2009–2010 j o i n t h e c o n v e r s at i o n
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annual highlights
This page: The “conversation� sculpture by Thomas Sayre of Raleigh, N.C., given by IAH Fellows, was dedicated to IAH Founder Ruel Tyson at his Farewell Celebration in 2006. Sayre is a Morehead Scholar and UNC-Chapel Hill graduate of English and studio art, an IAH Public Fellow and a friend of Tyson. Front cover: Jay Smith, the John Van Seters Distinguished Term Professor and associate chair of the history department, converses with his Faculty Fellows seminar (Fall 2009).
from the director
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …” This Dickens quote is used so often because every historical moment presents its reasons for optimism — and pessimism. The budget cuts at UNC are real and are hurting the University’s ability to do its job as well as we would like. At such a time, the mission of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities is to help maintain faculty morale and to do everything we can, with the resources that we have, to create a vibrant intellectual community on campus for our faculty and our students. To that end, we continue to support our faculty through our Faculty Fellows Program and to develop our campus leaders through our Academic Leadership Program. Although not immune from the state budget crisis, the IAH continues to support faculty who come to us for help in staging conferences, or to form working groups, or to develop new curricular programs. And we use Hyde Hall to showcase the work of our faculty. But even as there is some feeling of scrambling to keep our chins up in these difficult financial times, there is a tremendous excitement about the future at UNC. Chancellor Thorp has launched his innovation initiative, calling on the Carolina community to think through what it would take to make UNC a world leader in innovative research and education. There is tremendous talent in UNC’s faculty and students — and the idea that we as a University are going to concentrate on the most effective ways to encourage that talent has generated a contagious optimism about our future. UNC is a great place that can become even better. That is the challenge the Chancellor has given us. The IAH has leapt into the effort to support faculty innovation in the College, as we’ll share in these pages. CHAT, our digital arts and humanities festival, was the undoubted highlight of the past year — and the perfect example of how the IAH spurs innovation in the arts and humanities. A four-day festival encompassing more than 90 speakers and presenters, with events in 17 campus buildings and an audience that exceeded 500, CHAT displayed cutting-edge works in a variety of new media, examined the impact of new technologies on education and the creation and dissemination of information, and forged new collaborations between UNC, Duke, N.C. State and a number of Research Triangle Park tech firms. I would be remiss if I did not use this space to thank the IAH staff for a flawless job in pulling off this herculean task. I will be on academic leave for the 2010–2011 academic year, researching and writing a book about American politics surrounding the volatile 1948 presidential election, but I leave the IAH in the capable hands of Bill Balthrop, who will serve as interim director. Bill was the chair of the communication studies department for 14 years and has taught at Carolina for more than 30 years. An alum of our Academic Leadership Program (2004), Bill has been an IAH associate director the past three years as the faculty director of our Chairs Leadership Program. As always, thanks to all of our generous supporters who make what we do possible. Your vote of confidence in the IAH means the world to me and to our faculty who benefit from your generosity. Bookmark iah.unc.edu for the latest news and our calendar of events. Find a lecture or an event 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 2–4 pages 5–7
The IAH’s two signature programs, the Faculty
Fellowship Program and the Academic Leadership Program, build collegial relationships among
faculty through seminars that address teaching methods and goals, research interests and leadership responsibilities.
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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 on- and offcampus audiences, communicating the spirit of the liberal arts to UNC’s many publics through pages 11–12
community programs and events. Through our development of collegial relationships in our core programs, and our support for
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innovative research and teaching, the IAH enables Carolina faculty and students to create and disseminate new knowledge that is attuned to developments in our rapidly changing world.
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We rely on our advisory
boards and staff to guide the IAH in its efforts to develop the human resource of UNC’s faculty. We rely on philanthropic support from donors and foundations to pursue our mission of facilitating cuttingedge teaching and research at UNC. Thank you to all our board members and donors for your generous support.
“The Institute provides a unique opportunity for a faculty member at UNC to interact systematically with colleagues from other departments about their respective research. This interaction is invaluable for teaching, doing interdisciplinary research and the long-term cohesiveness of UNC’s faculty community.” — michael gerhardt samuel ashe distinguished professor of constitutional law school of law fellow (fall
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f a c u lt y f e l l o w s p r o g r a m Memories of murdered civil rights leader Medgar Evers in literature and song. A mysterious monster terrorizing French provinces in the 1740s. Evaluating service learning and trying to define “engaged scholarship.” It must be Wednesday in the Fellows Room in Hyde Hall, where 10 Carolina faculty gather to discuss their research, teaching and the changing university. The Faculty Fellows Program provides faculty with a semester’s leave — precious time to step back, reflect, revise courses and work on scholarly projects. Fellows meet weekly to share ideas and discuss each other’s work. These interdisciplinary
conversations push the Fellows to communicate their ideas to non-specialist audiences, while widening their contacts across the College of Arts and Sciences. Refresh, renew, revitalize. By helping to develop Carolina’s most important resource, its people, the IAH helps UNC attract and retain a world-class faculty. The Faculty Fellows Program has served more than 490 of UNC’s best teachers and scholars since 1988. Learn more about our fellowships at iah.unc.edu/programs/fellowships.
IAH Faculty Fellowships
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Our foundational fellowship upon which the IAH was built, IAH Faculty Fellowships provide semester-long fellowships on campus for faculty members from the College of Arts and Sciences to pursue research and projects for publication, exhibition, composition and performance. Our Fellows represent a range of disciplines and ranks.
2010 IAH Faculty Fellows:
Kenneth (Andy) Andrews, Wilmer Kuck Borden Fellow, associate professor of sociology, “Desegregating the South: Leadership, Strategy and Agency in the Black Freedom Struggle” Sarah Dempsey, D. Earl Pardue Fellow, assistant professor of communication studies, “Translating the Ideals of Community Engagement into Practice: A Study of Campus-Community Partnership Dilemmas” Michael Gerhardt, UNC School of Law Fellow, professor of law, “The Constitutional Significance of the Forgotten Presidents”* Minrose Gwin, John W. Burress III Fellow, professor of English and comparative literature, “Mourning Medgar Evers: Revolution, Aesthetics and Collective Memory” Christopher Lee, D. Earl Pardue Fellow, assistant professor of history, “Colonial Kinships: Stories of Race, Social Knowledge and Peoplehood from British Central Africa, 1915–1964” C.D.C. Reeve, Espy Family Faculty Fellow, professor of philosophy, “Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics Book VI: Text, Translation, Commentary and Introductory Essay” Jay Smith, Edith L. Bernstein Fellow, professor of history, “Monsters in Gévaudan: A Tale of Horror from the Age of Reason” Jane Thrailkill, Taylor Family Fellow, associate professor of English and comparative literature, “Talking Back: American Literature and the Subversive Child” Mayron Tsong, Nelson Schwab III Fellow, assistant professor of music, “CD Recording of Haydn Sonatas” * Michael Gerhardt joined the IAH Faculty Fellows seminar funded by the UNC School of Law.
