2007–2008 j o i n t h e c o n v e r s at i o n
annual highlights
our vision
from the director
The Institute for the Arts and Humanities: who we are and what we do
The mission of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities (IAH) is to foster intellectual community and faculty development at Carolina by supporting innovative teaching and research, especially in the arts and humanities. The IAH’s two signature programs, the Faculty
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“You cannot step into the same river twice,”
a paradox uttered more than twenty-five hundred years ago by the Greek philosopher Heraclitus. Continuity amidst endless change was the burden of his musings. How can Carolina— and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities (IAH)—retain its distinctive identity, its special flavor, even as the world around us and the campus we inhabit relentlessly rush forward? We need a strong sense of who we are as we adapt what we do and how we do it to meet the new challenges of each day. This annual highlights brochure captures some of the ways the IAH serves the UNC faculty and the UNC community.
Fellowship Program and the Academic Leadership Program, build collegial relationships among faculty through
seminars that address research interests, teaching methods and goals and leadership responsibilities. The IAH assists in the recruitment and retention of a world-class
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faculty at UNC by identifying and supporting the work of our best professors while also developing the campus leaders from among the faculty who will ensure UNC’s ongoing excellence.
Our new chancellor, Holden Thorp, embodies UNC’s simultaneous ties to the past and to the future. Holden is a young man for a chancellor, but his connection to Carolina goes beyond his own undergraduate days here in the 1980s to his family’s even earlier ties to Chapel Hill. But Holden is just as obviously the future, with a vision that builds upon a combination of entrepreneurship and service to the public as the foundations for a world-class research university. The Institute is proud to count Holden among the faculty who have come through our Academic Leadership Program (ALP) and assumed key positions throughout the University. The ALP exists to encourage our faculty to think creatively about the challenges facing and the mission motivating our academic work—and then to step up and lead UNC into the future. For its part, the IAH is dedicated to faculty development in its many guises, from inculcating the UNC spirit in our newest faculty to supporting Carolina’s professors in their continual effort to stand at the cutting-edge of teaching and research. Our Faculty Fellows seminars, our various events and conferences and our new initiative in the digital arts and humanities all serve to recruit and retain a superior faculty by providing them the opportunity to grow intellectually and professionally. Our distinctive identity at the IAH is the collaborative and collegial model we have evolved over the past twenty years. Through the conversations the IAH fosters in Hyde Hall and around campus, we build the community of professors, students and friends that gives Carolina its distinctive identity — excellence with a heart — even as the subjects of the conversations change in response to the problems that today’s world poses. I am delighted to announce that James Moeser, our Chancellor Emeritus, will be the newest participant in the Institute’s conversations. After taking a sabbatical in the 2008 –2009 academic year, Chancellor Moeser will return to Chapel Hill and to an office in Hyde Hall, where he will contribute to the IAH’s leadership programs and public outreach in the arts. Our hospitality extends far beyond former chancellors. I invite each and every one of you to participate in our ongoing events and programs. Details about upcoming events can be found at our Web site (www.iah.unc.edu).
join the conversation.
The IAH also provides opportunities for our fellows and visiting scholars to reach on- and off-campus audiences, communicating the spirit of the liberal arts to UNC’s many publics through
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community programs and events. Through our development of collegial relationships in our core programs, and our support for cutting-edge
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research
and teaching, the IAH provides a place for the vibrant conversations that create intellectual community and make Carolina the best place in the nation for faculty to be. We also showcase the work of our faculty and this year honor the achievements of Trudier Harris, the first recipient of The
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George
H. Johnson Prize for an IAH Fellow. The IAH strengthens the frequency, quality and impact of collaboration
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among faculty. We seek philanthropic support from donors and foundations for the innovative teaching and research of UNC’s arts and humanities professors.
“All morning as we talk inside the room around the table … stitching and unstitching in the telling and the hearing, the taking issue with, concord and discord, every one of us around the table …” from “ the conversation” by alan shapiro, w.r. kenan jr. distinguished professor of english institute for the arts and humanities fellow
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f a c u lt y f e l l o w s p r o g r a m
f a c u lt y f e l l o w s p r o g r a m
IAH Fellowships IAH fellowship programs provide faculty members on-campus semester leaves to pursue research and teaching interests. Our Fellows meet weekly to share and examine their work, gaining new perspectives from these conversations with an interdisciplinary group of scholars.
