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2 | YEAR IN REVIEW 2022–23 14 academic units 198 289 8:1 studentfaculty ratio 19 RESEARCH CENTERS COLLEGE PROFILE 30 academic majors and 39 minors 2,530 undergraduate & graduate students STAFF TOTAL GIFTS RAISED IN FISCAL YEAR 2023 $8,091,982 TENURE/TENURETRACK FACULTY
AS WE TURN THE PAGE ON THE 2022–23 SCHOOL YEAR, I am reflecting on all that I learned in my first year as dean of the College of Arts and Humanities. I am proud to lead this college of artists, intellectuals, creators and critical thinkers who study the human experience with a focus on how we have evolved as diverse peoples and how we can advance the public good.
Now more than ever, the world needs the arts and humanities for their role in helping us to recognize our interdependence, act with empathy and create a more just and joyful world. People all across the United States, and indeed the world, are looking for models and best practices for how to respond to and solve the grand challenges of our time—threats to democracy, global inequality, climate change, health disparities, censorship, racism, sexism, antisemitism, homophobia and xenophobia, to name a few. ARHU is up to the challenge.
Our college uniquely and powerfully prepares students with the essential critical thinking, problem-solving, and creative and analytical skills that the world so desperately needs. We provide the context and insight that inform how people take action and feel seen and understood in the face of an uncertain future.
ARHU faculty are partnering with colleagues across campus on nine of the recently funded Grand Challenges projects on topics including racial and social justice, education, pandemic preparedness and ethical technologies. As a college, we are boldly and innovatively meshing our artistic strengths with science and technology fields
through the Arts for All initiative, and melding our humanities focus with business through the Frederick Douglass Center for Leadership Through the Humanities.
We know we must refine and repackage our academic offerings to raise enrollments in the arts and humanities. While we will continue to offer our excellent academic programs, we are also committed to creating new interdisciplinary ones. Our recently launched majors and minors, such as the humanities, health, and medicine minor, are already energizing students and providing new inspiration for career pathways that bridge industries. I want us to lean into the intentional act of partnering across our traditional academic silos to support this positive trend.
This year will bring further reflection and innovation to ensure we are adequately meeting the moment. Building on the university’s Fearlessly Forward strategic plan, which was rolled out in 2022, we are launching into a college strategic planning process to help us to reimagine learning, invest in people and communities, take on grand challenges and partner for the public good. I am excited to work with you on charting a positive future for ARHU.
Sincerely,
Stephanie Shonekan Professor and Dean College of Arts and Humanities
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Now more than ever, the world needs the arts and humanities for their role in helping us to recognize our interdependence, act with empathy and create a more just and joyful world.
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STUDENT EXCELLENCE
Students in the College of Arts and Humanities bring a range of backgrounds, interests and experiences to the classroom and larger campus community. Last year, 10 ARHU students won national scholarships and awards. Over 200 ARHU students studied abroad. Our graduates find success in jobs and graduate education (96% placement rate), and our alumni are making waves as artists, entrepreneurs, diplomats, archivists, journalists, entertainers, scholars, educators, lawyers, doctors and more.
Here are some of the highlights from the 2022–23 academic year:
UNDERGRADUATE:
Studio art major Jeanette Bolden ’22 coled the design process for the official 2022 Hispanic Heritage Month poster for Prince George’s County, teaching middle and high school students from across the county the principles and techniques of screenprinting to create the piece.