Jane Thrailkill (Faculty Fellow, Fall 2002 and Fall 2009)
UNC-Duke Exchange Fellowship Through the UNC-Duke Exchange Fellowship, a UNC humanities scholar joins the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University for a yearlong seminar, and one or two Duke humanities scholars join the IAH Faculty Fellows seminar for a semester. Gregson Davis, professor of classics at Duke University, “Vergil’s Bucolics (Eclogues)” Arturo Escobar, T. Winfield Blackwell Jr. Fellow, Kenan distinguished professor of anthropology at UNC
Endowed Fellows IAH Faculty Fellowships provide a semester’s leave for professors to do scholarly research, revise the courses they teach and develop new courses. The IAH “buys out” each professor’s time by providing the home department with funds to hire a replacement teacher during the fellowship semester. Thus, the endowment for an IAH Faculty Fellowship provides, year in and year out, the funds necessary for that buy-out. Endowed fellowships reward our best teachers and scholars with the opportunity to keep up with new developments in their fields of expertise, to contribute to new knowledge that scholars create, and to re-think both the content and form of their courses. Plus, our weekly seminars create the intellectual and collegial relations that make Carolina a great place to be a faculty member. For information on endowing a fellowship, contact Mary Flanagan at (919) 962-2528.
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Chapman Family Faculty Fellowships The Chapman Fellowship, generously funded by Max C. Chapman Jr. and the Chapman Family Fund, awards excellence in undergraduate teaching. In addition to participation in the Faculty Fellows seminar, Chapman Fellows receive a $5,000 stipend.
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We are thrilled to announce that, starting in the 2011–2012 academic year, Chapman Family Faculty Fellowships will become University Teaching Awards administered Max C. Chapman Jr. by the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost. The change raises the profile of the award and further honors our faculty who are committed to undergraduate teaching. As part of Max C. Chapman Jr.’s generous gift that makes this change possible, starting in the 2010–2011 academic year, Chapman Fellows will receive a $10,000 stipend, doubling the previous award amount, in addition to participating in the Institute’s fellowship seminar.
2010 Chapman Family Faculty Fellows:
Michael Chitwood, lecturer in English and comparative literature, “The Weight of Water” Dorothy Holland, professor of anthropology, “Expanding Teaching through Engaged Scholarship” Lloyd Kramer, professor of history, “Traveling to Unknown Places: The Strange Journeys and Cultural Identities of Expatriate Writers, 1780–1880”
Faculty Arts Fellowships The Faculty Arts Fellows program, sponsored by the IAH and the Office of the Executive Director for the Arts, is designed to allow a faculty member in an arts or arts-related field to advance his or her own research and to engage in creative endeavors on campus. The Arts Fellowship, in its inaugural year, was supported by a generous gift from Thomas S. Kenan III.
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2010 Faculty Arts Fellows: Alan Shapiro, professor of English and comparative literature “Night of the Republic”
Francesca Talenti, associate professor of communication studies “The Bathysphere”
Shapiro, the UNC William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of English and creative writing and an IAH Fellow (Spring 1999), was a Faculty Arts Fellow in fall 2009. During his fellowship semester, he worked on Night of the Republic, which will be published in 2011 from Houghton Mifflin/Harcourt. In January, Shapiro treated us to a reading in Gerrard Hall from his forthcoming novel, Broadway Baby. Shapiro’s Old War (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) won the Ambassador Book Award in poetry in 2009, an award that recognizes authors for their outstanding contributions to interpreting the life and culture of the United States for people abroad.
Talenti teamed with up UNC computer scientist Greg Welch to create a mystical experience of an underwater opera in Gerrard Hall during the CHAT digital arts and humanities festival, February 16–20. Audience members were treated to an underwater world created by advanced computer technology, clever lighting and set design, and an original musical score. Welch and Talenti used motion-capture technology to infuse a beach ball and fishing rod with the ability to direct the movement of computeranimated fish and an octopus throughout the space.
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Featured Fellows 2009–2010 Allen Anderson
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Allen Anderson, IAH Fellow (Fall 2000) and associate professor of music, took advantage of the Institute’s CHAT festival to collaborate with his students to compose a piece titled Cicadas in the Trees. The performance fit like a puzzle piece into the CHAT initiative: Not only was it a collaborative project, but the music also was produced live and digitally via several laptops that used sounds recorded from the audience.
Mayron Tsong
Composition is notoriously a solo process, but Anderson had faith that his students could pull it off for the festival. “I thought it would be good for the music students to be involved in some way. I also knew for us to do anything in the CHAT festival the students had to lead the way.” Anderson’s inspiration for the collaborative model arose from a seminar he attended in fall 2008 at Hyde Hall led by Katherine Hayles, postmodern literary critic and literature professor at Duke University.
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Mayron Tsong, associate professor of piano and Steinway Artist in the music department, comes by her musical inclination naturally. Her house was always crowded with pianos, as her father made a living selling them. “I was always around pianos. I have never lived in a house without one,” Tsong said. Tsong spent her fall 2009 semester as a Faculty Fellow at the IAH, engaging in weekly conversation with peers in the College of Arts and Sciences while she created a recording of Haydn sonatas. Tsong has built a reputation as a decorated pianist and an outstanding educator. Her proudest achievement to date was an invitation to perform in Carnegie Hall on May 30, 2008, a performance the New York Concert Review called a “truly outstanding recital.” In 2008, Tsong also released her debut album, Mayron Tsong Plays Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, & Scriabin. In response, Fanfare classical music magazine heralded Tsong as “a genius, pure and simple.”
“I came away from the lecture with the sense that education could be very much like what happens in a business, where many people, and that includes the students themselves, contribute to working toward a goal,” Anderson said.
“All that writers, scholars and even teachers crave is time. We need time to read, time to write and time to reflect on what we teach and how we teach it. There’s no greater gift we can be given than time itself. I’m now a better writer than I was before this semester, and a better, more informed reader not just in my own discipline of poetry, but in disciplines as wide-ranging as music theory, anthropology, history and varieties of scholarly engagement with non-academic communities. I know I’ ll be a better creative writing teacher for the conversations I’ve had with my colleagues about the challenges and opportunities they face in the classroom.” — Alan Shapiro, Faculty Arts Fellow (Fall 2009), Department of English and Comparative Literature
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academic leadership program
The Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Academic Leadership Program
leadership is one of the prominent buzz words of our time, but what exactly it means is often unclear. The term has a very precise meaning for the Institute’s Academic Leadership Program (ALP).
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It means stepping up in mid-career and taking responsibility for a department or school at UNC, or spearheading a research initiative in one’s professional community, or developing an innovative curricular or research program at Carolina. Effective leaders must know how the University works, have a clear vision of what they want to accomplish and be brutally realistic about their own strengths and weaknesses, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of those with whom they will be working. Carolina’s faculty leaders must know what they want to do, articulate how that desired outcome connects to UNC’s overall mission and understand the resources available to them and how to deploy those resources. For a personal account of how the ALP changed one participant’s career and life, visit iah.unc.edu, where Michele Berger, associate professor of women’s studies and ALP Fellow (2009), shares her experience. “This invaluable experience has provided me with a vibrant intellectual community, critical tools and knowledge about academic leadership, and increased selfawareness about my core goals. My implementation of the skills I’ve learned, my practice of healthier attitudes toward work and goal achievement, and use of the tools I received at CCL have given me the confidence and equipment to step into a fresh realization of my talents as an academic leader.” — Michele Berger
Leadership in this sense is less about specific skills or techniques, more about a sensibility, a way of approaching problems and of working with others. Can this sensibility be taught? Perhaps not directly. But the ALP asks faculty to examine what they want to accomplish in their careers — and then to sketch out what would be required to be successful. Participants take up this task in collegial conversation with peers who share their own experiences about how you get things done at Carolina and about what kinds of accomplishments are the most rewarding, both personally and for the greater good. Our Leadership Fellows learn to think more strategically while also raising their sights beyond a focus on getting ahead individually. ALP Fellows attend a weeklong workshop at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) in Greensboro, N.C.; participate in a semester-long seminar run by the IAH that includes two retreats as well as weekly meetings; and then continue to meet as a cohort in subsequent years through confidential “forums” that are modeled after the Young Presidents’ Organization. Kim Strom-Gottfried, the Smith P. Theimann Jr. Distinguished Professor of Social Work, directs the ALP with the expert assistance of IAH Senior Leadership Consultant David Kiel. After 10 years at the IAH, David is moving on from his duties with the ALP, but he will continue to work with our Chairs Leadership Program (page 7). He will be replaced for this coming year by Rob Kramer, formerly the director of the Center for Leadership and Organizational Excellence at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro.
