2011 Annual Highlights

2011 j o i n t h e c o n v e r s at i o n

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This page: Hyde Hall (left) has flourished since it was built in 2002 (above).

Front cover: The spring 2011 Faculty Fellows look on as Brian Hogan, Chapman Family Faculty Fellow, explains his project. Photo by: Justin Cook

from the director

Italy seems like a dream to me now…

Italy seems like a dream to me now… Yes, I did spend the first five months of 2011 as a visiting scholar at the University of Trento. And, yes, it was wonderful in countless ways, even as I discovered that I would rather teach in an American university.

But it took about three days to shake the Italian dust off my feet upon returning to Chapel Hill. The Institute for the Arts and Humanities, under the able leadership of Interim Director Bill Balthrop (thanks, Bill!), hardly stood still in my absence.

The Reckford and Weil lectures drew large crowds and spurred a number of campus conversations. At the heart of each lecture was an examination of issues — pluralism, debate, tolerance, conflict—central to both European and American politics. Our new IAH Innovation Fund for projects in the arts and humanities was launched; we funded five facultyled teams in this inaugural round. A strategic planning process, involving all of our boards and an outside consultant for our development activities, provided the material for a retreat this spring that will culminate in a final document this fall.

And IAH Board member Nelson Schwab, who also served as the chair of UNC’s Board of Trustees, announced his intention to endow our Chairs Say Yes program with a gift of $1 million. This remarkable gift will enable department chairs to support their faculty’s work as teachers and scholars while also building intellectual community.

In light of our accomplishments this past year, perhaps the best thing I have ever done for the Institute was to leave it for a year! Certainly, it will take some doing to make 2011-2012 as exciting and productive as last year. But we have an added incentive to make this year special: it is the 25th anniversary of the Institute, established in 1987.

What have we done in 25 years? Provided more than 500 Faculty Fellowships and 89 Academic Leadership Fellowships to UNC faculty. Built Hyde Hall, which serves as the intellectual crossroads of campus. Created programs that span the campus and community and celebrate Carolina’s grand liberal arts tradition. The IAH has a lot of accomplishments to celebrate this year— and a strong sense of the work that remains to be done.

I am pleased to welcome Julia Sprunt Grumbles as our new Board chair this fall, with thanks to John O’Hara, who is stepping down after five years of outstanding service. Julia has been particularly involved with the Innovation initiative— especially in advising us as we develop a unique model at Carolina for supporting our chosen projects. This venture model provides not just money, but also expertise and networking. I look forward to working with Julia even more closely in the coming years.

I am also pleased that Ruel Tyson has taken up residence in Hyde Hall, with an office right next to my own on the second floor. We’re happy to welcome him back to the home that he helped build.

Please come by and say hello to both me and Ruel, and to all of us in Hyde Hall.

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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. page 2

The IAH’s two signature programs, the Faculty

Fellowship Program and the

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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 offers several funding

opportunities to help faculty find necessary

resources to create and disseminate new knowledge.

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The IAH assists in the recruitment and retention of a world-class

faculty at UNC

by supporting the work of our best professors while also developing campus leaders from among the faculty. page 12 pages 13–15 page 16 page 17

In addition to celebrating

our Fellows, the IAH serves as the “big tent” on

campus by hosting conversations on challenging topics.

We support research that reaches both on- and off-campus audiences, including Carolina alumni, communicating the spirit of the liberal arts to UNC’s many publics.

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To fulfill our mission of supporting Carolina faculty, the IAH must attend to our

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even as we celebrate

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We rely on our advisory

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future,

our first 25 years.

boards and staff to shape and fulfill the IAH’s mission.

We rely on philanthropic support from donors and foundations to make all our programs and events possible. Thank you to all our board members and donors for your generous support.

“The IAH Faculty Fellowships pay enormous dividends in developing research, energizing teaching, and building and maintaining loyalty to the University” — Michael Lienesch, Chapman Family Faculty Fellow (Fall 2010), Department of Political Science

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our programs

Our Core Programs The Institute for the Arts and Humanities helps Carolina recruit, develop and retain a world-class faculty by providing research support, facilitating innovative teaching and scholarship, fostering faculty leaders, and building intellectual community.

Faculty Fellows Program Faculty Fellowships provide on-campus semester leaves that offer faculty much-needed time to refresh through pursuit of new or continued research projects, redesign of course offerings, and work on scholarly or creative projects.

Each semester’s Fellows meet weekly for a wideranging conversation that covers the research and pedagogical interests of the Fellows as well as more general issues facing the University.

• Faculty Arts Fellowships are offered in conjunction with the Office of the Executive Director for the Arts.

Up to two Arts Fellows are named each year. Tenured, tenure-track faculty and fixed-term faculty with projects related to the arts are eligible.

Photo by: Justin Cook

• IAH Faculty Fellowships help faculty members from the College of Arts and Sciences pursue research projects for publication, exhibition, composition and performance. Tenured and tenure-track faculty in the arts and humanities are eligible.

Anthropologist Patricia McAnany makes a point while Owen Goslin, department of classics, looks on during a spring 2011 Fellows seminar.

For a listing of this year’s Faculty Fellows, turn to page 6.

Did you know?

Julia T. Wood, the Lineberger Distinguished Professor of Humanities and the Thomas S. and Caroline H. Royster Distinguished Professor of Graduate Education, has led the Faculty Fellows Program as an IAH associate director since 2002. Julia is now leaving the IAH to take on a new position as the Director of the Royster Society of Fellows in UNC’s Graduate School. She will be missed Julia T. Wood in Hyde Hall, but at least she is not going far Photo by: Chris Carmichael away. Thank you, Julia, for everything you have done, and continue to do, for the IAH and Carolina.

Our Interim Associate Director for fall 2011 will be Jane Thrailkill, professor of English and comparative literature. Laurie Maffly-Kipp, professor of religious studies, will assume the role of the associate director of the program in spring 2012.

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It costs about $27,000 to fund one faculty fellowship for one semester.

The College of Arts and Sciences applies those funds toward the faculty member’s home department to hire a replacement teacher for the semester.

Carolina has no sabbatical system in place for faculty, so IAH Fellowships are a critical component in helping the College recruit, retain and refresh top faculty. At the IAH, we know that a great education starts with an energized teacher. For information on endowing or supporting a fellowship, contact Mary Flanagan at (919) 962-2528.

our programs

The Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Leadership Program Academic leadership extends to all facets of University life — and even beyond. UNC has a strong tradition of faculty governance. The Tyson Leadership Program identifies, develops and supports the faculty who assume vital leadership roles on and off campus. The program is funded

by Hyde Family Foundations.

Setting the Standard Photo by: Chris Carmichael

The Chairs Leadership Program was profiled at a national meeting of the Education Advisory Board in June 2011. At the Provost Roundtable meeting, the CLP’s innovative approach to supporting chairs and encouraging leadership development was highlighted as an example of best practice and presented to an audience of senior academic administrators from across the nation.

ALP Fellow Jay Swaminathan, an associate dean and distinguished professor at Kenan-Flagler Business School, participates in a conversation with Deloitte executive Jim Wall (see page 13).

The Academic Leadership Program The Academic Leadership Program (ALP) provides an arena for honest discussion and cultivates leadership skills through an intensive yearlong program that helps leaders identify their strengths, evaluate their leadership goals and build a peer network across UNC. Eight faculty members participate in the ALP yearly. Each group of Fellows, or forum, continues to meet regularly and supports each other after their fellowship semester at the Institute.

Activities for ALP participants include weekend retreats, weekly meetings in Hyde Hall and off-site leadership development workshops, including a five-day intensive leadership development training experience at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro. The ALP is open to faculty from across the University.

IAH Associate Director Kim Strom-Gottfried; Rob Kramer, founder of Kramer Leadership; and Jeanine Simmons, IAH Coordinator for Faculty Programs, lead the ALP. For a listing of this year’s Leadership Fellows, turn to page 6.

The Chairs Leadership Program (CLP) is entering its fifth year of supporting newly appointed and reappointed department, program and curricular chairs in the College of Arts and Sciences. Chairs meet monthly to confidentially discuss issues commonly encountered in the role of chair, including recruiting, mentoring, retaining and evaluating faculty; strategic leadership and departmental goal setting; dealing with difficult situations and faculty members; managing instructional and operating budgets; and improving the quality of teaching.

The mix of returning and newly appointed chairs fosters a built-in mentoring aspect to the CLP. New chairs benefit from the knowledge of their more experienced colleagues, and returning chairs are able to share in the development of future leaders while discussing their own challenges and opportunities.

IAH Associate Director Bill Balthrop, professor of communication studies, and Leadership Coordinator David Kiel from the Center for Faculty Excellence have served as co-facilitators of the program since its beginning. For a listing of this year’s Chairs, turn to page 7.

Photo by: Donn Young

The Chairs Leadership Program

Karen Gil (center), dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, attends an event in Hyde Hall.

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our programs

Funding Opportunities

Photo courtesy of the Community Chorus Project

In addition to fellowships, the IAH provides a number of funding opportunities geared toward faculty in the fine arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences.

