RESEARCH, SCHOLARSHIP & CREATIVITY
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS ARHU faculty maintain close relationships and hold leadership positions with:
Northeast Victorian Studies Association: Jason Rudy, president
With a grant from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and led by Ruth E. Zambrana, professor and interim chair of women’s studies and director of the Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity, the consortium will collaborate with the University of Pennsylvania on a national summit on fostering diversity and inclusion in higher education. As part of “Enslaved: The People of the Historic Slave Trade,” a project led by Michigan State University and funded by a $1.47 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Daryle Williams, associate professor of history and ARHU associate dean for faculty affairs, is creating an open-access archive of documents relevant to enslaved people and free Africans in Louisiana and Brazil. UMD students now have access to a broad range of courses on Islam and the Muslim world through the Digital Studies Islamic Curriculum, which uses new technology to bring together courses taught by faculty from over a dozen Big Ten Academic Alliance member universities, including Peter Wein, associate professor of history and UMD’s faculty liaison. Supported by a grant from the Consortium for Applied Studies in Jewish Education, Avital Karpman, associate clinical professor of Hebrew and director of the Hebrew Program, will collaborate with Sharon Avni of the City University of New York, Borough of Manhattan Community College to study the growth of Hebrew language programs at charter schools and at public schools across the U.S.
Labor and Working Class History Association: Julie Greene, president
Linguistic Society of America: Colin Phillips, fellow
Royal Society of the Netherlands, Evert Willem Beth Foundation: John F. Horty, board member
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SCHOLARSHIP Associate Professor of American studies Jason Farman received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to complete “Delayed Response: The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World,” a book about how communication technologies such as instant messages have changed how we experience waiting and time.
Funded by a $2.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health, Xiaoli Nan, professor of communication, is leading a team of researchers from University of Maryland, College Park and University of Maryland, Baltimore, to improve cancer prevention among medically underserved African Americans in Baltimore.
Renée Ater, associate professor emerita of art history and archaeology, researched the design, construction and changing meaning of contemporary monuments acknowledging the legacy of slavery with the support of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Valerie Anishchenkova, associate professor of Arabic studies, is leading an initiative funded by the Institute of International Education to pioneer an open-access curriculum to foster cultural knowledge and awareness of stereotypes and bias.
