The University of Maryland College of Arts & Humanities 2017-2018 Year in Review

COLLEGE OF ARTS & H U M A N I T I ES Y EAR IN R E V IE W 20 17-18

COURAGE O US CONVERSATIONS

6 H ealth: An ARHU-led research team is developing communication strategies for cancer prevention among underserved AfricanAmericans in Baltimore.

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10 A ccolades: Diverse Issues in Higher Education ranks UMD as a top 10 minority degree producer.

12 $ 10 Million Gift: A gift from the Robert H. Smith Family Foundation will support the performing arts at Maryland.

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

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EDITORIAL AND DESIGN STAFF

CONTENTS

Nicky Everette, Assistant Dean for Marketing and Communications K. Lorraine Graham, Assistant Director of Communications Jaye Nelson, Art Director, Print and Web Services T’Sey-Haye Preaster, Writer

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ARHU HIGHLIGHTS

4 UNDERGRADUATE & GRADUATE EDUCATION 5 FACULTY & STAFF NEWS

8 INTERDISCIPLINARY INITIATIVES 9 INNOVATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT 10 DIVERSITY, INCLUSION & EQUITY 11 CREATING GLOBAL CITIZENS

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12 ALUMNI DISTINCTIONS & GIVING CONNECT WITH US twitter.com/umd_arhu facebook.com/arhu_umd go.umd.edu/ARHUlinkedin instagram.com/umd_arhu

13 LEADERSHIP

14 UNDERGRADUATE ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

ON OUR COVER 1. “Correio de Africa” [The Africa Mail], a Portuguese-language newspaper published in Lisbon, Portugal from 1921-1924, was digitized and translated by Associate Professor Zita Nunes. | Kalyn Cai ’17 studies Arabic in Ibri, Oman through a critical language scholarship and experiences art like these Middle Eastern decorative tiles. | 3. Students, faculty and staff from UMD and Bowie State University paint the “Unity Mural” at the 2017 NextNOW Fest. | 4. The Maryland Opera Studio collaborates with the Maryland Blended Reality Center on virtual reality applications in opera. | 5. Monroe Isenberg ’19 M.F.A. art, receives the 2017 International Outstanding Student Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture from the International Sculpture Center. | 6. Bobby Seale speaks in the college’s 2017-18 Arts and Humanities Dean’s Lecture Series: Courageous Conversations, ARHU Resists Hate And Bias. | 7. The first national conference of the African American Digital Humanities Initiative at UMD is on October 19-20, 2018. | 8. Percussionist and Lecturer of Music Lee Hinkle teaches professional skills in “The Entrepreneurial Musician” course. | 9. Researchers and students at the Maryland Language Science Center’s field station in Patzún, Guatemala help local people displaced by a volcanic eruption in June 2018. | 10. Self portraits by African-American artists on display in the “Portraits of Who We Are,” exhibition at the David C. Driskell Center, February 1st through May 18th, 2018.

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FROM THE DEAN

BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS VALUES INHERENT IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES– creativity, empathy, questioning, global understanding, ethical action, history, diversity and meaning–provide artists and humanists unique insights and tools to navigate and realize a future United States—one that is both strong and embraces change. These values are passed on to students through our teaching, and are disseminated worldwide as graduates use their education to make a difference in their careers, in local and global communities and in virtual spaces. We in the arts and humanities are distinctively equipped to facilitate the courageous conversations needed during times of social unrest on campus and beyond.

The college’s faculty, students, staff and alumni are fearlessly applying their knowledge and skills to the issues of our time, and along the way, transforming ideas about the relevance of an arts and humanities education. A simple glance at recent news headlines demonstrates why the study of art, philosophy, literature, history, language and cultural studies are central to education and life. At the same time collaborations with other fields are increasingly important. Therefore, we’re working with colleagues across the campus to expand the role and place of the arts and humanities as full partners in a contemporary research university addressing today’s grand challenges.

