ARHU
The College of Arts and Humanities
Year in Review 2011-12
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Contents Role Informed dialogue Past
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The college has raised $57 million toward the university’s $1 billion campaign for Maryland.
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Global migrationsSpeaking Knowledge Liberty Attention Contentions History
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Policies
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Scholars in the arts and humanities work closely with federal agencies.
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The center led by Distinguished University Professor Ira Berlin and ADVANCE Professor Julie Greene serves as the hub for Role Informed dialogue understanding the long immigration history of this country, Nation Understand North America People Meaning from 1500 to the present, and itsScapegoats connections to world history. Policies Scholars Community Migration Past
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Interdisciplinary Initiatives Diversity & Inclusion Creating Global Citizens
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Faculty & Staff Research, Scholarship & Creativity
Cover photos (left to right, from top): 1. WORLDWISE campaign for the arts and humanities 2. “Fortune’s Bones” presented by the Clarice Smith Center 3. UMD Symphony Orchestra rehearsal 4. “Caravan” by William T. Williams, 1991, Lithograph, 11/19, Oberon Press, New York, N.Y. Presented in the David C. Driskell Center’s “Successions” exhibition 5. The Language House’s Chinese New Year celebration 6. Eye tracking machine in the Department of Linguistics 7. MITH’s “Playing the Past” table at Maryland Day 8. Votive Reliefs of Attic Launderers 9. The Art Gallery’s Poetry and Art in Rural Maryland project
Looking Forward The looking forward icon gives you a glance of what’s to come next year.
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Dear Faculty, Staff,
Students and Friends, Welcome to a new academic year! As I begin my second year as dean of the College of Arts and Humanities, I am pleased and proud to share this review of 2011-12. Stories animate the arts and humanities and the college is a vast repository of exciting and compelling stories. My most memorable stories of the past year have involved coming to appreciate the richness of talent, activities and accomplishments encompassed here. I recently celebrated some of these stories, in September, at the college’s 33rd Annual Faculty and Staff Convocation and I am eager to share them with you. This report was created as another way to make the breadth and scope of the work in the college more visible. It provides data, highlights some of the achievements of our faculty, students and staff, and provides examples of dynamic and innovative research and scholarship taking place here. We invite you to enjoy this review and see how the college’s story is growing and changing. Sincerely,
Dean, College of Arts and Humanities
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ARHU highlights
NFLC (National Foreign Language
Center) has received over $11 million in funding from various agencies, including the Department of Defense, the State of Delaware, the State of Maryland, and the Department of Education.
$15,175,352
Awarded in sponsored research
3.97
Avg. GPA for incoming freshmen
1284
Avg. SAT for
incoming freshmen
H elen Hayes Award Mitchell Hébert, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
Mitchell was awarded Outstanding Lead Actor for his portrayal of Quentin in Theatre J’s “After the Fall,” one of UMD’s three 2012 Helen Hayes recipients.
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22 National scholarships &
fellowships winners
9 CAPAA*
Helen Hayes nominations
34.3% Students of color
20 RASA*
84 Elected Phi Beta Kappa
Fulbright Recipients N’Mah Yilla ’12, Arabic/ School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures N’Mah was awarded a 2012-13 Fullbright for study in Spain. She plans to examine the goals of Spain’s most prominent Muslim organizations, one member of the new Islamic Council of Spain (ICS) and another outside the ICS, to understand how their differences may impact Spanish-Muslim relations in the country. She later plans to pursue a career with the U.S. Department of State. David Olson ’11, Theatre/Government and Politics David was awarded a 2012-13 Fullbright to teach English at Latvia University in the Republic of Latvia. He plans to use his performance experience to help students learn English, and after, wants to pursue graduate work in international relations focused on the use of the arts in conflict resolution and peace building. *Research and Scholarship Awards (RASA) and Creative and Performing Arts Awards (CAPAA) are awarded by UMD’s Graduate School to support faculty.
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Supporting Success
As part of the university’s $1 billion Great Expectations campaign, ARHU raised $57 million as of June 2012, surpassing its original campaign goal of $40 million. The generosity of alumni, faculty and friends has had a profound impact on the college—strengthening existing academic programs, increasing scholarships for students and supporting new academic and creative initiatives.