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Peggy Bentley, Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health Stephanie Davis, Pediatrics, School of Medicine Donald Lysle, Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences Dennis Mumby, Communication Studies, College of Arts and Sciences Andrew Perrin, Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences Carol Runyan, UNC Injury Prevention Research Center Richard Superfine, Physics, College of Arts and Sciences Jay Swaminathan, Kenan-Flagler Business School Mary Floyd-Wilson, English and Comparative Literature, College of Arts and Sciences
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ALP Fellows
Leadership Fellows gather at Hyde Hall for continued conversation after their fellowship semesters.
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academic leadership program
the institute for the arts and humanities changed my life. Before my semester as a Leadership Fellow, I had heard of the IAH, known people who had IAH fellowships of different kinds; and watched Hyde Hall being built. But I never knew the power of the place until I began an Academic Leadership Fellowship in fall 2005, just as I began chairing the department of dramatic art. My Fellows class was an amalgamation of the most unlikely partners one could imagine: biology, drama, psychology, history, public health, cultural studies and folklore. Some of us were starting in administration; some had been chairs here or elsewhere. Some were caught in transition within their units and some seemed to just want to be left alone. Throughout the year of reading and lessons, we learned leadership skills and attitudes from professionals. With the guidance of our teachers, Jane Brown and David Kiel, we learned to present, provoke and participate in meaningful discussions that took place around a well-seasoned conference table, family style, like the meals we shared.
Every Thursday we discovered more about the possibilities within (and outside) concepts of leadership. We began to see ourselves as part of a system that believed and invested in us as leaders. Each of us began to identify or create our style of leadership. We shared real and theoretical issues and worked through them together; many of them long term. We learned about each other in our professional and personal lives. We became friends. The experience with my Fellows — my classmates, my support system, my friends — that changed my outlook on leadership and the true meaning of collegiality is still a big part of my life. Every one of us is presently in a position of key leadership at Carolina. We continue to meet even now and talk to each other when good and bad news comes. I know that if I need to confer around our table or over the wires I have a forum that is willing to listen and help.
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The Institute took eight strangers and invited us to examine our leadership potential as a group and as individuals. For an institution to invest in its faculty and administrators is not only admirable, it also signals extraordinary confidence in the potential and power of each one of us. My academic and, in many ways, my personal life has been altered by the IAH and the fellowship I learned there. Having IAH leaders as mentors set in a deep tradition of collegiality, and at least seven people I admire believing in me, I have felt confident and prepared to offer myself to a broader range of leadership positions. McKay Coble (Leadership Fellow 2006) is the Chair of the Faculty.
Having recently been elected to serve the UNC Faculty as its Chair, I am very clear that the IAH and my time there has been a big part of the journey. McKay Coble, Chair of the Faculty Chair, Dramatic Art
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The Chairs Leadership Program
Bill Balthrop (left) heads the CLP and will serve as the IAH interim director in 2010–2011. Alan Neely Sr. (right) is a member of the Institute’s Leadership Advisory Board.
Ably headed
by Bill Balthrop of communication studies, assisted by IAH Senior Leadership Consultant David Kiel, the Chairs Leadership Program (CLP) concluded its third year in 2009–2010.
The CLP, like all IAH programs, is collegially organized, with the topics for consideration generated by the group and an emphasis on sharing experiences and solutions. Jan Bardsley, the new chair of Asian studies, appreciated “the open-ended discussions” that helped her examine specific problems she was facing from a “bigpicture perspective.” The “learning curve for new chairs is very steep,” she said, but she found that the CLP helped tremendously by giving her a place to go to get advice and concrete information. Originally established as a collaborative program between the IAH and the Dean’s office in the College of Arts and Sciences, the CLP serves academic chairs campus-wide. Starting in 2010, the Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE), represented by David in his new role as Leadership Coordinator of the CFE, will work with the IAH and the College on this program.
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Featured in a University Gazette article on May 12, 2010, the CLP won accolades from the participating chairs and Senior Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities Bill Andrews. Especially important for Andrews is the way that the program responds to the increasing complexity of the chair’s position, which now includes alumni and donor relationships along with personnel and curricular matters.
Patricia Parker (IAH Fellow Fall 2002, Kaufman Fellow Fall 2007), associate professor of communication studies, is a member of the Institute’s Leadership Advisory Board.
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CLP Participants
Jan Bardsley, Asian Studies Department Fitz Brundage, Interim Chair, History Department Ed Carlstein, Statistics and Operations Research Department Art Champagne, Physics Department Dale Hutchinson, Interim Chair, Anthropology Department Anselmo Lastra, Computer Science Department Wayne Lee, Peace, War, and Defense Curriculum Dave Moreau, Ecology and Environment Curriculum Matt Redinbo, Chemistry Department Andrew Reynolds, Global Studies Curriculum Terry Rhodes, Music Department
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awards & honors
Every year our Faculty Fellows and Leadership Fellows garner an extraordinary number of honors, awards and funding from the University and from national and international institutions. This year, we began to compile a database of our Fellows’ great accomplishments. Here, we’re publishing our first round of results. We are extremely proud of these accomplishments and apologize that some might not have made these pages. We will continue to collect and share our Fellows’ accolades in future publications. In the meantime, enjoy this first sampling of an impressive array of awards and honors by IAH Fellows.
Evan Bonds, Department of Music / Faculty Fellow Spring 1999 (Chapman Fellow) Honored with the W.N. Reynolds Research Fellowship from the University and awarded an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship.
Patrick Akos, School of Education / Leadership Fellow 2009 Honored with the Robert O. Stripling Award for Excellence in Standards for his work with the Standards Revision Committee of the national Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs.
Michael Corrado, School of Law, Department of Philosophy / Faculty Fellow Spring 2002 (School of Law Fellow) Awarded the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Law at the University of Trento (Italy) for spring 2011.
Sahar Amer, Department of Asian Studies / Faculty Fellow Spring 2003 Awarded the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies by the Modern Language Association for Crossing Borders: Love between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2008). Dorit Bar-On, Department of Philosophy / Faculty Fellow Spring 1991, Spring 1995 (Chapman Fellow), Fall 1999, Spring 2006 (Chapman Fellow), and 2010-11 (Duke Exchange Fellow) Awarded a fellowship from the National Humanities Center and a three-year Collaborative Research Grant for the project “Expressive Communication and the Origins of Meaning” from the National Science Foundation.
