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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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