Participants in the Community Chorus Project, led by IAH Fellow Terry Rhodes, rehearse in a recording studio.

IAH Innovation Fund The Institute partnered this year with the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research to create a $100,000 Innovation Fund that supports innovative artistic and humanistic work by UNC faculty.

Derived from a model developed by New York’s Creative Capital, a venture fund for artists, the IAH Innovation Fund provides hands-on advice in addition to funding for the selected projects. Over a three year period, successful entrepreneurs will help those awarded innovation funds to create an implementation plan, identify and meet benchmarks, and create marketing and fundraising strategies. After an initial grant of $5,000, the IAH may allocate up to $50,000 to each project, dependent on the project’s progress and needs.

The five projects chosen in the 2011 competition are: Sustained Participatory Action Research Collaborations (SPARCs): A New Model of Community/University Innovation — This project establishes a pilot program for a collaborative model in which teachers, researchers and community partners serve as an “R&D department for the community.” Project Team Leader: Dorothy Holland, Department of Anthropology.

New Models of Music Pedagogy and Entrepreneurship through Public-Private Partnerships — A new set of courses, workshops, performances and events will encourage non-traditional music making

in beat-based forms of music by bringing together faculty, local artists and the Scratch DJ Academy in Los Angeles. Project Team Leader: Mark Katz, Department of Music.

Community Chorus Project — The goal is to develop choral singing as a community-building activity and to create a public-private relationship that incorporates music pedagogy with the development of chorus programs in low-income neighborhoods. Project Team Leader: Terry Rhodes, Department of Music.

Reimagining Gaming: Program in Alternative Games and Digital Innovation — This project seeks to establish a collaborative, multidisciplinary research and artistic environment for faculty, artists, students, researchers and information technologists to create and analyze nontraditional or “alternative” digital games. Project Team Leader: Joyce Rudinsky, Department of Communication Studies.

Servant of Two Masters: Debut of a RoboThespian — Art and science merge as a human actor and a fully programmable humanoid robot, “RoboThespian,” guided using motion-capture and 3-D animation, perform the Commedia dell’Arte play, Servant of Two Masters. Project Team Leader: Francesca Talenti, Department of Communication Studies.

To learn more about these projects, visit iah.unc.edu.

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our programs

Support for Research and Creative Activity This year for the first time, the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research recommended that the IAH vet proposals for its $30,000 fund to support research and creative activities in the arts and humanities. We received 44 proposals for this fund and were able to fund eight. Visit iah.unc.edu/news for a list of funded projects.

Faculty Working Groups

Photo by: Chris Carmichael

Using funds from the Schwab Opportunity Fund and the Friends of the Institute annual fund, the IAH supports collaborative, interdisciplinary working groups that involve two or more IAH Fellows. Working groups are interdisciplinary gatherings of faculty and graduate students who are investigating a scholarly topic, designing new curricular offerings, planning intellectual events or developing grant proposals.

The IAH currently supports 10 working groups, including a public film series hosted at the Varsity Theater on Franklin Street with a guided discussion after the show, and a group of students and faculty working with an African-American community in Chapel Hill to develop a public history site.

The full list is available on our website.

Kate Torrey, director of UNC Press, attends an IAH event.

Faculty Grants Program

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The Institute’s Faculty Grants Program aims to help faculty in the arts and humanities attract more research funding, particularly on the national level. The program relies on three main components: Grants Mentoring Workshops — Faculty preparing proposals for such funding agencies as the National Endowment for the Humanities and American Council of Learned Societies, as well as IAH Faculty Fellowships, work with peers who have successfully applied for funds in the past. Small groups collaborate to provide feedback and suggestions to help strengthen each proposal. A follow-up workshop is available for those interested in further feedback after participants have had time to revise their proposals.

Successful Proposal Database — The IAH is working with UNC’s Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research to identify successful arts and humanities proposals to major granting agencies. Select proposals will be available online to model the key elements of a successful grant proposal. This component is planned to go live in the 2011–2012 academic year.

Program Officer Visits — The IAH is working with the Office of Federal Affairs at Carolina to bring program officers from federal funding agencies to the Triangle region to meet with faculty from UNC, N.C. State and N.C. Central. Such visits —two of which will happen this academic year — will demonstrate the regional commitment to research while also providing faculty an opportunity to directly interact with those responsible for awarding funds.

A talk on innovation with UNC Trustee Phillip Clay, chancellor at MIT, drew a large crowd. See page 14 for more information.

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our fellows

Meet the IAH Fellows for 2010–2011.

Graeme Robertson, Taylor Family Fellow Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science “Elections, Revolution and Democracy in the Post Cold War Era”

Faculty Fellows Dorit Bar-On, Duke Exchange Fellow Professor, Department of Philosophy

Yaron Shemer, J. Scott and Nancy Cramer Fellow Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies “Neighboring Identities: The Jew in Arab Cinema”

John Bowles, Wilmer Kuck Borden Fellow Associate Professor, Department of Art “New Negro on the Pacific Rim: Sargent Johnson’s Afro-Asian Sculptures and the Cultural Politics of the Harlem Renaissance”

James Thompson, D. Earl Pardue Fellow Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature “Jane Austen’s World”

Inger Brodey, Chapman Family Faculty Fellow Associate Professor, Departments of English and Comparative Literature, Asian Studies “Revenge, Law and Nation-Making in the Western and Samurai Film”

Michael Tsin, Hyde Family Foundation Fellow Associate Professor, Department of History “Identity and Difference in Twentieth-Century China”

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E. Jane Burns, Nelson Schwab III Fellow Professor, Department of Women’s Studies “Beauty and the Beast: Gender, Hybridity and Dynastic Expansion” Connie Eble, IAH Advisory Board Fellow Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature “Family Papers and American Linguistic History” Owen Goslin, Valinda Hill Dubose Fellow Assistant Professor, Department of Classics “Euripides’ Suppliant Women and the Politics of Pity”

Brian Hogan, Chapman Family Faculty Fellow Research Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry “The Magic of Nature”

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Glenn Hinson, T. Winfield Blackwell Jr. Fellow Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology/ American Studies; Folklore Program “Hidden Histories of Rhyme: Exploring African-American Oral Poetry”

The spring 2011 Faculty Fellows

The fall 2010 Faculty Fellows

Gorham (Hap) Kindem, Faculty Arts Fellow Professor, Department of Communication Studies “Blind Victory”

Leadership Fellows

Marc Lange, D. Earl Pardue Fellow Professor, Department of Philosophy “Explanation in Mathematics”

Jonathan Hartlyn, John L. Turner Family Fellow College of Arts and Sciences, Political Science

Michael Lienesch, Chapman Family Faculty Fellow Professor, Department of Political Science “Postsecular Political Theory” Jodi Magness, Chapman Family Faculty Fellow Professor, Department of Religious Studies “The Archaeology of the Holy Land (586 B.C.E. – 640 C.E.)”

Elizabeth “Claire” Dees, Ruel W. Tyson Fellow School of Medicine, Hematology-Oncology

Gail Henderson, William C. Friday Fellow School of Medicine, Social Medicine Patricia Parker, John L. Turner Family Fellow College of Arts and Sciences, Communication Studies Matt Redinbo, William C. Friday Fellow College of Arts and Sciences, Chemistry

Patricia McAnany, T. Winfield Blackwell Jr. Fellow Professor, Department of Anthropology “Twisted Histories: Maya Heritage Rights, Archaeology, Nation-Building and Tourism”

Terry Rhodes, Marjorie M. Schwab Fellow College of Arts and Sciences, Music

Katherine Roberts, John W. Burress III Fellow Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies “Land, Work and Local Power in Appalachia”

Thomas Thornburg, Marjorie M. Schwab Fellow School of Government

Pamela Rowsey, Marjorie M. Schwab Fellow School of Nursing

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our fellows

Paul Leslie Department of Anthropology

Chairs Leadership Program Participants McKay Coble Department of Dramatic Art

Peter Mucha Department of Mathematics

Kevin Guskiewicz Department of Exercise & Sports Science

Dennis Mumby Department of Communication Studies

James N. Hirschfield Department of Art

Michael Salemi Department of Economics

Michael Kosorok Department of Biostatistics

June Stevens Department of Epidemiology

Lloyd Kramer Department of History

Photo by: Chris Carmichael

Allen Anderson Allen Anderson, IAH Fellow (Fall 2000) and associate professor of music, took the inaugural CHAT Festival, a digital arts and humanities festival hosted by the IAH in February 2010, as an opportunity to collaborate with his undergraduate students.

Composition is notoriously a solo process, but Anderson and his students teamed to compose “Cicadas in the Clouds,” which was performed during the festival by U.N.C.L.E., an acronym for the University of North Carolina Laptop Ensemble.

Anderson’s inspiration for the collaborative model arose from a seminar he attended in fall 2008 in Hyde Hall led by Katherine Hayles, postmodern literary critic and literature professor at Duke University.

“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.

In the end, he said, “The experience of putting it together was meaningful to us.”

