YEAR IN REVIEW 2014 – 15
ARHU The College of Arts & Humanities YE AR IN RE VIE W 2014–15
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ARHU HIGHLIGHTS
4 UNDERGRADUATE & GRADUATE EDUCATION 5 FACULTY & STAFF NEWS 6 RESEARCH, SCHOLARSHIP & CREATIVITY 8 INTERDISCIPLINARY INITIATIVES 9 INNOVATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT 10 DIVERSITY, INCLUSION & EQUITY 11 CREATING GLOBAL CITIZENS 4 S tudent Outcomes | 93% of ARHU’s graduates were placed. Learn where.
12 ALUMNI DISTINCTIONS & GIVING 13 LEADERSHIP & ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
PUBLISHER 5 D iverse New Faculty | Meet the diverse new faculty added to the college in the 2014-15 academic year, including three new faculty who were part of the African Americanist cluster hire.
12 N ew ARHU Dean’s Cabinet | Meet members of the cabinet who are volunteering their time to make a difference by sharing their unique arts and humanities stories with new audiences.
College of Arts and Humanities Bonnie Thornton Dill, Professor and Dean
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SYNERGIES ACROSS THE ARTS, HUMANITIES AND SCIENCES FALL 2015 MARKED THE 50TH ANNIVERSARIES of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts. These “fraternal twins” look exceptional at 50, and I attribute their success to the way they complement each another in their quest to preserve and promote America’s rich history and culture. At the University of Maryland (UMD) and in the College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU), we seek to capitalize on the inextricable interweaving of the arts and humanities to create a variety of synergies in the college, across the campus and in our communities. This report provides numerous examples: UMD’s broad interdisciplinary program in language science was among the first cohort of grantees awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation Research Traineeship grant. UMD’s strategic partnership with Washington, D.C.’s Phillips Collection promises an exciting collaboration at the intersections of the arts and humanities, and the University of Maryland Center for Art and Knowledge at The Phillips Collection offers new opportunities for dialogue and exchange in the nation’s capital. With support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, ARHU will be a national leader broadening the fields of digital humanities and African American literature, history and culture by extending the technological tools of the digital humanities to scholars and graduate students with these diverse research interests. The Arts and Humanities Center for Synergy continues to create opportunities to work across the campus and extend scholarship into the community through programs like the ThinkAThon, a series of “think and do” events that invite communities to consider the impact of the arts and humanities in community development. The 2014–15 Year in Review provides only a glimpse of the college’s many accomplishments. I encourage you to visit the college’s websites for the most up-to-date information. Thank you for your continued support. Sincerely,
Bonnie Thornton Dill Professor and Dean College of Arts and Humanities
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ARHU HIGHLIGHTS
INCOMING FRESHMEN
4.07 Average GPA
92%
1295
FIRST-YEAR RETENTION RATE
Average SAT
93% of ARHU undergraduates were placed
1,185 Undergraduate degrees conferred
69 Students elected to Phi Beta Kappa
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16% of total degrees conferred at UMD, making ARHU the second-largest producer of degrees on campus
National scholarship and fellowship award winners
4,030 Undergraduate and graduate students
38% Students of color
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$18,205,607 External research awards
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2014 GUGGENHEIM FELLOW
Creative and performing arts awards
Holly Brewer, associate professor of history, is working on her next book, “Inheritable Blood,” which explores the origins of colonial laws that enforced aristocratic and archaic privilege, and their roles in the development of slavery in the new world.
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Research and scholarship awards
Maud Casey, professor of English, was awarded a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship. Casey is working on a collection of stories provisionally titled “Iconographies,” which takes as its starting point case studies of female patients found in 19th-century medical reference books.
FACULTY AND STAFF
122
123
58
Professors
Associate professors
Assistant professors
TENURED/TENURE-TRACK
226 209 Instructors and lecturers
Staff
PROFESSIONAL TRACK
% OF ALL SEATS FOR UMD GENERAL EDUCATION PROGRAM OFFERED BY ARHU
14 Academic units
8 Research centers
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT GRADUATE PROGRAM RANKINGS
8th 40%
30%
Fundamental studies
I-series
41%
41%
Distributive studies
Diversity courses
Department of English specialties in African-American literature and American literature before 1865
12th Department of History speciality in AfricanAmerican history
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UNDERGRADUATE & GRADUATE EDUCATION PROGRAM FOR UNDERGRADUATE LANGUAGE SCIENCE AMBASSADORS IN RESEARCH (PULSAR)
1,375
Linguistics and biological sciences major Neomi Rao ’17 (third from the left) works in close partnership with faculty through the Maryland Language Science Center’s (LSC) PULSAR program, where she received National Science Foundation funding to help establish LSC’s interdisciplinary research field station in Guatemala.
