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that embody the spirit of the liberal arts, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities helps UNC recruit, develop, support, and retain a forward-looking faculty of innovative scholars and artists, imaginative leaders, and inspirational teachers.
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Above: The fall 2011 Faculty Fellows get to know each other over breakfast at their first seminar. Photo by Chris Carmichael. Front cover: Guests at the IAH 25th anniversary dinner walk from Hyde Hall across McCorkle Place to Graham Memorial. Photo by Chris Carmichael.
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On its 25th birthday, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities is humming along quite nicely. Our big celebration in the spring was classic IAH: good people, great conversation, lots of laughs, countless fond memories, and big plans for the future. It was wonderful to see so many of the Institute’s great friends coming together to celebrate what we, collectively, have accomplished.
But perhaps the most important thing to come out of this year of reminiscing is a renewed sense of why we came together in the first place: to face tough challenges head on and provide a space for conversation and ideas to flourish. The IAH remains committed to making sure the arts and humanities respond creatively to the problems facing higher education today. As part of our 25th anniversary lecture series during the spring semester, South African playwright Athol Fugard, New York theater producer Ed Strong, National Humanities Center Director Geoffrey Harpham, and New Yorker writer Louis Menand all shared with us their thoughts on the current state of the arts and humanities. And our core programs continue to provide collegial fellowship and funding for research and faculty engagement across the College. The Institute is also committed to the “public humanities,” the idea that our distinctive knowledge and viewpoints can connect to public audiences and social problems. This year’s Reckford Lecture brought historian Mark Mazower to talk about the current European crisis; Innovation Fund faculty are working on local economic development in Warren County, on high school drop-out rates in Durham, and on the provision of clean water in Peru; and the Carolina Digital Humanities Initiative, funded by a Mellon Foundation grant of $1.4 million, emphasizes the use of new digital technologies to place the knowledge created at UNC in the hands of the wider public. Looking ahead, the Institute is also working to bring the arts and humanities to faculty and students in new ways. Our big project for 2012–2013 is a collaboration with Carolina Performing Arts (CPA) on a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. This ambitious undertaking involves 15 new courses, artist residencies, visiting scholars and academic conferences, and it will integrate what CPA is presenting in Memorial Hall with what students are doing in their classes and what faculty are working on in their research throughout UNC. Who could have imagined in 1987 what the IAH has become? From our modest beginning in West House over brown bag lunches to our current range of programs and initiatives, the Institute has evolved as a collective imaginative response to opportunities and needs over the years. So let me express my deep appreciation to Ruel Tyson for what he built from scratch and to all the many people who made indispensable contributions toward making the IAH what it is today. One of these extraordinary people is, undoubtedly, Mary Flanagan. As I hope most of you recognize, she has played a huge role in building the Institute as we know it. Mary’s dedication, endless enthusiasm and sheer hard work will all be missed now that she is retiring. I have both enjoyed and benefitted from working with her over these past six years, and I am counting on all of our good friends to help us with this transition. Please keep in touch and visit us in beautiful Hyde Hall when you get the chance.
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Who We Are and What We Do The Institute for the Arts and Humanities strengthens UNC’s commitment to the liberal arts by supporting and honoring UNC faculty’s innovative research, inspirational teaching and imaginative leadership.
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The IAH’s signature programs, the Faculty
Fellows Program and the Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Academic Leadership Program, build collegial
relationships among faculty through interdisciplinary seminars that address teaching methods and goals, research interests and leadership responsibilities.
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The IAH supports innovative scholarship and cutting-edge research through exciting
initiatives and offers funding opportunities to help faculty find necessary resources to create and disseminate new knowledge, promoting the spirit of the liberal arts more generally.
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The IAH assists in the recruitment and retention of a world-class
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boards and staff to shape and fulfill the IAH’s mission. Philanthropic support from donors and foundations help make all of
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our programs and events possible, and we are grateful to our board members and Friends for their generous support.
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opportunity for renewal, for intellectual growth, and more.” — Don Raleigh, Edith L. Bernstein Faculty Fellow (Spring 2012), Department of History
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The spring 2012 Faculty Fellows gather around the table in the Hyde Hall Fellows Room. Photo by Justin Cook.
The Institute for the Arts and Humanities serves as the intellectual crossroads on UNC’s campus and supports UNC faculty at every career stage. IAH programs help fund individual and collaborative research, showcase faculty work, develop leaders and teachers, and create a community of collaborative scholars at UNC.