Photo by: Travis Dove

Profiled Fellows Andrew Perrin Andrew Perrin, professor of sociology, teaches students about the social and cultural elements of democracy — as he puts it, “what people need to do, say and be to be good citizens.” One could argue that participation is a key element, and one that Perrin exemplifies.

A Faculty Fellow in fall 2007 and an Academic Leadership Fellow in 2010, Perrin has continued to remain involved in the Institute as a member of our Faculty Advisory Board. And, this year, Perrin both served as a member of our Weil Lecturer Selection Committee and put together a panel on civil discourse leading up to Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf ’s visit to campus in March 2011.

You may have seen Perrin in the New York Times this year, too, where he sounded off on grade inflation on college campuses.

(Did you realize that grade inflation has ties to the Vietnam War and the draft? Read Perrin’s profile at iah.unc.edu/fellows to learn more about it.)

Perrin identifies the Institute for the Arts and Humanities as a primary place on campus where “the life of the mind actually happens”— where thoughtful and critical conversations produce a synergy of ideas that is more than the sum of its parts.

“The Institute for the Arts and Humanities is where the University nurtures big ideas that can’t be constrained by disciplines or corralled into a given research project — but that really deserve to be given strong consideration and careful thought.”

— Andrew Perrin, professor of sociology Faculty Fellow (fall 2007) and Leadership Fellow (2010)

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honors & awards

Every year, IAH Faculty Fellows and Leadership Fellows garner an extraordinary number of honors, awards and funding from the University and beyond. Our Fellows are award-winning writers, researchers and teachers, and many of them hold leadership posts within their fields.

Here, we’re publishing a list of honors and awards submitted to us by our Fellows, knowing that there are many other triumphs and successes that we have yet to discover. We celebrate our Fellows and congratulate them. Please enjoy this impressive array of awards and honors

by IAH Fellows in 2010–2011.

Barbara Ambros, Department of Religious Studies Faculty Fellow Fall 2008 Awarded a grant by the Northeast Asia Council for a research trip to Japan to support a book on women in Japanese religions.

Lucia Binotti, Department of Romance Languages / Faculty Fellow Summer 1991, Fall 1992, Spring 1996 and Spring 2003 Awarded a Digital Humanities Start-Up grant for $50,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities for “Gnovis: Flowing Through the Galaxy of Knowledge.”

Judith Blau, Department of Sociology Faculty Fellow Spring 1992 and Spring 1994 Received five grants for the Human Rights Center, of which she is the director, and was elected president of Sociologists without Borders and acting president of the Thematic Group on Human Rights and Global Justice of the International Sociological Association.

John Bowles, Department of Art Faculty Fellow Fall 2010 Received a Chris and George Benter Fellowship at the Huntington Library for his project “New Negro on the Pacific Rim: Sargent Johnson’s Afro-Asian Sculptures.”

Jane Brown, School of Journalism and Mass Communication Faculty Fellow Fall 1997, Leadership Fellow Spring 2002 Presented with the C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Award for meritorious service to UNC. W. Fitz Brundage, Department of History Faculty Fellow Fall 2004, Leadership Fellow Spring 2006 Received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, an LSTA grant for $150,000 from the State Library of North Carolina and a fall 2011 UNC Reynolds Competitive Research Leave; in addition, named a Rogers Distinguished Fellow in 19th-Century American History at the Huntington Library.

Michael Chitwood, Department of English and Comparative Literature / Faculty Fellow Spring 2010 (Chapman Fellow) Named a finalist for ForeWord Magazine’s Best Books of the Year for Poor-Mouth Jubilee; also nominated for the Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing, the Library of Virginia Award and the RoanokeChowan Award of the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, and had a poem selected to appear in Garrison Keillor’s upcoming anthology American Places.

Cori E. Dauber, Department of Communication Studies Faculty Fellow Fall 1993 and Fall 2005 (Chapman Fellow) Awarded a visiting research professorship in 2011–2012 in the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa. Jean DeSaix, Department of Biology Faculty Fellow Spring 2005 (Chapman Fellow) Named a National Academies Education Fellow in the Life Sciences by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, which is awarded by the National Research Council as part of an Institute on Scientific Teaching supported by the National Research Council and Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Jo Anne Earp, Department of Health Behavior & Education / Leadership Fellow Spring 2006 Serving as principal investigator on a long-term research study, the N.C. Breast Cancer Screening Program, which was designated a Research-tested Intervention Program by the National Cancer Institute.

Carl W. Ernst, Department of Religious Studies Faculty Fellow Spring 2001, Leadership Fellow Spring 2009 Elected to the Board of Directors of the Middle East Studies Association.

Dino S. Cervigni, Department of Romance Languages Faculty Fellow Spring 2000 Honored with the Board of Governors’ Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2010–2011.

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Annegret Fauser, Department of Music Faculty Fellow Spring 2004 Received the American Musicological Society’s Ruth A. Solie Award for her book Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer: Paris, 1830–1914 (University of Chicago Press, 2009).

honors & awards Gregory Flaxman, Department of English and Comparative Literature / Faculty Fellow Fall 2007 (Chapman Fellow) Honored with the Australian Research Council Award for the Study of Film and Philosophy and a visiting professorship at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia; also received a Tanner Award for Post-Baccalaureate Teaching and Mentoring and the Department of English and Comparative Literature Dissertation Mentoring Award.

Allen F. Glazner, Department of Geological Sciences Faculty Fellow Fall 2007 (Chapman Fellow) Presented with the J. Carlyle Sitterson Freshman Teaching Award for 2011 and received a grant from the National Science Foundation for the project “Pilot Study: Effect of Temperature Cycling on Crystal Size and Alignment in Magmas.”

Pika Gosh, Department of Art / Faculty Fellow Spring 2004 Received a special mention from the College Art Association for the Alfred H. Barr Prize for Museum Scholarship for “From Rags to Riches: Valuing Kanthas in Bengali Households” in Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal from the Jill and Sheldon Bonowitz Collection and the Stella Kramrisch Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2009).

Genetics in Medicine Journal and hosted an international conference on ethical, legal and social implications of genomics, funded by a $220,000 supplement to the NIH National Human Genome Research Institute’s Center for Genomics and Society at UNC. Jonathan Hess, Department of Germanic Languages Faculty Fellow Fall 2000 and Spring 2007 Authored Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity (Stanford University Press, 2010), which was selected by Choice magazine as an outstanding academic title for 2010.

James Hirschfield, Department of Art / Faculty Fellow Summer 1990, Spring 1993 and Fall 2001, Leadership Fellow Spring 2012 Named a Kenan Distinguished Professor and appointed chair of the Department of Art. Evelyne Huber, Department of Political Science Leadership Fellow Spring 2007 Received an honorary doctorate in Social Science from the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Kevin Guskiewicz, Department of Exercise & Sports Science Leadership Fellow Spring 2008 Named a MacArthur Fellow, one of 22 “geniuses” nationally who will receive $500,000 over the next five years.

Karen Hagemann, Department of History / Faculty Fellow Fall 2008 Named a 2011–2012 fellow at the National Humanities Center and a fall 2010 fellow at The American Academy in Berlin; received a curriculum development grant from the UNC Center for Global Initiatives for a Burch Field Research Seminar entitled “The Janus Face of European Modernity: German History, Culture and Politics (Berlin, Hamburg, Potsdam and Strasbourg).”

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Department of History Faculty Fellow Spring 1998 and Fall 2004 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; as director of the Southern Oral History Program in the Center for the Study of the American South, she is serving as co-principal investigator on “Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement, Phase II,” which received a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and also on “Civil Rights History Project,” funded by an act of Congress and administered by the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Gail Henderson, School of Medicine / Leadership Fellow Spring 2011 Awarded two grants from the National Institutes of Health, totaling more than $800,000, for “From Specimen to Biobank: Using an Organizational Perspective to Study ELSI Issues” and “Enhancing Biobank Capacities Across CTSAs.” Also became an editor for the

Christopher Jones, Department of Mathematics Leadership Fellow Spring 2005 Received a grant from the National Sciences Foundation, which appointed him the director of the Mathematics and Climate Research Network, and was also selected as a Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics Fellow.

Mark Katz, Department of Music / Faculty Fellow Spring 2012 Received a 2011 Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for artistic and scholarly achievement by young faculty.

Hap Kindem, Department of Communication Studies Faculty Fellow Summer 1989, Fall 1994 and Spring 2004 Documentary entitled “More Than Meets the Eye” won Best Film at the International Symposium on Adapted Physical Activity in Paris; the film is also being shown in Brazil for three months as part of Assim Vivemos, Brazil’s 5th International Film Festival.

Charles Kurzman, Department of Sociology Faculty Fellow Spring 2001 Elected to the American Society for the Study of Religion.

Laurie Langbauer, Department of English and Comparative Literature / Faculty Fellow Spring 2005 Awarded a 2011–2012 John E. Sawyer Fellowship at the National Humanities Center to conduct research on child authors and juvenilia.

