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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