Faculty Fellows Program Faculty Fellowships offer a unique opportunity to enjoy a semester leave on campus to pursue exciting research and projects, develop new courses and programs, and reframe and refresh their teaching. Fellows meet weekly during the semester for a meal and the opportunity to exchange ideas with peers from across the College of Arts and Sciences in a lively, multi-disciplinary conversation. The IAH offers several types of fellowships for tenured, tenure-track and fixed-term faculty, including IAH Faculty Fellowships, Faculty Arts Fellowships, and Chapman Family Faculty Fellowships. For more information, please visit iah.unc.edu/programs/fellowships For a listing of this year’s Faculty Fellows, turn to page 8.
“if my own experience is any indication, the Fellows program does make people feel more invested in this place. It helps to develop a greater sense of community at UNC and a sense of being part of a broader community of scholars.” — Laurie Maffly-Kipp 2
Laurie Maffly-Kipp, professor of religious studies, assumed the role of associate director of the Faculty Fellows Program in the spring of 2012. Having held several IAH fellowships during her career at UNC, she understands first-hand how valuable a semester at the Institute is for faculty and how it enriches their connection to the University. Her guidance, leadership and enthusiasm are much appreciated here in Hyde Hall, and we are so glad to have her join us each week for the Fellows seminars. We’ d also like to extend our sincere thanks to Jane Thrailkill, professor of English and comparative literature, who served as the interim associate director of the program in fall 2011.
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The Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Academic Leadership Programs The Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Academic Leadership Programs at the IAH prepare faculty for academic, intellectual and institutional leadership roles at the University and provide ongoing support for faculty who have assumed such positions. As UNC continues to face new challenges moving forward, we are proud to provide an opportunity for honest, critical discussions among current and emerging leaders.
The Academic Leadership Program Eight Fellows are selected annually to participate in the Academic Leadership Program (ALP). Throughout the year-long program, they engage in a series of activities to help cultivate leadership skills, clarify their career commitments, and build a leadership network within the campus and in the community. The ALP is open to faculty from across the University. Activities for ALP participants include semester-long weekly seminars in Hyde Hall in the spring, weekend retreats, and a five-day intensive leadership development training experience at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro. Each group of Fellows continues to meet regularly and support each other after their fellowship semester at the Institute. IAH Associate Director Kim Strom-Gottfried; Rob Kramer, founder of Kramer Leadership; and Jeanine Simmons, IAH Coordinator for Faculty Programs, lead the ALP.
The Chairs Leadership Program The Chairs Leadership Program (CLP) offers new and reappointed chairs a year of monthly confidential conversations in which they can share ideas, identify best practices and explore important issues related to the roles they play within the University. Topics for discussion typically include recruiting, mentoring, retaining and evaluating faculty; strategic leadership and departmental goal setting; dealing with difficult interactions; developing new departmental resources; and encouraging a collegial climate. The CLP incorporates a mentoring component by including in each class a mix of returning and newly appointed chairs. 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 consultant 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 Leadership Fellows, turn to page 9.
ALP Fellows in leadership roles at UNC 1 Chancellor 5 Chairs of the Faculty 8 Deans 9 Senior Associate Deans 11 Heads of Institutes and Centers 15 Instruction and Curriculum Officers 31 Chairs of Departments
Faculty Learning Community The Faculty Learning Community (FLC) on strategic planning and leadership is the newest part of the Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Academic Leadership Programs and is sponsored by the IAH in partnership with the Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE). Chancellor Emeritus James Moeser and CFE Leadership Coordinator David Kiel lead the FLC, along with support from Kenan Flagler Business School Associate Dean Peter Brews and Entrepreneur in Residence Buck Goldstein. The FLC accepts 10 participants per year and provides support for exploration of pressing issues with colleagues while developing strategic plans for their units on campus with the guidance of the facilitator team.
Chancellor Holden Thorp and Provost Bruce Carney attend presentations of the Faculty Learning Community, led by Chancellor Emeritus James Moeser.
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IAH Initiatives Support for innovative scholarship and inspiring teaching is at the core of the IAH. In addition to its signature programs and traditional fellowships, the Institute facilitates cutting-edge research and teaching, resulting in several exciting initiatives. IAH Innovation Fund Begun with funds from the Hyde Family Foundation, the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, and IAH Advisory Board member Duvall Fuqua and her husband Rex, the IAH launched its Innovation Fund in 2011 with five grants, providing projects with financial and resource support for three years and up to $50,000. The Fund supports risky, ambitious projects that aim for a large impact for an identified group and that can also serve as sustainable, scalable and translatable models for other scholars and educators on a departmental, local or even global scale. To date, each team has received support, guidance and workshops in everything from creating budgets and work plans to developing communications and fund-raising strategies. Here are a few highlights from the first round of funding:
Students in the Beat Making Lab participate in a beat battle on UNC’s campus. Photo by Ariana van den Akker.