Jane Danielewicz, Department of English and Comparative Literature / Faculty Fellow Spring 1998 and Spring 2006 (Chapman Fellow) Leadership Fellow 2008 Honored as the Richard Grant Hiskey Distinguished Term Professor of Research and Undergraduate Teaching. Bob Duronio, Department of Biology / Leadership Fellow 2009 Serving as the principal investigator on a National Institutes of Health T32 Genetics Training Grant, a $1.6 million, five-year award that provides 12 months of stipend, tuition and health care support for eight doctoral students per year in the Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology.
Margaret Bentley, Gillings School of Global Public Health / Leadership Fellow 2010 Serving as the primary investigator on “MaMI” (Malawi Mothers and Infants), funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation at $2.2 million for three years, and chair of the Triangle Global Health Consortium.
Carl Ernst, Department of Religious Studies / Faculty Fellow Spring 2001, Leadership Fellow 2009 Inducted in fall 2009 into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Mass., and received a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for the 2010 calendar year. (Photo: Dan Sears)
Carole Blair, Department of Communication Studies / Faculty Fellow Spring 2009 Elected as a National Communication Association Distinguished Scholar, the highest research award given by the NCA. Judith Blau, Department of Sociology / Faculty Fellow Spring 1992 and Spring 1994 Secured funding for the Human Rights Center from the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation, Strowd Roses Foundation and Town of Carrboro; appointed to the Executive Committee of the Human Rights Coalition of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and elected chair of the Human Rights Section of the American Sociological Association.
Michael Gerhardt, School of Law / Faculty Fellow Fall 2009 (School of Law Fellow) Awarded the Van Hecke-Wettach Book Award, a prize given every other year at the UNC Law School for a book of national significance published by a faculty member, for The Power of Precedent (Oxford University Press, 2008). Marianne Gingher, Department of English and Comparative Literature / Faculty Fellow Fall 2000 (Chapman Fellow) and Spring 2008 (Chapman Fellow) Awarded a Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professorship.
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Laurie McNeil, Department of Physics and Astronomy / Faculty Fellow Fall 2004 (Chapman Fellow), Leadership Fellow 2003 Awarded a 2010 University Award for the Advancement of Women by the University. (Photo: Dan Sears)
Allen Glazner, Department of Geological Sciences / Faculty Fellow Fall 2007 (Chapman Fellow) Named the Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences. Beth Grabowski, Department of Art / Faculty Fellow Summer 1988, Spring 1994 and Fall 2003 (Chapman Fellow) Leadership Fellow 2008 Received funding from the Vice Chancellor of Research and Economic Development for support for Creativity in the Fine Arts. Thomas Hill, Department of Philosophy / Faculty Fellow Summer 1991, Spring 1997 and Spring 2005 Honored by the University with the Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction for his work with graduate students.
Louise McReynolds, Department of History / Faculty Fellow Spring 2009 Received a Senior Research Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.
Jim Hirschfield, Department of Art / Faculty Fellow Summer 1990, Spring 1993 and Fall 2001 Public Art Commissions for LeBonheur Children’s Medical Center in Memphis, Tenn.; International Pain Center at Texas Tech University; and Union High School Courtyard in Vancouver, Wash.
Ruth Moose, Department of English and Comparative Literature / Faculty Fellow Fall 2008 (Chapman Fellow) Honored by the North Carolina Writers Association for her contributions to literature in North Carolina and appeared on North Carolina People with Dr. William Friday. (Photo: Chris Carmichael)
Evelyne Huber, Department of Political Science / Leadership Fellow 2007 Awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, as well as a Residential Fellowship from the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin, Italy.
Christopher Nelson, Department of Anthropology / Faculty Fellow Fall 2006 Received a Fulbright Faculty Research Fellowship to Japan for 20102011 and a Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars to the National Humanities Center for 2012-2013.
Hap Kindem, Department of Communication Studies / Faculty Fellow Fall 1994, Spring 2004 and Spring 2010 (Arts Fellow) Fox Soccer Channel nationally aired his documentary about the UNC women’s soccer team, Winning Isn’t Everything, in September 2009, and Worldwide Film Entertainment in Los Angeles is preparing for international distribution of the documentary to coincide with the women’s soccer world cup in 2011. Also received a Norwegian Marshall Fund Grant for the production of a documentary about a blind Danish Paralympic biathlon champion.
Mary Palmer, School of Nursing / Leadership Fellow 2009 Awarded the 2010 School of Nursing Global Health Travel Award to serve as a visiting scholar at Flinders University in South Australia; serving as a fellow of the American Geriatrics Society, which also presented her an award for Outstanding Service, Public Education Committee; serving as co-chair of the program committee for the Gerontological Society of America; and working on four grantfunded projects.
Michael Lienesch, Department of Political Science / Faculty Fellow Spring 1990, Spring 1997, Fall 2001 and Fall 2010 Received the University Professor of Distinguished Teaching Award, which recognizes career-long excellence in teaching, from UNC. Donald T. Lysle, Department of Psychology / Leadership Fellow 2010 Awarded an NIH grant for “Neural Mechanisms of Heroin-induced Conditioned Immunomodulation.” Michael McFee, Department of English and Comparative Literature / Faculty Fellow Fall 1995 (Chapman Fellow) and Spring 2008 Honored with the Carolina Women’s Leadership Council Faculty Mentoring Award.
Theda Perdue, Department of History / Faculty Fellow Fall 2000 Selected as president-elect of the Southern Historical Association and serving as a member of the executive board of the Organization of American Historians. Andrew J. Perrin, Department of Sociology / Faculty Fellow Fall 2007 Leadership Fellow 2010 Honored with the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement. Gerald Postema, School of Law, Department of Philosophy / Faculty Fellow Fall 2000 Served as a fellow in the law department at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and served as the visiting fellow of law faculty at the University of Athens in Greece.
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awards & honors C.D.C. Reeve, Department of Philosophy / Faculty Fellow Spring 2010 Awarded the W.N. Reynolds Research Leave from the University for fall 2009. Steve Reznick, Department of Psychology / Leadership Fellow 2009 Honored with the C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Award.
Jay M. Swaminathan, Kenan-Flagler Business School / Leadership Fellow 2010 Principal Investigator on a four-year Department of Education grant valued at $1.51 million for the UNC Center for International Business Education and Research.
Steven Rosefielde, Department of Economics / Faculty Fellow Fall 2000 and Spring 2007 Received a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Policy for two symposia this fall in Japan tied to the publication of two books.
Silvia Tomaskova, Department of Anthropology / Faculty Fellow Fall 2004 Awarded a 2010–2011 Andrew Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship valued at $221,000.
Marc Schachter, Duke University, Department of Romance Studies / Faculty Fellow Spring 2009 (Duke Exchange Fellow) Served as the Francesco De Dombrowski Fellow at the Villa I Tatti for The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy, and awarded a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.
Joseph Viscomi, Department of English and Comparative Literature / Faculty Fellow Fall 1998 and Spring 2001 Awarded a three-year NEH grant valued at $230,000 for the William Blake Archive Phase IV. Julia T. Wood, Department of Communication Studies / Faculty Fellow Fall 2000 (Chapman Fellow), Leadership Fellow 2002 Named the inaugural Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Distinguished Professor of Graduate Education. (Photo: Chris Carmichael)
Mary Sheriff, Department of Art / Faculty Fellow Spring 2002 Awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Sarah Shields, Department of History / Faculty Fellow Spring 1996 and Spring 2001 (Chapman Fellow) Leadership Fellow 2003 Honored with a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies to commence fall 2010 and awarded a Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professorship. Bland Simpson, Department of English and Comparative Literature / Faculty Fellow Fall 1998 (Chapman Fellow) and Fall 2006 (Chapman Fellow) Received the R. Hunt Parker Memorial Award for Significant Contributions to the Literature of North Carolina, awarded by the North Carolina Literary & Historical Association, and the North Caroliniana Society Award for Extraordinary Contributions to the Cultural, Historical, Literary and Musical Life of North Carolina. elin o’Hara slavick, Department of Art / Faculty Fellow Fall 1995 and Fall 2002 Served as the artist-in-residence at URDLA, an international center for books and printmaking, in Lyon, France from January to June, creating a series of etchings inspired by the French Resistance during World War II. A set of the prints has been acquired by the National Library of France in Paris.