Paulina Leder ’23, who graduated with a dual degree in history and German with a triple major in French, was named one of the University of Maryland’s Undergraduate Researchers of the Year for 2023
Arabic Flagship students Amaya Moody ’23, Luke Hanno ’23, Robert Hedberg ’23 and Gillian Boline ’23 (left to right) were accepted into the Arabic Flagship Program Capstone Year with an advanced rating in Arabic to study in Meknes, Morocco, during the 2023-24 academic year. All four students are also recipients of the prestigious Boren Scholarship
GRADUATE:
Nine graduate students in the Department of Art History and Archaeology (Maura Callahan, Ashley Cope, Montia Daniels, Joohee Kim, Caroline Kipp, Cléa Massiani, Magdelena Mastrandrea, Dominic Pearson and Gabrielle Robinson-Tillenburg) developed and curated the David C. Driskell Center’s exhibition “RINGGOLD | SAAR: Meeting on the Matrix,” with support from Professor of American Art Jordana Moore Saggese and Driskell Center staff. The exhibition brought together print works by renowned Black women artists Faith Ringgold and Betye Saar for the first time, juxtaposing their different ways of approaching the Black experience in the United States. It received widespread recognition, with Forbes crediting the graduate students for “achieving what some never do in a lifetime.”
Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History
Caroline Angle Maguire received the 2023-24 American Dissertation Fellowship from the American Association of University Women. It covers one year of living expenses while writing her dissertation.
Maryland Opera Studio (MOS) student
Lawrence Barasa M.M. ’23, voice performance, won first place in the 2023 Jensen Foundation Vocal Competition, which supports “the most promising young professionals in the field of opera.” MOS alumni
Öznur Tülüoğlu M.M. ’21 and School of Music Admissions Specialist Véronique Filloux M.M. ’18 were finalists in the competition.
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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT
Poet Shara McCallum MFA ‘96, English, was named a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. The fellowship will support McCallum as she travels to Jamaica to work with contemporary visual artists to inspire her next poetry collection, which centers on the technique of “ekphrasis,” a vivid form of descriptive writing in response to visual art.
Asma Naeem Ph.D. ’10, art history, was named the director of the Baltimore Museum of Art. She is the first person of color to lead the museum and oversees its collection of more than 97,000 objects and an annual operating budget of $23 million.
Tomeka Reid ’00, music, a jazz cellist and composer, was awarded a 2022 MacArthur Foundation fellowship, known as the “genius grant.” Reid is known for her unorthodox approach, incorporating musical elements from the African diaspora as well as unexpected items like pencils or clips to transform the sound of her instrument.
Rehan Staton ’18, history, raised $70,000 for janitors and other workers while attending Harvard Law School. The former sanitation worker’s story was covered by publications including The Washington Post, Good Morning America, People Magazine and CBS News.
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FACULTY EXCELLENCE
Our world-class faculty are breaking boundaries in research, teaching, mentorship and addressing issues around race, equity and social justice. They are dedicated leaders who excel in their fields of expertise and beyond. In 2023, nine of the 15 projects funded through UMD’s Independent Scholarship, Research and Creativity Awards were from ARHU faculty. Find a sampling of achievements from our faculty from the 2022–23 academic year on the next few pages. A more comprehensive view can be found at go.umd.edu/arhu-faculty-achievements.
Christopher Bonner, an associate professor of history, and Robert Levine, a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of English, contributed interviews to the PBS documentary “Becoming Frederick Douglass.”
Caroline Eades, professor of cinema and media studies and French in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, was awarded a Residency Fellowship at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. Eades is working on a project that examines the contributions of Habib Benglia, the first actor of African origin in French cinema.
Ruth Enid Zambrana, a Distinguished University Professor in The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, was elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Her scholarship has transformed our understanding of how social determinants of health influence outcomes for minority women and population health.
Philip Resnik, professor of linguistics, was named an MPower Professor by the University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: MPowering the State. He receives $150,000, allocated over three years, towards his research.
Antoine Borrut, associate professor of history, was awarded a 2023 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to finish his book about the role of astrological histories in early Islam.
Jared Mezzocchi, an associate professor in the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, won an Obie Award and Helen Hayes Award
Professor of History
Richard Bell was the recipient of UMD’s Kirwan Faculty Research and Scholarship Prize, recognizing a faculty member for a highly significant work of scholarship completed in the last three years. The award recognized his book, “Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home.”
Sayan Bhattacharya, an assistant professor in The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, received the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies by the Center for LGBTQ Studies.
Professor of English and Digital Studies
Matthew Kirschenbaum was named a 2023 Distinguished University Professor, the highest appointment bestowed to tenured faculty by the university.