Mark Katz (Department of Music) taught the first Beat Making Lab class in fall 2011, and he plans to expand the non-traditional music curriculum even further to include a DJ class and an Introduction to Rap and Spoken Word. He is currently pursuing additional sponsors to help provide scholarships and equipment in an effort to explore opportunities for more community involvement.
The Community Chorus Project (project leaders: Terry Rhodes, Department of Music; Pat Parker, Department of Communication Studies; Lauren Hodge, community volunteer) has now seen the involvement of more than 150 middle and high school students along with voice teachers, directors, choreographers and musicians from across the community and UNC. Their 2011 summer workshop and recordings drew national attention thanks to the support of the rock band R.E.M., and the team hopes to establish a foundation to provide scholarships and create an income-generating model of community-based music education. The Sustained Participatory Action Research Collaborations (SPARCS) team, led by Dottie Holland (Department of Anthropology), has completed the first phase of the pilot program established in Warren County and formed action teams comprising SPARCS team members and community members. These collaborative teams have generated concrete projects and strategies to tackle the issue of local food and agriculture and how it relates to economic development and education. They received a $200,000 grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield and are now seeking ways to expand this model in other rural areas across the state.
Members of the Community Chorus Project gather around the piano to rehearse during the summer 2012 recording workshop. Photo courtesy of Community Chorus Project.
In spring 2012, the IAH selected the second set of projects for support, including a proposal to start an agency for English to Spanish translation that enlists UNC undergraduate students; an incubator for new pieces by creative artists; a multimedia, performance-based approach to the problem of high school drop-out rates; and support for two start-up enterprises: a center for social action and undergraduate education in Peru, and a computer tool that improves the processing and analysis of web-specific linguistic challenges. To learn more about our 2011 and 2012 Innovation Fund projects, please visit iah.unc.edu/innovation/fund. 4
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The Rite of Spring at 100 Carolina Performing Arts (CPA) and the IAH have collaborated to create a series of courses, performances, visiting artists and scholars, and academic conferences to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring during 2012–2013. At the heart of this initiative, funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, is a more complete integration of what CPA is presenting in Memorial Hall with what students are doing in their classes and what faculty are working on in their research. As a result of this partnership with CPA, the UNC campus will engage in a year-long dialogue on the impact of The Rite of Spring and its historical narrative through artistic residencies, master classes and interdisciplinary courses. Faculty members have developed 15 new academic courses through this initiative, incorporating the artistic programming as a resource and participating in events and activities throughout the year.
The Compagnie Marie Chouinard dance company will take the stage at UNC’s Memorial Hall as part of The Rite of Spring at 100. Photo courtesy of Carolina Performing Arts.
Digital Arts and Humanities The Carolina Digital Arts and Humanities Initiative (CDHI) was created to facilitate research projects that utilize digital technologies. Funded by a $1.4 million grant from the Mellon Foundation and substantial matching funds from UNC, CDHI supports the integration of digital media into
traditional academic practice by promoting access to ideas, tools and cyber infrastructure. As a partner in CDHI, the IAH will award eight Digital Humanities Fellowships over the next four years and provide a research fund to support those Fellows’ digital projects.
Medical Humanities In 2011, the IAH, in partnership with Columbia University and King’s College in London, received a planning grant from the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) that was funded by the Mellon Foundation. In March 2012, participants from 10 Institutes and Centers from across the world gathered in Hyde Hall for a planning conference that focused on curricular initiatives in the medical humanities at both the undergraduate level and within medical schools; on research projects that would benefit from health care professionals, humanists, and health scientists working together; and on public policy issues relevant to health. The collaborations identified at the conference were presented at the annual CHCI meeting in June and funding is being sought for implementation of feasible projects that generated widespread interest. IAH Director John McGowan leads a discussion in the Hyde Hall Incubator at the medical humanities conference. Photo by Justin Cook.
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Funding Opportunities In addition to our signature Fellowships and ongoing initiatives, the IAH provides several other funding opportunities.
Mark Mazower of Columbia University delivered the 2012 Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies. This annual lecture is one of many IAH events that inspires interdisciplinary discussion and engages faculty throughout the University. Photo by Justin Cook.
Nelson Schwab “Say Yes” Fund Thanks to a generous gift from Nelson Schwab III, former chair of UNC’s Board of Trustees, the IAH will have a minimum of $50,000 every year to make available to chairs of departments in the arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences. Chairs may apply for these funds to use in any way that will enhance departmental excellence, with special attention to improving quality, morale, collegiality and mentoring. 2011–2012 marked the first year that the IAH solicited proposals and a committee of former department chairs elected to fund the following: the Departments of Art and Dramatic Art to provide state-of-the art digital technology equipment to their faculty and students; the Department of Linguistics to facilitate offering its field methods course; the Department of German to provide junior faculty with the funds to bring internationally prominent scholars to campus; and the Department of History for a monthly seminar on innovative teaching ideas and techniques.