Degrees conferred
1,185 B.A. 99 M.A. 91 Ph.D.
U NDERGRADUATE ACCOLADES ictoria Monsaint-Queeney ’15, English and environmental science and V technology major, was awarded an Earnest F. Hollings Scholarship from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) office to get “hands-on” educational training in NOAA-related science, research, technology, policy and management activities.
ive history F undergraduates were awarded a $25,000 Future of Information Alliance seed grant from the Deutsch Foundation to create “Through Venetian Eyes,” a research portal on the history of Venice.
hris Hammerly ’15 and Caitlyn Richter ’15, linguistics majors, C were awarded graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation.
GRADUATE ACCOLADES olette Krogol, dance M.F.A. student, and C her team were awarded a challenge grant from the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities for their project, “Dance Curating Through Community.” Talia Chicherio, classics M.A. student, received the first-ever Pellegri Scholar Graduate Fellowship. She researches the influence of Cicero’s political writings on James Madison’s contributions to the founding documents of the American republic.
ob Hackett ’15, art M.F.A. R student, was among 18 students recognized nationally by the International Sculpture Center for outstanding achievement for his contemporary sculpture, Archway.
2014 PLACEMENTS
6% NO DATA
1% MILITARY SERVICE 1% STARTING A BUSINESS 3% VOLUNTEER/ SERVICE PROGRAM
57% EMPLOYED FULL-TIME
18% NO DATA 21% TENURE-TRACK
9% EMPLOYED PART-TIME
3% MUSEUM/ ARCHIVE 3% GOVERNMENT
GRADUATE
UNDERGRADUATE
7% PRIVATE SECTOR 2% NON-PROFIT 23% CONTINUING EDUCATION
26% NON-TENURETRACK 12% EDUCATION 7% POST-DOC
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FACULTY & STAFF NEWS FACULTY AND STAFF ACCOLADES John Ruppert, professor of art, received a 2015 individual artist award in visual arts from the Maryland State Arts Council. Sarah Cameron, assistant professor of history, received a 2015 Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation award to research famine, violence and the making of Soviet Kazakstan.
AWARD-WINNING FACULTY BOOKS Michael Ross’ “The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case:
Colleen Woods, assistant professor of history, was awarded a 2015 American Council of Learned Societies fellowship to research U.S.-Philippines relations and the making of global anti-communism.
Race, Law and Justice in the Reconstruction Era” | 2014 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize awarded by The Historic New
Georges Rey, professor of philosophy, was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to research the implications of Noam Chomsky’s theory of universal grammar at the University of Oslo’s Center for the Study of Mind in Nature.
Orleans Collection.
Lindley Darden’s “In Search of Mechanisms: Discoveries Across
Robert Ramsey, professor of East Asian linguistics, won the Korean Language Society’s Ilsuk Korean Linguistics Award for his accomplishments in the field of Korean historical linguistics. Cary Gillett, production manager in the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, was invited to develop a stage management program at the National Academy of Chinese Arts in Beijing, China.
the Life Sciences” | List of Choice Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014 by the American Library Association.
Stanley Plumly’s “The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth and Lamb” | 2015 Truman Capote
Ed Summers, lead developer for the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, won the 2015 Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology from the American Library Association.
Award for Literary Criticism from the University of Iowa.
Christina Hanhardt’s “Safe
Curlee Holton, professor of art and executive director of the David C. Driskell Center, was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Anyone Can Fly Foundation for his dedication to enriching and making known the history of African-American art and culture.
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Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence” | 2014 Literary Award for Best Book in LGBT Studies awarded by Lambda Literary.
Laura Demaria’s “Buenos Aires y las provincias: relatos para
Back row L-R: Christopher Bonner (HIST)*, James M. Harding (TDPS), Craig Kier (MUSC),
desarmar” | 2015 Best Book
Nick Joyce (COMM), Omer Preminger (LING) | Middle row L-R: Alexis Lothian (WMST),
Award in the Humanities from
Julius B. Fleming Jr. (ENGL)*, La Marr Jurelle Bruce (AMST)*, Lindsey Anderson (COMM),
the Latin American Studies
Ting Zhang (HIST) | Front row L-R: Mercédès Baillargeon (SLLC), Jared Mezzocchi (TDPS),
Association’s Southern Cone
Chanon Adsanatham (ENGL) | Not photographed: Thayse Leal Lima (SLLC),
Studies Section.
