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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CFP: Faculty Working Groups in the Humanities

The Dresher Center is accepting proposals for new groups

Apply by April 1, 2017 for groups beginning in Fall 2017 The Dresher Center invites proposals for new Faculty Working Groups in the Humanities. Dresher Center Faculty Working Groups are...

Posted: February 15, 2017, 8:56 AM

Apply for a Dresher Center Summer Faculty Fellowship

Deadline: February 15, 2017 (Info session on Dec. 12th)

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: December 5, 2016, 9:56 AM