University of Maryland College of Arts & Humanities Year in Review 2019-20

2019-20

YEAR IN REVIEW

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CAREER INITIATIVE: “ Be Worldwise. Get Worldready.” focuses on ensuring students are prepared for life after graduation.

PUBLISHER

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A TRAVELING EXHIBITION: “ Romare Bearden: Artist as Activist and Visionary” featured more than 45 works by one of the 20th century’s most celebrated African American artists.

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NEW PROFESSORSHIP: A $1 million pledge by Professor Emeritus Michael Brin on behalf of his late mother aims to increase training in ballet.

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University of Maryland’s College of Arts and Humanities

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ARHU HIGHLIGHTS

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IN MEMORIAM

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CAREER INITIATIVE

Bonnie Thornton Dill Professor and Dean

EDITORIAL AND DESIGN STAFF Nicky Everette, Assistant Dean for Marketing and Communications

6 UNDERGRADUATE & GRADUATE EDUCATION

K. Lorraine Graham, Assistant Director of Digital Experience

7 FACULTY NEWS

Piama Habibulah, Assistant Director of Creative Strategy Heather Markle, Creative

8 RESEARCH, SCHOLARSHIP & CREATIVITY

Coordinator Jaye Nelson, Art Director, Print and Web Services

10 INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH & INITIATIVES

Sarah Snyder, Assistant Director of Communications Jessica Weiss, Writer/Editor “ Year in Review” is published

11 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & INNOVATION 12 ADDRESSING EQUITY, INCLUSION & SOCIAL JUSTICE

by the Office of Marketing and Communications in the College of Arts and Humanities. Letters

14 CREATING GLOBAL CITIZENS

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15 GIVING 16 ALUMNI DISTINCTIONS

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17 LEADERSHIP CONNECT WITH US twitter.com/umd_arhu facebook.com/arhu.umd

18 UNDERGRADUATE ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

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ON OUR COVER Top left: The foremost Black letterpress printer in the country, Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., visited the university.

Bottom left: Elizabeth Acevedo MFA ’15 had her book featured on the New York Times’ list of bestselling hardcover books for young adults. Center from top to bottom: Distinguished University Professor David C. Driskell passed away at the age of 88; Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, UMD alumni, students and staff made masks from home; The School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies’ “She Kills Monsters” ran as an experimental digital experience. Right: The 2019–20 Arts and Humanities Dean’s Lecture Series featured Oscar-winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter. | Y E AR I N R EV I EW 2019 –2 0

FROM THE DEAN

HOW ARHU KEPT CREATING DURING AN UNPRECEDENTED YEAR IT WASN’T THE YEAR THAT ANY OF US ANTICIPATED. Between a global health pandemic and the enduring pandemic of systemic racism, inequality and injustice, our campus community faces unprecedented challenges. But during this time of much uncertainty, the students, faculty and staff of the College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU) have come together to innovate in ways that offer hope for our shared future.

Once the university announced that classes would move online after Spring Break due to the evolving COVID-19 outbreak, we began a journey into virtual work and learning that only continues to grow and expand. Across the college, faculty have improved their use of educational technology to enhance student learning and engagement with online course material.

We also launched a new career initiative, called “Be Worldwise. Get Worldready.,” to ensure that our students are prepared for life after graduation and the pandemic, as well as “Keep Creating,” an online space for the university’s artists and humanists to share, engage and celebrate creativity from home.

ARHU has served the community in countless ways, too. For example, performing arts students and faculty, along with staff of The Clarice costume shop, powered up their sewing machines to make protective face masks for frontline workers.

At the same time, we continue to confront and reckon with a painful legacy of structural racism and systemic inequity, which was most powerfully manifested in multiple acts of anti-Black racism and the growth of the Black Lives Matter movement during the summer. The arts and humanities offer a space for much-needed knowledge, challenging conversations, reflection and creativity during these times. ARHU has always provided a rigorous course of study that, at its core, incorporates a deep examination of race, equity, inclusion and justice, and we remain committed to finding new ways to use our knowledge to aid our society in grappling with these issues.