Nancy Raquel Mirabal (AMST) | *African Americanist Cluster Hire
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RESEARCH, SCHOLARSHIP & CREATIVITY STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS >> LOOKING FORWARD UMD’s new partnership with Washington, D.C.’s renowned Phillips Collection will provide new opportunities to collaborate on joint courses, fellowships and cultural events. It also establishes the University of Maryland Center for Art and Knowledge at The Phillips Collection.
THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION IS HOME TO
4,000+ masterpieces of impressionism, modernism and contemporary art
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS ARHU faculty maintain close relationships and hold leadership positions with: ssociation for Education A in Journalism and Mass Communication: Elizabeth L. Toth, president ociety for Historians of the S Gilded Age and Progressive Era: Julie Greene, president ssociation of Departments A of English: Kent Cartwright, president rchaeological Institute of A America, Washington, D.C. chapter: Jorge J. Bravo III, president
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In partnership with the Library of Congress, the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies commissioned the exhibition “A Thousand Years of the Persian Book,” presenting to the region the rich artistic and literary history of Persian culture. The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center partnered with MilkBoy to announce “MilkBoy+Art House,” a community-minded performing arts venue that will feature artists from The Clarice’s Artist Partner Programs, emerging student talent and local art makers from the greater College Park community. The School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies partnered with the Big Ten Theatre Consortium to commission and produce original plays that highlight the work of female playwrights and serve as effective tools for teaching. The first play, “Good Kids,” inspired by a notorious rape case in Steubenville, Ohio, debuted at UMD’s The Clarice.
SCHOLARSHIP Jonathan Auerbach, professor of English, was named a 2014-15 Distinguished Scholar-Teacher for outstanding scholarly contributions to American literature and film and for demonstrated excellence in teaching. Associate Professor Valentine Hacquard and Professor Jeffrey Lidz in linguistics were awarded a three-year NSF grant for their project “Acquiring the semantics and pragmatics of attitude verbs,” which helps understand the connection between language and mind development. Michelle Rowley, associate professor of women’s studies, received a RASA for her project, “Queering Home: Caribbean Explorations of Un/Be/Longing,” which explores the ways that Caribbean women with non-conforming sexual expression structure their livelihoods, social networks, sense of community and use of public space for survival. rancisco Barrenechea, associate professor of classics, was awarded F a fellowship at Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies to write his book, “New Gods, New Devotions: Religious Experiences in Aristophanes’ Wealth.” Julie Greene, professor of history and co-director of the Center for the History of the New America, received a RASA to support her project, “Movable Empire: Labor, Migration, and the Making of United States Global Power, 1885-1934,” which examines the ways labor migration across the Caribbean, Hawaii and the Philippines remade the Americas.
VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS Linda Mabbs, professor of voice and opera, was awarded the Kirwan Faculty Research and Scholarship Prize for extensive work as artistic director for “Art of Argento: A Celebration of Composer Dominick Argento’s Work” at The Clarice and for her title role in the opera, “Miss Havisham’s Fire.” hannon Collis, assistant professor of art, partnered with VisArts at S Rockville to install “Recent Works,” an interactive environment that explores ways in which digital technologies impact human perception of audio and visual stimuli. >> LOOKING FORWARD Jim Thorpe, associate professor of graphic design, curated the poster exhibition, “Questioning the Bomb: History and Non-Proliferation,” at the UMD Art Gallery. The exhibit commemorated the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and advocated global relinquishment of weapons of mass destruction.
TEACHING The Maya Brin Residency program hosted prominent Russian-American journalist and LGBT activist Masha Gessen to engage students and faculty in a discussion of her latest book, “The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy,” about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombers. She also presented the public lecture, “Putin’s War Against the West.” Randy Ontiveros, associate professor of English, was awarded the 2015 University System of Maryland Regents Faculty Award for excellence in teaching. His focus is U.S. Latino literature and culture, comparative ethnic studies, women’s studies and American literature. Robyn Muncy, professor of history, mined the National Archives and other collections to develop “New Deal: Reimagining America.” This course explored the New Deal as a creative set of experiments to make America more democratic and egalitarian. Bernard Cooperman, associate professor of history and director of the Miller Center for Historical Studies, taught “Practicing Tolerance in a Religious Society: The Church and the Jews in Italy” via the Coursera worldwide platform. The course explored religious tolerance by examining two millennia of Jewish history in Rome, the center of the Catholic world.