Chapman Family Faculty Fellowships Chapman Family Faculty Fellowships provide semester-long, on-campus fellowships for faculty who have distinguished teaching records at UNC and regularly teach undergraduate students. Our Chapman Fellows join the IAH Fellows for weekly lunches and conversations.
Chapman Faculty Fellows
The 2007– 2008 Bill Ferris, Nelson Schwab III Fellow History, Mississippi delta blues
IAH Fellows Fall 2007
Jordynn Jack, Wilmer Kuck Borden Fellow English and Comparative Literature, Women scientists in World War II Scott Kirsch, Espy Family Fellow Geography, Mapping nation and empire at the dawn of the American century Lauren Leve, IAH Fellow Religious Studies, Maoist women and Christian churches Andrew Perrin, Moister Fellow in Ethics Sociology, Public opinion and democracy Bill Race, T. Winfield Blackwell Jr. Fellow Classics, Literary commentary on Argonautica Joyce Rudinsky, Hamilton Fellow for Technological Innovation Communication Studies, Experimental media practice in the classroom Brooks de Wetter-Smith, Keith-Massey Fellow Music, Multimedia reflection of Antarctica
Banu Gokariksel, Edward Lewis Bernstein Fellow Geography, Women and Islam in Turkey Perry Hall, Christine and James Whitton Fellow African and Afro-American Studies, African-American culture studies
IAH Fellows Spring 2008
Jennifer Ho, Valinda Hill DuBose Fellow English and Comparative Literature, Mixed-race Asian-Americans in the late 20th century Dale Hutchinson, Turner Family Fellow Anthropology, Social and economic transformation in the colonial New World
Karen Booth, Women’s Studies, The cultural politics of global medicine Gregg Flaxman, English and Comparative Literature, Literature across cultures Marianne Gingher, English and Comparative Literature, SPEEDOS: An Anthology of Short Short Stories by 60 NC Writers Allen Glazner, Geological Sciences, Connecting students, the public, geology and literature
Joyce Rudinsky / profiled fellow During her spring 2008 fellowship semester, Joyce Rudinsky, visual artist and associate professor in the communication studies department, completed a multimedia art project that allowed visitors to experience their own responses to the death penalty. Rudinsky says she received valuable input from her Fellows group. In addition to completing the project, Rudinsky used part of her IAH fellowship semester to develop a course on interactive media that will allow students to create content for the evolving mixture of technology available at the University.
New Initiatives Duke Exchange The IAH initiated a faculty exchange program with Duke University’s John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI). Each year, one faculty member from UNC will join the FHI’s year-long fellows seminar, and one faculty member from Duke will join our seminar each semester. The FHI builds its seminars around a theme — the 2007 theme was “Recycle,” and next year’s will be “Alternative Political Imaginings.” The exchange offers a UNC faculty member the opportunity to work with colleagues from Duke on one shared topic. Richard Langston from Germanic languages and literature was the first UNC faculty to participate in the Duke seminar. For the 2008–2009 academic year, Gregg Flaxman of English and comparative literature will represent UNC.
Michael McFee, Nancy and J. Scott Cramer Fellow English and Comparative Literature, Poetry and essays
In the meantime, the IAH’s open format provides an opportunity for Duke faculty whose work does not fall within the selected theme to enjoy the benefits of collegial exchange about scholarly work, questions of teaching and practical issues of career development. Eric Meyers of Duke’s religion department was the first Duke participant in the IAH seminar. Next year, Philip Rupprecht from music will join us during the fall semester, and Marc Schachter of romance studies will participate in the spring seminar.
Jocelyn Neal, D. Earl Pardue Fellow Music, Fans and country music dance halls
Arts Fellowships We are pleased to announce that, starting in the 2009 –2010 academic year,
Laurie Maffly-Kipp, John W. Burress Fellow Religious Studies, Mormon history
Krista Perreira, Moister Fellow in Ethics Public Policy, Latino immigration and the American South
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two new faculty fellowships in the arts will be awarded each year. The recipients of the Arts Fellowships will join the weekly seminars of the IAH’s Faculty Fellows Program. These new fellowships are made possible in partnership with the Office of the Executive Director of the Arts and the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor for Research. The goal of the fellowships is to advance faculty scholarship in the arts and arts-related disciplines. In addition, the fellowships will promote a closer connection between faculty working in the arts and humanities and the programs offered by Carolina Performing Arts. We are especially excited about this new program because it advances our desire to become more active in promoting and supporting the arts at Carolina and in the community. - pag e 3 -
academic leadership program
The Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Academic Leadership Program
the institute helps prepare and support the next generation of academic leaders through our semester-long Tyson Academic Leadership Program (ALP). Since 2001, our Leadership Fellows have engaged in a series of activities to help them develop leadership skills, clarify their career commitments, build a leadership network within the campus and extend their contacts to other leaders beyond the University. In so doing, they build lasting relationships, continuing to meet with their cohorts as a “forum” years after their semester ends.
