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UMD Grad Jason Reynolds Awarded MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’

Popular author of YA, children’s books about kids of color to receive $800K.

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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.
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.

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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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French Professor Receives Two Fellowships to Support Research on 19th-Century Abolitionist Journal

July 06, 2022 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Maria Beliaeva Solomon will be scholar-in-residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies.

Mellon Grant Funds Continuation of Islamicate Text Digitization Project

July 05, 2022 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities

A $1.75 million grant will help expand digital access to Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish and Urdu manuscripts and books.

GerShun Avilez Appointed Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

June 30, 2022 College of Arts and Humanities, English

The Professor of English will continue to advance DEI practices across the college.

Fall 2022 Leadership Appointments

June 30, 2022 English, National Foreign Language Center, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, History, University of Maryland Art Gallery, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, School of Music, Art, Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity

Dean Bonnie Thornton Dill announces new leadership appointments.
Maryland Today

Seeing Juneteenth

June 15, 2022 David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora

How Black artists bring the celebration of freedom to visual life.

Jane Hirshberg Awarded for Contributions to BSU-UMD Social Justice Alliance

June 13, 2022 The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

The artistic planning program director at The Clarice made sure the arts were present in the SJA’s recent symposium.

PBS NewsHour

Interactive Museum Strives to Boost the Love of Words

June 10, 2022 Linguistics, English

The Planet Word Museum in Washington, D.C., which aims to bring language to life, recently opened a new exhibit focused on wordplay.

The Clarice Receives National Endowment for the Arts Grant

June 09, 2022 The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

The $35,000 award will fund an Artists in Residence program.

Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes’ Story Collection Unfurls A Family’s Shadows, Myths

June 09, 2022 English, College of Arts and Humanities

‘Are We Ever Our Own’ is a multigenerational history of the fictional Armando Castell family told mostly through women narrators.

2022–23 ARHU Fulbright Recipients

June 05, 2022 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Philosophy, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Four ARHU students receive the prestigious grant.