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The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Harriet Tubman Day Poster Award Winners

Check out the winner and runner-ups for the 2025 Tubman Day Poster Contest

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June 26, 2024 The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Examining Data Science Through an Equity Lens

The Computer Science and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies departments collaborated on a new cross-listed course.
June 04, 2024 The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Inked in History

Professor tells stories behind her traditional tattoos.
April 10, 2024 The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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
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
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.

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The Diamondback

UMD Community Members Honor Legacy of Harriet Tubman

March 11, 2025 The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Harriet Tubman Day featured in The Diamondback.

The Art of Feminist Thought

March 04, 2025 The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Exploring art and activism through the lens of feminist theory in a course from UMD’s Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Harriet Tubman Day Poster Award Winners

February 24, 2025 The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Check out the winner and runner-ups for the 2025 Tubman Day Poster Contest
Maryland Today

UMD Awarded $3.6M Mellon Foundation Grant to Advance Indigenous Archives

February 04, 2025 The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Project Will Develop Tools, Standards and Reparative Practices to Restore Indigenous Histories

Maryland Today

UMD Awarded $3.6M Mellon Foundation Grant to Advance Indigenous Archives

February 04, 2025 The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Project will develop tools, standards and reparative practices to restore Indigenous histories.

2025 Harriet Tubman Day Poster Award

January 10, 2025 Art, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Submissions for the 2025 Harriet Tubman Day Poster Award are now open

Winter Break Office Closure

December 20, 2024 The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

University of Maryland will be closed for Christmas and New Years

Spring 2024 LGBT/WGSS Courses

November 18, 2024 The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Exciting new courses join old favorites in Spring 2025 slate of WGSS courses

Bonnie Thornton Dill named co-PI on Values-Enacted Leadership Institute

October 22, 2024 The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Dr. Dill joins researchers from Michigan State University, Carnegie Mellon, the European University Institute and the Modern Language Association at the Values-Enacted Leadership Institute