Nadia Yaqub, Department of Asian Studies / Faculty Fellow Spring 2004 Honored with a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. Sheryl Zimmerman, School of Social Work / Leadership Fellow 2007 Named Kenan-Flagler Bingham Distinguished Professor and awarded funding for three grants on long-term care and preparing for end of life in nursing homes valued at nearly $1.6 million.
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While planning
for our digital arts and humanities festival, CHAT (see pages 14–17), took up much of our time this year, we still maintained a robust schedule of speakers and events. Some highlights from this year were:
Tobias Wolff, fiction writer and memoirist (A Boy’s Life), spoke to a packed house in Hyde Hall’s University Room in September. Sir Christopher Meyer, British ambassador to the United States from 1997 to 2003, talked about the run-up to the Iraq War in 2002–2003 in November. Bill T. Jones, choreographer and dancer, a winner of a MacArthur “genius” grant, participated in a lively discussion about minimalism and the expression Tobias Wolff of emotion through dance on the afternoon of January 15, just prior to his dance company’s Memorial Hall evening performance of his recent work on Abraham Lincoln, Fondly Do We Hope… Fervently Do We Pray. The talk was co-sponsored by the Office of the Executive Director of the Arts. Talal Asad, distinguished professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, visited for two days in February. Asad presented a formal lecture on “The Origins of Human Rights,” met for an informal lunch with students and faculty connected with the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations, and participated in a colloquium about the American presence in Afghanistan. Steven Shapin, Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, visited UNC and Duke in April in an appearance jointly sponsored Talal Asad by the IAH and Duke University’s Franklin Humanities Institute. Shapin presided over a lunch conversation in Hyde Hall that focused on a series of essays he has written on the history of taste, then gave a formal public lecture over at Duke in the evening on the history of the phrase “the ivory tower.”
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Top: Bill T. Jones spoke at Hyde Hall in January prior to The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company performance sponsored by Carolina Performing Arts.
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The 16th Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies For this spring’s 16th Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies, distinguished historian Catherine Hall explored the role of storytelling in national histories — the stories the British tell about themselves — through the work and biography of famed British 19th century national historian Thomas Babington Macaulay. UNC Classics Professor Kenneth J. Reckford established the lecture series in 1990 to honor his wife, Mary Stevens Reckford. The lecture is designed to appeal to educated lay people rather than specialists. Speakers are asked to provide “pleasure, instruction, an interdisciplinary approach and a sense of shared humanity.” Hall, professor of modern British social and cultural history at University College London, delivered the lecture, “The Shadow of Empire: Re-Writing British History for the 21st Century,” to about 150 people in Gerrard Hall on March 25. Hall explored Macaulay’s legacy of glorifying the history of the British isle and marginalizing the people and history of its colonies. She ultimately argued that the British should reflect honestly on the stories they have told about their own history and reshape them to
include the multiculturalism of the nation created by those who have immigrated to the nation, particularly from British colonies. “It is so clearly the case in the world today that despite globalization, nation remains an absolutely essential key to identity formation,” Hall argued. “People want to have a sense of national identity and the protections associated with it. Being outside of nation is a deeply uncomfortable place to be because of the privileges afforded by being part of a nation.” Following the lecture, Hall led workshops themed on “Gender and Empire” as part of the UNC Workshop Series “Gender, Politics and Culture in Europe and Beyond.” The workshop organizers were IAH Fellow Karen Hagemann of the history department (Fall 2008), Chad Bryant (history), Emily Burrill (women’s studies) and the Graduate Working Group on Gender History. Our special thanks to Karen for her efforts toward making the lecture and workshops so successful. Hall (left) participated in a workshop themed on “Gender and Empire” with workshop organizer and IAH Fellow Karen Hagemann (above, right). Photos: Gary Kurtz
Mary Reckford, a graduate of Lesley College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, took graduate courses at UNC through the Evening College for five years, studying such topics as Renaissance intellectual history, St. Augustine, Dante, sixteenth-century English literature, Arthurian literature, the Mediterranean world in the sixteenth century, and the history of science from the late medieval period through the eighteenth century. She was mother to Rachel, Joseph, Sarah, Jonathan and Sam. To view a list of previous Reckford lecturers, visit iah.unc.edu/programs/community-programs/lectures/reckford.
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Incubator Projects
the iah incubator, dedicated to the memory of UNC Chancellor Michael Hooker, represents the Institute’s ongoing support of innovative, interdisciplinary and collaborative work in the arts and humanities. The faculty and students engaged in incubator projects are developing new curricular offerings, exploring different ways of connecting academic work to various publics, and pursuing research agendas that cross fields and schools.
Faculty Working Groups Using resources provided by the Schwab Opportunity Fund and our Friends’ fund (gifts received through our annual appeal), the IAH currently supports 10 faculty-initiated collaborative working groups: • Carolina Critical Speakers: Bringing cutting-edge scholars to campus for lectures and informal discussions with faculty and graduate students (Richard Langston, German)
• Medical Humanities: Developing a new curricular program that combines courses in the College of Arts and Sciences with courses in the School of Medicine (Laurie Langbauer, English and Comparative Literature) • Moral Economies of Medicine: Exploring the ways that different societies organize and conceptualize health care (Michelle RivkinFish, Anthropology)
• The Center for the Integration of Research and Action: Creating examples and models of engaged scholarship (Dorothy Holland, Anthropology) • Contemporary Studies: Building a cross-disciplinary community of UNC scholars who study “the contemporary” in all its forms (Cary Levine, Art and Art History) • Facing Our Neighbors: Students and faculty working with an African-American community in Chapel Hill to develop a public history site (Della Pollock, Communication Studies) • Latino/a Studies: Developing courses and bringing speakers to campus relevant to the experience of Latinos and Latinas in the Americas (Maria Deguzman, English and Comparative Literature)
• The Process Series: A performing arts series featuring works-inprogress that provides audience feedback to the creating artists (Joseph Megel, Communication Studies) • Public Film Series: Showing films in the Varsity Theater on Franklin Street for students and the general public with a guided discussion after the show (Shayne Legassie, English and Comparative Literature) • Transoceanic 18th- and 19th-Century Studies: Studying the movement of people, goods and ideas across national boundaries from 1700–1900 (Karen Hagemann, History)
Salons
Retreat at Cherokee
In November 2009, the IAH continued it series of salons with an evening at John and Cyndy O’Hara’s home in Chapel Hill. The salons bring together IAH Fellows and members of the local community to discuss a topic of common interest. Our November salon considered the transformations wrought by technology — and included some eye-opening reports from two high school teachers about the ways the Internet is changing education and shaping the ways that young people access and understand information.
