2008–2009
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from the director
Hard times reveal priorities and character. Faced with budget cuts, every unit at the University of North Carolina has had to reassess its activities in relation to its mission. The Institute for the Arts and Humanities is no exception.
We exist to serve faculty, especially faculty in the arts and humanities, in support of Carolina’s mission to provide a world-class education to our students. Helping faculty become better teachers and scholars and strengthening their commitment to Carolina is our primary job. Our wider goal is to create a vibrant intellectual community on campus that brings the insights of the humanities and the creativity of the arts to the largest audience possible. Our two core programs, the Faculty Fellows Program and the Academic Leadership Program, are in fine shape. We have also completed our second successful year of the program for new department chairs. We will continue to sponsor lecture series like the Memory Studies sessions of the past year and to contribute to the strategic collaboration between UNC and King’s College London. The Weil and Reckford lectures remain our primary public events, bringing distinguished speakers to Chapel Hill. I’m proud to share that the new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Karen Gil of the department of psychology, is a Fellow (Class of 2006) in our Academic Leadership Program, and we very much look forward to working with her as our dean. The challenges the University currently faces put an even greater premium on strong, thoughtful and caring faculty leadership. So what has changed because of financial exigencies? We have reorganized and reduced our staff (luckily, without any layoffs) for significant savings. We will showcase the work of our own faculty more than bringing in visitors from around the world. A focus on local community building and on the tremendous talent right here on campus reminds us all of Carolina’s enduring strengths. Our faculty and our friends will probably not notice the various ways in which we have cut back. The wonderful generosity of our faithful donors means that we have protected our core programs while retaining our ability to support various faculty initiatives. The upcoming year will see plenty of IAH sponsored events in Hyde Hall and around campus, which we’ll preview here in these pages while we review our past year. So please visit our Web site, find a lecture or a workshop or a colloquium that interests you, and come
join the conversation.
our vision
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. pages 2–3 The IAH’s two signature programs, the Faculty page 4
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. page 5 The IAH assists in the recruitment and retention of a world-class
faculty
at UNC by identifying and supporting the work of our best professors while also developing campus leaders from among the faculty who will ensure UNC’s ongoing excellence. The IAH also provides opportunities for our Fellows and visiting scholars to reach onand off-campus audiences, communicating the spirit of the liberal arts to UNC’s many pages 6–7 publics through community
programs and events.
Through our development of collegial relationships in our core programs, and our pages 8–9 support for cutting-edge
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. The IAH strengthens the frequency, quality and impact of collaboration among pages 10–11 faculty. We seek philanthropic
support from donors and
foundations for the cutting-edge teaching and research of UNC’s arts and humanities professors.
“The IAH is one of the significant treasures of the University. It provides a vibrant, intimate community for people seriously engaged in the sometimes lone‑ some pursuit of scholarship. Around the seminar table, shared knowledge and artistry expands hearts and minds and opens participants to possibilities they hadn’t thought about before.” marianne gingher, chapman family faculty fellow (spring
2008, fall 2000), author adventures in pen land: one writer’s journey from inklings to ink (2008)
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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 conversations with an interdisciplinary group of scholars. Julia Wood, Lineberger Distinguished Professor of Humanities, serves as the faculty director of the Fellowship Program.
IAH Fellows Fall 2008 Barbara Ambros, T. Winfield Blackwell Jr. Fellow Religious Studies, “Contested Bones: The Necrogeography of Pet Mortuary Rites in Contemporary Japan” Carole Crumley, Wilmer Kuck Borden Fellow Anthropology, “Long Upon the Land: Historical Ecology of a Durable Landscape” Jay Garcia, John W. Burress III Fellow American Studies, “Modernity, Empire and American Writers, 1900 –1950”
IAH Fellows Spring 2009
Karen Hagemann, D. Earl Pardue Fellow History, “War, Nation and Gender: Revisiting the History of Prussia’s Wars against Napoleon”
Martine Antle, T. Winfield Blackwell Jr. Fellow Romance Languages, “Strategies of Resistance in Contemporary Art: The Contributions of Arab Women Artists”
Wayne Lee, Wilmer Kuck Borden Fellow History, “Barbarians and Brothers: Patterns of Wartime Violence in Anglo-American Wars with Themselves and with Others, 1500 –1864”
Carole Blair, John W. Burress III Fellow Communication Studies, “Commemorative Diplomacy: American Memory of World War I in Europe”
Layna Mosley, Nelson Schwab III Fellow Political Science, “Working Globally? Multinational Production and Labor Rights”
Louise McReynolds, D. Earl Pardue Fellow History, “Murder Most Russian: True Crime and Punishment in Late Imperial Russia”
Brett Whalen, Thomas S. Kenan III Fellow History, “Soldiers of Christ: Memory, Redemption and Holy War in the Wake of the First Crusade (1099 –1144)”
Sarah Sharma, Hyde Family Foundation Fellow Communication Studies, “Mediating Speeds: The Politics of Time and Difference”
Wendy Wolford, Nelson Schwab III Fellow Geography, “Un-Common Ground: The Politics and Promise of Property in Contemporary Brazil”
Chapman Family Faculty Fellows Deborah Bender, Anne MacNeil and Tim Marr and Duke Exchange Fellow Marc Schachter rounded out the Fellows group.
