The University of Maryland College of Arts & Humanities 2016-2017 Year in Review

YEAR IN R EV IEW 2016–17

DI V ER SI T Y

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ARHU HIGHLIGHTS

4 UNDERGRADUATE & GRADUATE EDUCATION 5 FACULTY & STAFF NEWS 6 RESEARCH, SCHOLARSHIP & CREATIVITY 6 S trategic Partnerships The Association for Writers and Writing Programs is moving to the university’s Discovery District.

8 INTERDISCIPLINARY INITIATIVES 9 INNOVATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT 10 DIVERSITY, INCLUSION & EQUITY 11 CREATING GLOBAL CITIZENS 12 ALUMNI DISTINCTIONS & GIVING 13 LEADERSHIP

9 H umanities in the Public Square Design students are installing their art on campus to help the community record personal stories about diversity and inclusion on campus.

14 UNDERGRADUATE ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

PUBLISHER University of Maryland College of Arts and Humanities Bonnie Thornton Dill, Professor and Dean

EDITORIAL AND DESIGN STAFF Nicky Everette, Director of Marketing and Communications Jaye Nelson, Art Director, Print and Web Services K. Lorraine Graham, Communications Manager Dina Shafey Scott, Writer Melissa Zamora, Graphic Design Intern 12 G ift to UMD Art Gallery Bill McGillicuddy gifted more than a dozen unique works to the art gallery.

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DI VE R SI T Y

1. G uggenheim Fellow Mahwish Chishty M.F.A. ’07 standing in front of a piece from her “Drone Series,” which explores her interest in Pakistani politics and traditional culture relative to the U.S.-Pakistan relationship.

2. “ Arte Vivo!,” a collaboration between The Clarice and community organizations, provides Latinx youth with opportunities to engage with the performing arts.

3. T he African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities Initiative launches arts and humanities based research courses for first-year students.

4. F ulbright Fellow Eben Levey, Ph.D. in history, on location in Mexico researching the impact of Catholicism on indigenous communities.

5. W omen’s Studies Ph.D. student D.B. Bauer uses 3D printing for her “fleshLab” model.

6. J ared Mezzocchi, assistant professor of theatre design and production, wins 2016 Lucille Lorte and Obie awards for video and projection designs.

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FROM THE DEAN

ARTS, HUMANITIES & DIVERSITY THE NEW ACADEMIC YEAR BEGAN in solidarity with Bowie State University by observing a moment of silence and reflection to honor the life of 2nd Lt. Richard Collins III, who was fatally stabbed on our campus last spring. This tragedy along with other acts of race, gender, religious and ethnic-based hatred and exclusion occurring nationally compel us to speak courageously on actions that undermine American democracy, and its promise of justice, equality and freedom.

As a young woman during the U.S. civil rights movement, I participated in several marches for equality and justice and was at times greeted by screaming mobs and threats of violence. Those moments taught me how solidarity helps suppress fear and how it deepens conviction to stand together against bigotry and intolerance. I believed then, and still do, that change is possible and that together, each of us can make a difference. Despite current setbacks and challenges, we can come closer to perfecting our union by expanding the circle of what it means to be American.

The arts and humanities are critical to this process. They provide historical context to help understand the present, pinpointing our place in history and illuminating our path forward. They promote understanding and empathy for people, helping us gain deeper insight into the cultural and political dynamics that influence different ways of thinking and being. Ultimately, they have the capacity to touch hearts and minds, helping us feel, experience and understand one another in deeper ways.

We are proud that through this report we can highlight a few examples of the many ways ARHU is providing a foundation for change and growth. They include such things as: he new partnership between Collington Life Plan Retirement Community and the T School of Music, which provides regular music programs to enrich the lives of senior citizens in exchange for the free housing of two graduate students who serve as artists-in-residence.

roviding context for contemporary cultural anxieties through the popular history P course “Zombies, Fear and Contagion.” Hundreds of students learn how zombies throughout history have been used as a metaphor for social and political fears especially with regard to health and disease. he National Foreign Language Center’s “TerpsTalk Summer Camp” T paired language and science, important tools for intercultural understanding, to teach elementary-level students French and Spanish around STEM-focused themes.

Please enjoy reading more about the college and thank you for your interest and continued support for the arts and humanities at Maryland.

