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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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June 26, 2024 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, School of Music, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

The 2024–25 Season at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center is Now on Sale!

The more than 50 shows spanning music, theater, dance, comedy and more include both groundbreaking new works and reimagined classics.

June 18, 2024 College of Arts and Humanities

Freedom Songs

This Juneteenth, ARHU Dean and Ethnomusicologist Stephanie Shonekan lists six songs reflecting on ‘the complexities of attaining freedom for all.’
June 13, 2024 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, School of Music, Art, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, English

Inaugural Arts for All Fellows To Work Across Art, Tech, Science and Social Justice

The 10 faculty and 5 students come from units across campus and will work on projects that engage the public.

June 04, 2024 College of Arts and Humanities

Announcing ‘Rhyme & Reason’ the Podcast

ARHU launches a new podcast that features faculty voices exploring timely topics related to race, equity and justice.

May 21, 2024 Communication

Communication Alum Wins Pulitzer for Washington Post AR-15 Series

Emily Guskin ’06 is a polling analyst at the Post.

May 21, 2024 Art

Using Art to Transform ‘Something So Ugly’ into ‘Something So Beautiful’

Maggie Letvin ’24, an ARHU triple major, said UMD showed them they can’t live life without making art.
April 08, 2024 College of Arts and Humanities, Douglass Center

Legendary Poet, Activist and Educator Nikki Giovanni to Help Inaugurate New Frederick Douglass Center

The center is dedicated to engaging diverse communities—both at the university and well beyond—around issues of social justice and equity.
April 05, 2024 David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora

Sculpture Celebrating David Driskell Unveiled

Noted African American artist’s 20-foot-tall work stands outside center named for late professor, artist, scholar.
March 29, 2024 College of Arts and Humanities

‘Finding My Voice and Standing My Ground’

Women deans reflect on stumbling blocks and successes on their paths to leadership.
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ARHU In The News

The New Republic July 01, 2024

The Supreme Court Turns the President Into a King

Burke Chair of American Cultural and Intellectual History Holly Brewer writes for The New Republic.
USA Today May 24, 2024

As Trump's Trial Nears an End, the Bidens Prep for a Month in Legal Purgatory

Professor of Communication Trevor Parry-Giles featured in USA Today.
The Washington Post March 29, 2024

A Celebration of David C. Driskell’s Sweeping Influence on the Art World

The Washington Post features "Driskell and Friends."

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The Washington Post

What’s in a Name? Konshens the MC Talks Music, Education and the Powerful Consciousness That Drives Him

July 22, 2020 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Music

UMD music students collaborate with Konshens the MC to form Classically Dope.

American Studies Professor Among Editors of Award-Winning Book on Planned Communities

July 20, 2020 American Studies

Mary Corbin Sies was one of three editors of the book, which received an International Planning Historical Society 2020 prize.

Breath & Delirium: Selected Works By Glenda León

July 16, 2020 University of Maryland Art Gallery

“Breath & Delirium: Selected Works by Glenda León” is a free, online exhibition of video works by Havana-born, Madrid-based artist Glenda León.

PBS NewsHour

How the Familiar Words of a Cliche Can Grant Comfort to the Grieving

July 11, 2020 English

Rion Amilcar Scott on PBS NewsHour.
ABC World News Tonight

Student Who Collected Garbage To Pay For College Is Accepted To Harvard Law School

July 10, 2020 History

“It was a surreal moment for me,” Staton said.
Washington Post

Thamee Got National Acclaim For Its Burmese Food

July 10, 2020 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Now it wants to become a model for racial justice.

Thalea String Quartet Awarded Graduate Fellowship

July 10, 2020 School of Music, College of Arts and Humanities

Graduate string quartet plans to ‘explore the role of chamber music in the new and shifting landscape of the performing arts.’

Ruth Enid Zambrana Named Distinguished University Professor

July 09, 2020 The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Zambrana is a renowned and pioneering interdisciplinary scholar and mentor.

Statement on ICE SEVP Modifications for Fall 2020

July 09, 2020 College of Arts and Humanities

A message from Dean Bonnie Thornton Dill.

Fall 2020 Leadership Announcements

July 08, 2020 College of Arts and Humanities

New leadership appointments for 2020-21.