Studies Senior Lecturer Robert Chester’s Office

October 07, 2025 American Studies

Film historian’s massive movie collection, memorabilia fill homey office.

Bad Bunny as Scholarly Subject?

October 06, 2025 Arts for All, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Spanish and Portuguese

UMD course explores Puerto Rico’s soundscape of protest and poetics — just as the global superstar prepares to take the 2026 Super Bowl halftime stage.
The Diamondback

New Hornbake Library Exhibit Honors Sesame Street’s Cultural Pioneering

October 03, 2025 Arts for All, College of Arts and Humanities

Hornbake Library unveiled its exhibit, “The UMD Sesame Street Archival Showcase,” Wednesday, which explores the educational experience and cultural impact of the beloved puppet show Sesame Street.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Netanyahu: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

October 02, 2025 Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

An article, co-written by Ilai Saltzman, director of the Gildenhorn Institute, was recently featured on the HBO program.
Maryland Today

Roshan Institute to Establish Persian Digital Library

October 02, 2025 Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Supported by $1.8M private gift, project will be first of its kind.
Maryland Today

How Frederick Douglass Changed His Mind About Lincoln

October 01, 2025 History

Alum’s new book finds fresh nuance in relationship that helped end slavery.
Maryland Today

NPR Host and Humorist Peter Sagal: ‘You Need the Art’

September 29, 2025 Arts for All, College of Arts and Humanities

In conversation with ARHU dean, ‘Wait Wait!’ fixture champions radio, learning and failing.