This issue of the “Year in Review” includes some of the best illustrations of the college’s engagement in courageous campus and community conversations, including: he 2017-18 Arts and Humanities Dean’s T Lecture Series, which featured three speakers who examined the difficult issues of hate and bias across personal, political and historical frames.

collaboration between graduate A students in the School of Music and Washington, D.C. hip-hop artist Konshens the MC to create “Classically Dope,” a fusion of hip-hop and classical music that bridges the gap between these two performing worlds. n examination of communication A strategies that will improve tornadowarnings to account for the real-world, on-the-job conditions of forecasters.

Our future is being written now, and it will reflect the fundamental reality of our era—that the values and insights of people trained in the arts and humanities are, as shown here, helping make sense of a changing United States. Thank you for your continued support of the arts and humanities at Maryland.

Sincerely,

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

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ARHU HIGHLIGHTS

FACULTY AND STAFF

INCOMING FRESHMEN

4.2

Average GPA

93.8%

1370 Average SAT

CURRENT STUDENTS

RANKINGS

Professors

115

TENURED/TENURE-TRACK

First-year retention rate

117 Associate professors

3,549

86

40%

Students elected to Phi Beta Kappa

Department of History specialty in AfricanAmerican history

Assistant professors

285

Instructors and lecturers

National scholarship and fellowship award winners

26%

Underrepresented minorities

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

40%

30%

Fundamental studies

I-series

33%

46%

229 Staff

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Diversity courses

MONEY

54% Raised toward ARHU’s $70 million goal in Fearless Ideas: The Campaign for Maryland

Academic units

20 Research centers

Distributive studies

STAFF

Students of color

38

#2

PROFESSIONAL TRACK

Undergraduate and graduate students

62

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT GRADUATE PROGRAM RANKING

$17,145,179 External research awards

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UMD creative and performing arts awards

16

UMD research and scholarship awards

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow

David C. Driskell, distinguished university professor emeritus of art, is one of the world’s leading authorities on African-American art. In 2001, UMD established the David C. Driskell Center to honor his work and preserve the rich heritage of AfricanAmerican visual art and culture. (Driskell’s paintings at left, from top to bottom: “Chieftain’s Chair,” “Woman in Interior” and “Pinetree at Night”)

Hiroyuki Hamada ’95, M.F.A. art, creates large-scale abstract sculptures and prints that use the timeless language of design and geometry to invite viewers into an intimate and mysterious emotional experience.

(Print, “B18-12,” by Hamada in background)

2 2017 Guggenheim Fellows

Reginald Dwayne Betts ’09, English, is a poet and memoirist who will write a new collection about the criminal justice system that draws on his experience as a formerly incarcerated person now working as a public defender.

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UNDERGRADUATE & GRADUATE EDUCATION U NDERGRADUATE ACCOLADES

CURRICULAR TRANSFORMATION

Alyssa Gabay ’18, history and communications, received a 2018 Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine from the National Institutes of Health to conduct archival research for her senior honors thesis on medical history.

1,124

In “The Entrepreneurial Musician” course taught

by Lecturer of Music Lee Hinkle, students learn business, marketing, grant-writing and other practical skills to prepare them for the highly competitive and rapidly changing professional landscape.

Dolapo Martins ’18, classics, linguistics and computer science, received Google Generation, Microsoft and NSBE Code Success Scholarships.

As one of 12 Coro Fellows, Anna-Bella Sicilia ’18, philosophy, will spend nine months working with with leaders across business, government and non-profit sectors on an urban development project in Pittsburgh.

Degrees conferred

929 B.A. 122 M.A. 73 Ph.D.

Nicolay Duque-Robayo ’18, art history and archaeology and philosophy, received a full-tuition New Artists Society Scholarship to pursue an M.A. at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

GRADUATE ACCOLADES Monroe Isenberg, ’19 M.F.A., art, received the 2017 International Outstanding Student Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture from the International Sculpture Center for his abstract sculpture, “Mach XXIII” (detail of sculpture in background).

Lucien Holness, Ph.D. candidate in history, received the Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies Dissertation Fellowship to research the history of the antislavery movement in southwest Pennsylvania.