Faculty Grants Program 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 IAH hosts an annual Grants Mentoring Workshop during which faculty mentors offer feedback and guidance to colleagues as they craft proposals for various grants in the arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences. The IAH is also developing a 6
successful proposal database in partnership with UNC’s Office of Sponsored Research to identify successful proposals to major granting agencies and provide examples and models for faculty currently applying for such grants.
Faculty Working Groups and Events Each year, the IAH supports a variety of collaborative, 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 Institute also co-sponsors conferences, lectures, workshops and other events in Hyde Hall and across campus in order to celebrate our Fellows and their accomplishments, create opportunities for challenging conversations on campus, support research and collaboration with institutions worldwide, and engage with Carolina alumni by bringing faculty into the community. institute for the arts and humanities
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Meet the IAH Fellows for 2011–2012
Afroz Taj (Asian Studies) and Ashley Lucas (Dramatic Art) look on as Oswaldo Estrada (Romance Languages) makes a point during a Faculty Fellows seminar. Photo by Chris Carmichael.
Faculty Fellows Ross Barrett, D. Earl Pardue Fellow Assistant Professor, Department of Art “Rendering Violence: Riots, Strikes, and Upheaval in Nineteenth-Century American Art” Michele Berger, Chapman Family Fellow Associate Professor, Department of Women’s Studies, “Speaking Sex, Speaking Family: Healing Conversations between Mothers and Daughters” Melissa Bullard, Taylor Family Fellow Professor, Department of History “The Atlantic and Brooklyn Renaissance: Networking Commerce and Culture in the Atlantic World, a Computer Assisted Analysis” Eric Downing, IAH Fellow Professor, Department of Germanic Languages “Magic Reading” Oswaldo Estrada, Epsy Family Fellow Assistant Professor, Department of Romance 8
Languages, “Gender and Transgression: Rewriting Women in Contemporary Mexico”
Ramayana and an ‘ordinary’ Ramlila Performance” Nichola Lowe, Nelson Schwab III Fellow Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, “Safe and Sound: An Emerging Pathway for Immigrant Skill Development and Occupational Advancement”
Kelly Hogan, Chapman Family Fellow Lecturer, Department of Biology “The Ethical, Legal and Social Limitations of Personal Genome Data in the Classroom” Mark Katz, John W. Burress III Fellow Professor and Chair, Department of Music “Music and Technology: A Very Short Introduction” Margaret Lee, John L. Turner Fellow Associate Professor, Department of African and Afro-American Studies, “Trading Stories: Africa’s World Markets” George Lensing, Chapman Family Fellow Professor, Department of English & Comparative Literature, “Stevens’ Signatures” Pamela Lothspeich, Wilmer Kuck Borden Fellow Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies “In Rama’s Kingdom: The Radheshyam
Ashley Lucas, Nelson Schwab III Fellow Assistant Professor, Department of Dramatic Art “The Arts as Intervention in Prisons, Schools, and Communities” Joseph Megel, Faculty Arts Fellow Artist in Residence, Department of Communication Studies, “The Process Series” James O’Hara, Whitton Fellow Professor, Department of Classics “Teaching, Pretending to Teach, and the Authority of the Speaker in Roman Didactic and Satire”
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Don Raleigh, Edith L. Bernstein Fellow Professor, Department of History “Through the Corridors of Power: A Biography of Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, 1906-1982” Sara Smith, Valinda Hill Dubose Fellow Assistant Professor, Department of Geography “The geopolitics of intimacy: Marriage, babies, and territory in Ladakh” Alfredo Sosa-Velasco, IAH Fellow Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures “Remembering, Forgetting and Memory in Spain: Representations of the Spanish Civil War in Narrative from the Periphery, 1978–2010”
The fall 2011 Faculty Fellows. Photo by Chris Carmichael.
Afroz Taj, T. Winfield Blackwell Jr. Fellow Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies “Fantasies of Resistance: The Urdu Theater from 1860 to 1960”
Academic Leadership Fellows Victoria Bautch, William C. Friday Fellow College of Arts and Sciences, Biology
The spring 2012 Faculty Fellows. Photo by Justin Cook.
