Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support initiatives to diversify academic leadership, in partnership with Morgan State University and the University of Maryland at College Park

Breaking the M.O.L.D. (Maryland Opportunities for Leadership Development) for Arts and Humanities Faculty

to establish a Baltimore-based consortium dedicated to mentoring diverse cohorts of undergraduate students in the science associated with art conservation

Baltimore SCIART Fellowship

to provide a final round of support for a Baltimore-based consortium dedicated to mentoring diverse cohorts of undergraduate students in the science associated with art conservation

to support a Baltimore-based consortium dedicated to mentoring diverse cohorts of undergraduate students in the heritage science and art conservation

Baltimore SCIART Fellowship Phase II

to support collaboration with community partners to develop a national model for engaging urban communities in public humanities teaching and research

Strengthening UMBC's Public Humanities Infrastructure: The Baltimore Field School

to support the Department of Gender, Women's, + Sexuality Studies

Program Support

in support of programs on immigrant education

Immigrant Education

toward costs of planning programs in immigrant education

to support the integration of diversity and inclusion into the humanities curriculum, faculty pedagogy, and scholarship

The Inclusion Imperative

to support rethinking Asian American issues on campus in a global, diasporic, and collaborative framework through community-engaged, public-facing scholarship and teaching through the Global Asias Initiative

Global Asias Initiative: Reframing Asian American Studies and Asian Studies at UMBC 

to support the transfer of humanities students from The Community College of Baltimore County to Johns Hopkins University, as well as faculty collaborations on curriculum and pedagogy

Community College-University Partnerships

to continue support for Humanities for All, a partnership program with Johns Hopkins University that promotes the transfer of community college students to four-year institutions and innovative teaching practices in the humanities

to support a research incubator for The 1856 Project, an initiative dedicated to investigating the legacy of slavery at the University of Maryland and engaging in reparative archives work

The 1856 Project

toward costs of humanities summer institutes for fine-arts teachers in Maryland high schools

Summer Institutes

Humanities for Today

to support the development of optical character recognition tools and services for Arabic scripts

Optical Character Recognition of Arabic Texts

to support the activities of the memory lab at King County Library System

Support for Public Library Memory Labs: King County Library System

to support scalable development of digital infrastructure and tools for Islamicate digital humanities

Optical Character Recognition of Arabic Texts: Phase II

to continue support for the development of optical character recognition tools and services for Arabic scripts

Bridge Funding for Optical Character Recognition of Arabic Texts

to support the development and launch of the Baltimore Youth Documentary and Film Arts Program

Baltimore Youth Film Program

to renew support for the Baltimore Youth Film Arts Program

toward costs of programs of research on coastal processes

Coastal Research 

to provide consultation, when requested, to the Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors

M. Feldstein Project

to support the extension of LangNet, a Web-based resource for the use of teachers of Spanish and heritage Spanish-speaking students

The National Foreign Language Center

to support capacity building and programs that seed the creative community in Baltimore

Black Creative Empowerment in Baltimore

to support the cataloging of hidden collections

Cataloging Special Collections

to support comparative case studies of digital humanities projects in an investigation of sustainability strategies

Strategies for Sustaining Digital Scholarship

to support the development of plans for implementing automated auditing technologies in two digital preservation archives

Preservation Archives

to support planning for the second phase of a project to apply computational linguistics techniques to the creation of metadata

Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building

in support of a visiting fellowship in anthropological demography

Anthropological Demography Fellowships - Srinivas 

for use by its Center on Population, Gender, and Social Inequality to assess research needs in the area of gender and population policy

Feminist Demography

to support the Department of African American Studies

to support the application of computer forensics in the preservation of born-digital archives in cultural heritage institutions

Born Digital Archive in Cultural Heritage Institutions 

to support the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

to support planning and implementation of the Baltimore-Washington Musical Pathways Initiative

Baltimore-Washington Musical Pathways Initiative

to support the preservation of web-based resources collected through social media platforms

Documenting the Now: Phase 2

to support the further development of computational linguistic techniques for identifying and extracting metadata from text sources

Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building 

to support an integrated research and training model at the intersection of digital humanities and African American studies

Digital Humanities and African American Studies

in support of research on gender and population policy

Research on Gender and Population Policy - Demography Center

to support an integrated research and pedagogical model at the intersection of digital humanities and African American studies

African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities Initiative - Phase II

to support the archival collection at the David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, and a monument to the late artist and art historian

Critical Collections and Monument to David C. Driskell

to continue support for an integrated research and pedagogical model at the intersection of digital humanities and African American Studies

African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities Initiative - Phase III

to support a study to assess the value for scholarly use of digital assets generated in contemporary book publishing

Books.Files: Assessing Digital Assets in the Book Industry for Scholarly Use

to support a visiting fellowship in anthropological demography

Anthropological Demography Fellowships - Shariff

to support a research seminar entitled Race/Ethnicity and Gender Identity in a Shifting Cultural, and Racial Climate:  African/Black Diaspora Academic and Public Discourse

African/Black Diaspora Research Seminar

to support organizational capacity, design and development, community engagement and programming for the Black Baltimore Digital Database

Black Baltimore Digital Database

to support the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Academy

BSO Academy

toward costs of filming a presentation by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for broadcast on the public television network as part of a series of programs aimed at building new audiences for music on television

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Film Presentation

Artists as Catalysts

Artists as Catalysts Navigation Image

Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 