A leadership gift from Distinguished University Professor Howard Lasnik underscores his commitment to academic excellence. Through a bequest, he will endow the Howard Lasnik Chair in Linguistics.
$57 Million 91.1% Raised toward Great Expectations campaign
4,860
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Guggenheim
Freshmen retention rate
Undergraduate &
graduate students
$106,000 Offered in need & merit
based scholarships
Fellows
14
Academic Units
$46,846
Avg. starting salary for ARHU Undergraduates (Source: The Career Center’s May 2012 UMD Graduation Survey Report)
2011-12 Guggenheim Fellows
Matthew Kirshenbaum, English/Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. Matt is working on a new book, “Track Changes: Authorship, Archives, and Literary Culture after Word Processing.” He is investigating the impact of digital media on contemporary literary composition, publishing, reception and archival preservation.
Heather Nathans, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies Heather’s book, “Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans: Performing Jewish Identity in the Antebellum American Theatre,” explores representations of Jewish characters in 19th-century American theater and argues that they reflected Jewish Americans’ struggle to establish themselves in the new nation while adhering to cultural and religious traditions.
Looking Forward
Robert Levine in English was awarded a 2012–13 Guggenheim Fellow ARHU 5
Undergraduate & Graduate Education
Degrees Conferred: 1,288 B.A, 117 M.A. 87 Ph.D. New Degree Programs
■ B.A., Film Studies ■ M.P.S. & Graduate Certificate, Translation & Interpretation ■ M.A. & Graduate Certificate, Second Language Acquisition ■ M.A. in Spanish will add a Hispanic Linguistics track
P r of ile:
Annie Gagliardi ’12 in Linguistics was awarded a NSF/NEH funded postdoc fellowship to document endangered languages at Harvard this fall.
General Education (C OR E) ARHU is home to five living
ARHU University of Maryland
3 0%
of all seats for the
university’s general education program were offered by ARHU.
Graduat e Plac e ment s
■ University of Virginia, Dan Sender, assistant professor of Violin ■ Université du Québec à Montréal, Geneviève Pagé, assistant* professor of Women’s Studies ■ National Gallery of Art, Adam Greenhalgh, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow ■ Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Maria Gigante, assistant professor of English* ■ U.S. Department of Agriculture, Kelly McGovern, writer-editor ■ Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, associate professor of English linguistics* ■ University of West Virginia, Kimberly Welch, assistant professor of history* ■ UMD’s Center for the Advanced Study of Language, Karen Vatz, assistant research scientist ■ Princeton University, Álvaro Enrigue, research fellow ■ University of Massachusetts Boston, Lin Zhu, assistant professor of communication*
Scholarship in Practice (SIP) Only four internship courses have been approved university wide for the new SIP requirement, including courses in communication, English and a college sponsored course.
and learning programs: 1. Digital Cultures and Creativity 2. Honors College 3. Language House 4. College Park Scholars Arts 5. Jiménez-Porter Writers’ House
Profi l e :
Jenny Wang ’12, an English and Physiology and Neurobiology major, was awarded the 2012 University Medalist for outstanding achievements inside and outside of the classroom. A BannekerKey Scholar, she maintained a 4.0 GPA while serving as a teaching assistant, launching a student research journal, and volunteering in a local emergency room. Next, Jenny plans to attend medical school.
Profile: I-Series course Breaking News: Contemporary Literature,
Media, and the State challenges students to decode text and images in literature, media and film to investigate big questions about history and the bitter divisions of race, gender, religion, nationality and class.
Addi t ional S tude nt Ac hie ve me nt s ■ Maryam Elbalghiti in SLLC was ■ Members of the SOM’s Graduate awarded an Erik B. Young, M.D. Fellowship String Quartet, Aeolus International Travel-Study Award Quartet, won silver at the Fischoff for Undergraduates. Competition, the nation’s largest ■ A team of COMM undergraduates chamber music competition. finished third in PRSA’s Bateman ■ Julie Enszer in WMST received a Public Relations Case Competition. 2012 Woodrow Wilson Doctoral (More than 70 teams around the Dissertation Fellowship in country participated.) Women’s Studies and was named ■ Rachel Jablon in JWST was awarded an Ostriker Fellow. the Provost’s GA of the Year Award.
