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 Spring 2024 Fellows

Join us in welcoming three new fellows to the Dresher Center for the Spring 2024 semester. Lisa Pace Vetter, Associate Professor, Political Science; and Affiliate Faculty in Gender, Women's +...

Posted: January 31, 2024, 11:25 AM

Welcome Earl Brooks as our new Associate Director

After spending the Fall 2023 semester as one of our Residential Faculty Fellows, Earl H. Brooks is joining the Dresher Center as our new Associate Director! Brooks is a musician and...

Posted: January 29, 2024, 9:42 AM