Chapman Family Faculty Fellow Ruth Moose and Duke Exchange Fellow Philip Rupprecht rounded out the Fellows group.
UNC-Duke Exchange Fellowships The IAH and Duke University’s John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) partner to offer a faculty exchange fellowship program. Each year, one faculty member from UNC joins the FHI’s year-long themed seminar, and one faculty member from Duke joins our seminar each semester.
UNC-Duke Exchange Fellows
The 2008– 2009
Gregory Flaxman, English and Comparative Literature (UNC), FHI Seminar Theme: “Alternative Political Imaginings” Philip Rupprecht (Fall 2008), Music (Duke University), “Avant-Garde Nation: British Musical Modernism since 1960” Marc Schachter (Spring 2009), Romance Studies (Duke University), “Desiring Philology: The Classical Tradition and the History of Sexuality in Renaissance Italy and France” - pag e 2 -
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Chapman Family Faculty Fellowships provide semester-long, on-campus fellowships for faculty who have distinguished teaching records at UNC and regularly teach undergraduate students. Generously funded by Max Chapman Jr. since 1994, this program is one of the premier elements of our IAH Fellowship program. Our Chapman Fellows join the IAH Fellows for weekly lunches and conversations.
Chapman Faculty Fellows
The 2008– 2009
Ruth Moose (Fall 2008), English and Comparative Literature, “A Carolina Reader: An Anthology of Stories for Children and Young Adults by North Carolina Writers” Deborah Bender (Spring 2009), Health Policy and Management, “You Can Never Quite Go Home Again: Reflections on Global and Local Service Learning” Anne MacNeil (Spring 2009), Music, “Opera and the Commedia dell’Arte” Tim Marr (Spring 2009), American Studies, “Evolving Cosmopolitan American Studies”
Patricia Parker / profiled fellow Patricia Parker has spent fellowship semesters at the Institute as an IAH Fellow (spring 2002) and a Kauffman Fellow (spring 2007). Both experiences laid the groundwork for the communications studies professor to conceive and create an organization dedicated to promoting leadership development and community activism, particularly among young women of color. Through her work with The Ella Baker Women’s Center for Leadership and Community Activism and its flagship program, Striving Sisters Speak!!! (S3), Parker brought several young women to Washington D.C. for the Inauguration. S3 has undertaken numerous projects, including a community fair and a conference on youth/ adult collaboration.
photo: steve exum
Marianne Gingher / profiled fellow Marianne Gingher used her spring 2008 semester as a Chapman Family Faculty Fellow to complete the manuscript for Adventures in Pen Land: One Writer’s Journey from Inklings to Ink. Adventures contains a whimsical series of vignettes that portray Gingher’s own ascent from 6-year-old amateur author/illustrator to bona fide author and professor of creative writing at UNC.
photo: eileen mignoni
Gingher also worked on a collection of “flash fiction” short stories by N.C. writers during her fellowship semester. Long Story Short is available September 2009.
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academic leadership program
The Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Academic Leadership Program
the institute
helps prepare and support current and emerging 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. Kim StromGottfried, Smith P. Theimann Jr. Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Professional Practice in the School of Social Work, serves as the faculty director of the ALP.
