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Inclusion Imperative spotlights six years of innovation in community-engaged humanities research and teaching
UMBC’s Dresher Center for the Humanities recently partnered with the National Humanities Alliance to host Inclusion and Public Humanities: A Convening, one of the culminating events in the final...
Posted: May 4, 2023, 2:30 PM
Meet a Retriever—Rachel Brubaker, M.A. ’00, faculty funding connector
Meet Rachel Brubaker, M.A. ’00, historical studies, assistant director for grants and program development at the Dresher Center for the Humanities. Brubaker, a self-proclaimed humanities nerd, has...
Posted: April 14, 2023, 1:18 PM
Michelle R. Scott illuminates the lives of Black Vaudeville performers and their broader social impact in Jazz Age America
Michelle Scott, associate professor of history, will discuss her new book T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners Booking Association in Jazz Age America(University of Illinois...
Posted: April 7, 2023, 11:15 AM
BBC at 100: a trusted international news source, but it’s important to remember whose values it reflects
Jessica Berman, Director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities, Professor of English; Gender Women’s & Sexuality Studies; and Language, Literacy and Culture, UMBC. As the BBC turns 100...
Posted: October 17, 2022, 1:08 PM
UMBC humanities faculty pursue groundbreaking archival research through over $135,000 in prestigious fellowships
Humanities faculty Elizabeth Patton, Mirjam Voerkelius, and Amy Froide have received prestigious research fellowships totaling over $135,000 to explore archives and reveal new findings about...
Posted: October 12, 2022, 8:33 AM
New Carnegie Fellow Derek Musgrove examines Black political movements in the U.S., 1980 – 1997
Readers of The New York Times opened their papers today to see a full-page announcement of the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellows, including UMBC’s George Derek Musgrove ‘97, history. Musgrove, an...
Posted: April 26, 2022, 3:28 PM
UMBC’s Marjoleine Kars receives the Cundill History Prize and Frederick Douglass Book Prize for “Blood on the River”
Marjoleine Kars, professor of history, has received the Cundill History Prize and the Frederick Douglass Book Prize for her acclaimed book Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on...
Posted: December 7, 2021, 7:03 PM
Women leaders from UMBC, Morgan State, and UMD receive $3M Mellon grant to diversify senior leadership in higher ed
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has granted UMBC, Morgan State University, and the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) $3 million to launch Breaking the M.O.L.D. (Mellon/Maryland...
Posted: November 18, 2021, 2:00 PM
International labor economist Tim Gindling is named UMBC’s 2021 – 2022 Liptz Professor
UMBC has named Tim Gindling, professor of economics, the 2021 – 2022 Lipitz Professor of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS). This endowed professorship celebrates,...
Posted: September 14, 2021, 4:04 PM
In “Blood on the River,” UMBC’s Marjoleine Kars examines enslaved people’s accounts of a nearly successful rebellion 250 years ago
UMBC’s Marjoleine Kars has published a new book examining accounts of a nearly successful rebellion of enslaved people just over 250 years ago. Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and...
Posted: November 3, 2020, 8:43 PM
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