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Calling All Storytelling Terps!

May 22, 2025 American Studies, Art, Art History and Archaeology, Classics, Communication, English, History, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, Linguistics, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

UMD story slam invites pitches for competition with cash prizes.

Maryland Today

70 Graduates Honored as Senior Marshals

May 21, 2025 American Studies, Art, Art History and Archaeology, Classics, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music

High-achieving students to lead classmates into Commencement.

Celebrating Excellence: 2025 ARHU Graduate Student Awards

May 21, 2025 American Studies, Art, Art History and Archaeology, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, History, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Congratulations to the 2025 graduate student awardees.

Maryland Today

A Taste of Ethnographic Research

April 16, 2025 American Studies, History

In new course, students journey through foodways of Maryland’s immigrant populations.

A New Generation of Doctoral Scholars Goes Beyond the Page

April 07, 2025 American Studies, English, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities

From video games to VR, ARHU doctoral students are expanding dissertation scholarship through digital and experimental work.

Inside Higher Ed

Asian Americans Got Played on Affirmative Action

February 18, 2025 American Studies

Let’s not get played again, OiYan Poon and Janelle Wong, Professor of American Studies, write.

UMD Landscape Architecture Students Re-envision the Grounds of the National Museum of African American History and Culture

December 09, 2024 American Studies

Turning A Smithsonian Museum Inside Out

ARHU 2024 Service Award Winners Announced

October 15, 2024 American Studies, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Five exceptional members of the ARHU community received an annual service award.

American Studies Welcomes New Graduate Cohort

August 25, 2024 American Studies

Exceptional Cohort Joins American Studies: Exploring race, difference, exclusion and belonging through innovative historical, political and methodological lenses.

New podcast episode takes a deep dive into the storied legacy of “Plantation Pedagogy” with Dr. Bayley Marquez

July 13, 2024 American Studies

Podcast highlights how "Plantation Pedagogy" shaped U.S. Imperialism