The 2008– 2009
IAH Fellows in Leadership Roles Our Leadership Fellows have assumed key positions throughout the University:
Leadership Fellows
Patrick Akos, School of Education Michele Berger, Department of Women’s Studies Robert Duronio, Department of Biology Carl Ernst, Department of Religious Studies Daniel Gitterman, Department of Public Policy Mary Palmer, School of Nursing Steve Reznick, Department of Psychology Dulcie Murdoch-Straughan, School of Journalism and Mass Communication
1 Chancellor 4 Chairs of the Faculty 7 Deans 5 Senior Associate Deans 7 Heads of Institutes and Centers 11 Instruction and Curriculum officers 24 Chairs of Departments
Chairs Leadership Program The IAH created the Chairs Leadership Program (CLP) through the endowment of the Academic Leadership Program 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 key roles they play within the University. This year, for the first time, the CLP included chairs from both the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Public Health. Bill Balthrop, communication studies professor, leads the CLP.
Chairs Leadership Program
The 2008– 2009
Michael Aitken, Environmental Science and Engineering Robert Dennis, Biomedical Engineering Allen Glazner, Geological Sciences William M. Kier, Biology Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, Religious Studies
Andrew Olshan, Epidemiology John Pickles, Geography Mary Sheriff, Art Beverly Taylor, English and Comparative Literature
Leadership Fellows participated in a conversation with Chancellor Holden Thorp in January about his priorities. Lloyd Kramer (left) and Pat Parker (right) listen as McKay Coble (center) poses a question for the Chancellor. The colloquium was part of the Institute’s series of convocations and workshops for all ALP fellows. This series builds community among faculty leaders and explores critical and timely topics of interest to the faculty and of importance to UNC.
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helping unc recruit, develop and retain the best possible faculty is the core mission of the IAH. Our programs provide faculty with what they need to be successful — and successful faculty want to stay at the university that affords them that vital support.
The Kenan Faculty Retention Fund is a $1 million endowment created by IAH donors in conjunction with a matching grant from the William R. Kenan Charitable Trust. To date, the Kenan Fund has provided research accounts for 13 faculty who are IAH Fellows and who have been approached by other universities. The dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and the IAH director work together to administer the fund, which provides crucial flexibility in the College’s ability to respond to attempts to hire away our best faculty. The Chairs Say Yes Fund provides departmental chairs with a small, unrestricted fund they can use to support their faculty. For 2008–2009, the departments of communication studies and of religious studies each received $10,000. Because the College was forced to cut funding for travel to conferences, this money was particularly helpful this year and allowed junior faculty to present their work to professional colleagues across the nation and around the world.
Carolina
In the March 2009 UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees report, “Carolina: Best Place to Teach, Learn and Discover Report,” Trustees John Ellison and J.J. Raynor, then-UNC student body president, recognize the Institute for the Arts and Humanities for its role in supporting faculty retention and recruitment. “The IAH programs play an important development opportunity for our promising faculty,” the authors write. “Acceptance in these programs is highly regarded, and those who have attended feel a renewed sense of pride in the University.” The Institute, one of the two University institutions lauded for supporting faculty retention and recruitment efforts, garnered praise for its focus on personal development, leadership development and faculty renewal through our signature programs: the Academic Leadership program (ALP), the Faculty Fellows program and the Chairs Leadership program (CLP). Visit iah.unc.edu for a link to the full report.
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iah events
Friends Events On October 9, 2008, the IAH thanked the friends who donated so generously to the Ruel Tyson Legacy Fund during the Carolina First campaign with a dinner in the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center State Dining Room. The Legacy Fund exceeded its goal of $3.5 million and provides an endowment for the ongoing support of the IAH. In addition to honoring Ruel with their gifts, donors designated a special Carolina person they wished to honor and joined that former teacher or inspirational mentor at the dinner. We celebrate our Legacy Fund donors on page 11. Caroline and Robert Williamson hosted a post-election discussion November 10 in their New York City home. Led by Carolina Professor of History Richard Kohn, the group of Carolina alumni, including both Republicans and Democrats, had a friendly and far-reaching conversation about where the country is headed and how we might best face up to its challenges. At the Greensboro home of Vicky and Bob Borden in May, John Ellison of the UNC Board of Trustees and creative writer Marianne Gingher of the English department (both Greensboro natives) talked about the impact of enrollment growth at UNC. How can we accommodate growth without losing what makes Carolina special — particularly its liberal arts tradition of undergraduate education? Ellison discussed the March 2009 “Carolina: Best Place to Teach, Learn and Discover” report (see page 5 for details), while Gingher shared her perspective on today’s undergraduates and their growing sense of what it means to live in our increasingly globalized world.
photo: crystal street
Ed Yoder and Dean Smith at the Legacy Dinner
photo: crystal street
Guests at the Legacy Dinner, including Joe Flora, enjoyed a video on legacy featuring IAH Friends and Founder Ruel Tyson.