Marc Lange, Department of Philosophy / Faculty Fellow Spring 2011 Appointed chair of the Department of Philosophy and authored “A Tale of Two Vectors,” which was selected by The Philosopher’s Annual as one of the ten best articles published in philosophy in 2009.

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honors & awards Christopher Lee, Department of History Faculty Fellow Spring 2010 Received a six month Kluge Fellowship at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress and also received the 2010 Ali Sastroamidjojo Prize from the Asia-Africa Academy in Jarkarta, Indonesia, for his edited volume Making a World After Empire: The Bandung Moment and its Political Afterlives (Ohio University Press, 2010).

Crystals for Electronic Applications,” a collaborative project with researchers from Georgia Tech, Wake Forest University and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore; also serving as the chair of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society.

Layna Mosley, Department of Political Science Faculty Fellow Fall 2008 Appointed program chair for the International Studies Association meeting to be held in April 2012.

Jim Leloudis, Department of History Faculty Fellow Spring 1997 and Spring 1992, Leadership Fellow Spring 2003 Honored with the 2010 North Caroliniana Society Book Award for To Right These Wrongs: The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty and Inequality in 1960s America.

Lauren Leve, Department of Religious Studies Faculty Fellow Fall 2007 Elected to the executive board of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion; appointed an associate professor and awarded a grant from the Carolina Asia Center to develop a course called “Religion and Globalization in Southeast Asia.”

Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Department of Religious Studies / Faculty Fellow Spring 1998, Summer 1990 and Spring 2008, Leadership Fellow Spring 2002 Serving as president-elect of the American Society of Church History.

Dennis Mumby, Department of Communication Studies Leadership Fellow Spring 2010 Honored with the National Communication Association’s Charles H. Woolbert Research Award for “Modernism, Postmodernism, and Communication Studies: A Rereading of an Ongoing Debate.” (Communication Theory 7, 1997); also received the NCA’s Distinguished Scholar Award, recognizing a lifetime of scholarly achievement in the study of human communication.

Jocelyn R. Neal, Department of Music / Faculty Fellow Spring 2008 Won an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for Songs of Jimmie Rodgers: A Legacy in Country Music (Indiana University Press).

Donald M. Nonini, Department of Anthropology Faculty Fellow Spring 1991, Fall 1998 and Spring 2007 Serving as president of the Society for Urban National and Transnational Anthropology, a unit of the American Anthropological Association.

Krista M. Perreira, Department of Public Policy Faculty Fellow Spring 2008 Presented with the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Award for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement; serving as principal investigator on “Hispanic Community Children’s Health: Study of Latino Youth,” funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

Gary Marks, Department of Political Science Faculty Fellow Fall 1989 Awarded a Humboldt Prize in 2011, given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to internationally renowned scientists and scholars.

Patricia A. McAnany, Department of Anthropology Faculty Fellow Spring 2011 Appointed an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute in Santa Fe, N.M. Michael McFee, Department of English and Comparative Literature Faculty Fellow Fall 1995 (Chapman Fellow) and Spring 2008 Received the R. Hunt Parker Memorial Award for Literary Achievement, given by the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association for contributions to the cultural, historical, literary and musical life of North Carolina; received WCHL Radio’s Village Pride “Hometown Hero” Award; secured a publications grant from the University Research Council to support an upcoming book of poems entitled That Was Oasis (2012).

Laurie McNeil, Department of Physics / Leadership Fellow Spring 2003, Faculty Fellow Fall 2004 (Chapman Fellow) Presented with the 2011 William F. Little Distinguished Service Award by the College of Arts and Sciences; awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation for “High-conductivity Binary Organic Single

John Pickles, Department of Geography Leadership Fellow Spring 2007 Received a research award from the National Science Foundation for “Neighbors and the New Geographies of Europe: Non-Accession Integration and the Changing Exercise of Sovereignty in the Euro-Med Region” for 2010–2014; named an honorary lifetime member of the Bulgarian Geographical Society; appointed to the scientific board of the International Geographical Union Commission on the International Year of Geographical Understanding as well as a scientific review panel of the European Science Foundation; appointed to the Social Science Research Council’s international dissertation research fellowship review panel.

Jan Prins, Department of Computer Science Leadership Fellow Spring 2007 Named a fall 2010 Research Fellow at the Renaissance Computing Institute.

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honors & awards Barbara K. Rimer, School of Public Health Leadership Fellow Spring 2005 Awarded extensions on two grants for the UNC Public Health Traineeship Program; serving as a member of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Advisory Board for Health Policy and the National Cancer Advisory Board Ad Hoc Working Group to Create a Strategic Vision for the National Cancer Program and Review of the National Cancer Institute; was a panelist for “Promising Practices Assessment of the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program” and the NIH State-of-the-Science Conference; gave the welcome address at the 2011 N.C. State Health Director’s Conference and also serves on the editorial advisory board for the Translational Behavioral Medicine Journal.

Steve Rosefielde, Department of Economics Faculty Fellow Fall 2000 and Spring 2007 Received a grant from the Taiwan government to study Taiwanese democracy in support of Democracy as Icon and Mirage (Cambridge University Press, 2012); awarded an extension of a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Policy for research on the effects of the global financial crisis on Asia; received a grant from the Ackland Museum to prepare a handbook on Asian art for an Asian economics course.

Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Department of Philosophy Faculty Fellow Summer 1988 and Spring 1990 Won a Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching; also delivered the UNC December 2010 Commencement address.

Lillie L. Searles, Department of Biology Leadership Fellow Spring 2004 Honored with a 2011 University Award for the Advancement of Women at UNC. Bland Simpson, Department of English and Comparative Literature Faculty Fellow Fall 1998 (Chapman Fellow) and Fall 2006 (Chapman Fellow) Named a Kenan Distinguished Professor, received the Hardee-Rives Award for Dramatic Arts from the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, and was an honoree at the 2010 North Carolina Writers Conference.

Lynda Stone, School of Education / Faculty Fellow Fall 1996 Finished term as president of the John Dewey Society and serving as vice president of the American Educational Studies Association.

John Sweet, Department of History Faculty Fellow Spring 2007 Awarded a fellowship from the National Humanities Center and named a fellow by the National Endowment for the Humanities for 2011–2012 in support of a book project entitled The Captive’s Tale: Venture Smith and the Root of the American Republic.

Francesca Talenti, Department of Communication Studies Faculty Fellow Fall 2003, Kauffman Fellow Spring 2006 The Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki, Greece, screened Daphne 2.0; the film also won the Experimental Grit Award at the Indie Grits Film Festival in Columbia, S.C.

Milada Vachudova, Department of Political Science Faculty Fellow Spring 2005 Awarded two grants to support research on democratization, political contestation and external leverage in post-communist states; received a fellowship as part of the 2011–2012 Individual Advanced Research Opportunities Program of the International Research and Exchanges Board; awarded a grant for 2012–2013 in the National Research Competition of the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research.

Joe Viscomi, Department of English Faculty Fellow Fall 1988 and Spring 2001 The William Blake Archive, of which he is the director and co-editor, received a 2011 Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching Award and is entering the second year of a three year Scholarly Edition and Translations grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Brett Whalen, Department of History Faculty Fellow Fall 2008 Received a 2011 Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for artistic and scholarly achievement by young faculty.

Margaret Wiener, Department of Anthropology Faculty Fellow Fall 1996, Spring 2002 and Spring 2007 Awarded a W.R. Kenan Jr. Leave from UNC for spring 2012 and serving as president of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion.

Visit iah.unc.edu/programs to learn about our fellowship, leadership and grants programs “Professors who have the benefit of a semester of intellectual stimulation at the IAH return to their classes fortified with new research information and a renewed sense of the love of learning that likely sent them into the profession in the first place.”

— E. Jane Burns, Nelson Schwab III Faculty Fellow (Fall 2010), Department of Women’s Studies

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2011: year in review

Each year, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities sponsors and cosponsors events that celebrate our Fellows and their accomplishments; create opportunities for challenging conversations that make us the “Big Tent” on campus; support research and collaboration at the University; and engage with Carolina alumni by bringing faculty at the cutting edge of research into the community.

The IAH…

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Celebrates our Fellows

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Fellows, faculty and staff enjoy a reception celebrating new publications, compositions, exhibitions and performances by IAH Fellows at our annual IAH Fellows Recognition and Holiday Party. This year, nearly 30 Fellows had works on display. Pictured: Bill Balthrop (left), IAH interim director in 2011, and Barbara Entwisle, UNC’s vice chancellor for research.

Julia T. Wood (pictured, left, with IAH Executive Director Megan Granda) was honored with the George H. Johnson Prize for Distinguished Achievement by an IAH Fellow; she is a professor of communication studies and Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Distinguished Professor for Graduate Education and has served as the associate director for the Faculty Fellows Program for nearly a decade. The award is given every two years as a lifetime achievement award that honors both the Fellow and the award’s namesake, longtime IAH friend and supporter George Johnson of Atlanta, Ga.