2017 PLACEMENTS

Jackie Nelligan, Ph.D. student in linguistics, received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to develop algorithms that can process natural human speech.

Plus or minus 1% due to rounding

5% NO DATA 1% STARTING A BUSINESS 1% MILITARY SERVICE 3% VOLUNTEER/ SERVICE PROGRAM

13% PRIVATE SECTOR

3% GOVERNMENT 2% MUSEUM/ARCHIVE 5% OTHER 10% NO DATA

6% NONPROFIT

20% C ONTINUING EDUCATION

UNDERGRADUATE

13% EDUCATION

9% E MPLOYED PART-TIME

60% E MPLOYED FULL-TIME

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GRADUATE 11% TENURE-TRACK

6% POST-DOC

32% NON-TENURE TRACK

FACULTY & STAFF NEWS ACCOLADES With support from the Organization of American Historians and the American History Research Association of China, Professor of History Julie Greene was a China Fellow at Sichuan University, where she taught a seminar on the social response to American industrialization.

Peter Carruthers became a distinguished university professor of philosophy and received the Romanell Prize for naturalistic philosophy from the American Philosophical Association for his influential work on the philosophy of the mind and comparative psychology.

Chris Gekker became a distinguished university professor of music and released “Ghost Dialogues: Music for Trumpet,” featuring School of Music colleagues Rita Sloan on piano and Chris Vadala on saxophone, with music written by Robert Gibson.

Susan Wiesner, Charles Fowler digital humanist in residence at the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library, received an “Irmy” from the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies for her work curating the Irmgard Bartenieff Archive.

Harjit Bhogal, assistant professor of philosophy, received the Sanders Prize in Metaphysics from the Marc Sanders Foundation for his paper about how particular events make the laws of nature what they are, rather than vice versa.

Luka Arsenjuk, associate professor of film studies, received the 2018 Society for Cinema and Media Studies award for the Best Essay in an Edited Collection for his article on new directions in documentary and nonfiction filmmaking.

16 OUTSTANDING AND DIVERSE NEW FACULTY Back row L–R: Harjit Bhogal (PHIL), Brian Kogelmann (PHIL), Mircea Raianu (HIST), Cy Keener (ARTT) | Middle row L–R: Carol Stabile (WMST), Elisa Gironzetti (SLLC), Siv B. Lie (MUSC), Kang Namkoong (COMM), Jiyoun Kim (COMM) | Front row L–R: Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes (ENGL), Crystal U. Davis (TDPS), Sarah Frisof (MUSC), Sara Wilder (ENGL), Iván A. Ramos (WMST) | Inset L–R: Kevin Short (MUSC), Hallie Liberto (PHIL)

AWARD-WINNING FACULTY BOOKS Piotr H. Kosicki’s “Personalizm po polsku: Francuskie korzenie polskiej inteligencji katolickiej” [Personalism à la Polonaise: The French Origins of the Polish Catholic Intelligentsia] | The Kazimierz Moczarski Prize for Best Book of the Year on the History of Poland Since 1918, awarded jointly by the National Library of Poland and the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza; and the Oskar Halecki Prize for History Book of the Year, awarded jointly by Polish Radio, Polish Television and Poland’s National Center for Culture.

Saúl Sosnowski’s “Cartografía de las letras hispanoamericanas: tejidos de la memoria” [Mapping HispanicAmerican Literature: Fabrics of Memory].

Ezequiel Martínez Estrada Prize, awarded by the Casa de las Américas in Cuba.

Ruth E. Zambrana’s “The Magic Key: The Educational Journey of Mexican Americans from K-12 to College and Beyond” | First Place International Latino Book Award for Best Academic Themed Book, awarded collectively

by Latino Literacy Now; Las Comadres para las Américas; Reforma: The National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos; and SpanishSpeaking, an affiliate of the American Library Association.

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RESEARCH, SCHOLARSHIP & CREATIVITY

STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS

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

Northeast Victorian Studies Association: Jason Rudy, president

With a grant from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and led by Ruth E. Zambrana, professor and interim chair of women’s studies and director of the Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity, the consortium will collaborate with the University of Pennsylvania on a national summit on fostering diversity and inclusion in higher education.

