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New Faculty Working Group on Anti-Racism and Action

Call for Participants

The Dresher Center for the Humanities, the Center for Social Science Scholarship, the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts, and the Imaging Research Center invite...

Posted: December 7, 2020, 2:27 PM

Faculty Working Groups for Fall 2020

The Dresher Center for the Humanities welcomes one new Faculty Working Groups for 2020 - 2021: Latin American Feminisms (see description below) All Faculty Working Groups are accepting new...

Posted: September 2, 2020, 12:40 PM

Dresher Center Rapid Response Awards

Dresher Center Rapid Response Awards Purpose Dresher Center Rapid Response awards offer small grants of up to $1,500 to UMBC faculty (full- and part-time) and graduate students whose...

Posted: July 28, 2020, 9:45 AM

Dresher Center Statement on Anti-Black Racism

The Dresher Center for the Humanities stands in solidarity with members of our Black community and other communities suffering across the nation. We mourn and condemn the murder of George...

Posted: June 8, 2020, 9:22 AM

Dresher Center Summer 2020 and Fall 2020 Fellows

The Dresher Center for the Humanities is pleased to announce our faculty fellows for Summer 2020 and Fall 2020 Earl Brooks, Assistant Professor, English Summer 2020 Fellow Project: Black...

Posted: May 20, 2020, 12:20 PM

Coronavirus Chronicles Archive

Sharing Stories Through Isolation

The Coronavirus Chronicles Archive is a publicly sourced, transnational database of stories about the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on everyday life. Based out of the University of...

Posted: April 1, 2020, 5:09 PM

The Digital Decameron

Global Digital Story Festival – Where I Find Strength

    “In 1348 a party of wealthy young patricians take refuge from the plague that is raging in the city in a villa outside Florence. To pass the time, they tell each other stories…” (Cover...

Posted: March 27, 2020, 12:36 PM

Announcing our Spring 2020 Residential Research Fellows

Residential Faculty Research Fellows Mark Durant, Professor, Visual Arts Spring 2020 Residential Faculty Research Fellow Project: Life Choreographed for Camera Tania Lizarazo, Assistant...

Posted: January 29, 2020, 12:21 PM

CFP: Dresher Center Summer Faculty Research Fellowship

The Dresher Center for the Humanities and the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) invites applications for Summer Faculty Research Fellowships (SFRF). Funding is intended to...

Posted: November 18, 2019, 11:01 AM