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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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Breaking the M.O.L.D. Launches Third Cohort for Leaders of Color and Women in Higher Ed

October 01, 2024 College of Arts and Humanities

The Mellon Foundation-funded initiative prepares underrepresented arts and humanities faculty for leadership roles.
Maryland Today

3D Printing, Animation, Underwater Cameras: New Methods Inform Faculty Art Exhibition

October 01, 2024 Art, University of Maryland Art Gallery

Works in triennial exhibition tackle climate change, identity, misogyny and more.
Maryland Today

In UMD Visit, Kermit Makes a Rainbow Connection With Terps

September 30, 2024 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Famed frog (and his performer) talk with ARHU dean about Jim Henson ’60, Miss Piggy and life lessons from the Muppets.
Maryland Today

‘Find Something Bigger Than Yourself’

September 25, 2024 College of Arts and Humanities

Maryland First Lady and alum Dawn Moore shares priorities, passions in conversation at UMD.
Maryland Today

From Ashes to Awe

September 25, 2024 Art History and Archaeology

Students and faculty mark 20 years of excavating and documenting little-known ruins near Pompeii.
Arc Magazine

The Gods of Silicon Valley

September 24, 2024 College of Arts and Humanities, English

English Professor Lee Konstantinou authors opinion essay for Arc Magazine.
Maryland Today

Honoring ‘Las Muertes’

September 17, 2024 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Terps highlight how D.C.’s Salvadoran diaspora uses art to grapple with painful past in new documentary.

ARHU’s Julie O’Donnell Wright Honored With President’s Distinguished Service Award

September 17, 2024 College of Arts and Humanities

Wright is the “go-to person on virtually every question of finance and administration.”

The Baltimore Sun

What Was Baltimore’s Song of the Summer? It Depends How You Define It.

September 17, 2024 College of Arts and Humanities

Dean Stephanie Shonekan weighs in.
Maryland Today

A ‘Proud’ Debut on an Illustrious NYC Stage for Maryland Opera Studio

September 13, 2024 School of Music

At theater that premiered ‘Hamilton,’ student singers tell story of controversial Mexican leader.