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Cultivating creativity, critical thinking & global Leadership: ARHU at the University of Maryland is where learning, art, culture and social justice intersect.
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
06.08.2025 16:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If you want to hear a podcast featuring me talking about Tolkien and the far right, have I got something for you.
21.07.2025 13:49 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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
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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.
18.07.2025 19:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
18.07.2025 16:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“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.”
18.07.2025 15:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“The journey is also to the teacher and beyond. It’s always a path to the heart.” -bell hooks
18.07.2025 14:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.”
18.07.2025 14:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The 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.
18.07.2025 14:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“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!
18.07.2025 14:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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!
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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
11.07.2025 16:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
28.05.2025 16:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Piotr Kosicki, associate professor of history, speaks to WJLA about the historical impact of the new Pope Leo XIV. Watch the interview.
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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
30.04.2025 18:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
02.04.2025 19:36 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
01.04.2025 16:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
27.03.2025 20:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
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Calling all #Bridgerton & historical #Romance fans! Join me for the next "Love on the Brain" talk on Wed., 1-2 pm (EST)
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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.
01.03.2025 14:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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-...
24.02.2025 17:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
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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
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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...
30.01.2025 21:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
30.01.2025 15:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.”
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