Salons Through the IAH salon program, IAH Fellows and local community members converse on a chosen topic over dinners hosted at the homes of some of our local friends.
Caroline Williamson, John McGowan, Richard Kohn and Mary Flanagan at the Williamson’s home in New York
This year, John and Cyndy O’Hara hosted two memorable dinners with NPR radio’s Dick Gordon, the producer and voice of “The Story,” and a visiting artist/teacher from Iraq, Ahmed Fadaam. Fadaam served as Gordon’s translator when Gordon covered Iraq for the Canadian Broadcasting System in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion; he left Iraq when he received death threats because he was working with foreigners. With 14 around the table each evening, the chaos of Iraq and the uncertainty of its future were brought home vividly — as was the shared humanity of our guest from Iraq, who hoped he could someday welcome us into his home for dinner in a peaceful Baghdad. On a December evening at Bob and Tracy Winston’s home in Raleigh, Fellows and alumni in business, media and the arts met to discuss how new digital technologies have transformed their work worlds and their everyday existence. The IAH will continue this discussion this year as we lead into our digital arts and humanities festival in February 2010 (page 9).
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iah events
Weil Lecture on American Citizenship
in 2009, the Weil Lecture on American Citizenship featured U.S. Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the 2004 Democratic Party candidate for president.
“There are some that try to argue that you can’t deal with climate change in an economic crisis,” Kerry said. “But I can’t think of a mindset that is more off-base than that. Dealing with climate change is part of the solution to the economic crisis.”
The Weil lecture dates back to 1914, when William Howard Taft came to Chapel Hill to inaugurate the series. Other speakers over the years have been Jimmy Carter, Nancy Kassebaum, Eleanor Roosevelt and J. William Fulbright. The IAH has hosted the Weil lecture since 1999. UNC system President Erskine Bowles introduced Kerry, who spoke on climate change and urged the audience of 500 to get involved. The senator insisted that American ingenuity could provide a solution to global warming and expressed optimism that investment and innovations in “green technology” would foster much needed economic growth.
In addition to the lecture, the Institute hosted a small private luncheon for the Weil family and the senator, inviting Friends of the Institute and UNC administrators and faculty to hear Kerry’s lunch remarks. Guests addressed a table topic on the responsibilities of citizenship, which spurred discussion about the strong service ethos among today’s college students, UNC’s interest in encouraging “engaged scholarship,” and economic inequality in the United States.
Clockwise from right: Kerry addressed IAH Friends and Fellows over lunch. A crowd of 500 attended the lecture, held in Hill Hall. Emily and David Weil were among the representatives from the Weil family to attend the lecture. photo: eileen mignoni
photo: eileen mignoni
photo: eileen mignoni
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incubator projects
in the spirit of the Incubator that IAH Founding Director Ruel Tyson installed in Hyde Hall to memorialize UNC Chancellor Michael Hooker, the IAH is dedicated to encouraging and supporting innovative work among Carolina’s faculty.
Faculty Working Groups The IAH supports a number of collaborative, interdisciplinary faculty working groups that explore new fields of research, new pedagogical techniques and new media for the production and dissemination of knowledge. This year, the IAH worked with the faculty group on Cultures of Memory to produce a series of events that highlighted the emerging field of memory studies. The series was supported, in part, with funding from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust. Other current faculty working groups explore medical humanities, the contemporary arts, critical theory, medical ethics, the local food movement, and 18th and 19th century travel.