Assistant Professor of Arabic Anny Gaul received a National Endowment for the Humanities’ Summer Stipend grant to support her upcoming book “Nile Nightshade” about the rise and role of the tomato in modern Egypt.
Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies Shay Hazkani was awarded a 2023-24 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Scholars Conducting FieldBased Humanities Research in Palestine.
Associate Professor of Dance Performance and Scholarship
Crystal U. Davis received the National Dance Education Organization’s 2023 award for Outstanding Leadership in Justice, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion.
Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy Peter Carruthers won a National Science Foundation Scholars’ Award, covering the 22–23 academic year, to write a book about affect and motivation.
Professor of History
Julie Greene, Professor of Theatre Performance
Scot Reese and Professor of French and Francophone Literatures Valerie Orlando were named 2023 Distinguished Scholar-Teachers
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NOTABLE FACULTY BOOKS AND PODCASTS
Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of History
Jeffrey Herf’s book “Israel’s Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945-1949” won the Bernard Lewis Prize, awarded annually by the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa.
Neel Ahuja, a professor in The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Department of American Studies, received an honorable mention in the Association for Asian American Studies 2023 Book Awards for “Planetary Specters: Race, Migration and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century.”
Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology Siv B. Lie’s “Django Generations: Hearing Ethnorace, Citizenship, and Jazz Manouche in France” was awarded the 2022 William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology from the Society for the Anthropology of Europe. agijjfilfljlfknvk n,v kjfakbvhaillafklvaflkavnlaknklanalkaanlf
Associate Professor of Communication Catherine Knight Steele’s “Digital Black Feminism” received the 2022 Nancy Baym Book Award from the Association of Internet Researchers, the 2022 Diamond Anniversary Book Award from the National Communication Association and an honorable mention for the Rhetoric Society of America Book Award.
ARHU Dean and Professor of Ethnomusicology Stephanie Shonekan’s podcast “Cover Story with Stephanie Shonekan” won a first place award from the Public Media Journalists Association.
Professor Emerita of Classics Judith Hallett and her co-editors received the 2023 Bolchazy Pedagogy Award for their book “Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome.”
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PUBLIC HUMANITIES AND PARTNERSHIPS
A multi-institution project based at UMD is focused on understanding and responding to inequities in oral health by reaching patients at public libraries. The two-year Narratives and Medical Education project, led by Michelle V. Moncrieffe, a lecturer in the English department, is placing predoctoral dental students and dental hygiene students at six libraries in California, Indiana, Iowa and Maryland to provide screenings and education along with students in English and professional writing who are using their skills to highlight the experiences of marginalized communities and seek to inform the public around issues of health access and disparities.
A $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation is supporting efforts by UMD researchers to develop sophisticated predictive models and best communication practices needed to combat future pandemics. The team, which includes Xiaoli Nan, a professor of communication, is crunching voluminous data from the current pandemic to build a seamless, end-toend network that considers complex and interdependent biological, environmental and human factors.
The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies celebrated its third annual commemoration of Harriet Tubman Day on March 10, 2023. The event, “Wanted: Harriet Tubman,” examined art, politics and identity and featured speakers including Ernestine “Tina” Wyatt ’95, Tubman’s greatgreat-great-grandniece, pictured third from left. Pictured above (left to right): Neda Atanasoski, Chair of The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Stephanie Shonekan, Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities; Tina Wyatt; Adrienne L. Childs, Adjunct Curator, The Phillips Collection (moderator); Nina Cooke John, founding principal of Studio Cooke John Architecture + Design (speaker); and Mike Alewitz, labor activist and muralist (speaker).
The Center for Literary and Comparative Studies (CLCS) in the Department of English launched the CLCS Awards in the Public Humanities—$2,500 each to six projects led by graduate students and professional track faculty in the department that seek to connect research and teaching to current problems and captivate audiences beyond the university. Projects in the inaugural cohort ranged from workshops for teens to a podcast and were all in support of the principles and practices of CAARES, the department’s Committee for Antiracism, Accessibility, Respect, Equity, and Social Justice.