The 2019–20 “Year in Review” includes some of the best illustrations of the college’s resilience and leadership during this time of upheaval and change. Through incisive courses, penetrating scholarship, inspiring programming and effective community advocacy, ARHU will continue to nourish the empathy and engagement needed to transform our culture—and our world. As always, thank you for partnering with us to advance the arts and humanities at Maryland.

Sincerely,

Bonnie Thornton Dill Professor and Dean, College of Arts and Humanities

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ARHU HIGHLIGHTS

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Academic units

Research centers

132

Professors

49

Associate professors

COLLEGE PROFILE Source: reports.umd.edu

309

Assistant professors

Instructors and lecturers

228 Staff

PROFESSIONAL TRACK

TENURED/TENURE-TRACK

STAFF

DIVERSE ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION

TOP

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT GRADUATE PROGRAM RANKING

#2 RANKINGS

Department of History specialty in African American history

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for graduating African American students with bachelor degrees in area, ethnic, cultural, gender and group studies and foreign languages, literatures and linguistics

for graduating African American students with bachelor degrees in foreign languages, literatures and linguistics

Average GPA

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for graduating African American students with doctoral degrees in history and for graduating Asian American students with doctoral degrees in visual and performing arts

$18,369,500

4.23 INCOMING FRESHMEN

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FUNDING

External research awards

3,067 Undergraduate and graduate students

CURRENT STUDENTS

79

Students elected to Phi Beta Kappa

19

National scholarship and fellowship award winners

42% Students of color

32%

Underrepresented Minorities

ARHU FACULTY HAVE STRONG PARTICIPATION IN GENERAL EDUCATION, TEACHING THE FOLLOWING AT MARYLAND:

FACULTY

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42%

31%

33%

Fundamental studies

I-series

Distributive studies

46% Diversity courses

51 TEACHING INNOVATION GRANTS

Fifty-one ARHU proposals received Teaching Innovation Grants to improve the use of educational technology to enhance student learning and engagement with online course material during the COVID-19 pandemic. The grants, which were awarded by the Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost across 12 ARHU departments and one Living-Learning Honors Program, will allow faculty members to explore new tools, technology and pedagogies in their Fall 2020 courses.

1 DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR

Professor in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Ruth Enid Zambrana, who is also the interim chair of the department, was named 2020 Distinguished University Professor, the highest academic honor bestowed on tenured faculty by the university. Zambrana is a renowned and pioneering interdisciplinary scholar and mentor, who has published extensively on issues related to public health and social inequality, educational pathways and equity, and underrepresented minority faculty in higher education over the past three decades.

2 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORS

Two English alumni, Elizabeth Acevedo MFA ’15 and Jason Reynolds ’05, had their books featured on the New York Times’ list of bestselling hardcover books for young adults.

Acevedo’s “Clap When You Land” is rooted in the author’s own experiences as the daughter of Dominican immigrants. Reynolds, who was appointed by the Library of Congress as the seventh National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature for 2020–21, teamed up with historian Ibram X. Kendi on “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You,” an adapted version of Kendi’s 2016 book “Stamped from the Beginning,” which explores the history of anti-Black racism.

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IN MEMORIAM Distinguished University Professor David C. Driskell, recognized worldwide as an artist, scholar and historian of African American art, passed away at the age of 88 in late March from complications of COVID-19. In partnership with the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, incoming University President Darryll J. Pines will display a number of Driskell’s works in University House during the 2020– 21 academic year.

>> L OOKING

FORWARD:

In Memoriam DAVID C. DRISKELL 1931-2020

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T his fall, the Driskell Center will host the virtual exhibition “The David C. Driskell Papers,” made up of 110 items from Driskell’s extensive archive, assembled over more than six decades. Highlights of the exhibition include correspondences with Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence and Georgia O’Keeffe; photographs from Driskell’s earliest solo exhibitions; and Driskell’s notes on “Two Centuries of Black American Art,” his signature accomplishment as a curator.