Sincerely,

Bonnie Thornton Dill Professor and Dean College of Arts and Humanities

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ARHU HIGHLIGHTS

INCOMING FRESHMEN

4.1

Average GPA

1290 Average SAT

92.3%

95%

FIRST-YEAR RETENTION RATE

of ARHU undergraduates were placed

987 56

Undergraduate degrees awarded

Students elected to Phi Beta Kappa

42

National scholarship and fellowship award winners

14% of total degrees conferred at UMD

3,657

Undergraduate and graduate students

26%

Underrepresented minorities

$14,986,697

39%

Students of color

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External research awards

2

6

2017 GUGGENHEIM FELLOWS

Creative and performing arts awards

Jefferson Pinder B.A. ’93 and M.F.A. ’02 will create a series of performances for a road trip through the South, including Florida, Mississippi and Alabama. Pinder’s project, partly inspired by the 1960 Freedom Riders who challenged the status quo of segregation in interstate transportation, will create opportunities for dialogue about black identity.

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Mahwish Chishty M.F.A. ’07 will work with children on both the U.S.-Mexico and Pakistan-Afghanistan borders to create, exchange and fly kites. For Chishty, the kite exchange will be a way of thinking about play, freedom and the legacy of terror passed along to children living in border zones and conflict regions.

Research and scholarship awards

FACULTY AND STAFF

121

122

Professors

Associate professors

55

Assistant professors

TENURED/TENURE-TRACK

282

Instructors and lecturers

233 Staff

PROFESSIONAL TRACK

% OF ALL COURSES FOR UMD GENERAL EDUCATION PROGRAM OFFERED BY ARHU

14

Academic units

20

Research centers

40%

30%

Fundamental studies

I-series

32%

46%

Distributive studies

Diversity courses

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT GRADUATE PROGRAM RANKING

2nd

Department of History specialty in African American history

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UNDERGRADUATE & GRADUATE EDUCATION U NDERGRADUATE ACCOLADES regory Ridgway ’17, piano performance, G physics and mathematics, won the 2017 UMD University Medal and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. atricia Carmona ’17, communication, won P the national Student of the Year Award from PRWeek and began a corporate communications manager position with the Washington Redskins.

1,193 Degrees conferred

Ralph Bauer, associate professor of English, is the new associate dean for academic affairs.

He is a specialist in the literatures and cultures of the Colonial Americas from a hemispheric perspective, with special focus on the history of science and Native American studies.

ia Levenson ’17, theatre and biology, won M the Kennedy Center American Collegiate Theatre Festival’s Undergraduate Scholar Award for her essay about 17th-century theatre and anatomy.

987 B.A. 125 M.A. 81 Ph.D.

GRADUATE ACCOLADES L eticia Ridley, M.A. ’17 theatre, received a predoctoral fellowship award from the Ford Foundation to continue her graduate studies as a Ph.D. student at UMD researching black feminism and performance.

W illiam Austin, M.A. ’17 classics, received the 2017 Pellegri Scholar Graduate Fellowship to pursue a Ph.D. in art and archaeology at Princeton University this fall.

The Kennedy Center commissioned Sarah Beth Oppenheim, M.F.A. ’17 dance, and her company, Heart Stück Bernie, to create “Skirt the Wall,” a dance piece inspired by John F. Kennedy’s presidency.

L auren Bender, Ph.D. candidate in communication, received the 2016 Robert Gunderson Top Student Paper Award, Public Address Division, from the National Communication Association for her research on women in conservative politics.

Plus or minus 1% due to rounding

2016 PLACEMENTS

2% M USEUM/ ARCHIVE

1% MILITARY SERVICE 5% NO DATA

1% STARTING A BUSINESS

8%* NO DATA

3% GOVERNMENT

4% V OLUNTEER/ SERVICE PROGRAM

12% P RIVATE SECTOR

5% TENURE-TRACK 7% E MPLOYED PART-TIME

62% E MPLOYED FULL-TIME

1% NONPROFIT

GRADUATE

UNDERGRADUATE 20% C ONTINUING EDUCATION

25% EDUCATION

28% N ON-TENURETRACK

8% POST-DOC

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FACULTY & STAFF NEWS ACCOLADES

HIGHLIGHTED GRADUATE PLACEMENTS ane Winkler, M.F.A ’16 D studio art, accepted a tenure-track position as an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. achel Mullervy, M.A. ’14 R classics, was admitted to the M.A.T. program in teacher leadership at Mount Holyoke College. obert Santucci, R M.A. ’16 classics, was admitted to the Ph.D. program in classics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. eff Kaplan, Ph.D. ’17 J theatre, dance and performance studies, accepted a tenuretrack position as an assistant professor at Manhattanville College. rooke Feichtl M.A. ’17 B English, is a Strategic Communications officer at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (Springfield, Va.).

