3/30/2020
Professor helps celebrity find their roots on PBS show
With 45 years of research work on the World War I African experience and more than 150 oral histories with African WWI veterans, Professor Joe Lunn was contacted by the "Finding Your Roots" team to help interpret WWI ancestor's documents for show. ...
11/14/2019
Students and faculty remember German Lecturer Klaus Tappe
Tappe, longtime UM-Dearborn educator and holder of multiple U-M graduate degrees, died Nov. 4 at age 64....
11/7/2019
Voices of Arab Detroit
Adding to the burgeoning field of Arab American literature, Assistant Professor Ghassan Abou-Zeineddine is gathering creative nonfiction essays to share what it's like to live in the local Arab American community...
3/25/2019
Freshly Pressed: German Professor Jacqueline Vansant examines Hollywood’s take on Austria
Vansant tells us why she was inspired to write Austria Made in Hollywood and what she learned in the process....
3/25/2019
JASS Associate Professor Jen Proctor’s short experimental film gives voice to coming-of-age social pressure
Am I Pretty? will be shown on campus April 17. Its inspiration came from a YouTube trend where female tweens and teens wanted viewers to comment on their appearance, commonly asking, “Am I pretty or ugly?”...
3/11/2019
Three College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters faculty awarded Fulbright U.S. Scholar grants
Linguistics Professor Daniel Davis, Composition and Rhetoric Professor Bill DeGenaro and Anna Muller, history assistant professor and the Frank and Mary Padzieski Endowed Professor in Polish/Polish American/Eastern European Studies, earned 2019-2020 fundi...
2/1/2019
Post-Industrial Spaces project connects five international cities with similar histories
The UM-Dearborn-led global initiative sparks cross-cultural dialogue about the role of identity and legacy in community healing and renewal....
11/12/2018
Can language courses be just as good (or better) online?
UM-Dearborn faculty are exploring the promise of creating hybrid language courses that pair class time with digital learning...
7/20/2018
Four-year research project leads Clinical Professor Jim Gilmore to make award-winning documentary
Feature-length film shows how female poker players worked—and continue to work—toward parity at the gaming table....
3/26/2018
Course teaches students how to civically communicate
Students in Comp364: Writing for Civic Literacy use what they learn in the classroom to assist local nonprofit organizations....