What role do you think humanities play in addressing today's challenges? dbknews.com/2025/11/20/r...

Join the UMD Libraries on Thursday, November 6th, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in McKeldin Library room 4109 as Dean Stephanie Shonekan discusses their work Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s Sorrow Tears and Blood. www.lib.umd.edu/research/eve...

New episodes of our "Rhyme and Reason” podcast are here! From Black barber shops to Haitian cinema to immigrant political life, these conversations reveal how the arts and humanities help us see beyond headlines, connect past and present and support communities. Listen now: umd-arhu.podbean.com

UMD’s Freedmen and Southern Society Project has received a $300k grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support its landmark book, “Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867,” chronicling one of the most consequential moments in U.S. history. go.umd.edu/241s

As part of Disability Awareness Month, join ARHU Dean Stephanie Shonekan and panelists for a conversation on disability and accessibility at UMD. Open to UMD students, faculty, and staff. Oct 23, 4–5 PM, Taliaferro 1126.

Dean Stephanie Shonekan unveiled ARHU’s Timely & Timeless strategic plan at our annual assembly as we celebrated 2025 Service Award winners—with music, poetry, and student reflections on the four commitments. arhu.umd.edu/news/arhu-20...

UMD’s Roshan Institute for Persian Studies received a major gift to establish the Dr. Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Persian Digital Library, the first open-access, scholar-vetted archive of Persian texts. today.umd.edu/roshan-insti...

Join the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies on Wed, Oct. 8 at 4 p.m. for the launch of Technocreep and the Politics of Things Unseen—a feminist take on why our ties to tech often feel “creepy.” go.umd.edu/technocreep

Join ARHU Dean Stephanie Shonekan and panelists this Thursday, Oct. 9, 3:30–4:30 p.m., to explore how the College of Arts and Humanities examines AI through humanistic and social science perspectives—examining its impact and creatively using its tools. arhu.umd.edu/events/arhu-...

The HPV vaccine prevents cancer—but uptake remains far below national goals. Professor of Communication Xiaoli Nan has earned a $2.8M NIH grant to lead an interdisciplinary team developing an AI-powered chatbot to support parents in making informed choices. Read more: arhu.umd.edu/news/umd-res...

Have you voted yet for your favorite #JaneAusten heroine? @umdhistory.bsky.social Prof Julie Taddeo takes part in @uk.theconversation.com #FightClub! @umd-arhu.bsky.social theconversation.com/who-was-jane...

In honor of Jacob Lawrence's birthday, we're throwing it waayyy back to 2011 when The David C. Driskell Center hosted a survey exhibition of his prints from 1963-2000. Check out the installation shots of the exhibition, or explore pieces in the permanent collection go.umd.edu/21wx.

In honor of Jane Austen's 250th birthday, Dr. Julie Taddeo and other Regency era scholars were featured in The Conversation UK's "Jane Austen Fight Club." Continue reading to learn who Dr. Taddeo chose as her ultimate Jane Austen heroine! theconversation.com/who-was-jane...

What makes smart tech creepy? Professor Neda Atanasoski, chair of @wgss-umd.bsky.social, recently joined KPFA's "Against the Grain" to unpack surveillance, ethics and the politics of "technocreep."

Support students at Hollywood Elementary with the ARHU Staff Council's annual School Supply Drive! We're collecting backpacks, pencils, notebooks, and more. Drop-off locations on campus. Find out how you can help: go.umd.edu/arhuschooldr... #UMD #ARHU #CommunityService #SchoolSupplyDrive

Ten years ago, a new musical changed Broadway forever. We're revisiting this article about UMD history professor Richard Bell, an expert in the American Revolution, who shares what "Hamilton" gets right—and wrong—about our founding fathers. brnw.ch/21wUIss #Hamilten

If you want to hear a podcast featuring me talking about Tolkien and the far right, have I got something for you.

