The Dresher Center at UMBC is a leading resource for the study of human thought and culture, serving the scholarly community and the public through humanities research and programming. Building upon UMBC’s strong humanities faculty and programs, the Dresher Center will engage scholars, students, visiting fellows and the community in exploring societal issues through the wide-ranging perspectives of humanities scholarship through a variety of workships, seminars and lectures.

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2011 Summer Faculty Research Fellows

Tamara Bhalla (AMST): "Between History and identity: Readers, Recognition and Authenticity in South

     Asian- American Literature and Community"
Christopher Corbett (ENGL): "The Borderland of Fable:  Myth in the Nineteenth Century American West"
Preminda Jacob (VisArts): "The City Beautiful Movement in Chennai, India:  Contemporary Mural Painting

     Confronts Urban Blight"

For more information about Summer Faculty  Research Fellowships and other resources for scholarly

support, go to link on the left for Scholarly Resources.