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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News

Dresher Center Summer 2024 Fellows

Congratulations to these faculty for being awarded a Dresher Center Fellowship for Summer 2024. María Célleri, Assistant Professor, Gender, Women’s + Sexuality Studies; Tania Lizarazo,...

Posted: May 9, 2024, 11:51 AM

Announcing new Critical Disability Studies minor

Housed in the Department of English

Debuting in the Fall 2024 semester, the Department of English is now home to a new Critical Disability Studies minor. Students in this interdisciplinary minor will encounter both the lived...

Posted: May 2, 2024, 3:44 PM