*Indicates tenure track
Profile:
Alene Moyer, associate professor of Germanic Studies, was appointed associate dean for academic affairs in the college. She oversees undergraduate and graduate curriculum and programs; graduate student recruitment, fellowships and student advisory board; ARHU’s five living and learning programs and the Learning Outcomes Assessment process.
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Faculty & Staf f
Pro f ile: Composer Morton Subotnick was an Arts and Humanities Artist-in-Residence in the School of Music last year, presenting lectures, master classes and performances to include a revival of his classic work “Silver Apples of the Moon” and a concert featuring the Verge Ensemble and UMD faculty and students.
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Looking Forward
2011-12
Fatemeh Keshavarz-Karamustafa has been appointed the Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute Chair in Persian Studies and Director of the Roshan Center for Persian Studies in SLLC.
ARHU Staff Council: A town hall was called
Back Row L-R: Ashley Smith (TDPS), Oliver Gaycken (ENGL), Ashwini Tambe (WMST), Matthew Suriano (JWST), Rudolph Matthee (SLLC), Scott Wible (ENGL), Luka Arsenjuk (SLLC). Front Row L-R: Perla M. Guerrero (AMST), Jessica Enoch (ENGL), Melanie Kill (ENGL), Naomi Feldman (LING), Kenneth Elpus (MUSC), Peter Glanville (SLLC) . Not photographed: Mikhail Dolbilov (HIST)
last semester to explore the establishment of a staff council to share information, identify staff issues and establish action goals, and build community among staff. Working groups are meeting to consider interest in and structure for the group.
Fac ul t y & S taf f
Tenured/Tenure Track ■ 143 professors ■ 127 associate professors ■ 63 assistant professors
■ 190 lecturers ■ 324 staff
Award-winning Faculty Books
Addi t ional Fac ul t y Ac hie ve me nt s ■ Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award: Colin Phillips, Linguistics ■ Kirwan Undergraduate Education Award: Rick Bell, History ■ D.C. Humanities Council Distinguished Service to the Humanities: Ira Berlin, History ■ Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Finalist: Hasan Elahi, Art
■ Tara Rodgers’ “Pink Noises: ■ Carla Peterson’s “Black Gotham: Women on Electronic Music and A Family History of African- Sound”–2011 Pauline Alderman Americans in Ninteenth-Century Book Award from the InternatNew York City”–2011 New York ional Alliance for Women in Music City Book Award for History from ■ Orin Wang’s “Romantic the New York Society Library Sobriety: Sensation, Revolution, ■ Jeffrey Herf’s “Nazi Propaganda Commodification, History”–2011 for the Arab World”–2011 Sybil Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize for the Halpern Milton prize Milton Prize year’s best book in Romanticism for work published between from the International Conference 2009-2010 from the German on Romanticism Studies Association
■ Jason Farman’s “Mobile Interface Theory: Embodied Space and Locative Media”–2012 Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Book Award ■ Jeanne Fahnestock’s “Rhetorical Style: The Uses of Language in Persuasion”–2012 Book Award from the Rhetorical Society of America
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Research, Scholarship & Creativity
Research Partnerships
Scholars in the arts and humanities have received grants and work closely with federal agencies. In partnership with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, COMM is working to develop a risk communications training curriculum to help U.S. leaders manage community communication during homeland-security threats. The HIST partnership with the U.S. Department of Education and Prince George’s County Public Schools allows UMD to provide “Teaching American History,” a professional development opportunity for local teachers of U.S. history. The SOM received the first-ever National Endowment for the Arts’ research award to investigate the value and impact of the arts in the U.S. on youth.
The National Institutes of Health partnered with COMM to study health communication messages associated with the HPV vaccine in African-American girls ages 9-17 and will provide useful insights into the design of targeted messages to increase the percentage of girls getting the HPV vaccine―an important area of health disparity.
In partnership with the U.S. Department of Education, JWST and SLLC will develop an advanced Hebrew language curriculum.
The Library of Congress and the National Humanities Center partnered with HIST to produce “For Union and Freedom,” an online seminar for teachers focused on using primary sources to teach about the experiences of African Americans during the Civil War.