CAREER INITIATIVE

The College of Arts and Humanities launched “Be Worldwise. Get Worldready.,� an initiative that focuses on ensuring students are prepared for life after graduation, whether that means going on the job market or continuing to graduate school. ARHU faculty and administrators collaborate to design a holistic learning experience that embodies a career development framework, blending new and reimagined course offerings, integrated academic and career advising and access to internships, alumni networking and other opportunities across the region.

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UNDERGRADUATE & GRADUATE EDUCATION GRADUATE ACCOLADES

NDERGRADUATE U ACCOLADES Richa Mishra ’20, studio art, won a 2019–20 Worldstudio Scholarship from the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) for her commitment to giving back to the community through her work as a graphic designer.

Mishra served as president of the UMD student chapter of AIGA.

Ofelia Montelongo, who is pursuing her M.A. in Spanish, won an Undiscovered Voices Fellowship from The Writer’s Center in Washington, D.C., which provides funding for writing classes, the chance to network with fellow writers and additional publishing opportunities.

Erica Puentes Martínez ’20, African American studies and American studies, won the 2020 Undergraduate Researcher of the Year award from the UMD Center for Undergraduate Research for her qualitative, ethnographic, historical and archival research that centers the voices and lives of marginalized people.

Cheikhani Khlil ’20, M.P.S. interpreting, received a Certificate of Appreciation from the Secretary of the Maryland Higher Education Commission for helping Arabic-speaking communities in Maryland, D.C. and Virginia comprehend the safety issues associated with COVID-19 by translating texts into Arabic.

Jacqueline Stomski ’20, Arabic studies, was named the University of Maryland’s first ever James C. Gaither Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She will work as a research assistant to Carnegie’s senior scholars in the Middle East Program for one year.

Miguel Resendiz ’20, studio art and art history, was awarded the inaugural Mark H. Sandler Endowed Undergraduate Experience Award to supplement and/or cover the financial costs associated with his work in the Conservation Studio at The Phillips Collection.

As part of a series of programming honoring the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage, Abigail Eron Ph.D. ’20, art history, curated an exhibition on American artist and author Djuna Barnes at The University of Maryland Art Gallery.

>> LOOKING FORWARD:

1,020 Degrees conferred

828 B.A. 113 M.A. 79 Ph.D.

I n a unique collaboration between the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences (CMNS) and ARHU, the Immersive Media Design major will prepare students to excel in creativity and innovation using the latest digital tools and technologies. There are two tracks: Innovative Coders, with a focus on computer science, will graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree; Emerging Creatives, with a focus on digital art, will earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.

VOLUNTEER/SERVICE PROGRAM: 2%

2019 PLACEMENTS *P lus or minus 2% due to rounding

NEW UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS

UNRESOLVED: 3% EMPLOYED PARTTIME: 4%

T he Department of Communication launches its new undergraduate curriculum in Fall 2020 with four areas of specialization: Health & Science Communication, Media & Digital Communication, Political Communication & Public Advocacy and Public Relations.

A new Religions of the Ancient Middle East major will feature courses in Judaism, Christianity, Islam and other religions of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East.

MUSEUM ARCHIVE: 2%

MILITARY SERVICE: 1%

GOVERNMENT: 3%

STARTING A BUSINESS: 1% UNPLACED: 0%

OTHER: 10%

PRIVATE SECTOR: 2%

NO DATA: 18%

NON-PROFIT: 1%

*S ome departments have incomplete data on their graduates; this can include either graduates without placement and/or unreported.

CONTINUING EDUCATION: 15%

GRADUATE

UNDERGRADUATE

EDUCATION: 24%

EMPLOYED FULL-TIME: 74%

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POST-DOC: 6%

NON-TENURE TRACK: 16%

TENURE TRACK: 17%

FACULTY NEWS ACCOLADES NOTABLE FACULTY BOOKS Professor of Communication Science Xiaoli Nan and Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture Saúl Sosnowski were named 2020–21 Distinguished Scholar-Teachers at the University of Maryland.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology Emily Egan was a 2019–20 Fellow in Aegean Art at Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., to work on her monograph on Late Bronze Age Greek painting and the decoration of floor surfaces at the “Palace of Nestor” at Pylos.