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Our annual “welcome back” reception, held during the first week of classes in August, provides an opportunity for faculty to reconnect at the start of the academic year through conversation and libation. Open to all faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences, the reception not only reunites our Fellows, but also introduces new faculty to the IAH and to Hyde Hall. Pictured: IAH Fellow Kevin Stewart, department of geological sciences.

2011: year in review

The IAH…

The IAH met with Ruby Lerner (pictured, right, with IAH Advisory Board Chair John C. O’Hara), UNC alumna and founder of Creative Capital, a national nonprofit organization that treats project funding like a venture capital investment, providing integrated financial and advisory support to artists. As a result of this meeting, the IAH has applied some of Ruby’s great ideas to our own IAH Innovations Fund.

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Serves as the “Big Tent” on campus

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Jim Wall (pictured, left), the global managing director, talent, and chief diversity officer at Deloitte, shared his experiences and expertise with Tyson Leadership Program participants this fall. Jim’s insights fostered spirited conversations, new perspectives and novel ideas, and we are indebted to IAH Leadership Advisory Board member Sandy Cockrell for facilitating the relationship with Jim.

The Institute hosted the first “Design Jam” in the region this spring.

Based on an initiative of Mozilla Labs, a design jam is a one-day technology design session that sets challenges for web and graphic designers, information architects, or other technology and design fields. At this event (pictured, above), student, faculty and professional designers and technologists collaborated to address real-world design problems.

The IAH marked the publication of Engines of Innovation: The Entrepreneurial University in the Twenty-First Century, a book co-authored by Chancellor Holden Thorp (pictured, above) and Buck Goldstein, UNC’s Entrepreneur in Residence, with an innovations symposium in October.

Lloyd Kramer, IAH Fellow and chair of the history department, led the effort to plan a two-day symposium that kicked off with a lecture by the chancellor, “Beyond the Sciences: Why the World’s Problems Need the Whole University.” The following day, we hosted a symposium open to all UNC faculty to further explore how the Chancellor’s vision will impact UNC, looking at what entrepreneurship means for faculty research, teaching and service, and for deans at UNC. One thing was clear: At the end of the day, the arts and humanities will play a critical role in this initiative. Also pictured: IAH Fellow Jim Peacock, distinguished professor of anthropology, asks the chancellor a question following his talk.

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2011: year in review

MIT Chancellor and UNC Trustee Phillip Clay (pictured, left, with Judith Cone, special assistant to the chancellor for innovation and entrepreneurship) spoke in Hyde Hall in January, presenting “A Strategy for UNC: What Makes Us Different from MIT and How to Make the Most of It.” Clay proposed that Carolina must play to its strengths, identifying our assets and utilizing the talents of our students and faculty while providing opportunities for collaboration and interdisciplinary work.

Panelists Andrew Perrin, associate professor of sociology; Ferrell Guillory, lecturer in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and founder of the Program on Public Life; and Frank Hill, director of the Institute for Public Trust in Charlotte, N.C., debated the merits of civility in a conversation about civil discourse moderated by Elizabeth McCain, a student leader of the Campus Y and the Three Cups of Tea Community Dialogue. Pictured: Hill, Guillory, Perrin and McCain.

“The Faculty Fellowships help cultivate everything that is good about this institution… if you believe as I do that interdisciplinary work is essential to our intellectual wellbeing, then the Institute is the place where this happens, where humanists and social scientists learn and respect each others’ ways of knowing.”

— James Thompson, D. Earl Pardue Faculty Fellow (Fall 2010), Department of English and Comparative Literature

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Laurie Maffly-Kipp, professor and chair of religious studies and adjunct faculty in American studies; Timothy Marr, an associate professor of American Studies; and Carl W. Ernst, distinguished professor of religious studies, explored different notions of religious tolerance, ultimately agreeing that the goal should be pluralism, or the celebration of different ideologies.

Pictured: Marr, Maffly-Kipp and Ernst.

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2011: year in review

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The 2011 Weil Lecture on American Citizenship

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf (pictured, right) engaged in conversation with UNC Professor Hodding Carter during this year’s Weil Lecture.

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UNC Student Body President Hogan Medlin (’11) opened the Q&A, asking Abdul Rauf what he thought college students could do to protect and enhance American ideals of freedom and equality.

Since its inception in 1915, the Weil Lecture on American Citizenship has sought to broaden public discourse on topics that explore what it means to be an American citizen. What qualities exemplify American ideals? Who qualifies as an American citizen? How is our modern society living out the ideals framed in the Constitution by our Founding Fathers? Past speakers, including U.S. presidents and senators, diplomats, political commentators and renowned scholars, have addressed such topics throughout the lecture’s history.

This year, an ad hoc faculty committee selected Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf to deliver the 2011 Weil Lecture on March 16. Abdul Rauf for many years has been a leader in American Islam, working with the U.S. State Department to improve trust and communication between the United States and Muslims worldwide.

Abdul Rauf elected to participate in a conversational format with Hodding Carter, UNC professor of leadership and public policy and former State Department spokesman for President Jimmy Carter. In the course of the conversation, Abdul Rauf proposed that Muslim values are, in fact, closely aligned with American values, that we all share more in common than we might realize.

“All of Islamic law is to further and protect five, and some say six, objectives: Life, dignity—which I map to liberty, property, family, the intellect and religion,” Abdul Rauf said, drawing parallels to the values instilled in the American constitution by our Founding Fathers.

To read a summary of the talk, visit iah.unc.edu/news/newsarchive/2011/feisal. To view a video of the full lecture, visit vimeo.com/iah.

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The Weil Lecture was founded in 1915 by brothers Henry and Solomon Weil of Goldsboro and has been hosted by the IAH since 2000. We are grateful for the support of David (’57) and Emily Weil of Goldsboro and other members of the Weil Family.

Past speakers in the lecture series include presidents Taft and Carter; U.S. Senators J. William Fulbright, Nancy Kassebaum and John Kerry; Eleanor Roosevelt and the late Daniel Schorr, a CBS and National Public Radio correspondent.

2011: year in review

The 2011 Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies

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Supports research

Mary Stevens Reckford A graduate of Lesley College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Mary Reckford took graduate courses at UNC through the Evening College for five years, studying such topics as Renaissance intellectual history, St. Augustine, 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 the Reckford’s five children, Rachel, Joseph, Jonathan, Sam and Sarah.

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Our annual grants mentoring workshop offered participants an opportunity to hone their arts and humanities funding proposals in small groups. This year, we added a follow-up workshop three weeks later to allow participants a second round of review and feedback, which has now become a permanent part of the program. (Photo by Justin Cook)

Charles Hirschkind, professor of social cultural anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, examined the role of social media in the uprisings in Egypt in his talk, “From the Blogosphere to the Street: Social Media and Revolution in Egypt.” The event was co-sponsored by the IAH, Islamic Graduate Student Association, the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations, and the departments of religious studies and anthropology.

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Belgian political theorist Chantal Mouffe (pictured, above) delivered the Mary Stevens Reckford Lecture in European Studies Feb. 10, the 17th hosted by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities since retired UNC Classics Professor Kenneth J. Reckford established the lecture series to honor his late wife, Mary Stevens Reckford.

In “An Agonistic Approach to the Future of Europe,” Mouffe, who is a professor of political theory at the University of Westminster, London, reflected on the problems that confront the European Union today. While its members are legally and financially bound as never before, Europe is beset by a resurgence of nationalism, sectarianism and racism.

In her talk, Mouffe argued that the future of Europe rests on the collective capacity to confront antagonism in the spirit of an “agonism” that celebrates discussion, debate and negotiation.

For more information on the talk, visit iah.unc.edu/news/ newsarchive/2011/mouffe.

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Each year, the IAH hosts the Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies, a lecture open to and meant to engage the general public. In addition to the lecture, the IAH hosts a graduate seminar with the invited lecturer to further explore the lecturer’s research. This year, Belgian political theorist Chantal Mouffe (pictured, above) participated in a workshop with more than 40 graduate students, co-sponsored by the Department of Communication Studies and the University Program in Cultural Studies. “Space, Hegemony and Radical Critique” further explored Mouffe’s research and writings in a theoretical context.

2011: year in review

The IAH…

Engages with alumni IAH Friend Memrie Lewis (far left) generously opened her home in Greenwich, Conn., to the Institute and fellow Carolina alumni in April, hosting a conversation on innovation with Judith Cone, special assistant to the chancellor for innovation and entrepreneurship and member of the IAH Leadership Advisory Board. Pictured: Lewis with UNC alumnus Julian Robertson; IAH Executive Director Megan Granda; and Judith Cone.

IAH Advisory Board member Caroline Williamson and her husband Robert hosted at their New York home a timely, relevant conversation for UNC alumni living in the city on the proposed community center branded as the “Ground Zero Mosque.” To guide the conversation and provide an academic perspective, we invited participation from two UNC faculty and IAH Fellows: Carl W. Ernst (pictured), distinguished professor of religious studies, and Randall Styers, associate professor of religious studies and faculty coordinator for the Difficult Dialogues initiative at UNC, funded by the Ford Foundation. In the grand tradition of the IAH, guests enjoyed a thoughtprovoking conversation over a shared meal.