Assistant Professor of history Ting Zhang received a 2016 postdoctoral fellowship from the Henry Luce Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies Program in China Studies to research commercial printing in early modern China.

Hasan Elahi, associate professor of art, won the 2017 Hugh Hefner First Amendment Prize for his interdisciplinary art that examines issues of surveillance, citizenship and migration.

Three faculty from the college were named Distinguished University Professors in 2016: Arthur Eckstein (history), Steven Mansbach (art history and archaeology) and Mary Helen Washington (English).

Karen Bradley, professor of dance, received a President’s Award from the 2016 National Dance Education Organization in recognition of her exemplary career devoted to dance advocacy.

Ana Patricia Rodríguez, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and Jane Hirshberg, campus and community engagement manager at The Clarice, received inaugural Making a Difference Awards from UMD’s Office of Community Engagement.

Jon Sumida, professor of history, recieved the Commodore Dudley W. Knox Award from the Naval Historical Foundation. The award acknowledges a lifetime body of work that embraces scholarship, leadership and mentoring in the field of naval history.

OUTSTANDING AND DIVERSE NEW FACULTY Back row L–R: Damien Smith Pfister (COMM), Shay Hazkani (JWST), John Weisweiler (HIST) | Middle row L–R: Mauro Resmini (SLLC), Emily Catherine Egan (ARTH), William Robin (MUSC) | Front row L–R: Lisa Nathans (TDPS), Maura Keefe (TDPS), Carly S. Woods (COMM), Jason Geary (MUSC), Catherine Knight Steele (COMM)

iolinist Audrey Wright V D.M.A. music, joined the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

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RESEARCH, SCHOLARSHIP & CREATIVITY

STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS

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

Society of Early Americanists: Richard Bell, fellow Latino/a Studies Association: Ana Patricia Rodríguez, president Royal Historical Society: Philip Resnik, fellow

Big Ten Band Directors Association: Mike Votta, presidentelect

Society for Music Theory: Dora Hanninen, president

Drawn by UMD’s vibrant arts and humanities community, academic strength in creative writing and location near Washington, D.C., the Association for Writers and Writing Programs will move to the university’s Discovery District.

Linda Aldoory, professor of communication, is an expert in health communication and underserved health populations. She will be the college’s new associate dean for research and programming.

The Roshan Institute for Persian Studies is partnering with Kent State University, the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library in Minnesota to digitize the national archives of Afghanistan.

The National Orchestral Institute + Festival, which brings together aspiring orchestral musicians from across the country, launched a partnership with Wolf Trap Opera to provide joint performance and learning opportunities for students.

SCHOLARSHIP Shawn Parry-Giles, professor of communication, has been researching Hillary Clinton’s speeches and memoirs to understand public perceptions of Clinton during the recent U.S. presidential election.

Hosted by the National Library of Medicine and curated

by Associate Professor of American Studies Psyche Williams-Forson, “Fire & Freedom: Food & Enslavement in Early America” examined how colonial Europeans in the Chesapeake region relied on indentured servants, Native Americans and African slave labor for life-saving knowledge of food and farming.

Professor of Philosophy Samuel Kerstein delved into everything from medical literature to behavioral economics to explore ethical issues surrounding kidney transplantation, including racial disparities among organ recipients and the possibility of paying donors.

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Lee Konstantinou, assistant professor of English, has written about popular culture as both a fiction writer and a scholar. His current project, “The Cartoon Art: Comics in the Age of Mass High Culture,” examines how comics are becoming a more respectable subject of study.

Funded by a $300,000 grant from the New Zealand government, Professor of Second Language Acquisition Robert DeKeyser is collaborating with colleagues at the University of Auckland on how to learn a second language unconsciously.

Xiaoli Nan, associate professor of communication, is researching how to use real-time data on traffic, public transit and the weather to encourage people to make more efficient and empowering choices that reduce energy use and meet their transportation needs.

VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS

TEACHING

James Harding, professor of theatre and performance studies, won the 2017 Outstanding Article Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education for his research about the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quáng Đúc’s politically-charged self-immolation in 1963. Harding’s research examines the relationships between performance and extreme nonviolent activism.

Associate Professor of History Richard Bell is the recipient of the 2017 University System of Maryland Board of Regents Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching. In his teaching and research, Bell uses narratives of everyday people to help students and readers connect with history.