The inaugural Maryland Humanities Summer Institute, an initiative of the new Frederick Douglass Center for Leadership Through the Humanities, enrolled 20 middle and high school teachers from the region for seminars led by ARHU faculty members. Organized by Associate Dean for Academic Affairs GerShun Avilez, topics included how to handle cheating and academic misconduct, teaching about hip-hop culture and Frederick Douglass’ legacy.
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UMD faculty and students are teaching writing skills to those incarcerated by Washington, D.C.’s Department of Corrections, helping them share their stories and preparing them for higher education and job opportunities in the future. The work, led by Associate Professor of English Peter Mallios and Ph.D. candidate in English Elizabeth Catchmark, is part of a college bridge program developed and operated by the nonprofit Petey Greene Program.
Grand Challenges
In support of programs, initiatives and projects designed to impact enduring and emerging societal issues, the University of Maryland’s Grand Challenges Grants Program awarded $30 million in funding to 50 projects and 185 faculty members across every school and college on campus. Among them, ARHU faculty were the recipients of one Institutional Grant, three Impact Awards, four Team Project Grants and one Individual Project Grant.
ARHU faculty are partnering with colleagues across campus to focus on groundbreaking and impactful research on topics including racial and social justice, education, pandemic preparedness and ethical technologies. Their work will shape the future of our community, state, nation and world.
The Italian Program and the Program in Cinema and Media Studies presented “Il Cinema Ritrovato ON TOUR,” a festival of restored films in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna film archive. They also partnered with the National Gallery of Art for two special programs, including a Buster Keaton Celebration. During this celebration, School of Music musicians performed an original composition by Donald Sosin to accompany three silent films.
Cy Keener, assistant professor of art, collaborated on an exhibition at the National Academy of Sciences which documented Arctic ice that is disappearing due to climate change. It was the result of almost four years of trips to the Arctic in which Keener and his collaborators placed trackers onto the ice to collect data with the hopes of making that information tangible and visceral.
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THE ARTS
In February 2023, Director of Choral Activities and Associate Professor of Voice and Opera Jason Max Ferdinand D.M.A. ’15 and the Jason Max Ferdinand Singers performed with Coldplay on “Saturday Night Live.”
Through a partnership with the Smithsonian Chamber Music Society (SCMS), National Orchestral Institute + Festival fellows performed with musical instruments from their 400-yearold Stradivarius collection, including violins, violas and cellos. School of Music Lecturer and Artistic Director of SCMS Ken Slowik arranged the opportunity.
The Clarice debuted the monthly Jazz Jam series, which invites students, faculty, staff, College Park residents and anyone with an ear for musical improvisation to bring their instrument—or just their appreciation for the genre—to The Hall CP. The venue was also the site of the inaugural College Park Jazz Fest, featuring music, food and drinks and local vendors.
The Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library acquired a new collection of D.C. punk images from photographer Don Hamerman The nearly 200 images add to the library’s D.C. punk collection helmed by John Davis ’99, an archive of photos, fan zines, concert fliers, recordings and more that tell the story of the most frenetic side of D.C.’s music scene in the 1970s and ’80s.
The David C. Driskell Center presented “Telling Our Story: Community Conversations with Our Artists” featuring the selections of 30 guest curators—all art appreciators but not experts—who each chose a few favorite pieces from the center’s vault for display, and wrote letters to the artists explaining what spoke to them about the work.
The UMD School of Music’s Maryland Opera Studio (MOS) was named a first-place winner in the National Opera Association 2021–22 Opera Production Competition for its production of John Musto and Mark Campbell’s “Later the Same Evening” in Spring 2022. MOS collaborated with the UMD Symphony Orchestra, the UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, as well as production staff in The Clarice, for a final result that judges praised for its professional quality across all areas.
