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UMD Launches Institute Focused on Ethical AI Development

Dr. Neda Atanasoski appointed Associate Director of Education for ethics focused Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland

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December 05, 2023 The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

WGSS Professor & Alumni Genna Rosenberg featured in Maryland Today

WGSS Alumni and professor of WGSS277 discusses toys that stand the test of time
November 20, 2023 The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Indigenous Futures Lab featured in Maryland Today

Dr. Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner and the Indigenous Futures Lab were featured in the November 20, 2023 issue of major University publication, Maryland Today
September 22, 2023 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, American Studies, College of Arts and Humanities, English, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, History, Douglass Center

Breaking the M.O.L.D. Launches Second Cohort for Leaders of Color and Women in Higher Ed

The Mellon Foundation-funded initiative prepares underrepresented arts and humanities faculty at three Maryland universities for leadership roles.
April 20, 2023 The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Exciting Online Summer 2023 Courses

Check out these exciting online summer courses!
February 28, 2023 The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Professor Neel Ahuja's Planetary Specters Awarded an Honorable Mention in The Association for Asian American Studies Awards

The Association for Asian American Studies awarded Dr, Ahuja an honorable mention for his book, Planetary Specters: Race, Migration and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century.
February 02, 2023 The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

An Open Letter to the UMD Community from the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies

An open letter from the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, written in solidarity with the 7 December 2022 petition to President Pines written by UMD students with disabilities.
February 01, 2023 The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Dr. Hageman's "Shiplap" Named as one of 2022's Best Video Essays by the British Film Institute

The British Film Institute featured Dr. Eva Hageman's video essay "Shiplap" as one of 2022's best video essays.
January 26, 2023 The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

WGSS welcomes AAUW Fellow Agnes Namaganda

WGSS welcomes AAUW Fellow Agnes Namaganda.
November 08, 2022 The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

WGSS Community Remembers Catherine Schuler

Remembering Catherine Schuler

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Elephant Journal

#Timesup: The Clock has Finally Run Out on all The Bull

October 28, 2018 The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Israel Horovitz is an award-winning playwright responsible for more than 70 plays.
The Conversation

Op/Ed: Teen 'boys will be boys': A brief history

September 27, 2018 The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Associate Professor of Women's Studies Ashwini Tambe weighs in on the history of adolescence.
The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Stress of Being a Minority Faculty Member

September 23, 2018 Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

An author examines the ways in which elite colleges can be toxic to the minority faculty members they hire, and what might be done to improve the situation.
South China Morning Post

Op/Ed: How Call Centres Help the Philippines Rebrand as a Hub for Service Excellence

September 09, 2018 American Studies, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

As the global economy’s biggest ‘back office’, the Southeast Asian nation is increasingly seeking to depict its workers as educated, empathetic and fluent in English.

Fall 2018 ARHU Leadership Announcements

September 04, 2018 Art History and Archaeology, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity, National Foreign Language Center, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

New leadership appointments for the 2018-19 academic year.
Insight Into Diversity

Modernizing the Humanities

June 27, 2018 Communication, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

How the disciplines can endure by becoming more inclusive of diverse perspectives.
Daily American

YOUNG AMERICANS DON'T LIKE POLITICS AND PROTESTS, NEW SURVEY SHOWS

January 11, 2018 History, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Professor of History Robyn Leigh Muncy weighs in on new survey about young Americans.
Inside Higher Ed

ASHWINI TAMBE BREAKS DOWN THE DIFFERENT FORMS OF SEXUAL HARRASMENT

January 04, 2018 The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Women's studies professor examines why we should not lump harassment together into one category.
Ms Magazine

Confronting Sexual Harassment And Hostile Climates In Higher Education

December 13, 2017 The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Carole Stabile on the toll of working in an academic climate hostile to women and people of color.
The Conversation

Alabama And #Metoo'S Disruptive Force

December 13, 2017 The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Ashwini Tambe weighs in on Roy Moore’s electoral defeat in Alabama.