English Professor Orrin Wang received the 2020 Keats-Shelley Association of America’s Distinguished Scholar Award, which recognizes his scholarship on English Romantic poets, including John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Professor Hervé-Thomas Campangne in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures was awarded the Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize by the Sixteenth Century Society for his article “Framing the early modern best seller: American settings for Belleforest’s Histoires tragiques.”

Mary Corbin Sies was the co-editor of “Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change,” which received the best edited prize for 2020 by the International Planning History Society.

Senior Lecturer in history Robert Chiles was awarded for Excellence in Research Using the Holdings of the State Archives by the New York State Archives and the Archives Partnership Trust for his scholarship on New York Governor Alfred E. Smith.

History of science author and editor Melinda Baldwin became the university’s first American Institute of Physics (AIP) Endowed Professor in the History of Natural Sciences, thanks to a $1 million pledge by AIP.

OUTSTANDING NEW FACULTY Back row L–R: Tess Korobkin (Art History and Archaeology), Erin Mosely (History), Katherine Wasdin (Classics), Elizabeth Alice Honig (Art History and Archaeology) | Middle row L-R: Bayley Marquez (American Studies), Tamanika Ferguson (Communication), Melissa Blanco Borelli (School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies), Paolo Santorio (Philosophy) | Front row L-R: Josh Alvizu (School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures), Jessica V. Gatlin (Art), Quincy T. Mills (History) | Inset: David Neely (School of Music).

Richard Bell’s “Stolen,” a microhistory of the reverse underground railroad, was featured in numerous reviews in the national media and on several podcasts, and was a finalist for the 2020 George Washington Prize and the Harriet Tubman Prize. Bell’s national book tour took him to over 50 talks.

Rion Amilcar Scott’s collection of stories “The World Doesn’t Require You” was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and made waves nationally as it appeared on many end-of-year best-of lists, after being widely reviewed in top-tier newspapers and periodicals.

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RESEARCH, SCHOLARSHIP & CREATIVITY STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS ARHU faculty and staff maintain close relationships and hold leadership positions with:

Annapolis Opera: Craig Kier, artistic and music director

Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology: Alexis Lothian, co-editor

The Department of Art History and Archaeology and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art celebrated 50 years co-sponsoring the Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art. American studies professor Janelle Wong is among the co-principal investigators of the 2020 Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey, which will measure views on race, immigration and politics in the context of the 2020 presidential election. The National Science Foundation awarded a nearly $1 million grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to host the project; Wong will collaborate with UCLA’s Lorrie Frasure-Yokley M.A. ’03, Ph.D. ’05, and Matt Barreto, as well as Edward Vargas from Arizona State University, in leading the effort.

Associate Professor of History Daryle Williams is co-leading a project that will create a massive new online database of enslaved people and others involved in the transatlantic slave trade. “Enslaved: Peoples of the Historic Slave Trade,” now in its second phase, is funded by a $850,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Michigan State University, following a founding $1.5 million grant.

Julie Greene, professor of history, is leading a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities that will allow scholars to connect with curators from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture on the largely untold history of immigrants from Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America and how they have influenced African American culture and society during the 20th and 21st centuries.

United States Institute for Theatre Technology: Jennifer Daszczyszak, vice commissioner for professional development workshops

SCHOLARSHIP Dance Studies Association: Melissa Blanco Borelli, president

Black Perspectives: Julius B. Fleming, Jr., associate editor

Two faculty members in the Department of Communication were awarded Coronavirus Research Seed Fund Awards from the UMD Division of Research to support research that could rapidly contribute to human health and related outcomes during the pandemic.

Assistant Professor Sun Young Lee examined how 100 of the world’s most reputable companies responded to the pandemic as part of their corporate social responsibility activities, and Professor Brooke Fisher Liu examined how U.S. higher education institutions planned for and responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Associate professor of art Shannon Collis won a $10,000 Rubys Artist Grant to work on “Strata,” an immersive audiovisual installation that will allow people to experience Canada’s Athabasca Oil Sands through multiple senses.

Philip Resnik, professor of linguistics, won a RAPID grant from the National Science Foundation to develop new computational methods to analyze and classify responses to questions in surveys administered by both public and private organizations responding to the COVID-19 crisis.