MITH partnered with the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill to develop BitCurator, tools used to incorporate digital forensics methods into the workflow of a variety of collecting institutions. The Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies is working on “Israel 2023,” a project funded by the Kahanoff Foundation to examine the challenges that face Israel as its 75th anniversary approaches.
FY12 Research Awards:
$15,175,352
The Department of Defense renewed its partnership with SLLC, supporting the school in teaching critical languages, including advanced Arabic and Persian to UMD students. The Arabic program is one of five and Persian is the only one in the nation.
In partnership with the University of Illinois and the University of Pennsylvania, and funded by the Korean Government, WMST is working on the Korean Family in Comparative Perspective Laboratory for the globalization of Korean studies.
Professional Affiliations
The college maintains close relationships and holds leadership positions with: ■ The National Women’s Studies Association, Dean Bonnie Thornton Dill, president ■ ArtsEngine National Network, Robert Gibson in SOM, founding member ■ Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communications, Elizabeth Toth in COMM, vice president ■ Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, Neil Fraistat in MITH, chair ■ Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, Karen Bradley in TDPS, executive director ■ Leonardo Music Journal, Tara Rodgers in WMST, editorial board member
Profile: Sheri Parks, associate professor of American Studies, was appointed
associate dean for research, interdisciplinary scholarship and programming in the college to support the advancement and promotion of research and scholarship in the arts and humanities.
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Scholarship
in ARHU takes many different forms, and is promising, innovative and far-reaching.
Psyche Williams-Forson in AMST was named Senior Scholar Fellow at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History to conduct research for her new book project, “Grandma Was a Bootlegger: Exploring Food Culture in a Rural Virginia Town.” It focuses on black women who worked in the underground economy―preparing home-cooked meals, operating rooming houses and engaging in the illegal acts of bootlegging and running numbers―at a time when few paying jobs other than domestic work were available to them. Naomi Feldman and Rochelle Newman in LING were awarded a UMD ADVANCE Seed Grant for their project “Children’s Real-time Processing of Words and Sounds,” to examine how children learn to group sounds into meaningful words.
Creative and Performing Arts
The University of Maryland Choirs partnered with the National Symphony Orchestra in performances of Handel’s “Messiah,” Mendelssohn’s “Elijah” and Verdi’s “Requiem” during the 2011-12 NSO season. The Art Museum of the Americas partnered with ARTH to present the exhibition “Constellations: Constructivism, Internationalism, and the InterAmerican Avant-Garde,” which draws from the museum’s permanent collection and surveys the dynamic history of geometric forms and colors and their meaning across the Americas over the 20th century. The Art Gallery partnered with donor Marcus Calendrillo to add a niche collection of nearly 300 original silk-screen promotional concert posters to its permanent collection. The collection serves as excellent examples of work important to the studies
Jeffrey Bub and Allen Stairs in PHIL were awarded a Templeton Foundation Grant for peer-reviewed publications and a book project, “The InformationTheoretic Turn in Quantum Foundations.” It addresses an actively researched problem area in quantum information with respect to the two Big Questions―the measurement problem and what quantum information says about the nature of reality. Marsha Rozenblit in JWST is researching ethnicity, specifically Jews of Moravia, for a series of articles that explore the nature of ethnic identity and belonging of German-speaking Jews in East Central Europe from 1848 to 1938.
of printmaking, design and contemporary cultural studies. The David C. Driskell Center’s exhibition “Successions,” celebrating Robert E. and Jean Steele’s legacy as art collectors, traveled to over 16 sites with attendance exceeding 10,000. The exhibition traveled back to UMD last year to mark the center’s 10th anniversary. The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center spent their 10th anniversary season presenting “Fortune’s Bones,” the story of a slave who died and whose body was kept for research and teaching. The series of creative dialogues, lectures and performances examined the social, moral and cultural issues raised by Fortune’s story.
ARHU Innovation describes the process by which new visions and ideas in all areas of inquiry and creative work generate economic, societal, technological, or cultural value.”
Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” was performed by the University of Maryland’s Symphony Orchestra from memory, without a conductor, and with movement design by choreographer and alumna Liz Lerman. The National Endowment for the Humanities and MITH partnered to develop ActiveOCR, a research application to help scholars better access 18th-century texts. Using “active learning” and other iterative techniques, the application identifies hundreds of difficult characters that appear in articles from that time period to improve optical character recognition across the entire body of work. In partnership with the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, TDPS will research the rapidly growing field of arts and technology design, including motion capture, human-machine interaction, robotics and animation.
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Interdisciplinary Initiatives WORLDWISE
Through our teaching, learning, research and service, we aim to understand the people, cultures and histories of our increasingly global society and to broaden our wisdom about how to live a meaningful, creative and generous life. We’ve developed a series of lectures, booklets and videos to explore what it means to be “WORLDWISE.” Learn more at www.beworldwise.umd.edu.
Arts & Humanities Dean’s Lecture Series: a series of stimulating lectures and performances that address enduring or emerging questions central to the arts and humanities.
BE WORLDWISE: Guide to the Arts & Humanities in the 21st Century: a booklet for incoming freshmen and transfer students to help understand the values central to the study of the arts and humanities.
WORLDWISE Insights: Prominent scholars share personal insights on a wide-range of influences and experiences in this intimate series of video portraits illuminating research in the arts and humanities.
Looking Forward
Starting this fall, and housed in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and the Department of English, the college will offer a B.A. in Film Studies. The 39-credit, interdisciplinary program will take advantage of faculty expertise in global cinema and UMD’s proximity to important film institutions and archives. The program will focus on a critical, textual approach to film study and will provide students with the necessary analytical tools and historical background to interpret diverse global cinematic traditions.
Interdisciplinary Research
■ Humanities Forum The college is establishing a humanities forum, led by the associate dean, as an incubator for change in the humanities. The forum will foster an environment where scholars share ideas; provide seed grants for promising research; and partner across the university, and with cultural institutions to present ideas central to societal concerns. ■ Center for the History of the New America hosted the conference “Born in the USA: The Politics of Birthright Citizenship in Historical Perspective” to address the national debate around birthright citizenship. ■ The Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture is using Google Earth to provide interactive map overlays showing relationships among world cultures over time. The maps provide visual representations of historic trade and conquest routes, maps of ancient and Medieval Europe and dynasties of China. ■ The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities worked with the Institute of Museum and Library Services on the “Humanities Data Curation Summit,” where leading humanists discussed challenges in ensuring the ongoing accessibility and usefulness of digital scholarship.
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■ In partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity is investigating the relationship between occupational stressors―organizational factors, stress-inducing work roles, personal strain and perceived organizational climate―and retention and career path progression of U.S.-born African American, Mexican American and Puerto Rican assistant and associate faculty in doctoral and research institutions. ■ The Potomac Center for Modernity, led by ARTH, is a new interdisciplinary research initiative that partners UMD with universities and research institutions in the region to promote hybrid ways of thinking about issues of capitalism, urbanization/ suburbanization, technology and gender roles post industrialization. ■ The National Foreign Language Center’s STARTALK and Analyst Learning Link and the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures’ Language Flagship programs provide federally funded programs that help expand U.S. foreign language education from K-16 and into the workforce. The Department of Linguistics is expanding its interdisciplinary community of language scientist to study the processes and barriers to successful language learning.
Diversity & Inclusion “When I look around at our college as a whole and at its component parts—if I do not see diversity, I will think that we have not yet achieved the excellence we are capable of achieving.” Bonnie Thornton Dill, Dean, College of Arts & Humanities UMD Advance Program Martha Nell Smith in English and Ruth Enid Zambrana in Women’s Studies served as 2011-12 ADVANCE professors, which are university appointed positions that provide mentoring and support, information and strategic opportunities for women and minority faculty in all areas of academia.
Looking Forward
History’s Julie Greene will serve as ADVANCE professor for ARHU and the Phillip Merrill College of Journalism, and Lynn Bolles in Women’s Studies will serve as ADVANCE Professor for Women of Color in Non-Stem disciplines. FAME Music Camp The School of Music and the Foundation for Advancement of Music and Education Inc (FAME), a nonprofit youth and music advocacy organization in D.C., combined forces last summer to offer the FAME Summer Music Technology Camp. The one-week music camp provided full scholarships for 16 minority students to work in the school’s Music Technology Lab with classroom instruction by professionals in the field, including the school’s music technology director, William Evans.