King’s College London Collaboration The IAH is deeply involved in fostering the strategic collaboration between UNC and King’s College London (KCL). Faculty and undergraduate and graduate students all have been traveling across the pond, some for semester-long exchanges, others for shorter visits. This May, the UNC department of English and comparative literature co-hosted in London with King’s College colleagues a conference featuring 60 speakers from four continents on “The Work of LifeWriting.” “Life-Writing” covers memoirs, autobiographies, case histories, biographies, medical narratives, blogs and other forms of creative non-fiction. This conference and last year’s, which featured the American studies department, will lead to publication of works to be edited by UNC and KCL faculty.
Entrepreneurial Workshop The first Faculty Workshop on Entrepreneurship in May 2009 was a joint venture of the IAH and the Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative (CEI). The CEI has developed undergraduate minors in entrepreneurship for students in arts, science and social sciences. The workshop brought the spirit of entrepreneurship to faculty in a four-day blitz affectionately called “entrepreneurial boot camp.” Led by CEI faculty Lowry Caudill, Buck Goldstein, Kimberly Jenkins and John Stewart, 16 faculty—doctors, scientists, artists, anthropologists and one brand-new dean—got a semester’s worth of training in four days (faculty are reputed to be fast learners) and also had the chance to put their new skills to the test. The training was intended to provide faculty the skills needed to move from a good idea to a sustainable enterprise, whether that idea is a business to develop a new drug or a program to enhance after-school programs in public schools. On the last afternoon, four faculty groups presented a start-up project to a panel of venture capitalists, who then awarded a prize of UNC shirts designed by Alexander Julian. The winning team proposed developing scholarly network software. Viral contagion is fully expected. Add a few more workshops, and Carolina will boast the most entrepreneurial faculty in the world.
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chat: a digital arts and humanities festival
Today, the country’s leading research universities are focusing substantial resources on research into the emerging role of digital technologies in the arts and humanities. Major granting institutions are likewise investing heavily in arts and humanities research that explores the educational and cultural possibilities afforded by digital technologies. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has a unique opportunity to establish itself as a leader in this most forwardlooking field of arts and humanities scholarship. February 16–20, 2010, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities will present a large-scale digital arts and humanities festival on the University of North Carolina’s Chapel Hill campus. With three leading research universities, a supercomputing center and a cluster of cutting-edge technology companies all closely located here in the Triangle, UNC sits at an intersection of opportunity. CHAT, an acronym for Collaborations: Humanities, Arts & Technology, is an occasion to bring to light existing collaborations between researchers in the corporate and academic sectors of our region, recruit new talent to our state’s universities and businesses, and inspire entrepreneurial activity. Doing so will help the University retain both its reputation as a cutting-edge research institution and its ability to attract the best arts and humanities scholars and students as we move into an increasingly digital future.
State Universities to the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) and the dozens of information technology firms in the Research Triangle Park. While collaboration among these resources is underway, the potential synergies among them are vast and largely untapped. The Institute already has created exciting micro-level partnerships through faculty working groups that comprise faculty and technologists from UNC, Duke, N.C. State and RENCI. These faculty working groups will present their projects during the festival — an exciting array that demonstrates the opportunities for innovative, collaborative arts and humanities work enabled by technology. To promote discussion during the festival, the Institute is partnering at UNC with the School of Law, KenanFlagler Business School, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the School of Information and Library Science to select and bring in keynote speakers on current issues in digital arts and humanities. Technology in the classroom is an issue that extends beyond the University. For that reason, the Institute has also partnered with the School of Education and N.C. Learn to create a series of continuing education workshops for K–12 teachers. Teachers will have the opportunity to attend workshops while fully participating in the festival. Multimedia performances and panel discussions that include visiting artists, faculty, technology professionals, students and audience members will round out the festival.
UNC brings its own substantial resources to this endeavor— from our top-rated School of Information and Library Science to our department of computer science, a recognized leader in game technology, housed in the College of Arts and Sciences. Exciting new research projects emerge when these programs collaborate with faculty and students in our highly ranked arts and humanities departments.
This first CHAT festival will, we hope, be part of a continuing effort on the part of the entire University community to establish the Triangle region as a national leader in the exploration, integration and interrogation of digital technologies by the arts and humanities.
UNC is also situated in the midst of an unparalleled collection of technological resources, from Duke and N.C.
For the latest CHAT news, visit IAH.UNC.EDU/CHAT
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honor roll of donors
The 2009 Honor Roll
recognizes donors who gave to the Institute for the Arts and Humanities between July 1, 2008, and June 30, 2009. This list has been prepared with great care to ensure its accuracy. Anonymous donors are not listed. To report a mistake, please contact Mary Flanagan at (919) 962-2528.