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INTERDISCIPLINARY INITIATIVES GRADUATE TRAINING & DIGITAL HUMANITIES
>> LOOKING FORWARD Supported by the Samuel H. Kress and Getty Foundations, the Department of Art History and Archaeology and MITH are partnering for “Art History in Digital Dimensions,” a fall 2016 symposium on digital art history that will develop guidelines for graduate training in the digital Humanities, art history and museology.
ONGOING INITIATIVES The Arts and Humanities Center for Synergy partnered with the city of College Park for the College Park ThinkAThon to discuss the role of the arts and culture in the redesign of Baltimore Avenue. The college’s WORLDWISE Arts & Humanities Dean’s Lecture Series hosted “genius expert” Walter Isaacson and environmental humanist Terry Tempest Williams, continuing public conversations with leaders who influence national dialogue on the value of the arts and humanities.
RESEARCH NETWORKS Jennifer Barclay, assistant professor of theatre, partnered with UMD’s Department of Physics to develop, “An Experiment,” an interview-based comedic play about gender parity that uses the physics world to share universal messages related to issues of gender equality in the workplace.
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The Maryland Language Science Center (LSC), led by linguistics Professor and LSC Director Colin Phillips, was awarded a $3 million National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Traineeship grant to develop a cross-training model to encourage graduate team-based language research. ARHU’s $1.25 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (Mellon Foundation) led by Dean Bonnie Thornton Dill and co-directed by the Arts and Humanities Center for Synergy and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), will fund graduate training, interdisciplinary research and teaching at the intersections of digital humanities and African American history, literature and culture. Funded by the Mellon Foundation, MITH partnered with Washington University in St. Louis and the University of California, Riverside for “Documenting the Now: Supporting Scholarly Use and Preservation of Social Media Content.” The team will develop “DocNow,” a userfriendly way of collecting and preserving digital content created by the public to respond to historically significant events. The Roshan Institute for Persian Studies’ “Persian Digital Library” project partnered with the Perseus Digital LIbrary at Tufts University to develop an online educational and research resource that will provide free access to the most important works of Persian poetry and prose.
INNOVATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INNOVATION IN THE ARTS & HUMANITIES Trevor Munoz, associate director of MITH and assistant dean for digital humanities research for the UMD Libraries, received the 2014 National Digital Stewardship Alliance Individual Innovation Award from the Library of Congress. Kari Kraus, associate professor in the Department of English and the College of Information Studies, is part of an NSF-funded interdisciplinary team responsible for designing and developing the alternative reality game “Dust,” which seeks to help teens ages 13-17 develop STEM skills. James Ross, professor of conducting and director of orchestral activities, partnered with choreographer Liz Lerman ’70 to explore music and movement in “Music, Movement, Mind, and Score: A Course in Improvisation, Collaboration, and Art Making” to generate new possibilities for music performance.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & SERVICE TO THE STATE Merle Collins, professor of English, partnered with the Cultural Academy for Excellence for her course “Caribbean Stop: Poetry and Short Stories from the Region,” which introduced UMD and elementary school students to selected works of Caribbean literature and produced a steelpan musical. The Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies hosted Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, for its seventh annual Richard and Elizabeth Dubin lecture to discuss his book, “The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror.” Stanley Plumly, distinguished university professor of English, serves as poet laureate for the state of Maryland. The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center commissioned the spoken word piece, “The Battle of and for the Black Face Boy,” written by National Book Award winner Nikky Finney, to open community discussions about race and the impact of the Civil War on the United States.
“ I imagined a radical libretto made of Civil War history, Black history, and modern American headlines.” —F ROM FINNEY’S INTRODUCTION TO “THE BATTLE OF AND FOR THE BLACK FACE BOY”
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DIVERSITY, INCLUSION & EQUITY Through the college’s teaching, scholarship and programming, we continue to expand opportunities for students to engage in current issues of our time.
BALTIMORE THINKATHON In collaboration with the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, the Arts and Humanities Center for Synergy convened humanists, artists, researchers and activists for a timely “think and do” event to address how the arts and humanities can help build cultural bridges in Baltimore.
RESEARCHING FERGUSON Archived tweets provided the background for MITH’s Digital Humanities Incubator series. The “Researching Ferguson” project collaborated with the Arts and Humanities Center for Synergy to engage the campus community in the #BlackLivesMatter movement and provided leadership and training on the scholarly use of eventbased social media data and analysis.