Celebrating 60 Years of Innovation Spinoffs through the Decades

tech transfer

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Inside: NASA Perspectives on Emerging Space Business VOLUME 17 | NUMBERS 1-2 | WINTER/SPRING 2019

TEACHING In English Lecturer Alexandra Calloway’s “Technical Writing with additional service learning” class, students helped adapt technology transfer stories for NASA’s Winter/Spring 2019 edition of Goddard Tech Transfer Magazine—now called The Spark magazine—as part of Goddard’s 60th Anniversary celebration.

In Professor of Art History Elizabeth Honig’s “Humanists on the Move” class, students learned from staff of the Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture how to use digital tools including Open Refine and Cytoscape to examine networks of humanists across Europe from the Renaissance to Enlightenment.

VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS Assistant Professor of Sculpture and Emerging Technology Cy Keener received over $200,000 from the National Science Foundation to continue his project to track Arctic ice melt. He will develop and test a low-cost, open-source meteorological buoy to better observe surface meteorology and ice/ocean currents in the Arctic.

A traveling exhibition at the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora featured Romare Bearden, one of the 20th century’s most celebrated African American artists.

“Romare Bearden: Artist as Activist and Visionary” focused on Bearden as both an artist and a social activist and showcased more than 45 of his works, including collages, watercolors, drawings, prints and editorial cartoons.

After COVID-19 made in-person performances impossible, the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies staged the already-scheduled production of Qui Nguyen’s “She Kills Monsters” as an experimental digital experience—with each actor performing from home. Over 5,000 viewers joined the livestream performance, which is being used as a test case for future virtual programming.

Associate Professor of History Thomas Zeller taught “Trashed! Garbage and Recycling in History,” a course that aims to show that what we throw away—and its shift over time—reflects our embrace of consumer culture, rapid industrialization and a growing middle class demanding disposability and cleanliness.

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INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH & INITIATIVES Associate Professor of Communication Kang Namkoong is principal investigator on a $20,000 one-year pilot research grant from the National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety to develop an innovative farm safety education program entitled “Augmented Reality Intervention for Safety Education (ARISE)” for farm parents and children.

Renowned digital humanities scholar Marisa Parham was named the director of ARHU’s African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities (AADHum) initiative, part of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, AADHum seeks to expand and institutionalize the field of Black digital humanities; it is an incubator for innovative scholarship and teaching and serves as an invaluable resource on African American history and culture in the United States.

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Associate Professor of Jewish Studies Matthew Suriano will collaborate with Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Ming Hu to laser scan three monumental tombs in Jerusalem dating to the Iron Age—roughly 2600 to 2800 years ago—and create digital models of the structures within a virtual reality environment. Their proposal, “The Digital Survey of Monumental Tombs on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives,” was awarded $25,000 in the Fall 2020 round of the Maryland Catalyst Fund New Directions competition.

A special edition of the British journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, “What Can Animal Communication Teach Us About Human Language?” included contributions from William Idsardi, professor of linguistics and chair of the Department of Linguistics, along with researchers from the colleges of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences, from disciplines including biology, psychology, neuroscience and linguistics.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & INNOVATION

INNOVATION When COVID-19 canceled music rehearsals and in-person performances, a reimagined National Orchestral Institute + Festival (NOI+F) had students continue their orchestral training online through intensive rehearsals, intimate master classes and insightful seminars, as well as offered a virtual coaching program to navigate future career decisions. Audiences experienced the festival through livestreams, discussions and broadcasts of past NOI+F performances.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & INNOVATION A $100,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), in partnership with the Lakeland Community Heritage Project and UMD Department of American Studies, is helping the College Park community of Lakeland establish more accessible tools to document, preserve and share the community’s cultural heritage.

Students in the Department of English’s “Writing for Change” course launched “Pandemic Perspectives,” an online collection of oral histories to broaden the public conversation around COVID-19.

Students from Northwestern High School in Hyattsville contributed poetry related to the public health emergency.

