- Objective: a campus-wide initiative to educate students on the central role of public education in the development of American democracy, especially as conceived by the founders as an instrument for shaping the political citizen.
- Focus: the University of Maryland as the state’s original 1862 land-grant institution; its historical role in imagining and creating political subjects and democratizing elite education.
- Method: trace the shifting educational fortunes of various subjects within the American polity—the white elite, the poor, women, people of color, Native Americans, LGBTQIA, immigrants—through the optic of the inclusions and exclusions of our own university over its history.
Hashtags
#dtnumd / #umdpolitics
Education and Citizenship Project Committee
The Education and Citizenship Project Committee, formed out of the Department of English, is comprised of Kimberly Anne Coles (chair), Jessica Enoch, Zita Cristina Nunes, Carla L. Peterson, Sangeeta Ray, Martha Nell Smith, Christina Walter, and Edlie Wong.
DTN Digital Media Presence Conceived and Coordinated by Zita Nunes
Graduate Assistant: Justine DeCamillis, PhD Student, Department of English
Undergraduate Assistant: Avid Antonelli
Web designer: Gregory Lord
Sponsored by:
Maryland Humanities
The Office of Undergraduate Studies
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion
The College of Arts and Humanities
The Philip Merrill College of Journalism
The Honors College
College Park Scholars
School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Center for Literary and Comparative Studies
Center for Global Migration Studies
Department of English
Department of Classics
Department of Philosophy
Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership
The First Year Book Program
Local Americanists Group