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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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ARHU In The News

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.
The Black Explosion October 03, 2024

Award-Winning Poet Ama Codjoe Inspires Young Writers at Writers Here and Now Event

The poet spoke with students at the Jimenez-Porter Writers' House.

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UMoves Lets Dance Students' Creativity Shine at the Clarice

May 09, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Annual dance concert is choreographed and performed by students in the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies.
University of North Carolina Press Blog

Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt: Wakanda Mexicana

May 08, 2018 History

UMD associate professor of history explores the connections between her new book and "Black Panther."
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine

NEW REPORT FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES, ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE: BRANCHES FROM THE SAME TREE

May 07, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities

Report urges development and evaluation of approaches that integrate STEMM fields with arts and humanities in higher education.

ARHU Dean Receives President's Commission on Ethnic Minority Issues Award

May 02, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities

Dean Thornton Dill honored for fostering equality, diversity and inclusion across campus.

2018 Boren Scholarship Recipients

May 01, 2018 Arabic, College of Arts and Humanities, French, Jimenez-Porter Writers' House, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Eight UMD students awarded Boren Scholarships, which provide up to $20,000 for long-term language-focused study abroad.

UMD LEADS A STUDY ON IMPROVING HPV VACCINATION RATES AMONG AFRICAN-AMERICAN ADOLESCENTS

April 30, 2018 Center for Health and Risk Communication, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication

A $2.2 million grant will support research on improving cancer prevention through socially and culturally specific communication strategies.
TERP

Backing Beyoncé

April 30, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Guitarist plays in band at historic Coachella performance.
The Diamondback

Immersive Art Spring Exhibition Combined the Worlds of Stem and Art

April 30, 2018 Art, College of Arts and Humanities

ART x TECH pushed boundaries to turn technology into creativity.

Book published by Prof. Jorge Bravo

April 28, 2018 Classics

Congratulations to Professor Jorge J. Bravo III, whose book, Excavations at Nemea IV:  The Shrine of Opheltes, has just been published by the University of California Press. 
Her Campus

Partisan Identity is the Most Important: A Speech from NPR's Mara Liasson

April 21, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities

Chaos, polarization and resistance were focus points of an NPR journalist’s speech Wednesday at the University of Maryland, where she discussed the status of journalism under president Donald Trump’s administration.