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UNDERGRADUATE & GRADUATE EDUCATION
UNDERGRADUATE ACCOLADES
Andrew Forschler ’21, history with a minor in secondary education, was named one of the University of Maryland’s Undergraduate Researchers of the Year for 2021. As a student in the History Honors Program, Forschler conducted archival research focused on gender, sexuality and performance and produced original research on marginalized or forgotten figures, including obscure suffragists and male impersonators, or “drag kings.”
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Nataliya Stepanova ’21, a double-degree student in mathematics and computer science with a minor in linguistics, won a Marshall Scholarship, one of the most prestigious academic awards available to college graduates. She is UMD’s sixth Marshall Scholar. She will seek a Master of Science degree in speech and language processing at the University of Edinburgh.
Undergraduate playwright Emily Zhou ’22, theatre and economics with a minor in statistics, was selected to present her original play “You Are a Pirate” at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region 2.
GRADUATE ACCOLADES
Lisa W. Carney, who completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese in 2020, won a 2021 Charles A. Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award for her dissertation that explored the stories told about dreams in Kichwa, a Quechuan language spoken in Ecuador.
As the dramaturg for the Teens Behind the Scenes program at the National Theatre, Ph.D. student Jared Strange, theatre and performance studies, created a series of microsites documenting key moments and figures in the National Theatre’s history. Ph.D. student Patricia OrtegaMiranda, art history and archaeology, curated the UMD Art Gallery’s online exhibition “Breath & Delirium,” a collection of videos by the Cuban-born, Madrid-based multimedia artist Glenda León that explored the relationship between the body, nature and the imagination.
Max Lasky M.F.A. English ’21 won a 2021 Academy of American Poets University and College Poetry Prize for his poem “Ghost Ride.”
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Degrees conferred
987 B.A. 128 M.A. 90 Ph.D.
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NEW DUAL MASTER’S DEGREE. In a collaboration between ARHU and the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, the historic preservation and American studies dual master’s degree program combines diverse perspectives on social justice, diversity, inclusion, culture, heritage and built environment history to create a deepened interdisciplinary study of public humanities and historic preservation in the United States.
2020 PLACEMENTS
Despite the global pandemic, our graduates found jobs and continued on to graduate school.
VOLUNTEER/SERVICE PROGRAM: 1%
UNRESOLVED: 6% MILITARY SERVICE: 1%
STARTING A
BUSINESS: 2% UNPLACED: 2%
EMPLOYED PART-TIME: 6%
CONTINUING EDUCATION: 14% UNDERGRADUATE
* Plus or minus 2% due to rounding * Some departments have incomplete data on their graduates; this can include either graduates without placement and/or unreported.