ISRAEL-GAZA CONFLICT FORUM
CAMPUS PRIDE’S 2015 TOP
50 LGBT-friendly colleges & universities
(in part because of the LGBT studies academic offerings in the Department of Women’s Studies)
The Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies partnered with the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development Shibley Telhami to host a forum on the Gaza War, where moderator Yoram Peri, professor and director for the center, engaged students and panelists on the complex issues shaping Israel and the Middle East.
2ND ANNUAL BLACK THEATRE SYMPOSIUM The School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) partnered with the African Continuum Theatre Company to host its second annual Black Theatre Symposium, which gathered theatre professionals, scholars and students to explore questions of black theater as well as diversity and inclusion in American theater.
“EMANCIPATING THE PAST” The David C. Driskell Center presented the provocative exhibition, “Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker’s Tales of Slavery and Power,” which featured 60 works including Walker’s signature black paper cutout silhouettes, prints, a wall installation and video themed around issues of slavery, race, sexuality, violence and gender.
>> LOOKING FORWARD DOUGLASS SCHOLARSHIP AT UMD Robert Levine, distinguished university professor of English, published “The Lives of Frederick Douglass,” which offers new perspectives on Douglass’ journey from slavery to freedom.
Ira Berlin, distinguished university professor of history, received the Award for Scholarly Distinction from the American Historical Association for lifetime achievements in the field of American history, particularly the history of slavery.
UMD dedicated Frederick Douglass Square with a formal ceremony to honor the important Marylander, abolitionist, writer and orator. A 7 1/2-foot-tall bronze statue of an urgent and youthful Douglass along with engravings of his famous quotes serve as both a classroom and a monument in front of Hornbake Library. L-R: Patrick O’Shea, vice president and chief research officer for UMD; Ira Berlin, distinguished university professor; Bonnie Thornton Dill, professor and dean for ARHU.
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CREATING GLOBAL CITIZENS FROM CHINESE INK AND ITALIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIGS TO NILE SUSTAINABILITY, ARHU’S COMMUNITY REACHES ALL PARTS OF THE GLOBE.
1 | New Visions New Voices
2 | NIAF Pellegri Grant, archaeological work in Oplontis and Stabiae
3 | Reshuffling the Past: Contemporary Chinese Ink
4 | Margaret Bailey ’15, studied Arabic in Morocco. 6 | The Nile Project
7 | Maressa McCall ’14, studied in Indonesia. 5 | Jesse Zarley ’17 researched in Chile.
>> LOOKING FORWARD 1 | TDPS partnered with the Kennedy Center’s Young Audiences to host guest playwrights from Korea, South Africa and India for the “New Visions New Voices” international playwright series. 2 | Maryl Gensheimer, associate professor of Roman Art and Archaeology, spent time excavating ancient seaside villas in Oplontis and Stabiae, Italy, with graduate students as part of the NIAF Pellegri Grant.
5 | Jesse Zarley ’17, doctoral student in history, researched the indigenous Mapuche population of southern Chile. 6 | The Clarice presented “The Nile Project,” a performance that brought together musicians from the 11 countries surrounding the Nile Basin to discuss and encourage regional sustainability. 7 | Maressa McCall ’14, music M.A. student, was awarded a Boren Scholarship to study Indonesian in Indonesia.
3 | The University of Maryland Art Gallery partnered with Hanban, the Confucius Institute Headquarters and the Confucius Institute at Maryland to present “Reshuffling the Past,” an exhibition showcasing the contemporary Chinese ink art of eight leading explorers of ink painting. 4 | Margaret Bailey ’15, Arabic studies major, was awarded a Boren Scholarship to study Arabic in Morocco.
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2014-15 NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS
12 Teaching Assistantships in France 10 Boren Scholarships 6 Critical Language Scholarships 6 Gilman Scholarships 3 Fulbright Scholarships
316 STUDENTS STUDIED ABROAD
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ALUMNI DISTINCTIONS & GIVING AWARDS
Pamela O. Long B.A. ’65, M.A. ’69, Ph.D. ’79, an independent historian of science and technology based in Washington, D.C., was awarded a MacArthur Foundation “genius award.”
MEMBERS OF THE DEAN’S CABINET
11 This advisory board helps raise awareness of the dean’s vision for the college. Members represent diverse fields and backgrounds, including business, law and art, among others.