As part of “Enslaved: The People of the Historic Slave Trade,” a project led by Michigan State University and funded by a $1.47 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Daryle Williams, associate professor of history and ARHU associate dean for faculty affairs, is creating an open-access archive of documents relevant to enslaved people and free Africans in Louisiana and Brazil.

UMD students now have access to a broad range of courses on Islam and the Muslim world through the Digital Studies Islamic Curriculum, which uses new technology to bring together courses taught by faculty from over a dozen Big Ten Academic Alliance member universities, including Peter Wein, associate professor of history and UMD’s faculty liaison.

Supported by a grant from the Consortium for Applied Studies in Jewish Education, Avital Karpman, associate clinical professor of Hebrew and director of the Hebrew Program, will collaborate with Sharon Avni of the City University of New York, Borough of Manhattan Community College to study the growth of Hebrew language programs at charter schools and at public schools across the U.S.

Labor and Working Class History Association: Julie Greene, president

Linguistic Society of America: Colin Phillips, fellow

Royal Society of the Netherlands, Evert Willem Beth Foundation: John F. Horty, board member

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SCHOLARSHIP Associate Professor of American studies Jason Farman received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to complete “Delayed Response: The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World,” a book about how communication technologies such as instant messages have changed how we experience waiting and time.

Funded by a $2.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health, Xiaoli Nan, professor of communication, is leading a team of researchers from University of Maryland, College Park and University of Maryland, Baltimore, to improve cancer prevention among medically underserved African Americans in Baltimore.

Renée Ater, associate professor emerita of art history and archaeology, researched the design, construction and changing meaning of contemporary monuments acknowledging the legacy of slavery with the support of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Valerie Anishchenkova, associate professor of Arabic studies, is leading an initiative funded by the Institute of International Education to pioneer an open-access curriculum to foster cultural knowledge and awareness of stereotypes and bias.

VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS Funded by a $600,000, two-year Arts in Education Research Grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences, Kenneth Elpus, associate professor of music, is using a combination of new and publically-available datasets to study the relationship between K-12 arts education and student success in higher education.

The University of Maryland Art Gallery’s exhibition, “Progress and Harmony for Mankind: Art and Technology Circa 1970” (in background), featured works that highlighted the relationships among American art, industry and technology in the 1970s.

Through the Artist Partner Program at The Clarice, Natalia Kaliada and Nikolai Khalezin, co-founders of the Belarus Free Theatre, led a playwriting workshop, hosted a community dialogue on free speech and creativity and presented their documentary at the National Press Club.

TEACHING In Assistant Professor of Art History and Archaeology Emily Egan’s course “Ancient Mediterranean Portraiture,” students learn how to use digital tools that complement traditional humanities research to build online catalogues and 3D museum models.

Justin Lohr, senior lecturer in English, received the 2017-18 Professional Track Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Office of Faculty Affairs and the Provost.

Students fluent in either Arabic or Hebrew came together in Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies Shay Hazkani’s class about the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict to read letters written by soldiers who fought in the conflict.

>> LOOKING FORWARD Merle Collins, professor of English, was named a 2018-19 Distinguished Scholar Teacher in recognition of her remarkable contributions to Anglophone Caribbean literature and culture, which have consistently included interdisciplinary work as well as mentoring that goes beyond the classroom.

The “Portraits of Who We Are” exhibition (in background) at the David C. Driskell Center presented self-portraits by African-American artists and also included portraits of African-American artists created by their colleagues.

VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS Associate Professor of dance performance and scholarship and associate director of the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies Maura Keefe received a 2018 Research Communicator Impact Award from the UMD Division of Research for her work as a scholar in residence at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, where she interviews, writes about and lectures on dancers from around the world.

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INTERDISCIPLINARY INITIATIVES RESEARCH NETWORKS The Language Science Center is partnering with Translators Without Borders on a project to help humanitarian workers in countries with high rates of internally displaced people, such as Nigeria, Bangladesh and Syria, have more accurate information about the languages spoken by displaced people.