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“Rest Stop,” 1979, by Phoebe Beasley, courtesy of the David C. Driskell Center
ARTS FOR ALL
UMD’s Arts for All initiative partners the arts with the sciences, technology and other disciplines to develop new and reimagined curricular and experiential offerings that nurture different ways of thinking to spark dialogue, understanding, problem-solving and action. It bolsters a campuswide culture of creativity and innovation, making Maryland a national leader in leveraging the combined power of the arts, technology and social justice to collaboratively address grand challenges. And it seeks to build partnerships that foster creative and scholarly excellence between the campus and the community.
Music legend Dionne Warwick discussed her storied career and commitment to social justice as part of the 2022-23 Arts and Humanities Dean’s Lecture Series. It was ARHU Dean Stephanie Shonekan’s first Dean’s Lecture Series.
Assistant Professor of Art Brandon J. Donahue-Shipp and UMD men’s basketball players led nearly 30 children in a project at the Robert C. Marshall Recreation Center to create 14 painted artworks utilizing basketballs as inspiration. The project was supported by a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council.
The Terrapin Community Music School (TCMS), based out of the School of Music, begins this fall with weekly programs. It builds on the success of the Hatchling Community Music Program, launched by the SOM last year to provide caregivers with ways to interact musically with their children. TCMS will also offer sophomores and juniors from Prince George’s County Public Schools low-cost, high-quality weekly one-on-one lessons, musicianship classes and group coaching.
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the UMD School of Music launched a groundbreaking partnership focused on community engagement programming, unique educational opportunities for students and the commissioning of new orchestral music. It marks a significant investment in the cultural and civic landscape of Prince George’s County, Maryland, and the future of orchestral performance.
A new minor in digital storytelling and poetics debuting this fall in the Department of English will empower students from a range of academic backgrounds to make and tell stories in digital and new media spaces.
As part of an effort to expand its reach into the community, the UMD Art Gallery loaned seven works from its permanent collection to the Capitol Hill office of U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty, the former Congressional Black Caucus chair. The gallery continues to curate a rotating wall space at the Washington, D.C., coffee shop Lost Sock Roasters.
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The Clarvit Studio and Courtyard for Research in Art and Design is a new indoor-outdoor space in the Parren J. Mitchell ArtSociology Building that expands opportunities for the College of Arts and Humanities to showcase work. Thanks to the generous support of Nancy ’78 and Chuck Clarvit, the space features cutting-edge technology, updated facilities and a 25-by-30-foot screen.
Bequests Make an Impact in History and Art
For FY23, the Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) provided more than $680,000 in support of The Clarice’s performing arts programs that reach across campus and our local community. In addition to a grant awarded through their Grants for Organizations program, this year, MSAC’s support included a special round of Arts Relief funding, approved by the State of Maryland, with the aim of providing increased economic stability as the arts sector continued to navigate the effects of the COVID pandemic.
Jean Farrell’s in memoriam tribute to her late husband Richard Farrell will fund education and research for graduate students in the Department of History, continuing his legacy of inspiring and supporting students. Richard, a beloved associate professor of history, taught at UMD for almost 30 years.
Paula Santen ’58 discovered her love of art and design while pursuing a degree in home economics at the University of Maryland. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science, she went on to enjoy a varied and adventurous career—first as an interior designer and eventually in numerous retail management roles across the country. Santen has been a dedicated supporter of art students at the University of Maryland for many years, providing valuable resources for need-based scholarships. Recently, she committed to bequeath an additional $1,250,000 to establish three endowed funds for undergraduate and graduate art students, ensuring that “generations of future students will be able to pursue their educational passions with a reduced financial burden.” Santen said she loves to learn about the amazing work of UMD art students and enjoys receiving notes and letters from those she’s supported. “I’m sure they’ll all go on to do absolutely wonderful things,” she said, “and that is very rewarding.”