Carl W. Ernst

“The Faculty Fellowship Program gives permission to faculty members to enjoy learning for the sake of learning, to discover sympathetic and stimulating fellow travelers, to try to put into words glimmers of ideas that are not ready for peer scrutiny, to see connections between disciplinary questions and issues, to reflect on what it means to teach, and to prepare students for the twenty-first century.”

— Connie Eble, IAH Advisory Board Faculty Fellow (Spring 2011), Department of English and Comparative Literature

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2012: year in preview

A conversation led by Phillip Clay on innovation (see page 14) drew an engaged crowd of faculty, students and alumni.

Funding Innovation The IAH Innovation Fund, described in detail on page 4, creates a three-year partnership with funded project teams. What makes this funding model unique is the fact that the monetary award represents just a fraction of the support we provide funded innovation teams. In addition to funding each project with up to $50,000, we are connecting team members with successful entrepreneurs who mentor the team in writing effective work plans, setting project goals, developing detailed budgets and creating marketing plans.

Throughout the coming year, the IAH will continue to support both funded teams and teams that submitted proposals but were not funded this year. For example, this fall the IAH will invite all teams with similar goals to deliver five-minute “micro talks” on their projects. Through these collegial conversations, teams may network with colleagues and with campus service providers who can help them realize their visions.

The IAH Innovation Fund will also accept proposals this spring to fund additional projects. This initiative is supported by funds from Hyde Family Foundations.

Celebrating 25 Years 2011–2012 marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Institute and the 10th anniversary of Hyde Hall. We will celebrate throughout the year, beginning with our opening reception in August and culminating this spring with a convocation and dinner.

Our early days as a program, our years in West House and our dreams of something larger led us to where we are today: An established institute dedicated to recruiting, retaining and refreshing faculty to make Carolina one of the best universities in the nation.

A major focus for the IAH this past spring was drafting a strategic plan for the next five years at the Institute. With the help of the various constituencies we serve — faculty, alumni and university administration — we are defining a set of priorities to effectively realize our mission of supporting Carolina’s faculty at every stage of their careers.

In addition to strengthening our core Faculty Fellows and Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Leadership programs, the IAH aspires to be light on its feet, alert to innovative ideas and practices, and responsive to opportunities that further the work of the arts and humanities as understood and practiced by UNC faculty.

We will finalize the plan this fall and look forward to sharing our vision with you in the coming year.

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Planning for the next 25 Years

Former IAH Board memberJennifer Lloyd Halsey raises a question at an innovations event while fellow board members Julia Sprunt Grumbles and Steven Aldrich look on.

2012: year in preview

Engaging with the community Each year, the IAH hosts a number of events open to the public. We invite you to save the date and plan to join us for the following:

Annual IAH Fellows Recognition and Holiday Party — Dec. 7, 2011 from 4 to 6 p.m.

English faculty member Ruth Salvaggio attended the 2010 holiday party.

Celebrate new publications, performances and compositions by IAH Fellows in 2011, on Wednesday, Dec. 7, in Hyde Hall. Share in conversation and libation with faculty authors and artists. New publications will be for sale at a special holiday discount, and authors will be available to autograph their works.

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The Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies — Feb. 16, 2012

The 2010 Reckford Lecture drew a large audience.

This year’s Reckford Lecturer is historian and writer Mark Mazower, director of the Center for International History at Columbia University. Mazower, who specializes in modern Greece, 20th century Europe and international history, is the author of several books, most recently No Enchanted Palace: the End of Empire (Princeton UP, 2009) and Hitler’s Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe (Allen Lane, 2008), which won the LA Times Book Prize for History.

We will publish more information about the lecture at iah.unc.edu this fall.

Conference: Bernard William’s Antiquity — April 13-15, 2011 The IAH is co-sponsoring and hosting this conference in Hyde Hall with the classics and philosophy departments at UNC. Williams was an influential British philosopher who revolutionized the field in the late twentieth century. Speakers will include: Robert Pippin, distinguished professor of social thought and philosophy at the University of Chicago; Richard Eldridge, professor of philosophy at Swarthmore; and Raymond Geuss, professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge.

IAH conferences and symposia often draw attendance from students as well as faculty.

Enhancing the conversation In 2011–2012, the IAH will launch a redesigned website at iah.unc.edu. Our new website will help us better tell our stories and make it easier for you to find the information you need. Expect fresh content, and more often.

At the same time, we’re expanding our social media presence, so you’ll have more opportunities to join the conversation: For IAH and UNC news and events, visit Facebook — facebook.com/iah.unc For links on higher ed topics and IAH updates, visit Twitter — twitter.com/iah_unc For IAH videos, visit Vimeo — vimeo.com/iah And, of course, we invite you to subscribe to our e-newsletter, published in August, May and January, by writing to iah@unc.edu.

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1987–2012

Celebrating 25 Years

To date, we have supported: • 526 Faculty Fellowships representing more than 31 departments within the College

Max C. Chapman Jr. establishes the Chapman Family Faculty Fellowships in the IAH.

1992 The Institute establishes a core group of IAH annual supporters, Friends of the Institute.

1994 Lloyd Kramer of the history department accepts an appointment as the first associate director of the Institute and serves as acting director while Ruel Tyson is on leave.

• 47 Chairs Leadership Program Participants representing 35 departments

1995 The Institute sponsors its first biennial Chapman Fellows

Over the years, we’ve hit some major milestones. Some of them are listed here:

Conferences on Teaching. The IAH surpasses its $4 million fundraising goal for the University Bicentennial by $500,000 ($4.5 million total).

1987

Ruel W. Tyson Jr., professor of Religious Studies, and Gillian T. Cell, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, establish the Program for the Arts and Humanities. Its early mission: to nurture liberal arts learning and to An Autumn Saturday on support faculty excellence. Provost McCorkle Place.

Samuel Williamson designates West House (778 square feet), built by the Tanner Family in 1935, as the Program’s first home.

1988 The Institute conducts

the Institute’s first annual lectureship, the Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies.

Max Chapman has funded the Chapman Fellowships since 1991.

• 89 Academic Leadership Fellowships representing 10 schools, two centers and 26 departments within the College

The Program for the Arts and Humanities sponsors the first Autumn Saturday, a colloquium open to the University and the public (1987–1999).

1991 Professor Kenneth Reckford endows

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In 2011–2012, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities celebrates our 25th anniversary. In 25 years, we have accomplished a tremendous amount, thanks to our generous supporters who share our belief that providing support to faculty helps Carolina recruit, refresh and retain outstanding teachers, leaders and researchers who make this one of the best universities in the nation.

1996 Mary Flanagan becomes the first full-time director of development.

The Institute names Cooper, Robertson & Partners of New York City as architects for new An architectural rendering of Hyde Hall. building, and the University Board of Trustees approves a campus site on McCorkle Place for a new building.

The Institute initiates a Traveling Fellows program as an outreach initiative. Fellows participate in evenings of conversation in homes of Friends of the IAH throughout North Carolina and the United States.

1999

The Institute assumes responsibility for presenting the annual Weil Lecture on American Citizenship, established by the Weil family of Goldsboro in 1915.

The IAH spent its first 15 years in West House.

2000 The

the first Fellows Seminar in the summer.

1989 Under the leadership of Chancellor Christopher C. Fordham III, The Program for the Arts and Humanities becomes the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, approved by the Board of Governors in July. Ruel W. Tyson Jr. is appointed director. He is re-appointed in 1991, 1994, 1997 and 2002.

1990 The first IAH endowed fellowship is funded by David E. Pardue Jr. to honor his father.

The IAH Advisory Board is formed with Buck Goldstein as its chair.

Among those celebrating the Hyde Hall groundbreaking were Darryl Gless, Ruel Tyson, Barbara Hyde, Janie Armfield, Dee Schwab and Becky Pardue.

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groundbreaking ceremony is held for our new building on March 31.

Sherwood H. Smith is elected IAH Advisory Board Chair.

1987–2012

2001 The Institute inaugurates its Academic Leadership Program

The inaugural George H. Johnson prize was awarded in 2007.

Pictured: Past IAH Board members John O’Hara, Johnson and Jennifer Lloyd Halsey.

for UNC faculty.

2002

The construction of Hyde Hall is completed, financed solely with private donations. The dedication is held on University Day, Oct. 12. A black tie gala accompanies the celebration.

2008 The IAH launches a digital arts and

Jane Brown, former Chair of the Faculty and James L. Knight Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication, signs on to lead the ALP.

Jane Brown led the ALP from 2003 to 2007.

2004 The IAH successfully completes the Kenan Challenge, a $1 million endowment focusing on faculty retention in the College of Arts and Sciences. Barbara Hyde is elected chair of the IAH Advisory Board.

2006 Ruel Tyson, founding Barbara Hyde assumed the role of Advisory Board Chair in 2004.

Ruel Tyson passed the torch to John McGowan in 2006.

director of IAH, steps down after nearly 20 years at the helm. John McGowan, professor of English, is named director of the Institute. The Ruel Tyson Legacy Fund surpasses the $3.5 million mark.