>> LOOKING FORWARD The first national conference of the African American Digital Humanities Initiative at UMD will bring together researchers from across the country and the world to explore how digital humanities-based research, teaching and community projects can center African-American history and culture.

As part of the “Year of Immigration,” a campuswide initiative that will foster discussions about immigration, global migration and refugees, the college’s 2018-19 Arts and Humanities Dean’s Lecture Series will host Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen, whose book of short stories, “The Refugees,” explores what it is like to immigrate to the U.S.

ARTS AND HUMANITIES DEAN’S LECTURE SERIES The college’s 2017-18 Arts and Humanities Dean’s Lecture Series: Courageous Conversations, ARHU Resists Hate And Bias featured Theo Wilson, Bobby Seale and Mara Liasson, who each addressed what it means to engage in courageous conversations that speak to the difficult issues of hate and bias across personal, political and historical frames.

2020 CENSUS AND RACE How does racial categorization in the 2020 census reflect U.S. politics? A conference by the Center for Global Migration Studies explored how census racial categories shape experiences of citizenship, identity and belonging, and a conference hosted by the Center for Race, Gender and Ethnicity looked at how new racial categories might affect diverse Latinx communities.

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INNOVATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INNOVATION IN THE ARTS & HUMANITIES raig Kier, director of the School of Music’s C Maryland Opera Studio, is leading a collaboration with the Maryland Blended Reality Center to explore the artistic and medical applications of the combined power of musical performance and virtual reality.

Professor of English Matthew Kirschenbaum received funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a new project, “Books.Files,” examining the role of digital tools and processes in commercial book publishing.

Many tornado-warning communication strategies do not account for the realworld, on-the-job conditions of forecasters.

Associate Professor Brooke Liu and Assistant Professor Anita Atwell Seate, both in the communication department, will address this knowledge gap through a two-year project funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & SERVICE TO THE STATE Students, faculty and staff from UMD and Bowie State University came together during the 2017 NextNOW Fest at The Clarice to paint the “Unity Mural” symbolizing Positivity and hope amid hatred and injustice.

The mural was on exhibit at the Maryland State House in Annapolis during the 2018 legislative season while delegates considered legislation on hate bias incidents.

As part of their second-year practicum, students in the Graduate Studies in Interpreting and Translation Program have been working with the People’s Law Library of Maryland to provide jargon-free legal and selfhelp materials in a variety of languages.

Graduate students in the School of Music (SOM) collaborated with Washington, D.C. hip-hop artist Konshens the MC to create “Classically Dope,” a fusion of hip-hop and classical music performed on the Kennedy Center Millenium Stage and at Washington, D.C.’s Emancipation Day Celebration. The collaboration began with the 2015-17 SOM fellowship woodwind quintet, Daraja Ensemble (right), and continues now with the current fellowship woodwind quintet, Wavelength Winds.

To inform decision-makers and help them address concerns about equity and access to highly-coveted spots in public bilingual education programs in Washington, D.C., the National Foreign Language Center is partnering with the D.C. Language Immersion Project on data-driven research to understand how the demographics of dual-language schools compare with other schools in Washington, D.C.

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DIVERSITY, INCLUSION & EQUITY

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10 Diverse Issues in Higher Education ranks UMD among the top five for graduating African American students with bachelor degrees in area, ethnic, cultural, gender and group studies and foreign languages, literatures and linguistics, and among the top five for graduating Asian American students with doctoral degrees in visual and performing arts.

NEW FACULTY & POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS >> LOOKING FORWARD FIVE NEW AFRICAN-AMERICANISTS

I n 2018-19, three new AfricanAmericanists will join the college.

GerShun Avilez and Chad B. Infante will join the Department of English and Jordana Moore Saggese will join the Department of Art History and Archaeology.

Two new UMD President’s Postdoctoral Fellows, Augustus Durham and Eva Hageman, will join the Departments of English and Women’s Studies, respectively. Durham is an expert in black studies who researches melancholy and the performance of genius. Hageman’s work examines reality television and its role in shaping representations of race.