Sudhanshu Handa, Ruel W. Tyson Fellow College of Arts and Sciences, Public Policy
Bernie Herman Department of American Studies
Amy Herring, William C. Friday Fellow School of Public Health, Biostatistics
Marc Lange Department of Philosophy
Jim Hirschfield, Ruel W. Tyson Fellow College of Arts and Sciences, Art
Lauren Patton School of Dentistry, Department of Dental Ecology
Peter Mucha, Marjorie M. Schwab Fellow College of Arts and Sciences, Mathematics Richard Myers, Ruel W. Tyson Fellow School of Law Abigail Panter, Marjorie M. Schwab Fellow College of Arts and Sciences, Psychology
Paul Roberge Department of Linguistics Emile Rossouw School of Dentistry, Department of Orthodontics
Eliana Perrin, Marjorie M. Schwab Fellow School of Medicine, Pediatrics
Anna Schenck Gillings School of Global Public Health, Public Health Leadership Program
Chairs Leadership Program Participants
Eunice Sahle Department of African and Afro-American Studies
Jaye Cable Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology, Department of Marine Sciences
Faculty Learning Community Particpants
Larry Grossberg Department of Communication Studies Sudhanshu Handa Department of Public Policy
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Lisa Carey Medical Director, UNC Breast Center “Bringing Cancer Genetics to the Clinic” Barbara Entwisle Vice Chancellor for Research “Research at Carolina”
Paul Godley Executive Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Division of Hematology/Oncology, “The Carolina Leadership Academy in Academic Medicine” Jonathan Hess Director, Center for Jewish Studies, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures “The Carolina Way: Creating a New National Model for Jewish Studies” Emil Kang Executive Director for the Arts, “Carolina Performing Arts: From Rising Star to Global Leader” Steve Matson Dean, Graduate School “Preparing PhDs for the future” Bill McDiarmid Dean, School of Education “Yes we can: Addressing the Crisis in Our Schools” Marilyn Oermann Professor and Chair, Adult/Geriatric Health, School of Nursing, “Clinical Nursing Education: A New Model for North Carolina” Cam Patterson Associate Dean, Health Care Entrepreneurship and Chief of Cardiology “UNC Medical School-Business School Joint Initiative in Medical Entrepreneurship” 9
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Brian Hogan Since adopting a baby girl from Guatemala in 2006, Brian Hogan (Department of Chemistry) has dedicated his research, time and hard work to improving conditions in the country and creating opportunities for its people. Hogan, Chapman Family Faculty Fellow (Spring 2011), serves on the board of a local nonprofit, Guatemalan Student Support Group (GSSG), and is the academic director of the Scholars’ Latino Initiative, a program of UNC’s Center for Global Initiatives. Both programs provide support for Latino high school students in Chapel Hill, but Hogan resolved to do more. After traveling to the remote rural village of Nueva Esperanza and seeing first-hand the level of poverty and illiteracy, along with the lack of education opportunities, he purchased books and writing materials as a first step. The village elders then presented him the seemingly impossible request to build a school. Using his Chapman award and on-site support from GSSG students, Hogan did just that, and the school was dedicated on January 7, 2012. But Hogan’s work is far from over. Since then, he has formed a UNC student organization and nonprofit called “A Little Bit of Promise,” whose mission is to increase women’s literacy and build a self-perpetuating model of independence through education. They have already sent 11 girls to school this year and have 22 enrolled for next year. He is also working with students from GSSG to develop other community projects, including a health center and a facility for a women’s literacy and human rights group. Thanks to a grant from the Center for Global Initiatives, Hogan has also developed a course at UNC on water chemistry, pollution and poverty in Guatemala. He calls himself a “crazy scientist who wanted to build a school in Guatemala,” but Brian Hogan is much more than that. He is someone who remains determined to make changes in the face of overwhelming challenges and a great example of how UNC faculty are making a difference across the globe.