Presented by the University of Maryland Art Gallery and curated by Ann Prentice Wagner Ph.D. ’06 art and archaeology, “Herman Maril: The Strong Forms of Our Experience” exhibition featured over eight works, including drawings, watercolors and acrylic paintings on paper and prints.

Shannon Collis, assistant professor of printmaking and digital media, was a semi-finalist for the 2017 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. Her installations and interactive environments explore how digital technologies can transform perceptions of audio and visual stimuli.

Larissa Dedova, professor of piano, released a two-CD set of the complete solo piano works of Maurice Ravel.

William Robin, assistant professor of musicology and ethnomusicology, received a 2017 Research Communicator Impact Award from the UMD Division of Research in the op-ed category for his piece about Colin Kaepernick and the “Star-Spangled Banner” in The New Yorker.

Daniel Conway, professor of theatre design and production, won a 2017 Helen Hayes Award for his outstanding set design for “Hand to God” at Studio Theatre. This is the fourth time Conway has received the award. “ Willie Cole: On Site,” an exhibition at the David C. Driskell Center, presented a selection of the artist’s work from 2006-16 and featured a large, sculptural blossom made entirely of recycled shoes.

In Assistant Professor of History Chantel Rodriguez’s immensely popular course, “Zombies, Fear and Contagion,” students discuss how zombies throughout history are often a metaphor for social and political fears. During the 2016-17 academic year, course waitlists topped 800 students.

The Writing Programs in the Department of English received the 2016-17 Writing Program Certificate of Excellence from the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Collectively, the Writing Programs are leaders in not only traditional writing and critical inquiry, but also integrating digital and online tools into learning, teaching and instructor training.

Lyra Hilliard, senior lecturer in English, received the 2016-17 Professional Track Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Office of Faculty Affairs and the Provost.

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INTERDISCIPLINARY INITIATIVES >> LOOKING FORWARD The African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities Initiative, generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will partner with UMD’s First Year Innovation and Research Experience to offer a twosemester research series that connects students directly with researchers and their projects, giving students hands-on training in digital technology and African American culture. he college’s Arts & Humanities Dean’s T Lecture Series hosted poet & MacArthur Genius Claudia Rankine and partnered with Maryland Humanities to present Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Taylor Branch and Isabel Wilkerson, continuing public dialogues with creatives and intellectuals who address emerging and persistent questions in arts and humanities central to national dialogue.

INTERDISCIPLINARY INITIATIVES Assistant Professor of History Chantel Rodríguez is collaborating with Katherine Otto of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History on a groundbreaking health history project to collect stories related to traditional Latinx health practices.

Supported by grants from the Department of Homeland Security, Brooke Liu, associate professor of communication, is examining the role of social media in government crisis communications.

RESEARCH NETWORKS Students in the interdisciplinary graduate certificate Digital Studies in the Arts and Humanities study new forms of media and create digital and computational tools to examine traditional areas of humanistic study. D.B. Bauer, Ph.D. student in women’s studies, uses 3D printing for her “fleshLAB” model to explore the impact of digital technologies on human life and thought.

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INNOVATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INNOVATION IN THE ARTS & HUMANITIES R ichard Scerbo, director of the National Orchestral Institute + Festival, was selected as a 2016 Musical America Innovator and featured in “Musical America’s Innovators: 30 Professionals of the Year.”

The

Michelle Smith Collaboratory and the UMD Art Gallery hosted the “Art + Feminism Edit-A-Thon” to create and edit Wikipedia pages by underrepresented female artists, particularly those with work in UMD collections.

Students in “Code and Form” designed and built a video booth for the “Maryland Dialogues on Diversity and Community” program where anyone can record their stories on diversity and community. The booth will be placed in the Adele H. Stamp Student Union this fall.

Jared Mezzocchi, assistant professor of theatre design and production, won the 2016 Lucille Lortel Award and a 2016 Obie Award for his dynamic video and projection designs in Qui Nguyen’s “Vietgone” at Manhattan Theater Club.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & SERVICE TO THE STATE Perla

Guerrero, assistant professor of American studies, received the 2016 Hispanic Heritage Leadership Award from the Baltimore Ravens, who donated $2,000 in her honor to Education Based Latino Outreach, a local nonprofit organization.

In July, the National Foreign Language Center welcomed local third through fifth graders to learn French or Spanish at the first TerpsTalk Summer Camp. The STEM-themed camp helped students of all proficiency levels develop their language skills.

The “Arte Vivo!” program at The Clarice partnered with community organizations to create programs both on and off campus for Latinx youth, including a field trip for Latin American Youth Center participants to hear the UMD Symphony Orchestra perform.