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Bonnie Thornton Dill, dean of ARHU and professor of women’s studies (center right), and Ana Patricia Rodríguez, associate professor of Spanish in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (center left), were both awarded the 2018 Faculty Minority Achievement Award from the President’s Commission on Ethnic Minority Issues at UMD in recognition of their commitment to fostering equality, diversity and inclusion across campus.

Foon V. Sham, professor of art, was named the Asian Influence / American Design Visionary Artist of the 2018 Smithsonian Craft Show in recognition of his iconic sculptures that reflect the combined influence of Asian aesthetics and the American experience. His organic pine wood sculpture was on display in the National Building Museum atrium, the site of the 2018 Smithsonian Craft Show.

>> LOOKING FORWARD The Recovering Democracy Archive, a website launching this fall curated by the Rosenker Center for Political Communication and Civic Leadership, will feature important speeches by people historically marginalized in public deliberations and debate—like George Gillette (pictured left), chairman of the Mandan, Arikara and Hidatsa tribes of North Dakota, who gave a speech protesting the Federal government’s seizure of the tribes’ homeland on the Missouri river.

Students in the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) produced and performed “Clove,” a multidisciplinary piece written and directed by TDPS alumna Paige Hernandez ’02. The performance fused together spoken word, hip-hop, jazz and short plays to explore questions of gender identity, depression and suicide.

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NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS

9 Boren Scholarships 8 Fulbright Scholarships 7 Gilman Scholarships 7 Critical Language Scholarships 4 Teaching Assistantships in France 3 Bridging Japan Scholarships

322 Students studied abroad

ASIA The School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures partnered with the Kanagawa Prefectural Private Secondary Schools Association in Japan to bring undergraduate students from the University of Maryland, College Park and University of Maryland, Baltimore to Japan for an internship program.

Students served as assistant language teachers, helped coach debate teams and experienced Japanese culture through homestays.

Garrett Yocklin ’19, romance languages and linguistics, studied Persian in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, through a critical language scholarship.

CENTRAL and SOUTH AMERICA Researchers and students at the Maryland Language Science Center’s field station in Patzún, Guatemala (in background), used their knowledge of local indigenous languages to partner with Wuqu’ Kawoq, a Mayan health care organization, to support the thousands of local people displaced by the Volcán de Fuego’s eruption in June 2018.

AFRICA Ari Rickman ’18, history and government and politics, will spend the year in Maputo, Mozambique, as a Boren Scholar studying Portuguese and electoral reform in emerging democracies.

NORTH AFRICA & MIDDLE EAST Kalyn Cai ’17, American studies, studied Arabic in Ibri, Oman through a critical language scholarship.

EUROPE Most U.S. scholarship on the African diaspora relies on primary and secondary sources in English. Supported by a three-year-grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Associate Professor of English Zita Nunes is expanding access to the black press in multiple languages, beginning with a digital, bilingual edition of “Correio de Africa” [The Africa Mail] (shown in background), a Portuguese-language newspaper published in Lisbon, Portugal from 1921-1924.

Joshua Klein, a Ph.D. student in history, researched the changing idea of “Europe” in mid-20th century German political culture through a 2017-18 Fulbright for research in Germany.

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ALUMNI DISTINCTIONS & GIVING GIVING / CAMPAIGN

54% raised toward the

$70

million Fearless Ideas: The Campaign for Maryland

ALUMNI AWARDS Hiroyuki Hamada ’95, M.F.A. art, and Reginald Dwayne Betts ’09, English, were awarded 2018 Guggenheim fellowships for their work in fine arts and poetry, respectively. During the fellowship, Hamada will continue making largescale abstract sculptures and prints that use the languages of design and geometry to invoke emotions. Betts will conduct ethnographic research in the New Haven, Conn., courthouse during his fellowship to write a new collection of poems drawing on his experience as a formerly incarcerated person working as a public defender.