The 2007–2008
Leadership Fellows
Jane Danielewicz, English and Comparative Literature Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, Health Policy and Administration Beth Grabowski, Art Kevin Guskiewicz, Exercise and Sport Science Andy Reynolds, Political Science Roberto Quercia, City and Regional Planning Jay Smith, History
IAH Fellows in Leadership Roles Our Leadership Fellows have assumed key positions throughout the University: 1 Chancellor 3 Chairs of the Faculty 5 Deans 4 Senior Associate Deans 5 Heads of Institutes and Centers 7 Instruction and Curriculum officers 21 Chairs of Departments
Chairs Leadership Program In 2007– 2008, we launched our second leadership program, the Chairs Leadership Program (CLP), created through the endowment of the ALP by alumni Barbara and Pitt Hyde in 2006. The CLP offers first-time and reappointed chairs a year of monthly conversations in which they can share ideas, identify best practices and explore important issues related to the important roles they play within the University. Communication studies professor Bill Balthrop took the helm of the CLP as IAH associate director.
Chairs Leadership Program
The 2007–2008
Michael Crimmins, Chemistry Randy Hendrick, Linguistics Joanne Hershfield, Women’s Studies Donald Lysle, Psychology Emil Malizia, City and Regional Planning
f a c u lt y r e t e n t i o n Thanks to a challenge grant of $500,000 from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust, the IAH now has a permanent $1 million Kenan Retention Fund to assist the College of Arts and Sciences in the retention of faculty who are IAH Fellows. The Kenan Retention Fund came on-line during the 2006– 2007 academic year and, to date, has provided funds for eight faculty. The fund has helped UNC both craft counter-offers for faculty who had outside offers and proactively recognize extraordinary achievement. A key feature of the fund is that it enables intervention before a faculty member has an offer from another university. It has been used as a means to discourage faculty from applying to jobs they’ve been asked to consider. The Kenan Retention Fund is a key resource for departmental chairs and for the College of Arts and Sciences in the continuing effort to recruit, develop and retain a great faculty. The IAH also has initiated the Chairs Say Yes Fund, an idea created by Nelson Schwab III. Through the generosity of Schwab and the Hyde Family Foundations, the Institute has been able to provide a $10,000 discretionary fund to the chairs of nine different departments over the past three years. Communication studies, anthropology, psychology, dramatic arts, German languages and literatures, American studies, art and art history, linguistics and African and Afro-American studies have been the beneficiaries thus far. These funds allow chairs to “say yes” to various requests from faculty. Departments have used the funds for a variety of purposes. One department bought new furniture for the department lounge, and another bought faculty printers for their offices. Communication studies provided extra travel funds for junior faculty, while American studies combined the funds with other resources and took eight faculty and four graduate students to a conference in May 2008 at King’s College London as its contribution to establishing the strategic collaboration between King’s College and UNC.
Steve Matson, Biology Brent McKee, Marine Sciences John Pickles, Geography Cecil Wooten, Classics
David McCue talks to Academic Leadership Fellows about “forum technologies,” October 2007 UNC alum David McCue led a workshop that explained what forums can accomplish and provided specific techniques to facilitate forum meetings.
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“If we don’t emphasize the quality of the people we are attracting and their personal growth, then we’re not going to succeed at our goal of providing the best quality education… That’s why the Institute for the Arts and Humanities has been, in a way, the conscience of the University. The IAH has focused on faculty retention and leadership from the very beginning. It has challenged the University to keep the quality of education as its first and foremost goal and to really keep the flame of the Carolina way alive.” — Nelson Schwab III Chair (2005–07), UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees
iah community programs
iah events
The Institute showcases faculty work and connects arts and humanities faculty to their colleagues throughout the University and the wider community through a range of programs, including lectures and salons.
the iah hosts numerous lectures, workshops and conferences each year. All of these events are free and open to the public.
please visit our Web site www.iah.unc.edu for information
Lectures
on upcoming events of interest.
In addition to lectures scheduled throughout the year, the IAH hosts two recurring lecture series: The Mary Stevens Reckford Lecture on European Studies and the Weil Lecture on American Citizenship.