The National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) partnered with small business AP Ventures to develop a Virtual Reality (VR) game for language learning, which was funded by a U.S. Department of Education Small Business Innovative Research grant. NFLC also created a prototype for a Russian language learning VR tool for K-12 students.

Shortly after UMD began its journey into virtual learning in March, ARHU launched “Keep Creating.” The online initiative creates spaces for the university’s innovative artists and humanists to share their works and for anyone to experience UMD’s various cultural offerings from home.

As the nation faced a shortage of protective face masks due to the COVID-19 outbreak, alumni and students from the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies and staff of The Clarice costume shop began making masks from home. The masks have been donated across the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.

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ADDRESSING EQUITY, INCLUSION & SOCIAL JUSTICE

= EQUITY RANKINGS CAMPUS PRIDE AND BESTCOLLEGES RANK THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

#1 college in the nation for LGBTQ+ students

Led by Associate Professor of Graphic Design Audra Buck-Coleman, the 2020 UMD graphic design cohort conducted research and worked with disabled stakeholders to create “Redefine/ABLE: Challenging Inaccessibility,” an exhibit that addresses diversity, inclusion and ableism. Supported by Maryland Humanities, the Friedgen Family Design Fund, U.K. Arts and Humanities Research Council and other funders, the project was intended to manifest in two different physical spaces—the Carroll Mansion in Baltimore and the Herman Maril Gallery on campus—and online, but became a virtual and social media exhibit due to COVID-19.

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Associate Professor of History Quincy T. Mills initiated the Anna Julia Cooper Workshop, an organization of African American scholars and interested community members in the Washington, D.C., area, that will convene monthly to discuss issues of historical interest to the African American community.

Philosophy graduate students Sarah DeCederfelt, Cody Gomez and Jeremiah Tillman established a chapter of the Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) graduate student organization at UMD. Through a reading group, workshops and other events, they hope to stimulate discussion of topics relevant to minority participation in academic philosophy and to build community across the department.

On Juneteenth, members of the UMD community transcribed and tagged pages from the records of the Freedmen’s Bureau—held by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture—to make them more findable and usable by the public. Due to COVID-19, the Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture hosted the “Freedmen’s Bureau Transcribe-a-thon” virtually for the first time ever, empowering digital volunteers to liberate untold stories of the country’s post-Civil War reconstruction from home.

BookLab was visited by the foremost Black letterpress printer in the country, Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., known for his distinctive style and contemporary social justice messaging, who conducted workshops with students.

>> LOOKING FORWARD: D rawing on legendary Marylander Harriet Tubman’s legacy and commitment to liberation and justice, the Department of Women’s Studies changes its name to the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS).

Scholarship on Tubman’s life and works will be incorporated into curricula, programming and service impacting the entire campus.

Ruth E. Carter, the first Black woman to win an Oscar for costume design for her Afrofuturistic creations in “Black Panther,” spoke at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center as part of the 2019–20 Arts and Humanities Dean’s Lecture Series. Carter discussed her journey to Hollywood, her creative process and some of the challenges of being a Black woman in the film industry.

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CREATING GLOBAL CITIZENS

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NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS

FULBRIGHT AWARDS

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BENJAMIN A. GILMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS

6 BOREN SCHOLARSHIPS

2 CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT JUNIOR FELLOWSHIP

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ENGLISH OPENS DOORS

1 CRITICAL LANGUAGE SCHOLARSHIP

1 NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP

1 RANGEL SUMMER ENRICHMENT

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199 Study abroad students Fall 2019: 34 students | Winter 2020: 59 students Spring 2020: 106 students (all returned to the U.S. in March)

In March 2020, 106 ARHU students were studying in 19 different countries and one was in the Semester at Sea program when the University of Maryland made the decision to cancel all study abroad programs to ensure the safety of students due to the coronavirus pandemic. Administrators in ARHU worked around-the-clock with the Education Abroad office and colleagues in other colleges at the university to facilitate a safe and smooth transition back to the U.S. for all ARHU students.

All of ARHU’s study abroad students were able to successfully complete their spring semesters, either via remote learning or enrollment at other institutions.

