“An act of restorative justice”: UMD renames its women’s studies department in honor of Harriet Tubman
by Victoria Stavish The University of Maryland’s College of Arts and Humanities announced earlier this month that the women’s studies department will be named after Harriet Tubman. The department will now be known as the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, marking the university’s first honorific naming of an academic department. Born in Maryland, Tubman became an abolitionist, activist and a crucial … Continue reading “An act of restorative justice”: UMD renames its women’s studies department in honor of Harriet Tubman