“Home

Stories” is a National Endowment for the Humanities Access grant-funded digital storytelling project that empowers local migrant youth to create and share their stories with each other and the wider public.

The grant is designed to encourage fundraising and sustainability of ongoing programming.

>> LOOKING FORWARD School of Music graduate students Samantha Flores and Matthew Rynes will organize concerts and educational programs for Collington Life Plan Community residents as part of a new student artist-in-residence program.

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DIVERSITY, INCLUSION & EQUITY

J effrey Herf, distinguished university professor of history, has been thinking about how German leftist groups view Israel since he was a graduate student in Frankfurt during the late ’70s. His new book, “Undeclared Wars with Israel,” examines this history.

University of Maryland ranks #13 in College Choice’s “50 Best Colleges for

LGBTQ

Students,” and is in Campus Pride’s 2016 Top 30 list of the most LGBTQfriendly campuses across the nation.

S onia-Melitta Montoya, Ph.D. student in American studies, received a 2016-17 Ronald E. McNair Graduate Fellowship to support her first year of graduate studies at UMD, where she will continue her ethnographic research on Mexican-American women and 1950s labor activism.

Fulbright Fellow Maya Cunningham, Ph.D. student in ethnomusicology, developed a curriculum for teachers in Washington, D.C. and Prince George’s County that empowers African-American schoolchildren by highlighting connections between their own culture and the music of Africa.

The Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity was selected by the UMD President’s Commission on Ethnic Minority Issues to receive the 2017 Non-Instructional Unit Service Minority Achievement Award for its role in mentoring and advancing the careers of graduate students and junior faculty.

ELLE MAGAZINE INCLUDED THREE ARHU COURSES IN THEIR 2016 LIST OF “63 OF THE MOST COMPELLING OFFERINGS FOR TODAY’S COLLEGE STUDENTS TO EXAMINE THE FEMALE EXPERIENCE.”

In partnership with the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, The Clarice hosted Kutia Jawara as their first Urban Arts Leadership Fellow. Jawara facilitated numerous community engagement activities, including the Unity Project, an interactive art installation.

C hristina Hanhardt, associate professor of American studies, received the 2017 “Champion of the Community Award” from the UMD LGBT Equity Office.

T he David C. Driskell Center presented “Shifting: African American Women Artists and the Power of Their Gaze,” which featured work by prominent artists, including Mequitta Ahuja, Robin Holder and Kara Walker, exploring how African American women view each other and the world.

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CREATING GLOBAL CITIZENS

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2016–17 NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS

10 Fulbright Scholarships 10 Gilman Scholarships 9 Critical Language Scholarships 7 Boren Scholarships 4 Teaching Assistantships in France 2 Hollings Scholarship

352 STUDENTS STUDIED ABROAD

ASIA M eizhen Wang, M.P.S. ’16 interpreting, completed the highly competitive training program for United Nations interpreters in New York. Wang, who works in Chinese, interned with the International Monetary Fund while she was still in the program.

S arah Reynolds ’13, French, studied Indonesian in Malang, Indonesia through a critical language scholarship.

J asper Surrett ’17, Persian and government and politics, studied Persian in Dushanbe, Tajikistan through the Global Fellows program.

CENTRAL and SOUTH AMERICA E ben Levey, Ph.D. student in history, spent the year in Mexico on a Fulbright research grant studying the impact of Catholicism on indigenous communities.

T heresa Brecker ’15, Spanish, taught English in Colombia through a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship.

K ate Spanos, Ph.D. ’16 dance and performance studies and current coordinator of marketing and communications in the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, won a Postdoctoral Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant to study dance in Brazil.

FROM INDONESIA TO MEXICO TO GHANA,

ARHU’S COMMUNITY REACHES ALL PARTS OF THE GLOBE

AFRICA Dance M.F.A. student Meghan Abadoo ’16 studied Ghanaian contemporary dance in Dodowa, Ghana through a Fulbright research grant.

EUROPE S arah Marsteller ’16, German and history, taught English in Germany through a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship.

A lisa Tsaturov ’15, Russian studies and government and politics, taught English in Latvia through a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship.

MIDDLE EAST Z achary Goldblatt ’18, Arabic and government and politics double major, studied Arabic in Ibri, Oman as a Global Fellow.

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ALUMNI DISTINCTIONS & GIVING

AWARDS Diedre Dawkins-Opare M.F.A. ’10 dance, received a 2016 President’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Volunteer Service from President Obama. Dawkins has volunteered for arts institutions throughout the country and is the arts director at ConneXions School for the Arts in Baltimore as well as a dance instructor at AileyCamp Baltimore.