The Clarice Smith Center presented the New York Festival of Song’s “Manning the Canon: Songs of Gay Life,” a program created to celebrate the diversity of the gay community. The music, performed by four outstanding classically trained singers plus one UMD graduate student, ranged from classical to popular and from painful to funny.
The Digital Cultures and Creativity (DCC) living and learning community partnered with LIFT and Upward Bound to create a high school version of their honors program for 16 academically talented students from low-achieving schools. Last year’s participant, Emmanuel Esparza, was recently accepted into the UMD’s Honors College and selected DCC as his learning community.
The college’s new Diversity Task Force convened last year to “carefully examine” college diversity, including but not limited to its leadership, recruitment and retention, scholarship and curriculum and overall college climate. The group will report on their findings fall 2012.
MITH is working on BrailleSC, a Word Pressbased accessibility tool that will create Braille content for end-users who are blind or low vision.
2011-2012 McNair Scholars The following are ARHU juniors and seniors in UMD’s McNair Program who are committed to pursuing graduate studies in arts and humanities related disciplines: Douglas Jiménez, Junior, American Studies
Research Topic: Subprime Lending in the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area Amongst the Latino Community Mentor: Perla Guerrero, assistant professor of American Studies Elizabeth Morgan, Senior, Russian
Research Topic: The Impact of Personal Attributes on Leaders’ Decision Making in Conflict Resolution, War and Preserving Peace Mentor: David Cunningham, assistant professor, governtment & politics Jessica Archer, Senior, English Literature
Research Topic: Race, Class and Community: Washington D.C.’s Black Renaissance Mentor: Kris Marsh, assistant professor of sociology
Profile: McNair graduate Robert Miller ’12, Music
Composition/African American Studies major, was awarded the 2012 James Douglass Goddard Memorial Medal from the Prince George’s County Alumni Club in coordination with the university for demonstrating superior academic success. He now attends the University of California at Santa Barbara to pursue a M.A. in Media Arts and Technology. ARHU 11
Creating Global Citizens
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students studied abroad this past year ARHU provides enriching international experiences, on and off campus, through the new Global Engagement requirement, language immersion programs, servicelearning, education abroad and more.
Global Engagement Requirement ARHU is the only college with a Global Engagement Requirement, in which students can now study abroad, enroll in a language course and participate in a cultural engagement experience to satisfy an ARHU graduation requirement.
Language Immersion Programs Summer Institute in Critical Languages:
SLLC’s nine-week language intensive institute ran programs in Arabic and Persian for 46 students, 12 of whom resided in the Language House. The institute served traditional and nontraditional students from across the U.S. The Language House is a living and learning
immersion program that offers an intensive academic experience to 96 students working to enhance their foreign language and culture study and develop fluency in one (or more) of 10 languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Russian and Spanish.
Service-Learning Jiménez-Porter Writers’ House students traveled to Chile as a service-learning opportunity to help improve the quality of life in communities around the world and to gain skills, knowledge and attitudes for a lifetime of meaningful global citizenship.
C u r r icu lu m I ntegra tion ARHU partnered with UMD’s Education Abroad Office to approve over 250 courses for residency credit, making it easier for students to study abroad. This program expands the opportunity for international study in the college curriculum.