Two conferences held during the 2007– 2008 academic year were particularly newsworthy. In September 2007, 18 faculty and graduate students from the departments of English and American studies from King’s College London (KCL) joined their counterparts from UNC, Duke University and East Carolina University for a threeday colloquium, “Life-Writing and Narrative Medicine.”
In 2008, the Reckford lecture featured Joan Scott from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, who spoke on Islam and women. The 2007 Weil lecture featured Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, the Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education at New York University, who provided insight into immigration and education.
The general topic was the explosion of work that can be labeled as autobiography, memoir or “creative nonfiction,” with a focus on illness narratives and the use of stories in therapeutic settings. The conference initiated a series of events throughout the academic year that aimed at furthering the strategic collaboration between UNC and King’s College, established in 2005 when the Dean of the College signed an agreement with the Principal of KCL. Student and faculty exchanges, team-taught classes (via teleconferencing) and joint research projects are all either in the works or in the planning stages as the collaboration between the two universities moves forward. Joan Scott delivers the 15th Mary Stevens Reckford Lecture on European Studies in February 2008.
In January 2008, the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust sponsored Paul Gilroy from the London School of Economics as the first Kenan Visiting Scholar at the IAH. Professor Gilroy is a world-renowned expert on questions of migration, with a special focus on the movement of peoples and cultural values through the Atlantic region, from Africa to the West Indies to North America and Britain.
Salons What is your favorite childhood place? What is the legacy of the Baby Boomer generation? How do we grow a vibrant urban arts community? In a society driven by economic thinking, what is the proper “product” of the University?
John and Cyndy O’Hara hosted salons in October 2007.
Through the IAH salons program, these are some of the questions IAH Fellows and local community members discussed over dinners hosted this past year at the homes of some of our local friends. The salons embody one of our core missions: to promote conversation between diverse constituencies. Salons are designed to connect our Fellows with others both within and outside the University in thoughtful exchanges about issues of moment. Salons embrace one of IAH founder Ruel Tyson’s time-honored practices of combining serious conversation with food and libation. The current salons represent an adaptation to the Community Dinners that the IAH began sponsoring in 2004. The first salons took place in October 2007 at the Chapel Hill home of John and Cyndy O’Hara. In November, Bill and Julia Grumbles hosted dinner at their home, followed by a gathering at Betty Kenan’s home in February 2008. In April, we gathered at the home of Barbra and Andy Rothschild after several of us toured artists’ lofts in the new Golden Bridge development in Durham.
Paul Gilroy delivered the keynote address of the conference on his work to an audience of 250.
In a spirited three-day conference, the IAH brought in scholars from the US and the Caribbean to discuss and debate with Gilroy his view that attachment to racial identities is neither useful nor very coherent at a time when the clear boundaries between races and cultures are blurred by the mixtures that migration produces.
What attachments will foster a sense of belonging and ground people’s identities if race and nation no longer perform that role? Our distinguished visitor, invited speakers and engaged audience hardly agreed, but the large crowds and passionate conversation indicated how important that question is right now. Also noteworthy was the IAH partnership with the University Program in Cultural Studies, the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, the Institute of African-American Research and Duke’s Franklin Humanities Institute in organizing the conference. Sixty faculty and graduate students participated in groups that read Gilroy’s work during the fall semester in preparation for his visit, while UNC’s Jay Garcia and Duke’s Sandy Darity team-taught a course on Gilroy’s work open to students from both universities.
In addition to planning local salons for the 2008-2009 academic year, our hope is to take IAH salons on the road, bringing together Fellows and friends nationwide to partake in the IAH tradition of “libations and conversation.”
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looking ahead
the george h. johnson prize
Looking Ahead: Memory Studies
The George H. Johnson Prize
Memory studies is an emerging field of academic research that includes history, psychology, education, literary studies and the visual arts, among other disciplines. It focuses on the ways that cultures create and transmit basic stories about origins, identities and the past. Among its objects of study are history books, memorials, museums, archives, oral traditions and material artifacts. Calling upon both local practitioners in the field and scholars from around the nation, the IAH and the working group on culture and memory will host a series of lectures in fall 2008. We will offer support to two conferences planned for the spring of 2009 — one on “The Long Civil Rights Movement: Histories, Politics, Memories” to be held at UNC and the other on “Monuments and Memory: Race and History” to be held at Duke. In addition, there will be a one-day workshop during the spring to reflect upon the current state of this emerging field. For details and dates, visit our Web site at www.iah.unc.edu.
