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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Dresher Center Graduate Student Research Fellowships

Application Deadline is March 15, 2016

For Doctoral and Master's Degree Candidates: Dresher Center Graduate Student Research Fellowships Applications Due: March 15, 2016 The Dresher Center offers two residential Graduate Student...

Posted: March 1, 2016, 3:32 PM

Dresher Center Faculty Working Groups in the Humanities

Call for Applications for Groups Forming in Fall 2016

The Dresher Center invites applications for new Faculty Working Groups in the Humanities. Faculty Working Groups are collaborative, interdisciplinary communities of scholars working on humanities...

Posted: February 17, 2016, 3:10 PM