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“very few programs exist to enable faculty to take time for introspection and uninterrupted thinking about research and writing. What most faculty members I know most crave is a moment to slow down, to do their best possible work without being pulled in a thousand directions, and my semester at the IAH gave me the chance to push my research and writing to a new level.” — ashley lucas
Ashley Lucas
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Ashley Lucas, IAH Faculty Fellow (Fall 2011) and assistant professor in the Department of Dramatic Art, understands the significance of giving someone a voice and a chance to be heard. Her research focuses on how incarceration affects not only 2.3 million U.S. prisoners, but also the individuals who have incarcerated family members and the ever-growing population of reentrants. She used her Fellowship semester to begin writing a book on the Prison Creative Arts Project, a program that uses the arts to mitigate the negative impact of incarceration on prisoners and related communities, and she also used the time to travel and perform her one-woman play about the families of prisoners. This play, entitled Doin’ Time: Through the Visiting Glass, is now set to be the subject of a documentary. In the fall of 2012, Lucas will travel to Lincoln, Illinois, with Joseph Megel (IAH Fellow, Fall 2011), in order to work with a theater troupe at a women’s correctional facility. The women are writing their own monologues about family visitation in prison, which Lucas and Megel will weave into Doin’ Time, and then they will all perform together for a large audience of incarcerated women. Through her work, Lucas is showing people the power and healing nature of artistic expression, and she credits the IAH with helping her push herself to the next level. 11
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Every year, IAH Faculty Fellows and Leadership Fellows earn an extraordinary number of honors, awards and funding from the University and beyond. Here is a selection of this impressive array of achievements by IAH Fellows in 2011–2012: Janice B. Bardsley, Department of Asian Studies, Faculty Fellow Fall 2004 and Fall 2008 Received the Hiratsuka Raichō Prize from Japan Women’s University in Tokyo for her distinguished contributions to studies of Japanese women, especially for her book The Bluestockings of Japan: New Women Fiction and Essays from Seito, 1911–1916 (Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2007). Dorit Bar-On, Department of Philosophy, Faculty Fellow Spring 1991, Spring 1995, Fall 1999 and Spring 2006 Awarded the Zachary Smith Distinguished Term Professorship for Research and Undergraduate Education. Victoria L. Bautch, Department of Biology, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2012 Elected President of the North American Vascular Biology Organization for 2012–2013. Margaret E. Bentley, School of Public Health, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2010 Named the Carla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global Nutrition. Carole Blair, Department of Communication Studies, Faculty Fellow Spring 2009 Elected Second Vice President of the National Communication Association. Was also awarded a Distinguished Teaching Award for PostBaccalaureate Instruction at UNC and the Pennsylvania Communication Association’s Julia T. Wood Distinguished ScholarTeacher Award. Judith Blau, Department of Sociology, Faculty Fellow Summer 1992 and Spring 1994 Honored with the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology; also named “Most Influential Faculty” by the La Unida Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity at UNC. The Human Rights Center of Chapel Hill and Carrboro,
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of which she is the director, also received the Bob Sheldon Award and several external funding grants. Inger Brodey, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Faculty Fellow Spring 2011 Awarded the Bank of America Honors Distinguished Professorship and was elected to the Board of Governors of UNC Press. Kia Caldwell, Department of African and Afro-American Studies, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2013 Received the Explorations in Global Health grant from the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases. Jean DeSaix, Department of Biology, Faculty Fellow Spring 2005 Given a faculty-to-student mentor award from the Carolina Women’s Leadership council and was a recipient of the Lifetime Mentor Award, established to honor Dean E. Smith when he retired.
William Ferris, Department of History, Faculty Fellow Fall 2007 Awarded a W.N. Reynolds Leave in fall 2011 and a publication grant from the Institute for African American Research. Annegret Frauser, Department of Music, Faculty Fellow Spring 2004 Received the Edward J. Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association for 2011. Janet M. Guthmiller, Department of Dentistry, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2013 Became a Fellow in the American College of Dentists and was awarded the Faculty Advisor Appreciation Award for distinguished service from 20072012 from the National Student Research Group of the American Association for Dental Research. Karen Hagemann, Department of History, Faculty Fellow Fall 2008 Received the John G. Medlin Jr. Fellowship from the National Humanities Center.
Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, Department of Health Policy and Management, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2008 Awarded the faculty-to-faculty mentoring award from the Carolina Women’s Leadership Council.
Sudhanshu Handa, Department of Public Policy, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2012 Won the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) to study social cash transfer programs in Malawi and Zimbabwe.
Carl W. Ernst, Department of Religious Studies, Faculty Fellow Spring 2001, Academic Leadership Fellow 2009 Appointed as a research associate with a collaborative group sponsored by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the Sorbonne Nouvelle, the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, and the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris. Also serves on the Board of Directors of the Middle East Studies Association of North America.
Amy H. Herring, Department of Biostatistics, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2012 Won the Gertrude M. Cox Award for Excellence in Applied Statistics from the Washington Statistical Society, received the Teaching Innovation Award for Biostatistics in the Gillings School of Global Public Health, and is the principle investigator for a study that received an NIH grant of over $1.6 million.
Oswaldo Estrada, Department of Romance Languages, Faculty Fellow Fall 2011 Won a Distinguished Award for Post-Baccalaureate Teaching and Mentoring at UNC.
Reginald F. Hildebrand, Department of African and Afro-American Studies, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2003 Received a Tanner Faculty Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at UNC.