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Liam Thomas Daley, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in English, conducted three weeks of research in the archives and rare book collections of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-uponAvon, England, thanks to a Stanley Wells Fellowship by the American Friends of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

Julie Choi ’20, history and government and politics, was one of 15 students from across the country to receive a U.S. Department of State Charles B. Rangel Scholarship, which aims to provide a deeper appreciation of current issues in international affairs and opportunities for career development in the field. Choi’s studies concentrated in international relations and diplomatic history with a focus on East Asian and Southeast Asian foreign policy.

Doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication Randall Fowler is working on a project entitled “Digital Authoritarianism and Resistance: Cyberwars between Egyptian and Saudi Autocrats and their Exiled Opponents.” Together with Sahar Mohamed Khamis, associate professor in the department, they will investigate how Arab activists and journalists living in the diaspora play a role in the digital relationships between authoritarian regimes and their opponents in cyberspace.

When COVID-19 made study abroad impossible, the Department of Classics offered a new “virtual study abroad” in Italy, called “The Classics in Context.” Led by classical archaeologist Crispin Corrado, who has taught UMD’s winter study abroad in Italy since 2016, students traveled online to the great museums and archaeological sites of Rome and southern Italy— Pompeii, Herculaneum, Paestum—while studying the history and cultural background of Greek and Roman art and architecture.

The Clarice’s ongoing online streaming efforts during the 2019–20 season brought programming from the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, the School of Music and the Artist Partner Programs at The Clarice to thousands of people in 36 countries, including South Africa, Norway, Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam. The online programming totaled more than 150,000 minutes of view time across the globe.

Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics Howard Lasnik presented on “Levels of representation and semantic interpretation” during a series organized by the Brazilian Linguistics Association. The lectures were intended to give students and researchers from around the world free access to state-of-the-art discussions on topics related to the study of human language in the face of COVID-19.

GIVING

88% RAISED TOWARD ARHU’S

$70 million goal for

Visiting artist in dance Kendra Portier was named the first ever Maya Brin Endowed Professor in Dance, thanks to a $1 million pledge by Professor Emeritus Michael Brin to the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) on behalf of his late mother Maya Brin. The professorship aims to increase training in ballet, foster connections among diverse concert dance forms and provide a foundation for performance and choreography through research and pedagogy.

Fearless Ideas: The Campaign for Maryland

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ALUMNI DISTINCTIONS Two School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies alumni appeared on the Netflix series “Never Have I Ever”: Adam Shapiro ’02, theatre, played the appropriately named history teacher, Mr. Shapiro, and Adriyah Marie Young ’13, theatre and studio art, appeared in one episode as high schooler Carley. Poorna Jagannathan ’96, journalism, played Nalini, a leading role.

Natasha Rothwell ’03, theatre, co-star of the HBO series “Insecure,” wrote with singer John Legend a modernized version of the holiday classic “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” which he recorded with Kelly Clarkson. The new lyrics for the #MeToo era replace those that critics have suggested celebrated an outdated gender dynamic and hinted at date rape.

When COVID-19 made in-person rehearsals impossible, Matthew Bachman ’05, M.M. ’07, D.M.A. ’14, a manager at Steinway Piano Gallery of Washington, D.C., worked with the School of Music to coordinate moving seven Steinway pianos from School of Music practice rooms in The Clarice to the homes of students who needed them.

Chelsey Green D.M.A. ’17, seated second from right, played her viola in support of Lizzo at the opening of the 62nd Grammy Awards on Jan. 26.

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Three-time Olympic gymnast, Olympic gold medalist Dominique Dawes ’02, communication, opened her own training facility, the Dominique Dawes Gymnastics Academy, in Clarksburg, Md. The academy aims to provide a safe, uplifting environment for kids and foster friendships and confidence while teaching the sport’s fundamentals.

Reginald Dwayne Betts ’09, English, was the winner of the 2019 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry and a finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry for his poetry collection “Felon.”

Betts is pursuing a Ph.D. in law at Yale.

