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Trevor Parry-Giles, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research
Professor of Communication
Director, Maryland Center for Humanities Research

tpg@umd.edu, 301-405-7364, Twitter: @trevorpg

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Dr. Parry-Giles’s research and teaching focus on the historical and contemporary relationships between rhetoric, politics, law, and popular culture. He is the award-winning author or editor of four books, including The Character of Justice: Rhetoric, Law, and Politics in the Supreme Court Confirmation Process and The Prime-Time Presidency: The West Wing and U.S. Nationalism (with Shawn J. Parry-Giles)His research has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of SpeechRhetoric & Public AffairsPresidential Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Popular Film and TelevisionCelebrity Studies, the Journal of Communication, and elsewhere. Dr. Parry-Giles is a Distinguished Research Fellow and a Distinguished Teaching Fellow of the Eastern Communication Association. In 2019, Dr. Parry-Giles received the University of Maryland's Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year Award.

Dr. Parry-Giles is a frequent commentator about contemporary and historical political communication and has appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, the NBC Nightly News, Maryland Public Television, CCTV, and all the network affiliates in Washington, DC. He is quoted often in political news coverage, including in the Washington Post, the New York TimesPoliticoUSA Today, the Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. In addition, Parry-Giles has been interviewed by the BBC, Minnesota Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, Utah Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Radio, WAMU (NPR--Washington, DC), and WYPR (NPR--Baltimore, MD), among others.          

Meghann Babo-Shroyer, Proposal Development Manager
mbabo@umd.edu, 301-405-0293

Meghann Babo-Shroyer is the College of Arts and Humanities’ Proposal Development Manager. She helps faculty develop their sponsored research, grant project, and fellowship applications by providing guidance, editing, and revisions. She also supports faculty during internal award competitions, by providing pre-award routing assistance, with prospect research, and by developing and managing the ARHU Fellowship database. Meghann has worked for more than a decade in the DC-area non-profit arts sector in foundation and government fundraising, business management, leadership, and strategy development. She has served as a grant panelist for the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Meghann has a BA in Musical Theatre from Wilkes University and a Master’s of Public Administration from Indiana State University.

Julie O. Wright, Assistant Dean for Finance and Administration
jwright@umd.edu, 301-405-2108