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Congratulations! Nailah-Benā Chambers-featured in anthology

"On Womanhood: Connecting and Thriving In Every Season"

 Nailah-Benā, a Humanities scholar class of 2023 is a global studies major with a Chinese minor.  She is among a group of women writers whose personal essays will be featured in the anthology...

Posted: February 22, 2022, 10:21 AM

Tess McRae ‘22 Appointed Co-Chair

USM Student Civic Leaders Committee

Tess McRae, Humanities Scholar 2022 grad has been appointed co-chair of the University System of Maryland (USM) Student Civic Leaders Committee (SCLC) for the spring 2022 semester. In her role as...

Posted: February 14, 2022, 2:08 PM

Freshman HUM Scholars' work in Highlandtown highlighted

Initial stage of a project centering on the Latinx community

Read the article in the Baltimore Sun, about how the students are working to fill a gap in history with the Highlandtown Immigration and Food Project. Through archival research and panel...

Posted: January 4, 2022, 9:42 AM

Nailah-Benā Chambers featured on ACTFL's website

5 Questions for a Global Studies Major Learning Mandarin

Nailah-Benā is a junior majoring in Global Studies with a minor in Chinese. She is currently featured on the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages' ASK AWAY column on their...

Posted: November 22, 2021, 2:33 PM

Summer Opportunity: June 16 @ 5:00 PM

Come learn from some of UMBC’s most exciting local alumni

Want to get engaged in Baltimore and surrounding communities? Interested in possibilities for internships and other opportunities? Want to see where travel abroad can really take you? Come learn...

Posted: June 3, 2021, 9:52 AM

Check Out the New (Digital) 2020 Edition of Bartleby

Humanities Scholars on staff and contributors

Check out the recently released 2020 edition of Bartleby, UMBC's creative arts journal--offered here in digital form! This edition of Bartleby includes more than 100 pages of poetry, fiction,...

Posted: April 21, 2021, 1:00 PM

Humanities Scholars presenting at URCAD's 25th anniversary

Check out these scholars' presentations

Madeline Arbutus | Uncredited: Uncovering the Names Behind the Colonized Modern Design Canon | Mentor: Margaret Re | Visual Arts  Camille Blackford | Happiness and Wellbeing of UMBC Students...

Posted: April 20, 2021, 2:33 PM

Clair Volkening Wins The Braly Award for non-fiction

We are proud to share that the English department's 2021 Braly Award winner for non-fiction is Clair Volkening's piece "The Bridge". Clair is a sophomore English major in the Communications and...

Posted: April 14, 2021, 11:18 AM

Anjali DasSarma awarded the 2021 Journalism Prize

Congratulations Anjali!

Anjali is graduating this year as a Media and Communication Studies major with a minor in Journalism. She'll be attending Brown University to pursue a Master's in American Studies in the fall....

Posted: April 14, 2021, 10:45 AM