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Education Abroad ■ Australia: Australian Literature and Culture, Aboriginal to Contemporary (ENGL) •
■ New! The Caribbean: Gender, Sexuality and Globalization: Feminist Advocacy in the Anglophone Caribbean (WMST) •
■ Chile: Chilean Literature, Democracy, and Social Change (Writers’ House) •
■ China:
- Exploring Confucius’ China (CHIN) • - Beijing ♦
■ Ecuador: Andean Spaces-Traversing the Colonial City and the Natural World (SPAN) •
■ Egypt: Alexandria (ARAB) ♦
■ England:
-London and the British Empire, 1500-1850 (HIST) • -Design: London (ARTT) • -UK: London Study Abroad: Literature, History, Drama, Architecture, Art and Archaeology (ENGL) •
■ France:
- Classical Myths in Europe (CLAS) •
■ Ireland: James Joyce’s Dublin (Writer’s House) • ■ Israel: Culture in Tel Aviv: 100 Years of Hebrew Israeli Culture (ISRL) •
■ Italy:
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Baroque Rome: Art, Architecture and Urban Splendor in the Eternal City (ARTH) • The Classics in Context: The Ancient Roman City: Pompeii and Beyond (CLAS) • Intensive Elementary Italian (ITAL) •
Maryland in Montpelier: French Language and Culture on - the Mediterranean (FREN) • - Nice ♦
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■ Germany:
■ New! Spain: Seville (SPAN) ♦
- Germany in the New Europe: Politics, Business, and Culture (GERM) • - Berlin ♦
■ Greece: Cultural Crossroads, Past and Present -Macedonia & - Greece (ARTH) • -The Classics in Context: Greece: The Living Legacy (CLAS) •
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■ New! Turkey: Ankara (PERS) ♦
Key ♦ Long-term programs (semester or year long) • Short-term programs (winter, summer or spring break)
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Alumni Engagement Profile: Football fans know him as a former Baltimore Raven and current president of the
NFL Players Association. But life has always been about more than football for Domonique Foxworth ’04, recipient of the 2012 Distinguished Alumnus Award from ARHU. Foxworth has a long-standing commitment to improving the lives of urban youth, most recently by creating Baltimore BORN (Boys Opportunity and Resource Network), a nonprofit group to help boys in grades 5-12 develop skills for lifelong success and learning.
Past Distinguished Alumnus Awardees ■ 2011–Donald A. Ritchie (M.A. ’69, Ph.D. ’75), U.S. Senate historian ■ 2009–Dave Baggett (’92), software developer and entrepreneur ■ 2008–Yuriko Yamaguchi (M.F.A. ’79), artist ■ 2007–Harlan F. Weisman (’75), physician and senior health-care executive ■ 2006–George P. Pelecanos (’80), writer, story editor and producer, HBO Films ■ 2004–Gail Berman-Masters (’78), former Broadway producer and television and film executive
■ 2003–Donald Miller (Ph.D. ’72), author of “City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America”
■ 2002–Maria Otero (’72, M.A. ’74), president and CEO, ACION International ■ 2001–Brent F. Blackwelder (Ph.D. ’75), president, Friends of the Earth
This past year the college’s Alumni Association Chapter Board initiated a grant proposal opportunity inviting students to put forward programs the board would implement to support their mission. After careful consideration, the board awarded three $2,500 grants to student group projects associated with the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance studies, the Jiménez-Porter Writers’ House and the Department of Communication.
Community Engagement The Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture partnered with SLLC and AMST to create a Virtual D.C. Latino Tour. With the input of students, they created an electronic, Latinothemed field trip of Washington that commemorates landmarks, monuments and the presence of the Latino community in the area. A live tour was included in the National Parks Service’s Hispanic Heritage Month programming last year. The Art Gallery’s Poetry and Art in Rural Maryland project creates poetry-based murals on barns throughout the state of Maryland, partnering with local arts, agricultural and environmental businesses, as well as with schools in Cecil and Frederick counties. AMST partners with UMD’s neighboring community on the Lakeland Community Heritage Project to collect, preserve and interpret the heritage and history of those African Americans who created, lived in and/or were otherwise associated with the Lakeland community of Prince George’s County, Md. since the late 19th century.
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Year in Review 2011-12 is published by the Office of Marketing and Communications in the College of Arts and Humanities. If you would like to receive additional copies of this publication please contact the Dean’s Office at 301.405.2090. PUBLISHER Bonnie Thornton Dill Dean, College of Arts and Humanities ADVISERS Sheri Parks Associate Dean, Research and Interdisciplinary Scholarship and Programming Alene Moyer Associate Dean, Academic Affairs Audran Downing Assistant Dean, Student Affairs Laura Brown Assistant Dean, Development MANAGING EDITOR Nicky Everette Director, Marketing and Communications GRAPHIC DESIGNERS April Chaires’12 Laura Pavlo ’14