SPAN448M: Contemporary Puerto Rican Musicality: From Plena to Bad Bunny explores lyrics, performance, and the impact of genres like bomba, plena, salsa, reggaetón and more. 📚 Prof. Quintero-Herencia 🗓️ Fall 2025 📍 UMD Spanish & Portuguese 🔗 app.testudo.umd.edu/soc/202405/S...

Drawing from black avant-garde poetic traditions and led by Marissa Parham, the “Remixed Poetry towards Computational Literacies”workshop put remix skills and digital literacy at the forefront.

In a session on Embodied Teaching as Radical Practice. Tamisha Ponder, owner of Sankofa Yoga and Wellness, shared this Thomas Merton quote. Ponder studies the physiological responses of those doing organizing and activism to the stress of the work. She considers educators as activists.

“We are not authoritarian figures in the classroom. Students are not passive. Authority is shared.” - Tony Louis on “Cultivating Joy: Centering Ecstasy and Pleasure in the Classroom.”

“The journey is also to the teacher and beyond. It’s always a path to the heart.” -bell hooks

Dr. Tamisha J. Ponder led the group in a grounding and centering exercise and shared that bell hooks was inspired by Thich Nat Han. hooks said: “He met rage with loving kindness.”

The institute, called “Teaching To Transgress,” is convened in the spirit of bell hooks, who said that the classroom remains the most radical space in the academy.

“To be a leader you have to be grounded in a study of the humanities” - Dr. Quincy Mills at the Third Annual Maryland Humanities Summer Institute organized by the Frederick Douglass Center For Leadership Through The Humanities. Happening now!

Leadership updates from Dean Stephanie Shonekan: 🎓 Christina Hanhardt - Chair, American Studies 🎶 Jared Rawlings – Director, School of Music 🎨 Justin Strom – Art, Chair more updates & thanks to outgoing leaders! 🔗 Full story in first comment ⬇️

Looking for your next summer read? 📚 Terp alums from @umdenglish.bsky.social and American studies are making waves—from Hamptons fiction to feminist TV critique to YA thrillers. Check out new books by Brooke Foster, Vincent Stephens, Meg Eden, & Allison Stine! #UMD #TerpAuthors

Congratulations to the ARHU awardees whose #artificialintelligence research projects were among those funded through a new #UMD seed grant program. Their projects span developing sea ice monitoring techniques, to improving speech therapy for neurodiverse people and more go.umd.edu/aim-grants-25

Piotr Kosicki, associate professor of history, speaks to WJLA about the historical impact of the new Pope Leo XIV. Watch the interview. wjla.com/news/local/w...

Congratulations to Professor of History Robyn Muncy, Professor of Violin James Stern and Professor of Conducting and Ensembles Michael Votta, Jr.—three ARHU professors named 2025 Distinguished Scholar-Teachers! Learn more: go.umd.edu/1z17

Happy to celebrate the great research underway in ARHU at the annual Maryland Research Excellence Celebration. Glad to join with ARHU colleagues and Dean Stephanie Shonekan. Be sure to check out the great research from ARHU at arhu.umd.edu/research

The Miller Center for Historical Studies presents "Making Sense of Mass Atrocities: The Meanings of Genocide in Historical And Contemporary Contexts," featuring Omer Bartov in conversation with UMD's Shibley Telhami and moderated by Peter Wien: Monday, 4/7/25 5-6:30 pm in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110

We are honored that @aaas.org elected linguistics Professor Jeffrey Lidz to this year’s #AAASFellow class, one of the most distinct honors within the scientific community! Learn more: go.umd.edu/1xu5

George Pelecanos's advice to new and aspiring writers: read voraciously and live a full life! Read more takeaways from the UMD alum, an acclaimed crime novelist and co-producer of “The Wire” and other HBO series, who visited UMD yesterday! today.umd.edu/renowned-cri... @umdenglish.bsky.social