Looking Ahead: Digital Arts and Humanities The digital revolution is transforming the teaching and research practices of arts and humanities faculty. More and more student work for classes is produced in digital forms; scholarly work is increasingly disseminated through the Web or other digital networks; researchers depend on new visualization tools to present and manipulate information; graduate students in all fields see digital competence as crucial to their professional training; and the foundations that support work in the arts and humanities are beginning to valorize and support digital work. Currently, about 15% of our arts and humanities faculty are doing work that falls under the rubric of digital arts and humanities. Not surprisingly, our younger faculty are among the most active. It will be increasingly important for the recruitment of the next generation of faculty that UNC become one of the premier places nationally and internationally to do technically sophisticated work. The IAH is laying the groundwork for Carolina’s future by bringing together faculty and technologists on campus to work on common digital projects, to teach courses the provide hands-on experience in new technologies and to reflect on what the digital revolution means for the traditional content of the arts and humanities. Currently, we are focusing our efforts on staging a digital arts and humanities festival, “CHAT: Collaborations: Humanities, Arts and Technology,” which will be held on the Chapel Hill campus in February 2010. Working with the fine arts departments (music, dramatic arts, communications studies and art), the Ackland Art Museum, the Wilson Library, Carolina Performing Arts, the Renaissance Computing Institute and The Morehead Planetarium and Science Center, as well as the computer services on campus, the IAH will bring performers, artists and scholars from around the world to Carolina for a 10-day display and discussion of contemporary digital work. We will also commission projects locally from faculty and students in the Triangle area. Preliminary planning meetings, as well as lectures and workshops on topics such as serious gaming and intellectual property rights, will be held during the 2008–2009 academic year. All of these sessions are open to anyone interested. Visit www.iah.unc.edu for a schedule of events and a link to the festival Web site.
for distinguished achievement by an iah fellow A natural raconteur. Infectious. Selfless. Larger than life. These are the words used to describe George H. Johnson, longtime friend and loyal supporter of the Institute. It is in Mr. Johnson’s honor that the Institute created The George H. Johnson Prize for Distinguished Achievement by an IAH Fellow, an accolade IAH director John McGowan describes as a lifetime achievement award. The award pays homage to Mr. Johnson, one of the Institute’s great ambassadors, while recognizing exemplary contributions by faculty in the arts, humanities or qualitative social sciences. “It was in the spirit of George, who has given so selflessly, that we wanted also to honor faculty who have given over their lifetime to Carolina and made this a better place,” McGowan said. The biennial award, dedicated to Mr. Johnson in September 2007, provides the recipient $7,500 and a banquet in honor of the winner. The first faculty to receive the award is Trudier Harris, the J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of English, IAH Faculty Fellow and Academic Leadership Fellow. For the Institute, the award signifies a meaningful moment in our history. Mary Flanagan, IAH director of development, explained that the award marks the first time that the Institute is able to recognize both an extraordinary friend and an outstanding faculty member. Flanagan explained that part of what makes Mr. Johnson so special is his ability to spread his enthusiasm. “George just has a wonderful quality about him of inciting enthusiasm in others,” Flanagan said. With his reputation for livening IAH board meetings, it is not surprising that Mr. Johnson coined the Institute cheer, “Rooty Toot Toot for the Institute!” George Johnson has contributed mightily to the success of the Institute and to the crafting of its distinctive style and spirit. It is fitting, therefore, that his name is attached to a prize that honors faculty contributions to the Carolina community.
Trudier Harris Trudier Harris is the perfect first recipient of The George H. Johnson Prize. Like Mr. Johnson, Dr. Harris is described by those who know her as larger than life, enthusiastic and generous. Mr. Johnson is known as a raconteur, a natural storyteller with an arsenal of tales. In 2003, Dr. Harris shared some of her stories in a memoir, Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South. Both Mr. Johnson and Dr. Harris are dedicated public servants. Each has a lengthy history of service to their community. Dr. Harris mentored two female school students through the Carrboro Blue Ribbon MentorAdvocate program and has been an active fund-raiser for the Triangle AIDS Interfaith Network, among other local organizations. Dr. Harris grew up in a sharply segregated Alabama community before photo credit: steve exum earning graduate degrees from The Ohio State University. McGowan says, “Trudier has been a pioneer throughout her life—as a student, a teacher and a scholar.” Dr. Harris has published groundbreaking research in African-American literature and folklore, including a study of lynching and a book on the portrayal of African-American women in literature. Since joining the UNC English department in 1979, Dr. Harris has accumulated a wealth of honors and awards. In 2005, she received the UNC System Board of Governors’ Award for Excellence in Teaching, which is presented to one faculty member at each of the UNC system schools.
