The Divisions of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences encompasses four academic departments, two academic support centers, and numerous programs of study. It is the largest unit at Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus, employing over 50 full-time faculty, 20 full-time staff, and over 100 adjunct instructors. Learn more about the division, the programs, departments, and centers on this website.
 The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center
 Cultural Arts Center Dance Studio
 Student Exhibition in The King Street Gallery
 Tony Hawkins, Dean of AHSS at Commencement
 Cultural Arts Center, Theater 1
AHSS Events
Spring Semester 2013
Performance
First Generation: American-born children of immigrant parents tell true stories about growing up as part of two cultures [Flyer]
Presented by Speakeasy DC
Thursday, January 24th, 2–3:30 p.m.; Cultural Arts Center
Film
Miss Representation, film viewing and conversation
Thursday, January 24, 10a.m.–12 p.m.; Commons, CM211
Exhibtion
Almost Out the Door: Stories of Adolescence, Photographs by Margaret Wright
Part of “Identity: Who we are, what we are, why we are,” a series of exhibitions and lectures
January 25–March 8; Open Gallery, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center
Reception: Thursday, February 21, 6–8 p.m.
Jefferson Café® Discussion
Honoring African American History Month, the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, and the feature film LIncoln
Presented by The The Paul Peck Institute for American Culture and Civic Engagement
Wednesday, February 6, Session I: 1:15–2:30 p.m., Session II: 3–4:15 p.m.; Commons 202-K
Exhibtion
Observations/Contemplations, Artwork by Jeffrey Abt
February 8–March 14; King Street Gallery, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center
Reception: Thursday, February 21, 6–8 p.m.
Jefferson Café® Discussion
Ancient roots of the US republican democracy
Presented by The The Paul Peck Institute for American Culture and Civic Engagement
Tuesday, February 12, 3:30–5 p.m.; Rockville Campus, HU106
Film
Summer with Monika (Bergman, 1953)
Presented in partnership with the American Film Institute
February 13, 6:30 p.m. at AFI Silver Spring, $6
Jefferson Café® Discussion
The War on Terror after Iraq and Afghanistan
Presented by The The Paul Peck Institute for American Culture and Civic Engagement
Friday, February 15, 10:30 a.m.–12 p.m.; Chevy Chase Library, 8005 Connecticut Avenue
Film
Death Rides a Horse (Petroni, 1967)
Presented in partnership with the American Film Institute
February 27, 6:30 p.m. at AFI Silver Spring, $6
Lecture
The Soul, Salsa, & Spirit of Silver Spring: Celebrating Community
Reemberto Rodriguz, Director of Montgomery County's Silver Spring Regional Area
The seventh event in our student-oriented series "Profiles in Public Life."
Thursday, February 28, 11 a.m.; Commons, CM211
Reading/Exhibition
The Sligo Journal Reading and Reception with journal contributors
Thursday, February 28, 6–7:30 p.m.
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center, CF101
Jefferson Café® Discussion
Making History at Seneca Falls
Presented by The The Paul Peck Institute for American Culture and Civic Engagement
Wednesday, March 6, 2013; Commons 202-K, Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus
Video Presentation
The P-Word: Pranks and Provocations by Punk Rock Girls
A Women's History Month event featuring Professor Greg Wahl [Flyer]
Thursday, March 7, 12:30 p.m.
Cultural Arts Center
Performance
Heartstrings and Shoestring: Stories of Love and Woe
Presented by UpRooted Dance Company and The Communication and Performing Arts Department
March 7–March 17
Cultural Arts Center
Film
Employee’s Entrance (Del Ruth, 1933)
Presented in partnership with the American Film Institute
March 13, 6:30 p.m. at AFI Silver Spring, $6
Lecture
The Elusive Self in Gauguin and Metaphysical Identity
Professors Daniel Jenkins and Claudia Rousseau
Thursday, March 28, 2013, 12:30 p.m.; Location TBD.
Exhibtion
Observed, Paintings by Christina Renfer Vogel
Part of “Identity: Who we are, what we are, why we are,” a series of exhibitions and lectures
March 25–May 3; Open Gallery, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center
Reception: Thursday, April 4, 6–8 p.m.
Film
Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock, 1943)
Presented in partnership with the American Film Institute
March 27, 6:30 p.m. at AFI Silver Spring, $6
Exhibition
Aline Feldman: A Retrospective
April 1–May 10; King Street Gallery, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center
Reception: Thursday, April 4, 6–8 p.m.
Performance
Vision
Presented by The Cultural Arts Center and Alliance Francaise
Friday, April 5th; 12 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Theater I, Cultural Arts Center
Poetry Reading
Yvette Neisser Moreno
Author of the award-winning poetry collection, Grip (Gival Press, 2012), Winner of the Gival Press Poetry Award
Tuesday, April 9, 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.; Health Sciences Center, HC222
Film
Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock, 1951)
Presented in partnership with the American Film Institute
April 10, 6:30 p.m. at AFI Silver Spring, $6
Film
The Producers (Brooks, 1968)
Presented in partnership with the American Film Institute
April 24, 6:30 p.m. at AFI Silver Spring, $6
Lecture
Romare Bearden: The Collage, The Print, The Source
Sarah E. Lewis
Thursday, April 25, 5 p.m.; The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center Lecture Hall, CF101
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Faculty Highlights
Professor Michael LeBlanc
English
Dr. LeBlanc’s 2013 Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship project titled “Pioneer Manhood in America” will examine the pivotal year of 1492 through the lens of masculine violence by exploring the "origins" of a specifically American brand of pioneer masculinity.
Professor Lauralyn McWilliams
Communications and Performing Arts
Professor McWilliams will offer a special section of SP 109: Voice and Diction (CRN 34010) for non-native English speakers in the health sciences during the spring 2013 semester. Download the flyer for additional information.
Professor Lincoln Mudd
Visual Arts and Design
Professor Mudd’s 2013 Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship project titled “Exploring Research Methods for the Visual Artist” focuses on beginning visual arts students’ expansion of knowledge, appreciation, and research methods central to the making of relevant and original artworks.
Professor Karl Smith
Social Sciences
Professor Smith is the co-chair of the Social Sciences Department and the faculty advisor to the International and Political Studies Association. Most recently, he participated in the MCTV 10 program Conversations of Consequence: The Maryland DREAM Act, an interdisciplinary panel discussion hosted by Montgomery College president Dr. DeRionne Pollard.
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