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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

Nailah-Benā Chambers receives Critical Language Scholarship

Traveling to Taipei, Taiwan in June 2021

Nailah is a sophomore Global Studies major with a Minor in Chinese. She'll be traveling to Taipei, Taiwan this June and staying through mid-August in an immersion program learning...

Posted: April 13, 2021, 2:30 PM

Natalie Guingrich, Matthew Kelbaugh and Danylo Leshchyshyn

Presenting at Macksey Symposium for humanities undergrads

Matthew Kelbaugh, a history and Russian double major was accepted to present his research in the second Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium. He will...

Posted: April 13, 2021, 2:09 PM

Anjali DasSarma named a Wall Street Journal Noted Advisor

Senior Humanities Scholar is part of WSJ's third cohort

Kudos to Anjali!  The WSJ Noted Adviser network is an online community that provides an important connection between The Wall Street Journal and audiences under the age of 35. Their second...

Posted: March 4, 2021, 9:46 AM