UMD's Language & Cognition Lab is hiring a full-time Project Manager (year commitment, possible extension) to support a NSF project studying how language experience across socioeconomic status impacts children’s language processing + a NIH project on Developmental Language Disorder. bit.ly/3XFXG59

Calling all #Bridgerton & historical #Romance fans! Join me for the next "Love on the Brain" talk on Wed., 1-2 pm (EST) @umdhistory.bsky.social @umd-arhu.bsky.social umd.libcal.com/event/14181652

In celebration of Women’s History Month we’re spotlighting Harriet Tubman Day on March 10, co hosted by @wgss-umd.bsky.social and The David C. Driskell Center, featuring Ernestine "Tina" Wyatt, Great Great Great Granddaughter of Harriet Tubman. Registration required: brnw.ch/21wR2sa.

A new exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, co-curated by ARHU alum Grace Yasumura Ph.D. '19, explores the intersection of sculpture and race. "DNA Study Revisited," by Roberto Lugo (below), is one of the pieces on display. (Photo by Albert Ting) today.umd.edu/tracing-the-...

Made possible by a 2024 Teaching Innovation Grant, NarraSpace at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities is a new immersive storytelling lab redefining scholarship with VR, spatial audio, gaming and more. english.umd.edu/news/step-na...

It's an exciting week at The Clarice, as we host Edmond Dédé’s Morgiane Friday (with Opera Layfayette) and Dean Stephanie Shonekan hosts legendary opera singer Denyce Graves Wednesday! Tix: theclarice.umd.edu @theclariceumd.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/02/03/n... @univofmaryland.bsky.social

Dean Stephanie Shonekan welcomes the ARHU community to the Spring semester: " This...is...a critical time and place in which to define who we are as a community of artists and scholars who value the diversity of our worldviews, creative approaches, and identities." mailchi.mp/umd.edu/coll...

Are you keeping up with this year’s Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions? Isaac Hirsch ‘14, History is competing! 🏆🔎 Maryland Today took a deep dive into Terp trivia masters, and ARHU alums like Erik Agard ‘15, American Studies are among them. Check out the article: today.umd.edu/a-jeopardy-t...

Join us for an an exclusive conversation with mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves as part of the Spring 2025 ARHU Dean’s Lecture Series. Register for free admission before seats fill up! go.umd.edu/1v8d #BlackHistoryMonth #UMDArtsForAll

Congratulations to English Ph.D. student Lisa Osei, who was selected to receive the Edward Guiliano Global Fellowship by the Modern Language Association! Osei's project is titled “Sankofa’s Cosmic Adansikro: Mapping out Afrofuturist Worlds through Interactive Web Game Design.”

In times of struggle, music has the power to soothe our souls and unite us. The Baltimore Sun's latest guest commentary by #UMD Professor of English Jason Rudy highlights the profound impact of music on our communities, especially during challenging times. www.baltimoresun.com/2024/12/08/m...

In Episode 3 of the Rhyme & Reason Podcast, we delve into #UMD Associate Professor Nancy Mirabal's expertise on Afro-diasporic studies and gentrification and learn about her active role in the Chicano movement in San Francisco. Listen here: arhu.umd.edu/media/advanc...

We are sad to hear of the death of Nikki Giovanni, world-renowned poet, educator and activist. May she rest in power. We were privileged to have her visit #UMD last April for the inauguration of the Frederick Douglass Center for Leadership Through the Humanities.

The 4th season of Cover Story with Dean Stephanie Shonekan kicks off with Dolly Parton's "Jolene," covered by Beyoncé on "Cowboy Carter." ARHU Dean Shonekan talks to Susan Rivera, the dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Maryland about how the song has evolved.

ARHU Terp military service members, veterans and spouses! Applications for the 2025 Tillman Scholar program are open December 1, 2024 through February 1, 2025. You can learn more about this opportunity and apply at apply.ptf.org.

Cheers to you, ARHU #Terps, it's the last day of classes! Happy #LDOC and all the best for finals!