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From Pilot Helmets to Plane Parts, Undergrad Preserves Aviation History in 3D

April 25, 2025 Art History and Archaeology, Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture

Intern at College Park Aviation Museum helps create digital experience for visitors.

Maryland Today

Meet Maryland’s Unofficial Mascots

April 01, 2025 Art History and Archaeology, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Pets around campus provide departmental connections and cuddles.

Professor Elizabeth Honig elected President of Historians of Netherlandish Art

March 12, 2025 Art History and Archaeology

Professor Honig will lead the organization for the next four years

Ashley Cope and JooHee Kim receive awards from the Graduate School for outstanding service

February 21, 2025 Art History and Archaeology

We know Ashley and JooHee are outstanding, and now it's confirmed!

Department alumna Grace Yasumura co-curates current SAAM exhibition "The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture"

February 21, 2025 Art History and Archaeology

A feature article in Maryland Today highlights Grace's essential contribution to this important show

Maryland Today

Tracing the Contours of Race in Sculpture

February 21, 2025 Art History and Archaeology, Arts for All

UMD alumna curates landmark Smithsonian exhibition.

Zoe Copeman awarded best paper at British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies conference "Bodies and Embodiment"

February 19, 2025 Art History and Archaeology

The Society's President's Prize is awarded to the best paper delivered by a postgraduate

Christine Quach awarded Kress Foundation History of Art Institutional Fellowship

January 26, 2025 Art History and Archaeology

The Department's third(!) awardee in two years will study in Leiden

Smithsonian Magazine

See the Groundbreaking Work of 20th-Century Printmakers Who Formed an Innovative Arts Society in Japan

December 19, 2024 Art History and Archaeology

Professor of Japanese Art Alicia Volk is quoted in Smithsonian Magazine.

ARHU Students Honored at Dean's Scholars Awards Ceremony

December 04, 2024 American Studies, Arabic, Art, Art History and Archaeology, Chinese, Cinema and Media Studies, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, French, German Studies, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, Russian, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Outstanding students joined faculty, staff, family and friends for a celebration recognizing their academic excellence.