Chancellor Holden Thorp has appointed a distinguished group of alumni to consider how to make Carolina a world leader in innovative research and education. Working with Barbara Hyde and Julia Sprunt Grumbles, both IAH Advisory Board members who are also members of the Chancellor’s Innovation Circle, the IAH hosted a series of conversations to specify what innovation in the arts and humanities means and to craft a list of concrete ways to foster such innovation at UNC.
Judith Cone (right), pictured with faculty member Geoffrey SayreMcCord at a meeting in Hyde Hall, is helping to implement the Chancellor’s innovation initiative on campus.
Particularly useful was a three-day retreat with eight faculty members and IAH Advisory Board members John O’Hara and Julia Sprunt Grumbles that developed a position paper on these issues. Our retreat was made possible by the generosity of IAH donor Max C. Chapman Jr., who provided us access to his property in South Carolina. Above: The IAH used a retreat at Cherokee Plantation to develop a position paper on innovation in the arts and humanities.
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CHAT (Collaborations: Humanities, Arts & Technology)
The IAH spent most of the academic year considering how new technologies are transforming arts and humanities disciplines, an inquiry that arose out of conversations among faculty here at the Institute. Our exploration of this initiative culminated in a campus-wide, regional festival held February 16–20, 2010, called CHAT (Collaborations: Humanities, Arts & Technology). CHAT explored pressing issues of our digital age such as intellectual property, knowledge creation and dissemination, artistic production and technology in the classroom through: • Lectures • Panel discussions • Faculty and student project exhibitions • Performances • Hands-on workshops
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For the past year and half the Institute has supported several projects of arts and humanities faculty interested in exploring new ways of engaging with digital media. Some of these projects debuted during CHAT; some are ongoing. In each case the Institute facilitated faculty collaboration with computer scientists and technologists to explore digital media and to use cutting-edge technologies to engage in new ways with traditional arts and humanities subject matter.
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Through this initiative, we encouraged faculty to push the boundaries of how they teach and do research. The IAH supported faculty projects that were collaborative and engaged with new technologies as subject matter or as media. The more than 60 partnerships we forged across campus and regionally continue to feed this ongoing initiative.
IAH Arts Fellow and filmmaker Francesca Talenti and computer scientist Greg Welch decided to merge their talents to create an art installation using motion-capture technology. Aided by 11 graduate and undergraduate students from Carolina and N.C. State, they crafted “The Bathysphere: Motion Capture as Art”, an underwater environment in Gerrard Hall (pictured above).
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Collaboration with Students In some of our most exciting projects, faculty and students teamed up on digital arts and humanities projects or, in the case of our K–12 teaching clinics, addressed issues of pedagogy and technology.
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The UNC School of Education took the lead in coordinating workshops for K–12 teachers from across the region. Faculty and graduate students in education from UNC and N.C. State shared the latest research and tools for educating young students and held lunchtime “translational sessions” to discuss with school teachers how to apply what they experienced at CHAT in their own classrooms. N.C. State graduate student Melissa Church, right, took the lead on a project supervised by N.C. State faculty member Patrick FitzGerald. Here, Church shows art history faculty member John Bowles her project, “Then/Now: 3-D Virtual Space as Temporal Telescope”, which created a virtual cityscape of Downtown Raleigh. - pa g e 1 4 -
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Collaboration with Industry Through CHAT, we partnered with the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), an advanced technology lab engaged with seven regional academic campuses including UNC, Duke University and North Carolina State University; with several of the technology companies in the Research Triangle Park, including Icarus Studios, Insomniac Games, Curious Sense, Red Storm, Virtual Heroes, Zenph Sound Innovations, Triangle Game Initiative, Cisco and IBM; and with technology support units at Carolina. Collaboration Across Campus Although the IAH sponsored and organized CHAT, more than 30 groups on campus contributed to or participated in making the festival, which drew more than 500 participants, such a success.
Wilson Library was one of 17 venues across campus that hosted CHAT festival activities. The Pleasants Family Assembly Room featured faculty projects, many of which arose from working group meetings the IAH hosted in summer 2008. Here, Senior Associate Dean for Fine Arts & Humanities Bill Andrews (center) explores an Internet archive of African-American performance art created by John Bowles (right), associate professor of art history, and his graduate seminar while Natasha Smith (left) of the Carolina Digital Library looks on.
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More than 15 local technology companies participated in CHAT. With more than 30 gaming companies located in the RTP, it was natural that games would feature in many of our conversations. On this “Games and Storytelling” panel, Vicious Cycle game designer David Ellis (left) and Insomniac Games writers Todd Fixman and Jon Paquette discussed gaming as an emerging narrative genre.
Our special thanks go to the music department and, in particular, faculty members Mark Katz and Stephen Anderson, who coordinated the digital-music themed Festival on the Hill to coincide with CHAT. One of many outstanding events was a musical collaboration between Charanga Carolina, a UNC student ensemble that plays Cuban and salsa music, and composer Raúl Yañez and turntablist DJ Radar, both from Phoenix, Ariz.
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Right: Cultural Anthropologist Mike Wesch of Kansas State University explored new meanings of knowledge in his keynote address.
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Above: Robbie Bach, UNC alum and former Microsoft executive, presented the opening keynote of the festival, sharing his view of the future of entertainment.
Joseph Megel, communication studies faculty, partnered with a local gaming company, Icarus Studios of Cary, N.C., to create his “Virtual Performance Factory”. This live and virtual simulation of a video game invited audience members to explore notions of identity and reality, confronting participants with questions about how they participate in the virtual world and how that informs who they really are.
Zenph Sound Innovations is a Triangle-based software company that has developed the technology to “re-perform” recordings of music. By transforming sound waves into data that are then fed into a computer hooked up to an instrument, such as a piano, we can experience nuanced, live “re-performances” of recordings from such greats as Rachmaninoff. During the panel conversation “Capturing Performance vs. Capturing Sound,” Mayron Tsong (left), an associate professor of music and IAH Fellow (fall 2009), chatted with Zenph Chairman and Founder John Q. Walker, a Carolina alumnus.
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International game theorist Jesper Juul explored the use of gaming in the humanities.
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Author Steven Hockensmith (right) and publisher Jason Rekulak discussed the cultural phenomenon of literary mash-up, including Hockensmith’s prequel to the novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
Content from the festival is available at www. chatfestival2010.com
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As an IAH associate director and the domain scientist for the arts and humanities at RENCI, Joyce Rudinsky is leading a task force of colleagues from UNC, Duke and N.C. State as well as industry leaders from the RTP to develop a detailed plan to create an interuniversity consortium called Intermedia: Program in Digital Innovation. Intermedia is a research lab for faculty, students and technologists to collaborate. The program will support both physical and virtual workspaces to develop technology-enabled research and practice, as well as create entrepreneurial opportunities between researchers and local industry. Intermedia will also support postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate study. Truly innovative and productive research in the 21st century requires multidisciplinary collaboration, and the Intermedia Lab will break down the barriers that often inhibit such research. Students will gain hands-on experiences that will help them succeed when they enter the workforce, where the ability to work in multi-faceted teams is essential. Students, faculty and post-docs will have opportunities to interact with digital media and gaming communities in the RTP, which will pave the way for academic innovation to quickly impact the business community and help students build ties to potential future employers.
boards & staff
Institute Advisory Board 2009 –2010 Steven P. Aldrich CEO, Posit Science San Francisco, Calif. Victoria Tucker Borden Representative, Portraits South Greensboro, N.C. Kristin L. Breuss Theology Student, St. Paul’s Theological Center 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. Barbara Rosser Hyde President, Hyde Family Foundations Memphis, Tenn. G. Allen Ives III President, Turnpike Properties, Inc. Rocky Mount, N.C. Thomas S. Kenan III Trustee, William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust Chapel Hill, N.C. Michael D. Kennedy Partner, Korn Ferry International Atlanta, Ga.