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Kelly Hogan, Department of Biology, Faculty Fellow Spring 2012 Awarded a statewide, student-nominated Spirit of Inquiry Award from the Pope Foundation for Higher Education. Was also named a National Academies Education Mentor in the Life Sciences due to her leadership role with the National Academies Summer Institutes on Undergraduate Education in Biology. Sharon L. James, Department of Classics, Faculty Fellow Spring 2007 Received a grant for a 2012 NEH Summer Institute entitled “Roman Comedy in Performance.” Mark Katz, Department of Music, Faculty Fellow Spring 2012 and Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2013 Named Chair of the Department of Music and was awarded the Ruth and Phillip Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement. Also was appointed editor of the Journal of the Society for American Music and senior editor for Oxford Research Reviews in Music. Sheryl Kleinman, Department of Sociology, Faculty Fellow Summer 1989, Fall 1995, Spring 2001 and Spring 2007 Received the University Award for the Advancement of Women.
research grant from the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden, as well as a Craver Research Grant at UNC. Pamela Jo Lothspeich, Department of Asian Studies, Faculty Fellow Spring 2012 Received a Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship from the United States-India Educational Foundation to support nine months of research in India. Nichola Lowe, Department of City and Regional Planning, Faculty Fellow Spring 2012 Promoted with tenure to Associate Professor in January 2012 and was one of six Faculty Fellows at UNC’s Global Research Institute in 2011–2012.
Communication Ethic and Handbook of Communication and Corporate Social Responsibility by the National Communication Association. Joseph Megel, Department of Communication Studies, Faculty Fellow Fall 2011 Recipient of the IAH Innovation Fund for “The Process Series.” Peter J. Mucha, Department of Mathematics, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2012 Selected as a Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor for 2012–2017.
Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, Department of Religious Studies, Faculty Fellow Summer 1990, Spring 1998, Spring 2008 and Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2002 Named president of the American Society of Church History.
Dennis Mumby, Department of Communications, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2010 Inducted as a Fellow of the International Communication Association and was awarded the National Communication Association’s Organizational Communication Division Excellence in Research Award.
Steven K. May, Department of Communications Studies, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2003 Given Top Book Awards for Handbook of
Patricia Parker, Department of Communications, Faculty Fellow Fall 2002 and Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2011 Appointed Director of
Laurie Langbauer, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Faculty Fellow Fall 2003 and Spring 2005 Held a John E. Sawyer Fellowship at the National Humanities Center and was asked to lead a DuPont Summer Seminar on childhood in Britain and America for liberal arts college faculty at the NEH. Marc Lange, Department of Philosophy, Faculty Fellow Spring 2011 Awarded a Theda Perdue Distinguished Professorship. Also named associate editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. Margaret Carol Lee, Department of African and Afro-American Studies, Faculty Fellow Fall 2011 Received a Nichola Lowe (City and Regional Planning) explains her work during a Faculty Fellows seminar. Photo by Justin Cook. 2012 annua l high lights
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teaching and personal commitment to the Humanities. I found it also reinvigorated each of us in the seminar, for we were all reaffirming the important reasons why we chose a career in academia.” — Melissa Bullard, Taylor Faculty Fellow (Fall 2011), Department of History
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The Liturgy in Medieval England: a History (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
James Peacock, Department of Anthropology, Faculty Fellow Fall 1989 and Spring 1999 Selected as Awardee of the Year for Rotary district 1710 for founding and directing the UNC-Duke Rotary Center for Peace and Conflict.
Gerald J. Postema, Department of Philosophy and School of Law, Faculty Fellow Fall 2000 Honored with the George H. Johnson Prize for Distinguished Achievement by an IAH Fellow. Also appointed Arthur L. Goodhart Distinguished Visiting Professor of Legal Science at Cambridge University for academic year 2013–2014 and Honorary Professor at Zhengzhou University Law School, Zhengzhou, China.
Theda Perdue, Department of History, Faculty Fellow Fall 2000 Served as president of the Southern Historical Association. Eliana M. Perrin, Department of Pediatrics, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2012 Named one of the Best Doctors of America and listed in America’s Top Pediatricians. Also awarded the American Academy of Pediatrics Special Achievement Award for Distinguished Service and Dedication to the Mission and Goals of the Academy for her leadership in addressing pediatric obesity. Richard Pfaff, Department of History, Faculty Fellow Spring 2001 Awarded the Haskins Medal, the highest prize of the Medieval Academy of America, for his book
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Robert G. Quercia, Department of City and Regional Planning, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2008 Appointed chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning and received the Dinell Outstanding Urban and Regional Planning Alumni Award from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Awarded grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Ford Foundation to continue research on mortgage lending; also was invited to present research to national policymakers and regulators. Terry Ellen Rhodes, Department of Music,
Faculty Fellow Fall 2001 and Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2011 Appointed Senior Associate Dean for Fine Arts and Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences. Carol W. Runyan, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2010 Named a 20 for 20 Leader by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control as one of the most influential injury and violence prevention professionals over the past 20 years. Bland Simpson, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Faculty Fellow Fall 1998 and Fall 2006 Awarded the Roberts Literary Inspiration Award by East Carolina University. Also shared in the PlayMakers Repertory Company’s Distinguished Achievement Award as a member of The Red Clay Ramblers, which received the award for the group’s work in music and theater. Karla Slocum, Department of Anthropology, Faculty Fellow Fall 2003 Received a National Endowment for the Humanities Resident Scholars Fellowship to
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Melissa Bullard, Department of History. Photo by Chris Carmichael.
