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 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

Dresher Center 2016 SFRF Applications Due February 15th

Deadline Approaching for Summer Faculty Fellowship Proposals

The application deadline for Dresher Center Summer Faculty Research Fellowships (SFRF) is February 15, 2016.  Full-time, tenure-track faculty pursuing humanities research in the College of...

Posted: February 1, 2016, 11:28 AM