Charles Craft Lucas III Partner, The McAulay Firm Charlotte, N.C.
John F. White President, JFW Properties Raleigh, N.C.
Peter C. Moister Corbin Investment Holdings, LLC Atlanta, Ga.
Nancy Hanes White Community Volunteer Raleigh, N.C.
John C. O’Hara Jr. Chair, IAH Advisory Board Chapel Hill, N.C.
Caroline C. Williamson Community Volunteer New York, N.Y.
Richard J. Richardson Professor Emeritus and Former Provost, UNC-Chapel Hill Pittsboro, N.C.
Robert W. Winston III CEO and co-founder, Winston Hospitality Raleigh, N.C.
Nelson Schwab III Chairman, Carousel Capital Charlotte, N.C.
Carol Payne Young Realtor, Harry Norman Realtors Atlanta, Ga.
Professor Ruel W. Tyson Founding Director, Institute for the Arts and Humanities Professor, Department of Religious Studies Chapel Hill, N.C.
Faculty Advisory Board 2009 –2010 Carole Blair Department of Communication Studies
Marianne Gingher Department of English and Comparative Literature
Jane Burns Department of Women’s Studies
Randall Hendrick Department of Linguistics
Eric Downing Department of English and Comparative Literature, German
Jerma Jackson Department of History
Andrew Perrin Department of Sociology Keith Simmons Department of Philosophy Randall Styers Department of Religious Studies
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Julia T. Wood, Chair Department of Communication Studies
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Leadership Advisory Board 2009 –2010 Gail Agrawal Dean, School of Law University of Kansas
Jane Brown Professor, UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Barbara Rosser Hyde President, Hyde Family Foundations
Gerald D. Bell, Ph.D. Founder and CEO, Bell Leadership Institute
Sanford A. Cockrell III Partner, Deloitte & Touche, LLP
Chris Bogan President and CEO, Best Practices, LLC
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 2009 –2010 John McGowan Director, The Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Distinguished Professor of Humanities Department of English and Comparative Literature
Development Mary F. Flanagan Director of Development
Megan Granda Executive Director Adjunct Faculty, Department of Art
Academic Leadership Programs Kim Strom-Gottfried Associate Director, Academic Leadership Program Smith P. Theimann Jr. Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Professional Practice, School of Social Work
Fellowship Programs Julia T. Wood Associate Director, Faculty Fellows Program Lineberger Distinguished Professor of Humanities, Communication Studies Martha S. Marks Program Coordinator, Faculty Fellows Program
Jeanine Simmons Program Coordinator, Academic Leadership Program Events and Facilities Coordinator
Kimberley C. Morris Development Assistant
Bill Balthrop Associate Director, Chairs Leadership Program Professor, Communication Studies David Kiel Senior Consultant, Leadership Programs
Digital Arts and Humanities Initiative Joyce Rudinsky Associate Director, Digital Arts and Humanities Associate Professor, Communication Studies Special Initiatives James Moeser Senior Fellow for Special Initiatives Chancellor Emeritus and Professor, Music Administration Kirsten Beattie Public Communications Specialist
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Christopher Meinecke Business Manager Jean Chandler Business Assistant Graduate Students Janel Beckham Program Assistant, Grants Mentoring Program Lauren Garrett Program Assistant, Chairs Leadership Program
honor roll of donors
The 2010 Honor Roll
recognizes donors who gave to the Institute for the Arts and Humanities between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010.
The Institute for the Arts and Humanities gratefully thanks those who generously supported our faculty and programs in fiscal year 2009-2010. Private gifts from alumni and Friends of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities have a profound effect on
Steven and Allison Aldrich Lex and Ann Alexander Pete Andrews William Joseph Austin Jr. Wayne A. Babb Carolyn Ann Bachl Ann Fairfax Baker Phyllis Campbell Barrett* Katherine Vansant Bates Deborah Elizabeth Bender Robert H. and Carol Bilbro Stephen Birdsall Tessa Ellen Blake Jennifer Willis Bock Edwin Brownrigg Borden Jr. Robert Hanes and   Victoria Tucker Borden Jane D. Brown Christopher Browning Frances Haywood Bullock Jason Shade Burgess Kristin Breuss and Geoff Burgess Jane Burns Kathryn J. Burns Mr. and Mrs. John Woodfin Burress III Tom Campanella Brooks Carey Nicole Kristin Carter Beverly Long and Hugh Chapin Katherine Mason Chapman Max C. Chapman Jr. Sanford A. Cockrell III Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Collins James Robert Cox Jr. Sarah Elizabeth Crumley Ronald Nelson Cummings John Morgan Darden III Rebecca and Cress Darwin James Lee and Jean L. Davis Stacie Rebecca Davis Mr. and Mrs. Roddey Dowd Sr.
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 or to report an error in this list, please contact Mary Flanagan at (919) 962-2528.
J. McNeely DuBose Lee and Tharon Dunn H. Shelton and Jo Anne Earp Connie Eble John Gray Blount Ellison Jr. Ann Adams Ellison William Wright Espy Steven and Nora Esthimer Ray Simpson and Cydne Wright Farris Bill Ferris Peter G. Filene Lucinda S. Fink Mary Floyd-Wilson John T. Francis Diane Frazier Ms. Pamela Joyner Freeman Mr. and Mrs. William C. Friday Patricia Helena Fuentes Lima Manuel Garcia James S. Gilliland Jr. Allen F. Glazner Buck and Kay Goldstein William A. and Barbara S. Graham Megan Granda H. Lee Griffin Julia Sprunt Grumbles Herbert Nelson Hackney Robert Hackney and Shauna Holiman Jacquelyn D. Hall Frank Borden Hanes Jr. John J. Hanes Anna Ragland Hayes Hannah Frances Heckner Miriam Leslie Herman Jonathan M. Hess James N. Hirschfield Fred Colby Hobson Jr. William Edwin Hollan Jr. Dorothy C. Holland Elizabeth Myatt Holsten W. Slocum Howland Jr.