Rebeca Moreno, Ph.D. ’13 Spanish languages and literatures, received the 2016 Legal Book of the Year Award from the Bar Association of Puerto Rico for her book on slavery in the Hispanic Caribbean, “Escritura, derecho y esclavitud: Francisco José de Jaca ante el nomos colonial” (Ediciones Puerto, 2016).

Mahwish Chishty, M.F.A. ’07 art and Jefferson Pinder M.F.A. ’02 art and B.A. ’93 theatre, received 2017 Guggenheim fellowships for their work in fine arts. Chishty creates sculptures, paintings (below, right) and performances that explore Pakistani politics and traditional culture relative to the U.S.-Pakistan relationship. Pinder creates performances, video work (below, left) and objects that ask viewers to consider the complex construction of identity.

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GIVING Bill McGillicuddy gifted more than a dozen unique works by Washington Color School artist Paul Reed to the University of Maryland Art Gallery, bolstering the strength of the Art Gallery’s permanent collection and offering significant works for study, scholarship and presentation.

Shelley and Thomas Mulitz and the Mulitz-Gudelsky Family established two endowed scholarships to support undergraduate students in both the School of Music and the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies.

Through bequest, John C. Ford ’64 and Sandra S. Poster ’64 established the Ford and Poster Endowment to support important needs or initiatives that advance the mission of the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies including scholarships, faculty fellowships and visiting artist residencies.

LEADERSHIP DEAN’S OFFICE Dean Bonnie Thornton Dill Assistant Dean of Development Laura Brown Assistant Dean of Technology, Administration and Staff Equity Kathleen Cavanaugh

American Studies

Communication

Linguistics

CHAIR

CHAIR

CHAIR

Psyche WilliamsForson

Shawn Parry-Giles

William Idsardi

English

Philosophy

Art

CHAIR

CHAIR

CHAIR

Amanda Bailey

Christopher Morris

History

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (SLLC)

William Richardson

Art History and Archaeology

Director of Marketing and Communications Nicky Everette Associate Dean and Equity Officer Wendy Jacobs Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Ralph Bauer Assistant to the Dean for Facilities Lori Owen Associate Dean for Research and Programming Linda Aldoory Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs Daryle Williams Assistant Dean for Finance and Administration Julie Wright

DEPARTMENTS

Philip Soergel

CHAIR

Meredith J. Gill Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Audran Downing

CHAIR

DIRECTOR

Leigh Wilson Smiley

DIRECTOR

CHAIR

The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies

Lillian E. Doherty

CHAIR

DIRECTOR

Hayim Lapin

Jason Geary

Latin American Studies Center

National Foreign Language Center

DIRECTOR

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

DIRECTOR

Center for Political Communication & Civic Leadership (Communication)

Britta Anderson

David Ellis

Linda Aldoory

DIRECTOR

Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities

Potomac Center for the Study of Modernity (Art History and Archaeology)

Classics

Fatemeh Keshavarz

Women’s Studies CHAIR

School of Music

Carole Stabile

CENTERS Arts and Humanities Center for Synergy

Shawn Parry-Giles Center for East Asian Studies (SLLC) DIRECTOR

Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity

Michele Mason

DIRECTOR

DIRECTOR

Trevor Muñoz

DIRECTOR

Ruth Zambrana Center for Global Migration Studies (History) CO-DIRECTORS

Ira Berlin 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 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Curlee Holton

DIRECTOR

Orrin Wang

DIRECTOR

Colin Phillips

Herman Maril Gallery (Art)

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

Roshan Institute for Persian Studies (SLLC) DIRECTOR, ROSHAN

Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture (Art History and Archaeology) DIRECTOR

Justin Strom Center for Literary and Comparative Studies (English)

Joshua Shannon Maryland Language Science Center

GALLERY ADVISER

For the most up-to-date information, please visit arhu.umd.edu.

School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Quint Gregory

INSTITUTE CHAIR IN PERSIAN STUDIES

Fatemeh Keshavarz

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies (History) DIRECTOR

Stefano Villani

Martin Wollesen

The University of Maryland Art Gallery ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Taras Matla

DIRECTOR, ABRAHAM S. AND JACK KAY CHAIR IN ISRAEL STUDIES

Yoram Peri

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French language and literature French studies

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U.S. Latina/o studies Music: Liberal arts Program

Women’s studies