Dr. Harris seeks to inspire all of her students. “I have an obligation to not bore students who are there because they have to be,” she said. A member of the first class of IAH Faculty Fellows to meet in Hyde Hall, Dr. Harris also participated in our Academic Leadership Program in Spring 2002. To learn more about Dr. Harris, be sure to read the fall 2008 IAH e-newsletter, published in September. - pag e 8 -
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honor roll of donors
Steven and Allison Aldrich Lex and Ann Alexander Marty and Weston Andress Pete Andrews Anne Harrison Audet William Joseph Austin Jr. Sarah Elizabeth Bagot Ann Fairfax Baker Michael Cooper Barefoot McKay Belk Susan Bickford Bob and Carol Bilbro Stephen Birdsall Michael Gene Blanton Judith Blau Jennifer Willis Bock Whitney Shepard Bodman Jay David Bolter Stuart Bondurant Jr. Robert Hanes and Victoria Tucker Borden Kristin Breuss and Geoff Burgess Jane Brown Christopher Browning Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Burnett Mr. and Mrs. John Woodfin Burress III Brooks Carey Erin Carlston Dino S.Cervigni Max C. Chapman Jr. Sandford A.Cockrell III Marsha Collins W. Robert Connor Charlotte Daniels Crawford Christine R.Curtis Rebecca and Cress Darwin James Lee and Jean L.Davis Christine DeCatanzaro Mr. and Mrs. Roddy Dowd Sr. Justin Drewry Katherine Kirby Dunleavy Lee Hannah Dunn H. Shelton III and Jo Anne Earp Connie Eble William Wright Espy Steven and Nora Esthimer Ray Simpson Jr. and Cydne Wright Farris Pamela H. Ferguson Eleanor and James Ferguson Bill Ferris Peter Filene Lucinda Fink Archibald Taylor Fort Diane Frazier Manuel Garcia J. Alston Gardner and Barbara Lee James S. Gilliland Jr.
Burton B. Jr. and Kathleen Goldstein Laura Pearlman Goulian William A. and Barbara S. Graham Larry Grossberg Julia Sprunt Grumbles Robert Hodges Hackney and Shauna Holiman Herbert Nelson Hackney Jacquelyn Hall Jennifer Lloyd Halsey John J. and Florence Carter Hanes Frank Borden Hanes Jr. Sarah Fuller Harris C. Johnson Harriss Jr. Anna Ragland Hayes Patrick and Elizabeth C. Heron Jonathan Hess Rebecca Tatum Hilstad James N. Hirschfield Fred Hobson Jr. Charles Broadfoot Holmes Elizabeth Myatt Holsten W. Kelly and Connie Hood Douglass Hunt Barbara and Pitt Hyde Mr. and Mrs. James E.S. Hynes Jane Jackson Jerma Jackson Robert Gavan James George and Janet Johnson Berton H. and Ellen Brauer Kaplan Betty Kenan James Graham Kenan III Thomas Stephen Kenan III Timothy and Dawn Killenberg Courtney H. and James W. Kluttz Sr. Harvey and Marsha Koenig Lynne and Dick Kohn Lloyd Kramer H.R. Kurrie David Elliott Labell Dana Borden Lacy Thomas W. Lambeth Kenneth B. Lee Diane R. Leonard Lauren Leve Memrie Mosier Lewis Michael Lienesch Charles Craft Lucas III Douglas E. Maclean Gerald Michael Malmo Robert A. Manekin C. Knox Jr. and Mary Ann Massey Lane M. McDonald Morris McDonald Jr. Frank Samuel McGaughey III John McGowan
honor roll of donors
Sallie Armfield McMillion James Allen Medford Christopher G. Meinecke Chancellor James and Susan Moeser Peter Corbin Moister Mary Nunn Morrow Alan and Butchie Neely Severine Neff Mr. and Mrs. H. Patrick Oglesby John and Cynthia O’Hara David E. Jr. and Rebecca Pardue Patricia Parker Josephine Ward Patton James L. and Florence Peacock Andrew Perrin Heidi Perov and C. David Perry Jr. Linda and Roger Perry William Aaron Pizer Gerald J. Postema Representative David Price Patricia Pukkila Alfred L.Purrington III Bill Race Donald J. Raleigh William Goodyear Rand Kenneth J. Reckford Terry Ellen Rhodes Richard J. Richardson Scott H. Richardson Thomas C. Ricketts III Francis Graham Riggs David L. Robert Randall Roden and Ann Stewart Hugh Barnes and Ruth Blackwell Rogers Barbra and Andy Rothschild Jennifer Ayer Sandell Barry Saunders Betsy Ivey Sawyer Christopher Glenn and Julia Sawyer J. Henry and Augusta Scattergood Lars Schoultz Marjorie Moses Schwab Nelson Schwab Dhruva R. Sen Tracy Melissa Singer Alfred Emory Smith Jr. Mary Owen Sotile Ann Lewallen Spencer Steven James Squires Vin Steponaitis Kim Strom-Gottfried Randall Styers Michael and Lynne S. Tanner James Sr. and Ellyn Tanner John A. and Peggy Taylor Beverly Taylor