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DEAN’S OFFICE
Dean
Stephanie Shonekan
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research
Trevor Parry-Giles
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs: Graduate
Education and Strategic Initiatives
GerShun Avilez
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs: Undergraduate Education
Audran Downing
Assistant Dean of Development
Laura Brown
Assistant Dean of Technology, Administration and Staff Equity
Kathleen Cavanaugh
Assistant Dean for Marketing and Communications
Kelly Blake
Assistant Dean for Finance and Administration
Julie Wright
Director of Arts for All
Craig Kier
Director of Facilities
Lori Owen
ARHU LEADERSHIP
DEPARTMENTS
American Studies
CHAIR
Psyche WilliamsForson
Art CHAIR
Brandon Morse
Art History and Archaeology (ARTH)
CHAIR
Karin Zitzewitz
Classics CHAIR
Eric Adler
Communication
CHAIR
Shawn Parry-Giles
English CHAIR
Amanda Bailey
Harriet Tubman
Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
CHAIR
Neda Atanasoski
History
CHAIR
Ahmet T. Karamustafa
CENTERS
Center for East Asian Studies (SLLC)
DIRECTOR
Minglang Zhou
Center for Global Migration Studies (History)
DIRECTOR
Colleen Woods
Center for Health and Risk Communication (Communication)
DIRECTOR
Xiaoli Nan
Center for Literary and Comparative Studies (English)
CO-DIRECTORS
Karen Nelson
Sangeeta Ray
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Mark and Heather Rosenker Center for Political Communication & Civic Leadership
(Communication)
DIRECTOR
Shawn Parry-Giles
Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity
DIRECTOR
Ruth Zambrana
David C. Driskell Center for the Study of Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora
DIRECTOR
Jordana Moore Saggese
Herman Maril Gallery (Art)
GALLERY ADVISER
Cy Keener
The Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies (JWST)
DIRECTOR
Ilai Saltzman
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center
DIRECTOR
Isabella Alcañiz
The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies (JWST)
DIRECTOR
Maxine “Max”
Grossman
Linguistics
CHAIR
William Idsardi
Philosophy
CHAIR
Samuel J. Kerstein
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (SLLC)
DIRECTOR
Mary Ellen Scullen
School of Music
DIRECTOR
Gregory E. Miller
School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS)
DIRECTOR
Maura Keefe
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
DIRECTOR
Trevor Muñoz
Maryland Language Science Center DIRECTOR
Yi Ting Huang
Maya Brin Institute for New Performance (TDPS)
CO- DIRECTORS
Sam Crawford
Kendra Portier
Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture (ARTH)
DIRECTOR
Quint Gregory
Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies (History)
DIRECTOR
Karin Rosemblatt
National Foreign Language Center
LEAD DIRECTOR
Connie DiJohnson
Roshan Institute for Persian Studies (SLLC)
DIRECTOR, ROSHAN INSTITUTE CHAIR IN PERSIAN STUDIES
Fatemeh Keshavarz
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Terrence “Terry” Dwyer
University of Maryland Art Gallery
DIRECTOR
Taras Matla
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UNDERGRADUATE ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
American studies
Arabic
Arabic studies
Archaeology
Art history
Arts leadership
Black women’s studies
Chinese
Chinese language
Cinema and media studies
Classical languages and literatures
Classical mythology
Communication
Creative placemaking
Creative writing
Dance
Digital Storytelling and Poetics
East Asian studies
English language and literature
French language and literature
French studies
German studies
Greek language and culture
Hebrew studies
History
Humanities, health, and medicine
Immersive media design
Israel studies
Italian language and culture
Italian studies
Japanese
Jewish studies
Korean studies
Latin American studies
Latin American and Caribbean studies
Latin language and literature
LGBTQ studies
Linguistics
Middle East studies
Music and culture
Music education
Music: Liberal arts program
Music performance
Music: Professional program
Persian studies
Philosophy
Philosophy, politics, and economics
Portuguese and Brazilian studies
Professional writing
Religions of the Ancient Middle East
Religious studies
Rhetoric
Romance languages
Russian language and literature
Russian studies
Spanish heritage language and Latina/o culture
Spanish language, culture, and professional contexts
Spanish language, literatures, and culture
Spanish literature, linguistics, and culture
Studio art
Theatre
U.S. Latina/o studies
Women, gender, and sexuality studies
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