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American Studies, Douglass Center

Teaching Dissent: Summer Humanities Institute Returns to UMD

The daylong program is designed for teachers, scholars and community leaders.

Featured News

May 12, 2026 American Studies, Arts for All, Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture

Digital Revival of a Displaced Community

New exhibit tells story of nearby Lakeland with help from UMD students and faculty.
April 04, 2026 American Studies

American Studies Professor Probes the Hidden Risks of ‘Easy’ Tech in new Slate Magazine Article

“We Made Technology Easy to Use — That Was a Mistake”

November 03, 2025 American Studies

"We Will Not Be Silent" Exhibition Now Showing at Stamp Gallery

PhD student Hannah Brancato curates an art exhibition on sexual violence that promotes "the ingenuity of resistance."
October 08, 2025 American Studies, Art, Arts for All, Communication, English, Linguistics, Maryland Language Science Center, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

The Art and Humanity of AI

From classrooms to research labs, the College of Arts and Humanities is shaping how we understand artificial intelligence and guiding its responsible future.
April 07, 2025 American Studies, English, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities

A New Generation of Doctoral Scholars Goes Beyond the Page

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

April 08, 2024 American Studies

Janelle Wong Honored by American Academy of Political and Social Science

The UMD professor is one of eight scholars inducted into the prestigious academy this year.
February 29, 2024 American Studies, English, Maryland Language Science Center

Three ARHU Faculty Win Do Good Innovator Awards

Perla M. Guerrero, Peter Mallios and Shevaun Lewis are among 57 staff and faculty from across campus who received the award.

September 22, 2023 American Studies, College of Arts and Humanities, English, History, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Breaking the M.O.L.D. Launches Second Cohort for Leaders of Color and Women in Higher Ed

The Mellon Foundation-funded initiative prepares underrepresented arts and humanities faculty at three Maryland universities for leadership roles.
February 16, 2023 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Linguistics, American Studies, Communication, Philosophy, School of Music, English, History

ARHU Faculty Awarded Grand Challenges Grants

The grants fund $30 million to UMD faculty focused on groundbreaking, impactful research that will shape the future of our community, state, nation and world.

In the News

The New York Times March 03, 2022

Will Asian Americans Bolt From the Democratic Party?

Professor of American Studies Janelle Wong's research appears in the New York Times.
Maryland Today November 22, 2021

A Walk Through Indigenous Baltimore

Alum Creates Tour of Her Peoples’ History—and Continued Presence—in East Baltimore.
The Diamondback November 15, 2021

‘I wasn’t surprised’: Maryland volleyball’s Rainelle Jones unshaken by protest hecklers.

“The amount of attention that it’s been getting gives me more of a chance, and gives my teammates and the staff a chance to really show why we’re fighting for what we’re fighting for,” Jones said.

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The Diamondback

College Park’s Lakeland is Remembered Through Archived Documents, Photos at Virtual Event

November 21, 2020 American Studies, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities

Virtual event was in partnership with the Department of American Studies and Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities.
Chicago Tribune

Freaking out about not knowing election results Tuesday? You’re not alone.

October 28, 2020 American Studies

Why patience is not an American virtue.

Two ARHU Alumnae Granted ACLS Postdoc Fellowships

September 29, 2020 American Studies, English

American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellows spend one year at leading humanities research universities.

The Diamondback

Stamp Art Exhibit Tackles Anti-Asian Racism During COVID-19 Crisis

September 01, 2020 American Studies, History

Exhibition curated by Marjorie Antonio, an American studies and history major.

ARHU Grad’s Beauty Business Gets a Boost

July 29, 2020 American Studies

Amid a national reckoning over racism, Mia Chae Reddy Ph.D. ’12 finds her voice as a Black business owner.

American Studies Professor Among Editors of Award-Winning Book on Planned Communities

July 20, 2020 American Studies

Mary Corbin Sies was one of three editors of the book, which received an International Planning Historical Society 2020 prize.
WAMU

Honoring Juneteenth

June 17, 2020 American Studies

Food as a form of celebration.

Mia Chae Reddy Ph.D. ’12 featured in Harper's Bazaar

June 04, 2020 American Studies

19 black-owned beauty brands to invest in.

Dr. Sies Receives Best Edited Prize By International Planning History Society

June 02, 2020 American Studies

Drs. Mary Corbin Sies, Isabelle Gournay, and Robert Freestone's Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change has been selected to receive the best edited prize for 2020.

American Studies Professor Awarded For Excellence In Undergraduate Teaching

May 27, 2020 American Studies

Students called a course taught by Perla Guerrero ‘powerful and transformative.’