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David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, Art History and Archaeology, Art, College of Arts and Humanities

Inaugural David C. and Thelma G. Driskell Award for Creative Excellence

We welcome submissions from emerging scholars and artists who will create new artistic or scholarly work that furthers the Driskell Center’s mission.

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

Grace Yasumura appointed as SAAM's inaugural Luce Foundation Curatorial Fellow

October 21, 2019 Art History and Archaeology

Grace Yasumura, who graduated this past spring with a PhD from the Department, has been named the inaugural Luce Foundation Curatorial Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

2019-20 New Faculty Appointments

August 29, 2019 American Studies, Art, Art History and Archaeology, Classics, Communication, History, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

The College of Arts and Humanities welcomes the new faculty cohort to the University of Maryland.

Marco Polo Juárez Awarded Prestigious Fellowship to Support Dissertation Work

August 19, 2019 Art History and Archaeology

Marco Polo Juárez, who will start the PhD program this fall under the direction of Professor Abigail McEwen, has been awarded a four-year grant supporting the research of Mexican graduate students focusing on the Fine Arts.

The Department is pleased to announce the Professor Mark H. Sandler Endowed Undergraduate Experience Award

June 10, 2019 Art History and Archaeology

The Department is delighted to announce the Professor Mark H. Sandler Endowed Undergraduate Experience Award.

CAA News

Professor Jordana Moore Saggese interviewed in College Art Association News

May 21, 2019 Art History and Archaeology

Professor Jordana Moore Saggese, who just completed her first year here at Maryland on faculty, is profiled in the latest edition of CAA News, covering her teaching philosophy, scholarly work, and her approach to editing the Art Journal (the spri

Monumental Change

January 28, 2019 Art History and Archaeology

America’s memorials to slavery and its victims have lived quiet lives in public places. A Maryland professor is traveling the country to learn their stories.

TERP Magazine

Professor Emerita Renée Ater's work on contemporary monuments and memorials to slavery featured in current Terp Magazine

January 18, 2019 Art History and Archaeology

Professor Emerita Renée Ater, recently returned from her successful fall semester in residence at the Getty Institute, continues to garner praise and attention for her ground-breaking work studying contemporary monuments and memorials to slavery

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Madeline Gent charting exciting course for the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh as Executive Director

September 17, 2018 Art History and Archaeology

Madeline Gent, hired just late last year as executive director of the

2018-19 New Faculty Appointments

September 11, 2018 American Studies, Art History and Archaeology, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, History, Japanese, Persian, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music

The College of Arts and Humanities welcomes the new faculty cohort to UMD.

Fall 2018 ARHU Leadership Announcements

September 04, 2018 Art History and Archaeology, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity, National Foreign Language Center, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

New leadership appointments for the 2018-19 academic year.

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