J’nai DoRee Adams Steven and Allison Aldrich Bill Andrews Pete Andrews William Carus Augerot William Joseph Austin Jr. Ann Fairfax Baker Katherine Vansant Bates Robert H. and Carol Bilbro Stephen Birdsall Whitney Shepard and Elizabeth Jordan Bodman Edwin Brownrigg Borden Jr. Robert Hanes and Victoria Tucker Borden Kristin Breuss and Geoff Burgess Jeanne Johnson Bowden Christopher Browning Kathryn J. Burns Mr. and Mrs. John Woodfin Burress III Tom Campanella Brooks Carey Nicole Kristin Carter Dino S. Cervigni Beverly Long and Hugh Chapin Max C. Chapman Jr. Sandford A. Cockrell III Marsha Collins W. Robert Connor James Robert Cox Jr. Marc C. Dabagian Dr. Lucy C. Daniels Rebecca and Cress Darwin James Lee and Jean L. Davis Denise Dixon Mr. and Mrs. Roddey Dowd Sr. Dr. Michael Christopher Dowdy Lee Hannah Dunn H. Shelton III and Jo Anne Earp Connie Eble Ann Adams Ellison William Wright Espy Steven and Nora Esthimer Ray Simpson Jr. and Cydne Wright Farris Bill Ferris Lucinda S. Fink Leslie Collette Fisher Ryan Dean Fitzpatrick Mary F. Flanagan Diane Frazier Ms. Pamela Joyner Freeman Ms. Kara Michi Fujita Manuel Garcia
Charles LeRoy Gardner James S. Gilliland Jr. Mr. Robert Charles Gimpel Gary Caston Gischel Burton B. Jr. and Kathleen Goldstein Laura Pearlman Goulian William A. and Barbara S. Graham Dr. Megan Granda Julia Sprunt Grumbles Robert James Guzinski Jr. Herbert Nelson Hackney Robert Hodges Hackney and Shauna Holiman Jennifer Lloyd Halsey Frank Borden Hanes Jr. John J. and Florence Carter Hanes Anna Ragland Hayes Patrick and Elizabeth C. Heron Rebecca Tatum Hilstad James N. Hirschfield Jennifer Ann Ho Elizabeth Myatt Holsten Douglass Hunt Barbara and Pitt Hyde Mr. and Mrs. James E.S. Hynes Jordynn Jack George and Janet Johnson Virginia Neblett Jones John F. Kasson James Graham Kenan III Courtney H. and James W. Kluttz Sr. Harvey and Marsha Koenig Lynne and Dick Kohn Lloyd S. Kramer Timothy Jason Kurr H.R. Kurrie David Elliott Labell Dana Borden Lacy Martin Leon Lagod Thomas W. and Donna I. Lambeth Diane R. Leonard Michael Lienesch Dr. Walker Anderson Long Dr. Perry Downington Luckett Douglas E. Maclean Gerald Michael Malmo III C. Knox Jr. and Mary Ann Massey Morris McDonald Jr. Frank Samuel McGaughey III John P. McGowan Genna Rae McNeil
James Allen Medford Christopher G. Meinecke Siegfried Mews Chancellor James and Susan Moeser Peter Corbin Moister Ruth M. Moose Elizabeth Clifton Morrison Alan and Butchie Neely Severine Neff Mr. and Mrs. H. Patrick Oglesby John and Cynthia O’Hara Anna M. Panszczyk David E. Jr. and Rebecca Pardue Patricia Parker Krista Perreira Andrew Perrin Heidi Perov and C. David Perry Jr. William Aaron Pizer Anne Powell Representative David Price Patricia Pukkila Alfred L. Purrington III Bill Race William Goodyear Rand Kenneth J. Reckford Dr. Peter W. Redfield Dr. Charlene Bessie Regester Michael D. Resnik Terry Ellen Rhodes Richard J. Richardson Francis Graham Riggs Barbara K. Rimer David L. Robert Jennifer Ayer Sandell Barry Saunders Christopher Glenn and Julia Sawyer Thomas Hart Sayre J. Henry and Augusta Scattergood Lars Schoultz Nelson Schwab John Anderson Sherrill Shuchen Shieh Alfred Emory Smith Jr. Dr. Oliver Smithies Donald Gene Snook Briana Lynn Snyder Dr. Phillip Asa Snyder Donna Marie Sorgi Steven James Squires Vin Steponaitis James MacGregor Stewart