Chancellor Holden H. and Patti W. Thorp John L. and Evelyn Turner David E. and Treva Tyson Ruel W. Tyson Milada Vachudova Jean Marshall Vickery Susan Burress Wall Mr. and Mrs. William H. Walton III James C.Wann Jr. Kay and Van Weatherspoon John Robbins and Campbell Lucas Wester Bill and Jane Whitaker Nancy and Monty White Thomas Leonard Jr. and Julia E. White Clarence and Jane P. Whitefield Mary Ellen Whitford Mr. and Mrs. James G. Whitton Mr. and Mrs. B. Robert Williamson Jr. Glenn and Helen Wilson Charles T. and Jean Jones Wilson Robert W. and Tracy Simms Winston Julia T. Wood James C. Yoder Carol and Blake Young Foundations
Katherine & Thomas M. Belk Foundation Hyde Family Foundations Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Ocean Reef Foundation Salisbury Community Foundation Foundation for the Carolinas Twelve Labours Foundation Jewish Foundation of Durham & Chapel Hill Winston-Salem Foundation Renaissance Charitable Foundation Spray Foundation Inc. Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Community Foundation of Western NC Inc Chapman Family Fund Dowd Foundation Inc. William Rand Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust Thomas S. Kenan III Foundation Inc.
Private gifts from alumni and Friends of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities have a profound effect on the lives of Carolina faculty, which in turn enriches the lives of students and strengthens teaching and research at Carolina. Help us extend the benefits to more faculty members at UNC by making a contribution to the Institute or becoming a Friend of the Institute. For information, please call Mary Flanagan at (919) 962-2528 or visit www.iah.unc.edu/invest.
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boards & staff
boards & staff
Institute Advisory Board for 2007–2008
Leadership Advisory Board for 2007–2008
Margaret Ward Andress Community Volunteer Charlotte, N.C. H.W. McKay Belk President/Chief Merchandising Officer, Belk Stores Charlotte, N.C. Kristin L. Breuss Managing Director, Goldman Sachs London, England Sanford A. Cockrell III Partner, Deloitte Tax LLP New York City, N.Y. Dr. J. McNeely DuBose President, Meadowmont Farms Durham, N.C. Julia Sprunt Grumbles Corporate Vice President (retired), Turner Broadcasting Chapel Hill, N.C. Robert Hackney Senior Vice President, Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder Advisers LLC New York City, N.Y. Jennifer Lloyd Halsey Founder/Managing Director, Asante Partners LLC Menlo Park, Calif.
Barbara Rosser Hyde President, Hyde Family Foundations Memphis, Tenn. George H. Johnson Owner, George H. Johnson Properties Atlanta, Ga.
Richard J. Richardson Professor of Political Science Emeritus and Former Provost, UNC-Chapel Hill Pittsboro, N.C. Scott H. Richardson Chairman/CEO, Village Tavern Inc. Winston-Salem, N.C.
Thomas S. Kenan III Trustee, William R Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust Chapel Hill, N.C.
Christopher G. Sawyer Partner, Alston & Bird Atlanta, Ga.
Charles Craft Lucas III Partner, The McAulay Firm Charlotte, N.C.
Dean E. Smith Retired, UNC-Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, N.C.
Sallie A. McMillion Community Volunteer Greensboro, N.C.
Nancy Hanes White Community Volunteer Raleigh, N.C.
Peter C. Moister Managing Member, Corbin Investment Holdings LLC Atlanta, Ga.
Caroline C. Williamson Community Volunteer New York City, N.Y.