Dominique Dawes and Reginal Dwayne Betts photos by Stephaine Cordle

ALUMNI DISTINCTIONS

LEADERSHIP DEAN’S OFFICE

DEPARTMENTS

Dean Bonnie Thornton Dill

American Studies

Communication

Linguistics

CHAIR

CHAIR

CHAIR

Psyche WilliamsForson

Shawn Parry-Giles

William Idsardi

Associate Dean for Research and Programmingand Faculty Equity Linda Aldoory Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Ralph Bauer Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs Daryle Williams Assistant Dean of Development Laura Brown Assistant Dean of Technology and Personnel Management, and Staff Equity Kathleen Cavanaugh Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Audran Downing Assistant Dean for Marketing and Communications Nicky Everette Assistant Dean for Finance and Administration Julie Wright Director of Facilities Lori Owen

English

Philosophy

Art

CHAIR

CHAIR

CHAIR

Amanda Bailey

Samuel J. Kerstein

History

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (SLLC)

Brandon Morse

Art History and Archaeology (ARTH)

CHAIR

Philip Soergel

CHAIR

DIRECTOR

DIRECTOR

Maura Keefe

Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Classics

The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies (JWST)

CHAIR

DIRECTOR

DIRECTOR

Lillian E. Doherty

Hayim Lapin

Gregory E. Miller

INTERIM CHAIR

African American, History, Culture and Digital Humanities Initiative (AADHum)

Mark and Heather Rosenker Center for Political Communication & Civic Leadership (Communication)

Latin American Studies Center

National Foreign Language Center

DIRECTOR

INTERIM EXECUTIVE

Merle Collins

DIRECTOR

DIRECTOR

DIRECTOR

Marisa Parham

Shawn Parry-Giles

Center for East Asian Studies (SLLC)

Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity

Steven Mansbach

Fatemeh Keshavarz

School of Music

Ruth Enid Zambrana

CENTERS

DIRECTOR

Minglang Zhou

DIRECTOR

Ruth Enid Zambrana

Betsy Hart Maryland Center for Humanities Research DIRECTOR

Potomac Center for the Study of Modernity (ARTH)

Linda Aldoory

DIRECTOR

Joshua Shannon Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities DIRECTOR

Center for Global Migration Studies (History) DIRECTOR

Julie Greene

Center for Health and Risk Communication (Communication) DIRECTOR

Xiaoli Nan

David C. Driskell Center for the Study of Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora

Center for Literary and Comparative Studies (English) DIRECTOR

Tita Chico

Trevor Muñoz

Curlee Holton

Herman Maril Gallery (Art)

Maryland Language Science Center DIRECTOR

Colin Phillips

Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture (ARTH)

DIRECTOR

DIRECTOR, ROSHAN INSTITUTE CHAIR IN

Fatemeh Keshavarz

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center ACTING EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Erica Bondarev Rapach

DIRECTOR

Quint Gregory

Justin Strom

The Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies (JWST)

Roshan Institute for Persian Studies (SLLC)

PERSIAN STUDIES

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

GALLERY ADVISER

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School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies (History)

University of Maryland Art Gallery ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

Taras Matla

DIRECTOR

Karin Rosemblatt

Paul Scham

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American studies

Germanic studies

Persian studies

Arabic

Greek language and culture

Philosophy

Arabic studies Archaeology Art history

Hebrew History

Arts leadership

Humanities, Health, and Medicine

Black women’s studies

Immersive Media Design

Central European, Russian and Eurasian studies

Israel studies

Chinese Chinese language Cinema and Media Studies Classical languages and literatures Classical mythology

Italian language and culture

Philosophy, politics, and economics Portuguese language, literature, and culture Professional writing Religions of the Ancient Middle East Religious studies Rhetoric

Italian studies

Romance languages

Japanese

Russian language and literature

Jewish studies Korean studies Latin American studies Latin language and literature

Communication

Russian studies Spanish heritage language and Latina/o culture Spanish language, culture, and professional contexts

Creative writing

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies

Dance

Linguistics

East Asian studies

Middle East studies

English language and literature

Music and culture

Spanish literature, linguistics, and culture

Music: Education

Studio art

Music: Liberal arts Program

Theatre

French language and literature French studies German language, literature and culture

Music performance Music: Professional Program

Spanish language, literatures, and culture

U.S. Latina/o studies Women’s studies