Barbara and Pitt Hyde pledge $5 million to endow the Academic Leadership Program and name it for Tyson. It is the largest gift ever to the IAH and one of the largest to the College of Arts and Sciences.

humanities initiative led by Joyce Rudinsky, professor of communication studies.

2010

The Institute hosts the inaugural CHAT Festival, a regional digital arts and humanities festival celebrating Collaborations: Humanities, Arts & Technology, in February 2010. Supported by funds from The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust, the festival attracts nearly 500 participants.

A generous gift from Max C. Chapman Jr. enables the IAH to partner with the Provost’s office to offer the Chapman Family Fellowship as a University Teaching Award and doubles the award’s stipend to $10,000.

The CHAT Festival merged technology with the fine arts and humanities.

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2007 The Institute establishes the Johnson Prize for Distinguished Achievement by an IAH Fellow to honor the generosity and leadership of George H. Johnson ‘58. The prize will be awarded biannually to a senior IAH Fellow.

Megan Granda is named executive director of the Institute. Kim Strom-Gottfried, distinguished professor in the School of Social Work, succeeds Jane Brown as director of the Academic Leadership Program.

The Academic Leadership Program adds a new component, the Chairs Leadership Program, directed by Bill Balthrop, professor of communication studies.

Bill Balthrop has led the CLP since 2007.

John O’Hara, Chapel Hill, succeeds Barbara Hyde as chair of the IAH Advisory Board.

Kim Strom-Gottfried has led the ALP since 2007.

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2003

2011 In partnership with the Office

Julia Sprunt Grumbles is the new IAH Advisory Board Chair.

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of the Vice Chancellor for Research and with support from the Hyde Family Foundations, the IAH establishes the IAH Innovation Fund to foster innovative projects in the arts and humanities by providing funds and logistical support.

Julia Sprunt Grumbles, Chapel Hill, succeeds John O’Hara as chair of the IAH Advisory Board.

boards & staff

Institute Advisory Board 2010–2011 Steven P. Aldrich CEO, Outright, Inc. San Francisco Victoria Tucker Borden Representative, Portraits South Greensboro Kristin L. Breuss Theology Student, St. Paul’s Theological Center London Dr. J. McNeely DuBose President, Meadowmont Farms Durham Duvall Fuqua Community Volunteer Atlanta Julia Sprunt Grumbles, Vice Chair, IAH Advisory Board Corporate Vice President (retired), Turner Broadcasting Chapel Hill

Robert Hackney Senior Managing Director, First Eagle Investment Management New York City

Lane Morris McDonald Credit Suisse Alternative Investments New York City Peter C. Moister Managing Member, Corbin Investment Holdings LLC Atlanta

Barbara Rosser Hyde President, Hyde Family Foundations Memphis G. Allen Ives III President, Turnpike Properties, Inc. Rocky Mount

John C. O’Hara Jr., Chair, IAH Advisory Board Managing Director, Rockefeller Financial New York City

Thomas S. Kenan III Trustee, William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust Chapel Hill

Richard J. Richardson Former Provost, UNC-Chapel Hill Pittsboro

Michael D. Kennedy Partner, Korn Ferry International Atlanta

Nelson Schwab III Chairman, Carousel Capital Charlotte

Professor Ruel W. Tyson Founding Director, Institute for the Arts and Humanities Chapel Hill John F. White President, JFW Properties Raleigh Nancy Hanes White Community Volunteer Raleigh Caroline C. Williamson Community Volunteer New York City Robert W. Winston III CEO, Winston Hospitality Raleigh Carol Payne Young Realtor, Harry Norman Realtors Atlanta

Charles Craft Lucas III General Counsel, Elevation LLC Charlotte

Faculty Advisory Board 2010–2011 Carole Blair Department of Communication Studies E. Jane Burns Department of Women’s Studies Marianne Gingher Department of English and Comparative Literature

Randall Hendrick Department of Linguistics

Keith Simmons Department of Philosophy

James Ketch Department of Music

Elin Slavick Department of Art

Andrew Perrin Department of Sociology

Randall Styers Department of Religious Studies

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Julia T. Wood, Faculty Advisory Board Chair Department of Communication Studies

boards & staff

Leadership Advisory Board 2010–2011 Gail Agrawal Dean and Professor, The University of Iowa School of Law Iowa City Gerald Bell, Ph.D. Founder and CEO, Bell Leadership Institute Chapel Hill Christopher Bogan CEO, Best Practices, LLC Chapel Hill Phaedra Boinodiris Gaming and Interactive Marketing Manager, IBM Research Triangle Park

Jane Brown James L. Knight Distinguished Professor, UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication Chapel Hill Sanford A. Cockrell III National Managing Partner, CFO Program Deloitte LLP New York City Judith Cone Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Kristin L. Breuss Theology Student, St. Paul’s Theological Center London

William C. Friday President Emeritus, The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Barbara Rosser Hyde President, Hyde Family Foundations Memphis Richard H. Kohn Professor of History and Peace, War, and Defense, The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Alan Sanders Neely, Sr. Senior Client Partner and Global Leader of Communications (retired), Korn Ferry International Atlanta Patricia Parker Associate Professor of Communication Studies, The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill John R. Ryan President, Center for Creative Leadership Greensboro

James Moeser Chancellor Emeritus, The University of North Carolina Senior Fellow for Special Initiatives, Institute for the Arts and Humanities Chapel Hill

Staff 2010–2011 Bill Balthrop Interim Director, 2010–2011 Associate Director, Chairs Leadership Program Professor, Department of Communication Studies Kirsten Beattie Assistant Director of Development & Communications Jean Chandler Business Assistant

Meredith Daughtridge Events and Facilities Coordinator Elaine Erteschik Events and Marketing Coordinator Mary Flanagan Director of Development Megan Granda Executive Director Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Art

John McGowan Director The Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Distinguished Professor of Humanities Department of English and Comparative Literature Christopher Meinecke Business Manager James Moeser Chancellor Emeritus Senior Fellow for Special Initiatives Professor, Department of Music

Joyce Rudinsky Associate Director, Digital Arts and Humanities Visual Artist, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies Jeanine Simmons IAH Coordinator for Faculty Programs Kim Strom-Gottfried Associate Director, Academic Leadership Program Smith P. Theimann Jr. Distinguished Professor of Ethics & Professional Practice School of Social Work Julia T. Wood Associate Director, Faculty Fellows Program Lineberger Distinguished Professor of Humanities Thomas S. and Caroline H. Royster Distinguished Professor of Graduate Education Department of Communication Studies

Far left: Attendees at an IAH symposium included IAH Board member Kristin Breuss (second from right).

Left, middle: Chancellor Thorp and John McGowan converse about innovation in the arts and humanities at an IAH Board meeting event in October.

Left: Fellows converse around the table in the Hyde Hall Fellows Room.

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honor roll of donors

The 2011 Honor Roll recognizes donors who gave to the Institute for the Arts and Humanities between July 1, 2010, and June 30, 2011. It omits the names of seven donors who wish to remain anonymous.

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 and becoming a Friend of the Institute.

The Institute for the Arts and Humanities gratefully thanks those who generously supported our faculty and programs in fiscal year 2011. Private gifts from alumni and Friends of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities have a profound effect on

For more information or to report an error in this list, please call Mary Flanagan at (919) 962-2528 or visit www.iah.unc.edu/invest.

Steven and Allison Aldrich Lex and Ann Alexander Nathan and Kara Andrews Pete Andrews William Andrews William Joseph Austin, Jr. Michael C. Barefoot Katherine Vansant Bates Margaret Batts Kirsten M. Beattie Erin Becker Daniel L. Bernstein Robert H. Bilbro Stephen Birdsall Jennifer Willis Bock Edwin Brownrigg Borden, Jr. Victoria Tucker Borden and   Robert Hanes Borden Kristin Breuss and Geoff Burgess Jane D. Brown Christopher R. Browning Kathryn J. Burns John and Mary Louise Burress Max C. Chapman, Jr. Sande Churchill Sanford A. Cockrell III Donald and Eunice Collins Bob and Carolyn Connor Brian P. Cooper Philip G. Curley John M. Darden III Rebecca Wesson Darwin and Cress Darwin James L. Davis and Jean L. Davis Elizabeth Stetson Dowd Lee and Tharon Dunn Jo Anne L. Earp Connie Clare Eble John Gray Blount Ellison, Jr. Kristen Enwright William Wright Espy Steven and Nora Esthimer

