Fellowships
We support and fund faculty and graduate students across a variety of disciplines who are working on groundbreaking arts-based research. Fellows lead publicly-engaged research across campus and within the surrounding community to spark dialogue, understanding, problem-solving and action.
Arts for All Faculty and Graduate Fellows
Join a cohort of thoughtful and innovative researchers.
Each academic year, Arts for All offers opportunities for faculty and graduate students, who are working on arts-based research, to apply to become Arts for All Fellows. If selected, fellows join a community of their peers to share research, expertise and resources. Our fellows convene regularly to discuss their research progress, find guidance for next steps and explore new opportunities for collaboration across campus.
Faculty Fellows
Learn more about our 2025-26 cohort of faculty.
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, 2025-26 Arts for All Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor, English, College of Arts & Humanities
Director, MFA Program in Creative Writing, English, College of Arts & Humanities
Through the new Studio for Literary Technology, Bertram is helping the UMD community explore creative writing as a lens for understanding and engaging with AI.
Lins Derry, 2025-26 Arts for All Faculty Fellow
Artist in Residence, School of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies
College of Arts & Humanities
Derry is expanding “The Data Twist,” a participatory art project that turns survey data into dance, to explore how movement and technology can promote public discourse.
Heera Lee, 2025-26 Arts for All Faculty Fellow
Lecturer, College of Information
Lee’s project connects K-12 and higher ed instructors with graduate students in engineering and human-computer interaction to co-design innovative, arts-based educational tools.
Will Mosley, 2025-26 Arts for All Faculty Fellow
Assistant Professor, Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, College of Arts & Humanities
Mosley’s project examines art’s role in identity formation and community care through a new course, local partnerships and student mentorship.
Stephanie Prichard, 2025-26 Arts for All Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor & Division Coordinator, Music Education
Instrumental Music Education, School of Music, College of Arts & Humanities
In partnership with Prince George’s County Public Schools, Prichard is leading a study on how arts experiences influence engagement and post-secondary aspirations for underrepresented high school students.
Graduate Student Fellows
Learn more about our 2025-26 cohort of graduate students.
Ann Alex, 2025-26 Arts for All Graduate Student Fellow
Doctoral student, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies
Alex is exploring how digital technology shapes contemporary understandings of Black life through Dream Keepers, a public poetry symposium inspired by Langston Hughes’ “The Weary Blues.”
Isabelle Falls, 2025-26 Arts for All Graduate Student Fellow
Master’s student, Applied Anthropology
Through drawing and self-portraiture, Falls will investigate how fat-identifying UMD students understand their bodies and experience campus life, aiming to challenge bias and promote empathy within the medical field.
taylor knight, 2025-26 Arts for All Graduate Student Fellow
Master’s student, Dance
knight’s project “ABYSS” blends sound, technology and performance to create an immersive space
for collective grief, self-expression and audience participation.
Rashi Maheshwari, 2025-26 Arts for All Graduate Student Fellow
Doctoral student, Comparative Literature
Maheshwari’s project bridges teaching and research to explore how storytelling and the arts can reframe climate narratives and inspire environmental awareness.
Diana Purwaningrum, 2025-26 Arts for All Graduate Student Fellow
Doctoral student, Applied Linguistics and Language
Purwaningrum’s project uses poetry as a tool for collective healing and transformative justice, centering the voices and creative work of incarcerated women through arts-based workshops.
Nina Versenyi, 2025-26 Arts for All Graduate Student Fellow
Doctoral student, American Studies
Through the digitization and analysis of postcards from Hawai‘i and Puerto Rico, Versenyi will investigate how U.S. imperialism and tourism commodified Indigeneity in the 20th century.