On May 11, 2018, the University of Maryland’s Fearless Ideas: The Campaign for Maryland publicly launched with a goal to raise $1.5 billion in funding for students, faculty, facilities, research and programming. Representing the College of Arts and Humanities and The Clarice Smith Performing Art Center’s fundraising efforts are Campaign Co-chairs Domonique ’04 and Ashley ’06 Foxworth and Shelley Mulitz whose leadership and advocacy will aid the college in funding support for creativity, culture and collaboration.

Cleveland Page, professor emeritus of piano, established the Cleveland Page Piano Faculty Endowed Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching, Performance and Recruitment as well as a current-use fund for the 2018-19 academic year to support faculty recording, performances and recruitment.

Dale Trumbore ’09, music and English, was among the 2017 winners of The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. She won for the piece “How to Go On,” which was recorded on her album of the same name.

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Renowned slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo ’16, M.F.A. creative writing, wrote her New York Times-bestselling debut novel, “The Poet X,” about a young girl in Harlem who discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her mother’s religion and her own relationship to the world.

As one initiative funded by a generous $10 million gift from the Robert H. Smith Family Foundation, the International Program for Creative Collaboration and Research (IPCCR) was created to connect UMD to performing arts scholarship worldwide and to bring it to life through dynamic initiatives. For IPCCR’s inaugural event, students in the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies and across campus did intensive research into the history of performance to recreate the sights, sounds and performances of a 17th-century Dutch festival depicted in a series of paintings known as “The Triumph of Isabella” (below).

2017-18 LEADERSHIP DEAN’S OFFICE

DEPARTMENTS

Dean Bonnie Thornton Dill

American Studies

Communication

Linguistics

CHAIR

CHAIR

CHAIR

Psyche WilliamsForson

Shawn Parry-Giles

William Idsardi

Assistant Dean of Development Laura Brown Assistant Dean of Technology, Administration and Staff Equity Kathleen Cavanaugh Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Audran Downing Assistant Dean of Marketing and Communications Nicky Everette Associate Dean and Equity Officer Wendy Jacobs Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Ralph Bauer

English

Philosophy

Art

CHAIR

CHAIR

CHAIR

Amanda Bailey

Samuel J. Kerstein

History

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (SLLC)

William Richardson

Art History and Archaeology

CHAIR

Philip Soergel

CHAIR

Meredith J. Gill

Associate Dean for Research and Programming Linda Aldoory Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs Daryle Williams Assistant Dean for Finance and Administration Julie Wright

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 Assistant to the Dean for Facilities Lori Owen

School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Center for East Asian Studies (SLLC) DIRECTOR

Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity

Michele Mason

DIRECTOR

INTERIM DIRECTOR

Trevor Muñoz

DIRECTOR

Ruth Zambrana Center for Global Migration Studies (History) DIRECTOR

Julie Greene

Center for Health and Risk Communication (Communication)

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

Curlee Holton

Herman Maril Gallery (Art) GALLERY ADVISER

Center for Literary and Comparative Studies (English) DIRECTOR

Edlie Wong

DIRECTOR

Colin Phillips

Justin Strom

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

DIRECTOR

Xiaoli Nan

Joshua Shannon Maryland Language Science Center

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.

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Certificate Program

American studies

German language, literature and culture

Music: Professional Program

Germanic studies

Persian studies

Greek language and culture

Philosophy

Archaeology Art history

Hebrew

Portuguese language, literature and culture

Black women’s studies

History

Professional writing

Central European, Russian and Eurasian studies

Israel studies

Religious studies

Italian language and culture

Rhetoric

Arabic Arabic studies

Chinese

Romance languages Italian studies

Chinese language Japanese

Russian language and literature

Classical languages and literatures

Jewish studies

Russian studies

Classical mythology

Korean studies

Spanish language, literatures and culture

Communication

Latin American studies

Creative writing

Latin language and literature

Dance East Asian studies English language and literature

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies Linguistics

French studies

Spanish language, culture and professional contexts

Middle East studies

Spanish heritage language and Latina/o culture

Music and Culture

Studio art

Music: Education

Theatre

Music: Liberal arts Program

U.S. Latina/o studies

Film studies French language and literature

Spanish literature, linguistics, and culture

Music performance

Women’s studies