John C. O’Hara Jr., Chair, IAH Advisory Board Chief Operating Officer, Franklin Street Partners Chapel Hill, N.C.
Robert W. Winston III Chief Executive Officer and co-founder, Winston Hospitality Raleigh, N.C. Carol Payne Young Realtor, Harry Norman Realtors Atlanta, Ga.
Faculty Advisory Board for 2007–2008 Steve Birdsall Department of Geography
Jerma Jackson Department of History
Andrew Reynolds Department of Political Science
Eric Downing Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Susan Klebanow Department of Music
Jane Thrailkill Department of English and Comparative Literature
Trudier Harris Department of English and Comparative Literature
Laurie Maffly-Kipp Department of Religious Studies Della Pollock Department of Communication Studies
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Julia Wood, Chair, Faculty Advisory Board Department of Communication Studies
John Alexander Former President, Center for Creative Leadership
Elson S. Floyd President, Washington State University System
Gerald D. Bell, PhD Founder and CEO Bell Leadership
William C. Friday President Emeritus, University of North Carolina
Chris Bogan President and CEO, Best Practices LLC
Barbara Rosser Hyde President, Hyde Family Foundations
Jane D. Brown Professor, UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication
James H. Johnson Jr. Director, Urban Investment Strategies Center, Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, UNC-Chapel Hill
Virginia Carson Director, Campus Y, UNC-Chapel Hill
Alan Neely Sr. Senior Client Partner and Global Leader of Communications (retired), Korn/Ferry International Richard J. Richardson Professor of Political Science Emeritus and Former Provost, UNC-Chapel Hill Holden Thorp Chancellor-Elect, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Rollie Tillman Professor (Emeritus), KenanFlagler School of Business
Richard H. Kohn Professor, Department of History, UNC-Chapel Hill
Phillip L. Clay Chancellor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Staff during 2007–2008 John McGowan Director, The Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Distinguished Professor of Humanities Megan Granda Executive Director Fellowship Programs Julia Wood Associate Director, Faculty Fellows Program Lineberger Distinguished Professor of Humanities Martha S. Marks Program Coordinator, Faculty Fellows Program Academic Leadership Programs Kim Strom-Gottfried Associate Director, Academic Leadership Program The Smith P. Theimann Jr. Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Professional Practice
Bill Balthrop Associate Director, Chairs Leadership Program Professor, Communication Studies
Jean Chandler Business Assistant
David Kiel Senior Consultant, Leadership Programs
Evelyn Johann Facilities and Events Coordinator
Development Mary Flanagan Director of Development
Sandy Smalley Facilities and Events Coordinator
Kirsten Beattie Information and Communications Specialist
Marty Mitchell Assistant Director of Development
Graduate Students Matt Ezzell Research Assistant, Faculty Fellows Program
Administration Christopher Meinecke Business Manager
Carrie Matthews Research Assistant, Academic Leadership Program
Cathi James Business Manager
Will Nolan Research Assistant, Academic Leadership Program
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The mission of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities is to foster intellectual community and faculty development at Carolina by supporting innovative teaching and research, especially in the arts and humanities.
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that great history professor from college? How about your political science professor, who urged you to action? Maybe your French Literature class was among your favorites. Help continue a legacy of great teaching in the arts and humanities. Become a Friend of the Institute.
Benefits of becoming a Friend: - Invitations to special events - Regular updates on IAH happenings - Member recognition - Support Carolina’s arts and humanities faculty through IAH programs
Faculty, staff and graduate students from UNC and area universities met to learn about opportunities for collaboration through the IAH’s digital arts and humanities festival, CHAT (see page 8 for more information).
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IAH Fellows and staff participated in a retreat at Greenbrier in June 2008, thanks to the generosity of IAH Friend John Burress.
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Gifts may be sent directly with this detached slip in an envelope or may be made online through the UNC Development Web site, www.carolinafirst.unc.edu/gift. When you complete the online form, please select the College of Arts and Sciences and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities (7266) on the Select Fund page to direct your contribution to the IAH. Institute for the Arts and Humanities College of Arts and Sciences The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Campus Box 3322 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3322 919.962.0249 www.iah.unc.edu iah@unc.edu
In February 2008, the IAH inaugurated its Grants Mentoring program with the first grants seminar, which provided tips for drafting successful grant proposals.
The Institute for the Arts and Humanities supports UNC faculty at every career stage, funding individual and collaborative research, showcasing faculty work, developing faculty leaders and teachers and facilitating the formation of collaborative, interdisciplinary communities that promote intellectual exchange.
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