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Barbara and Pitt Hyde James and Margaret Hynes Allen Ives Jordynn Jack Gary Chase Johnson George and Janet Johnson Bert and Ellen Kaplan Betty Kenan Thomas S. Kenan III Harvey and Marsha Koenig Lynne and Dick Kohn Lloyd S. Kramer H.R. Kurrie David Elliott Labell Dana Borden Lacy Martin Leon Lagod Kenneth Burdette Lee Diane R. Leonard Memrie Mosier Lewis Michael Lienesch Dr. Walker Anderson Long Dr. Perry Downington Luckett Elizabeth Trescot MacIntyre Douglas E. Maclean Gerald Michael Malmo III Vivian Dixon Manekin Hope Manville Knox Massey Jr. Steven W. Matson Carol Perry Mayberry Mr. and Mrs. William O. McCoy Lane Morris McDonald Morris McDonald Jr. Frank Samuel McGaughey III John P. McGowan Timothy John McMillan Sallie Armfield McMillion James Allen Medford Christopher Meinecke Susan Anne Meisel Siegfried Mews
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To consult the happiness of a rising generation, and endeavour to fit them for an honourable discharge of the social duties of life, by paying strictest attention to their education — University Charter, 11 December 1789 Chancellor James and Susan Moeser Peter Corbin Moister Ruth M. Moose Mary Nunn Morrow Alan and Butchie Neely Severine Neff Philip Francis Nelson Donald M. Nonini Mr. and Mrs. H. Patrick Oglesby John and Cynthia O’Hara David and Rebecca Pardue Patricia Parker Todd and Yvonne Patton James L. Peacock Krista Perreira Andrew Perrin Heidi Perov and C. David Perry Jr. William Aaron Pizer Anne Powell Patricia Pukkila Alfred L. Purrington III Bill Race William Goodyear Rand Kenneth J. Reckford Dr. Charlene Bessie Regester Michael D. Resnik Terry Ellen Rhodes Richard J. Richardson Thomas Cleveland Ricketts III Barbara K. Rimer David L. Robert Jennifer Ayer Sandell Betsy Ivey Sawyer Christopher Glenn Sawyer J. Henry and Augusta Scattergood Lars Schoultz Marjorie Moses Schwab Dhruva R. Sen
John Anderson Sherrill Alfred Emory Smith Jr. Donna Marie Sorgi Mary Owen Sotile Steven James Squires Vin Steponaitis Kevin and Carolyn Stewart Mary Lass Stewart W. Gene Story Kim Strom-Gottfried Torrey Green Stroud Randall Styers Michael and Lynne S. Tanner Beverly W. Taylor John A. and Peggy Taylor Monet Uzzell Thomson Evelyn and John L. Turner David Erich Tyson Ruel W. Tyson Susan Burress Wall Lucy Wallace James Creekmore Wann Jr. John Warasila Kay and Van Weatherspoon John Robbins and Campbell Lucas Wester Nancy and Monty White Thomas Leonard and Julia E. White James G. Whitton Ian Richard Williams Robert and Caroline Williamson Charles T. and Jean Jones Wilson Glenn and Helen Wilson Robert and Tracy Winston Erica H. Wise Julia T. Wood Cecil W. Wooten James C. Yoder
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Carol and Blake Young Dr. Gang Yue Denise Zack Foundations Chapman Family Charitable Trust Chapman Family Fund Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Community Foundation of Western N.C., Inc. Dowd Foundation, Inc. Ellison Family Foundation Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Foundation for the Carolinas George H. Johnson Family Charitable Lead Trust Hyde Family Foundations Jewish Foundation of Durham & Chapel Hill Julia Sprunt Grumbles Charitable Lead Annuity Trust Renaissance Charitable Foundation Research Triangle Foundation Robert & Tracy Winston Foundation, Inc. Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving Spray Foundation, Inc. Triangle Community Foundation Vanderwoude Family Fund Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program W. Trent Ragland Jr. Foundation Winston-Salem Foundation Italics denote members of the UNC Faculty *Deceased
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The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust has generously contributed both to the Institute for the Arts and Humanities and to the UNC community throughout the years. We thank you for your continued support, which allows us to invest in Carolina’s best and brightest faculty in numerous ways.
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The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust has been particularly generous to the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. Responding to UNC’s efforts to retain our best faculty when other universities try to hire them away, the Trust provided a $500,000 challenge grant to establish the Kenan Retention Fund at the Institute. After securing an additional $500,000 from IAH donors, this $1 million endowment enables the College of Arts and Sciences to proactively reward faculty who have been IAH Fellows and who have made significant contributions to their scholarly discipline or to the academic life at UNC. More than 15 faculty, several of whom have received outside offers, have benefitted from Kenan Retention funds since the program came online in 2007.
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Chancellor Holden Thorp, right, presented a plaque to Thomas Kenan III, center, and Richard Krasno, executive director of the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust, left, at the dedication of the Kenan Music Building in 2009.
The Kenan Charitable Trust, through a grant of $70,000, also has funded major intellectual initiatives at the IAH over the past three years. This fund enabled the visit of Paul Gilroy, a world-renowned scholar on global migration, in January 2008 and the conference around his work; underwrote a series of lectures and workshops exploring “memory studies” in 2008–2009; and provided the seed money for the CHAT Festival of February 2010 discussed on pages 14–17. With these funds in hand, the IAH has been able to commit itself to large-scale projects — and then go out and raise additional funds to carry out those projects. The IAH has leveraged that initial $70,000 gift into more than $250,000 worth of programming. Apart from the Trust, Thomas S. Kenan III has been a generous personal donor to the IAH, including his gift of the garden, fountain and terrace at Hyde Hall honoring his mother, Harriet DuBose Gray; the portrait in Hyde Hall of IAH Founding Director Ruel Tyson by John Sandin
Kenan funds supported a conference around the work of Paul Gilroy (left) in 2008.
The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust was established in 1965 through the bequest of William R. Kenan, Jr., a gifted scientist and engineer, an astute and resourceful business executive, an inventive dairy farmer, and a generous philanthropist with a deep and abiding commitment to education. The Kenan Charitable Trust supports educational institutions and programs across the United States, with particular emphasis in New York, North Carolina, Virginia, and Florida. Aiming to support high-quality education in the U.S. as well as improve access to high-quality education for students regardless of socio-economic background, the Trust serves its mission through investment in proven intervention models such as endowed professorships (130 chairs at 56 top colleges and universities in the U.S.), merit-based fellowship and scholarship programs (including the Kenan Music Scholars at UNC), and a variety of enrichment programs. The Trustees and Executive Director of the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust are: Thomas S. Kenan III, Trustee; Mary Lily Flagler Wiley (died, June 2010), Trustee; Mary G. Campbell and Robert P. Baynard, representatives of Corporate Trustee, JPMorgan Chase Bank; and Richard M. Krasno, Executive Director.
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commissioned upon Ruel’s retirement; a landscape painting by Paul Harcharik; and support of the Faculty Fellowship Program through many years. In 2009-2010, Tom provided the funding for one of our new Faculty Arts Fellowships, which was awarded to Francesca Talenti, a filmmaker and animator who worked with computer science faculty member Greg Welch to develop the ethereal “Bathysphere” experience for the CHAT Festival. Tom has also been a great friend, entertaining us all with his stories, spreading the word about the IAH to his large circle, and offering us advice on everything from the interior design of Hyde Hall to ways we can better collaborate with the arts on campus.
The Hyde Hall Terrace honors Kenan’s mother, Harriet DuBose Gray.
Exactly this kind of visionary philanthropy is what we have come to expect from the Kenan Charitable Trust and Tom Kenan. Carolina is an immensely better place because the Trust has supported it so generously and so intelligently over the years.
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We would be remiss if we did not mention the Kenan Charitable Trust’s recent gift that continues its long tradition of supporting Carolina: This $5 million gift will enable UNC to hire 18 new faculty members at a time when budget cutbacks have made hiring in higher education just about impossible nationwide. With these funds, UNC can bring the best young professors to our campus, a huge boost to morale, as well as an investment in our future. In addition, in 2006 the Trust created a $4 million endowment to fund the Kenan Music Scholars program, which awards four-year merit scholarships to four music majors at UNC each year. The trust also contributed another $4 million for the newly constructed Kenan Music Building, which houses the music department.
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The IAH leveraged funds from the Trust to find support for collaborative arts and humanities projects using technology for our CHAT festival in February 2010.
Reading groups prepared for Gilroy’s visit in the months leading up to the conference.
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