<< Nancy Clarvit ’78 Patricia Cousins ’87 << Domonique ’04 & Ashley Foxworth ’06 Donald Himelfarb ’67 Charles Hirsch ’83 << Ellen Koplow ’80 Jeff Menick ’68 << Michael Twigg ’83 Sandra Twigg ’83 Catherine (Kip) Young ’89
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New York-based author Neela Vaswani ’06, American studies Ph.D., won a Grammy in the Best Children’s Album category for the narration of the book, “I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education And Changed The World,” by Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai.
GIVING Kathryn Seidel M.A. ’72, Ph.D. ’76 established the Seidel Keystone Prize for Achievement in the Humanities in honor of several family members to recognize outstanding scholarship in the humanities. Ken Minesinger ’87 established the Minesinger Engaged Scholars Abroad Scholarship to support students studying abroad—a key means of fulfilling the college’s global engagement requirement. Nancy ’78 and Chuck Clarvit support a wide range of initiatives in the graphic design program, including Clarvit Design Scholarships and the Clarvit Design Lecture Series.
14 – 15 LEADERSHIP & ACADEMIC PROGRAMS DEAN’S OFFICE Dean Bonnie Thornton Dill Assistant Dean of Development Laura Brown Assistant Dean of Technology, Administration and Staff Equity Kathleen Cavanaugh Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Audran Downing Director of Marketing and Communications Nicky Everette Associate Dean and Equity Officer Wendy Jacobs Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Alene Moyer
Associate Dean for Research, interdisciplinary Scholarship and Programming Sheri Parks Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs Daryle Williams
Department of Classics Lillian E. Doherty Department of Communication Elizabeth Toth Department of English William Cohen
Assistant Dean for Finance and Administration Julie Wright
Department of History Philip Soergel
UNIT HEADS
The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies Charles Manekin
Department of American Studies Nancy Struna Department of Art William Richardson Department of Art History and Archaeology Meredith J. Gill
Assistant to the Dean for Facilities Lori Owen
Department of Linguistics William Idsardi Department of Philosophy Christopher Morris School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Fatemeh KeshavarzKaramustafa
Maryland Language Science Center Colin Phillips
School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies Leigh Wilson Smiley
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities Neil Fraistat
Department of Women’s Studies Seung-kyung Kim
National Foreign Language Center Catherine Ingold
CENTERS Arts and Humanities Center for Synergy Sheri Parks
The University of Maryland Art Gallery Taras Matla*
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Martin Wollesen David C. Driskell Center for the Study of Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora Curlee Holton
*Assistant Director For the most up-to-date information, visit www.arhu. umd.edu.
Latin American Studies Center Laurie Frederik
School of Music Robert Gibson
MINORS & CERTIFICATES
MAJORS American studies
Japanese
Arabic
Philosophy
Arabic studies
Jewish studies
Art History
Linguistics
Arabic Flagship Scholar Certificate*
Portuguese language, literature and culture
Central European, Russian and Eurasian studies
Music: Education
Chinese Classical languages and literatures Communication Dance English language and literature Film studies
Music: Liberal Arts Program Music: Professional Program
Archaeology
Professional writing
Black women’s studies
Korean studies
Religious studies
Chinese language
Latin American studies*
Rhetoric
Persian studies
Classical mythology
Philosophy
Creative writing
Romance languages
East Asian studies*
Russian language and literature
French studies
French language and literature
Spanish language, literatures and cultures
Germanic studies
Studio art
History
Theatre
Italian studies
Women’s studies
Japanese Jewish studies
Art history
German language, literature and culture Greek language and culture
Russian studies
Latin language and literature Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender studies** Linguistics
Spanish language and cultures Spanish language, business and cultures
Middle East studies
U.S. Latina/o studies
Music performance
Women’s studies*
Israel studies
Persian studies
*Certificate
Italian language and culture
Persian Flagship Scholar Certificate*
**Minor and Certificate
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BACK COVER Linda Mabbs as Miss Havisham in “Miss Havisham’s Fire” for the “Art of Argento Celebration.” Images of “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” from MITH’s “Researching Ferguson” Digital Humanities Incubator. Yi Liao’s “Talking to the World-2” presented at the University of Maryland Art Gallery’s “Reshuffling the Past” exhibition. President Wallace Loh joins Phoenix Liu and students from the Language House’s Chinese cluster to present Chinese New Year greetings at the “Reshuffling the Past” exhibition. FRONT COVER Roshan Institute for Persian Studies’ “Persian Digital Library” project. Margaret Bailey ’15 was awarded a Boren Scholarship to study Arabic in Morocco. 7 1/2-foot-tall bronze statue of Frederick Douglass in UMD’s new Frederick Douglass Square in Hornbake Plaza.