Lucinda S. Fink Mary F. Flanagan Mary Floyd-Wilson Diane Frazier Pamela Joyner Freeman William C. Friday Manuel E. Garcia James S. Gilliland, Jr. Robert Charles Gimpel Buck and Kay Goldstein Luke Goodwin Laura Pearlman Goulian William A. and Barbara S. Graham Megan Granda Julia Sprunt Grumbles Minrose C. Gwin Herbert Nelson Hackney Robert Hackney and Shauna Holiman Frank Borden Hanes, Jr. Barbara and Paul Hardin Sarah F. Harris Anna Ragland Hayes John Miles Headley James N. Hirschfield Dr. Gerald Hladik and Dr. Angela Gail Ellis Charles Hodges Dorothy C. Holland Elizabeth Myatt Holsten W. Slocum Howland, Jr. Emily Owings Hutson Barbara and Pitt Hyde James E.S. Hynes Allen and Lynn Ives Jordynn Jack Peter B. Janes Gary Chase Johnson George and Janet Johnson Christopher Jones Philip M. Jones Andrew Kanter Bert and Ellen Kaplan

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Betty Kenan Thomas S. Kenan III David Kessler Gorham A. Kindem Robert and Elizabeth King Harvey and Marsha Koenig Lynne and Dick Kohn Lloyd S. Kramer H. R. Kurrie Harold Kyriazi David Elliott Labell Martin Leon Lagod Tom and Donna Lambeth Kenneth Burdette Lee Theodore H. Leinbaugh Diane R. Leonard Ruby M. Lerner Michael F. Lienesch Dr. Walker Anderson Long Dr. Perry Downington Luckett Jodi Magness Gerald Michael Malmo III Robert and Vivian Manekin D. G. Martin, Jr. Knox and Mary Ann Massey William P. Massey Lane Morris McDonald Morris McDonald, Jr. Frank Samuel McGaughey III John P. McGowan Sallie Armfield McMillion James Allen Medford Christopher G. Meinecke Beau Mills IV James and Susan Moeser Peter C. Moister Sandra and Bill Moore Ruth M. Moose Mary Nunn Morrow Alan S. Neely, Sr. Severine Neff

honor roll of donors

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 Philip and Georgia Nelson Anna Neuman Kurt Douglas Newman Charles E. Noell III Donald M. Nonini Patrick and Mary Norris Oglesby John and Cynthia O’Hara Nell Wall Otto David and Rebecca Pardue Patricia S. Parker Josie Ward Patton James L. Peacock Andrew and Eliana Perrin Heidi Perov and C. David Perry, Jr. Gerald J. Postema Anne Powell Patricia J. Pukkila Alfred L. Purrington III William H. Race Donald J. Raleigh William Goodyear Rand Kenneth J. Reckford and Charlotte Orth Peter W. Redfield Charlene B. Regester Terry Ellen Rhodes David L. Robert Dr. Surry Parker Roberts Elizabeth Rogerson Peter Rummell Barry F. Saunders Betsy Ivey Sawyer Christopher Glenn Sawyer J. Henry and Augusta Scattergood Marjorie Moses Schwab Nelson Schwab III John and Susie Sherrill Shuchen Shieh Alfred Emory Smith, Jr.

Donna Marie Sorgi Robert W. and Patricia H. Spearman Steven James Squires Vin Steponaitis Kevin Stewart W. Gene Story Kim Strom-Gottfried Edward M. Strong and Laurel Durst Strong Randall Styers Kathleen P. Tanner and Robert M. Kennedy, Jr. Michael S. and Lynne S. Tanner Beverly W. Taylor John A. Taylor C. Edward Teague III Monet Uzzell Thomson Graham R. Todd Martin P. Trimble Michael Tsin Evelyn and John L. Turner David and Treva Tyson Ruel W. Tyson, Jr. Ann Alexander Urquhart Milada Vachudova Cristina Gabriela Villasmil Susan Burress Wall Mary Ann Walton James Creekmore Wann, Jr. Kay and Van Weatherspoon Jennifer Weiss Nan S. Weiss John R. Wester and Campbell L. Wester John F. White III Len and Judy White Nancy Hanes White James G. Whitton Robert and Caroline Williamson Glenn and Helen Wilson Jean Jones Wilson and Charles T. Wilson, Jr.

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Charlie and Flo Winston Julia Turbiville Wood James C. Yoder Carol Payne Young and J. Blake Young, Jr. Gang Yue Foundations Chapman Family Fund Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Dowd Foundation E. Craig Wall, Sr. Foundation Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Georges Lurcy Charitable & Educational Trust Hyde Family Foundations Jewish Community Foundation of Durham & Chapel Hill Julia Sprunt Grumbles Charitable Lead Annuity Trust Ocean Reef Foundation Renaissance Charitable Foundation Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving Triangle Community Foundation W. Trent Ragland Jr. Foundation The William C. Friday Fund Winston-Salem Foundation Italics denote a member of the UNC faculty

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Giving Opportunities The Institute for the Arts and Humanities relies on private funding to run most of our programs.

Two gift opportunities we encourage you to consider are:

Friends of the Institute Annual Fund — Gifts to our

IAH Innovation Fund — Today’s faculty are increasingly

annual fund (designation 7266) allow us to fill vital gaps in funding.

Annual fund gifts may be used to help fund fellowships, co-sponsor faculty symposia or support faculty working groups, as well as cultivate the conversations that are our hallmark.

called upon to explore new models of teaching and research that are collaborative, interdisciplinary, translatable and scalable, and that impact the wider community. The Chancellor’s innovation initiative is a practical response to such demands. The IAH innovation fund, intended to foster creative activity in the arts and humanities, provides tools and resources in addition to funding to encourage faculty to take risks and attempt innovative practices (see page 4). The IAH looks to raise $750,000 in expendable funds to support innovation in the arts and humanities over the next three years.

You may make your gift

Photos by: Donn Young

online from iah.unc.edu/invest, or use the gift envelope enclosed in this magazine. We also encourage you to consider including the Institute in your will or estate plan. For more information on making a gift to the IAH, please contact Mary Flanagan, director of development, at (919) 962-2528 or Mary.Flanagan@unc.edu.

Sustained Giving — The 1987 Society Gifts to the Friends of the Institute enable the IAH to co-sponsor events such as a talk on innovation earlier this year by Phillip Clay, UNC trustee and chancellor of MIT, co-sponsored with the Minor in Entrepreneurship.

The Institute’s 1987 Society, named for the year we were established, recognizes donors who have given to the Institute for at least three consecutive years. We cannot thank enough those who faithfully give to us each year to show their continuing commitment to our mission of serving Carolina faculty. We will recognize 1987 Society members beginning in July 2012.

Every Gift Counts Gifts of all levels help strengthen IAH programs and help us to fulfill our mission of supporting and honoring outstanding UNC faculty. We appreciate every gift we receive.

To that end, the Institute recognizes gifts to all IAH funds received on or after July 1, 2011, at the following levels: • McCorkle Place Friends — For gifts of $1 to $249 • Hyde Hall Friends — For gifts of $250 to $999 • Fellows Terrace Friends — For gifts of $1,000 to $9,999 • IAH Fellowship Society — For gifts of $10,000 and up

Recognition All donors who do not wish to remain anonymous are recognized within their giving levels in this annual magazine, published each fall. The publication is sent to all Friends, Fellows, UNC community members, and subscribers. It is also made available as a PDF at iah.unc.edu.

In addition, annual gifts of $1,500 or more qualify donors for membership in the Dean’s Circle of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Gifts of $2,000 or more qualify donors for membership in the Chancellor’s Club as well as the Dean’s Circle.

Please see giving.unc.edu for more information on University recognition societies.

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Nelson Schwab III has a history of giving back to Carolina. Schwab, a successful business executive who earned his bachelor of arts in English

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at Carolina in 1967, has filled many leadership roles at the University, including his current service as a member of the Institute’s Advisory Board.

A member of the University’s Board of Trustees from 2001 to 2009, he led the board as chair from 2005 to 2007. In recent years, he also has served on the Boards of Visitors both for the University and UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. Schwab also was a member of the Carolina First campaign steering committee.

This year, Schwab generously gave a $1 million gift to establish the “Nelson Schwab ‘Say Yes’ Fund” in the IAH. The fund will provide up to $50,000 a year to benefit faculty in fine arts, humanities and humanistic social sciences departments within the College of Arts and Sciences, allowing departmental chairs to “say yes” to requests from their faculty and fill vital gaps in their budgets.

“In my long association with the IAH, I have come to understand the critical role department chairs play in retaining good faculty and maintaining the overall quality of the University,” says Schwab.

“In these difficult financial times their resources have been stretched very thin. The ‘Say Yes’ Fund has proved that with some strategically placed funds, even in smaller amounts, good things can happen. So I am delighted to help endow this effort so that department chairs will have access to discretionary funds that can be used for academic excellence.”

“Say Yes” funds will enhance teaching and scholarship on the departmental level. Here, John McGowan leads a reading group conversation with faculty and students.

Departmental chairs will be able to submit proposals for up to $25,000 starting in fall 2011 for funds to support teaching and scholarly activities, build morale, enable strategic planning or realize other goals or initiatives envisioned by chairs to improve their departments.

“This gift is typical of Nelson’s leadership on critical issues,” says UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp. “His many years of service to Carolina have given him a deep understanding of what it takes to maintain excellent people and programs. We are a better institution because of his devotion and friendship.”

Schwab is a managing partner and co-founder of merchant banking firm Carousel Capital in Charlotte.

He has a master of business administration from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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