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Kevin George Stewart W. Gene Story Kim Strom-Gottfried Torrey Green Stroud Michael and Lynne S. Tanner Beverly W. Taylor John A. and Peggy Taylor Monet Uzzell Thomson Ruel W. Tyson Susan Burress Wall Lucy Wallace Kay and Van Weatherspoon Sheldon Holliday Welton John Robbins and Campbell Lucas Wester Nancy and Monty White Thomas Leonard Jr. and Julia E. White Mr. and Mrs. James G. Whitton Marguerite Horne Willeford Robert and Caroline Williamson Glenn and Helen Wilson Erica H. Wise Julia T. Wood James C. Yoder Carol and Blake Young Dr. Gang Yue Foundations Chapman Family Fund Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Community Foundation of Western N.C. Inc. The William C. Friday Fund Julia Sprunt Grumbles Charitable Lead Annuity Trust Hyde Family Foundations Jewish Foundation of Durham & Chapel Hill George H. Johnson Family Charitable Lead Trust Thomas S. Kenan III Foundation Inc. William Rand Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust W. Trent Ragland Jr. Foundation Renaissance Charitable Foundation Spray Foundation Inc.
honor roll of donors
the ruel w. tyson legacy endowment fund completed 2008 With thanks to our donors and those they have chosen to honor.
donor honoree
donor honoree
Ann and Jane Brown Lex Alexander
Barbara R. Hyde George H. Johnson
Margaret W. Andress
John C. O'Hara
George H. Johnson
William J. Austin, Jr.
Joseph M. Flora
Thomas S. Kenan III
Daniel L. Bernstein
Edward M. Bernstein
Charles E. Noell III Paul Brandes
Edwin M. Borden Jessie Rehder Robert H. and Doris Betts Victoria T. Borden Kristin Breuss and Bill Balthrop Geoff Burgess
Jay Klompmaker
Sallie A. McMillion
Carlyle Sitterson
Josie Ward Patton
Mary Louise and Charles M. Shaffer, Sr. John Burress
Sherwood Smith
Linda and Roger Perry Joe Templeton
George E. Butler Christopher G. Sawyer & family
Jennifer Sandell
Robert Kirkpatrick
Marjorie Moses Schwab
Lanier Brown May
James Lee and William C. Friday Jean L. Davis
Nelson Schwab III
Peter Formanek Frances Gray Patton
Timothy B. Burnett
Eve and Marlin, Cameron, and Sherwood Smith Evie Smith
James S. Gilliland, Jr. E. Willis Brooks William and Kenneth J. Reckford Barbara Graham Julia Sprunt Grumbles Bernard Boyd Robert Hackney, Jr. and Shauna Holiman
John C. O'Hara
David and James Littlefield Rebecca Pardue
Timothy B. Burnett Barbara R. Hyde
Elton Parker
William C. Friday
James W. Kluttz Kimball King
Carol and Bob Bilbro George V. Taylor
Sanford A. Cockrell
Matt Kupec
Ann Lewallen Spencer
J.P. Harland
John and Peggy Taylor
John Burress and Paul Fulton
Nancy and Lloyd Kramer Monty White
Darryl Gless
Jean J. and Charles T. Wilson
Jennifer Lloyd Halsey Dean E. Smith
Bob Winston
Gerald Postema Mary F. Flanagan
Frank Borden Hanes George Coffin Taylor
Special thanks also to Marcella Butler, James G. Kenan III, Dean E. Smith and Donna Sorgi
Acts of generosity echo down the years… — ruel tyson The Institute for the Arts and Humanities gratefully thanks those who generously supported our faculty and programs in fiscal year 2008–2009. 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. - pag e 1 1 -
boards & staff
Institute Advisory Board for 2008–2009 Steven P. Aldrich CEO, Posit Science San Francisco, Calif. Victoria Tucker Borden Representative, Portraits South Greensboro, N.C. H.W. McKay Belk President/Chief Merchandising Officer, Belk Stores Inc. Charlotte, N.C. Kristin L. Breuss London, England 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, N.Y.
