The James T. and Virginia M. Dresher Center for the Humanities supports and promotes research into the historical, cultural, and social dimensions of the human experience at UMBC, in the Baltimore-Washington region, and beyond.

We encourage intellectual exchange and cultivate interdisciplinary and collaborative scholarship among UMBC faculty, staff, and students.
We nurture a generation of humanities thinkers for the future.
We build partnerships that engage communities in addressing issues of equity, inclusion, and justice with the tools of the humanities
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program

UMBC Competition Deadline is October 16, 2024

***repost from CARAT*** Dear CAHSS faculty member, We invite you to submit a proposal to be nominated for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program competition, sponsored by Carnegie...

Posted: September 24, 2024, 10:25 AM

Launch of The Dresher Digest

Our monthly newsletter

Last week, we launched our new monthly newsletter - The Dresher Digest. Take a look at our first issue. We hope to use this newsletter as a way to communicate with you all of our upcoming...

Posted: September 4, 2024, 11:32 AM