Jennifer Lloyd Halsey Founder/Managing Director, Asante Partners LLC Menlo Park, Calif.
Richard J. Richardson Professor of Political Science Emeritus and Former Provost, UNC-Chapel Hill Pittsboro, N.C.
Barbara Rosser Hyde President, Hyde Family Foundations Memphis, Tenn.
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.
Dean E. Smith Retired, UNC-Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, N.C.
Charles Craft Lucas III Partner, The McAulay Firm Charlotte, N.C. Peter C. Moister Managing Member, Corbin Investment Holdings LLC Atlanta, Ga. John C. O’Hara Jr., Chair, IAH Advisory Board Chief Operating Officer, Franklin Street Partners Chapel Hill, N.C.
Nancy Hanes White Community Volunteer Raleigh, N.C. Caroline C. Williamson Community Volunteer New York, N.Y. 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 2008–2009 Steve Birdsall Department of Geography
Jerma Jackson Department of History
Eric Downing Department of English and Comparative Literature, German
Susan Klebanow Department of Music
Marianne Gingher Department of English and Comparative Literature Trudier Harris Department of English and Comparative Literature
Andrew Perrin Department of Sociology Della Pollock Department of Communication Studies Andrew Reynolds Department of Political Science
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Jane Thrailkill Department of English and Comparative Literature Julia T. Wood, Chair, Faculty Board Department of Communication Studies
boards & staff
Leadership Advisory Board for 2008–2009 Gail Agrawal Dean, University of Kansas School of Law Gerald D. Bell, Ph.D. Founder and CEO, Bell Leadership Institute Jane Brown Professor, UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication Chris Bogan President and CEO, Best Practices LLC
Sanford A. Cockrell III Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP Barbara Rosser Hyde President, Hyde Family Foundations William C. Friday President Emeritus, University of North Carolina Richard H. Kohn Professor, UNC Department of History and Peace, War, and Defense
Alan Neely Sr. Senior Client Partner and Global Leader of Communications (retired), Korn Ferry International Patricia Parker Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, and Founder, The Ella Baker Women’s Center for Leadership and Community Activism John R. Ryan President, Center for Creative Leadership
Staff during 2008–2009 John McGowan Director, The Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Distinguished Professor of Humanities Megan Granda Executive Director Adjunct Faculty, Art Fellowship Programs Julia T. Wood Associate Director, Faculty Fellows Program Lineberger Distinguished Professor of Humanities Martha S. Marks Program Coordinator, Faculty Fellows Program Development Mary Flanagan Director of Development
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 David Kiel Senior Consultant, Leadership Programs Jeanine Simmons Program Coordinator, Academic Leadership Program Events and Facilities Coordinator
Marty Mitchell Assistant Director of Development
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Administration Christopher Meinecke Business Manager Jean Chandler Business Assistant Kirsten Beattie Public Communications Specialist Graduate Students Matt Ezzell Research Assistant, Faculty Fellows Program Lauren Garrett Research Assistant, Faculty Fellows Program Anna Panszczyk Research Assistant, Academic Leadership Program
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photo: crystal street
above: On October 10, the IAH celebrated the presentation of the inaugural George H. Johnson Prize for Distinguished Achievement by an IAH Fellow to Trudier Harris, J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of English, with a formal award ceremony and reception.
above: Martha Marks, program coordinator for the Faculty Fellows Program at the IAH, won the 2008 Robert R. Cornwell Unsung Hero Award in recognition of her long-term contributions to the University. Martha has served the University community for 20 years, 15 of which have been at the IAH. A panel of faculty and staff chooses one winner each year from a University-wide group of staff nominated by their peers and supervisors. Congratulations, Martha!
left: On October 9, as part of the IAH fall board meeting festivities, friends and Fellows had the opportunity to participate in a conversation between IAH founder Ruel Tyson and Chancellor Holden Thorp, an IAH Leadership Fellow (2004). The two prepared questions for each other and also responded to audience questions.
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above: The third annual IAH book launch and holiday party celebrated the many achievements of our Fellows, focusing on books published and artistic works created during the calendar year 2008. left: At the IAH-sponsored reception to open the academic year, faculty welcomed Bruce Carney as interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
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