be held during academic year 2012-2013 at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, NM. Kevin Stewart, Department of Geological Sciences, Faculty Fellow Fall 2003 Received a research grant from the U.S. Geological Survey. Randall Styers, Department of Religious Studies, Faculty Fellow Spring 2004 and Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2013 Recipient of UNC’s Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction.
Anthony J. Viera, Department of Family Medicine, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2013 Named a Charles B. Wilkerson Distinguished Scholar, elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, and appointed as director of the MD-MPH Program at UNC. Michael S. Waltman, Department of Communication Studies, Faculty Fellow
Spring 2006 His book, The Communication of Hate (Peter Lang Publishers, 2010), received a Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Titles from the Association for College and Research Libraries and was also awarded the Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression by the National Communication Association.
John Sweet, Department of History, Faculty Fellow Spring 2007 Held a Faculty Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and was a Center Fellow at the National Humanities Center. Also served as Director of the UNC Program in Sexuality Studies and as a member of the Provost’s GLBTQ Life Committee. Jane F. Thrailkill, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Faculty Fellow Fall 2002 and Fall 2009 Selected as a Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Associate Professor for 2012–2017. Photo by Justin Cook.
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25 Ye ars
The Institute for the Arts and Humanities celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2011–2012 and commemorated the occasion with a large celebratory dinner and a lecture series examining the past, present and future of the arts and humanities, bringing together UNC faculty and students, IAH Fellows, Friends and alumni throughout the year.
Right: John McGowan participated in a conversation with undergraduate students in the Hyde Hall University Room. The forum involved small group discussions between students, faculty and community members and addressed how the humanities are at work in the world outside of the academy. Below, left: Athol Fugard, South African playwright and Morgan Writer-in-Residence, and Ed Strong, producer of Broadway hit Jersey Boys, discussed the importance of the arts in a panel on the state of the theater today. Photo by Gary Kurtz. Below, right: Pulitzer Prize recipient Louis Menand addressed current and future challenges for the arts and humanities in the culmination of the 25th anniversary lecture series. Photo by Justin Cook.
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Clockwise from above: Guests walked from Hyde Hall across the UNC quad to attend dinner in Graham Memorial on April 20, 2012; IAH Friend George Butler of Atlanta delivered a special recitation of Tennyson’s “Ulysses” with a UNC twist as part of the night’s entertainment; The evening offered a chance to celebrate the work of IAH Fellows such as Pete Andrews, Department of Public Policy; IAH Director of Development Mary Flanagan assisted in a puppet show written and performed by Faculty Fellow Marianne Gingher, Department of English and Comparative Literature; Guests, including Innovation Fund recipients Pat Parker (Communication Studies) and Mark Katz (Music) and IAH Friend Becky Pardue relished years of friendship and memories while a string quartet played in the Hyde Hall courtyard. All photos by Chris Carmichael.
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Top left: IAH Advisory Board member and former UNC Provost Dick Richardson greeted Julia Wood, former IAH Associate Director of the Faculty Fellows Program, with a warm hug hello. Top right: Lloyd Kramer (History) and IAH Associate Director Bill Balthrop shared a laugh and conversation over cocktails. Bottom left: Hyde Hall’s architect Jaque Robertson offered a detailed tour of the IAH’s beautiful home, which opened its doors ten years ago. Bottom right: Chancellor Holden Thorp and IAH Advisory Board Chair Julia Grumbles both gave speeches at the dinner, representing the evening’s theme of “honor the past, savor the present and imagine the future.”
As we reflect on the last 25 years, we’d like to express our deep appreciation to our board members, donors, faculty, friends, staff and UNC administrators for helping to make the IAH everything it is today. Thank you for celebrating with us.
All photos by Chris Carmichael.
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Celebrating all that the IAH has accomplished in 25 years is certainly impressive, but it only tells part of the story. Much more important are the friendships made; the transforming conversations around the fellowship table or in a living room in Atlanta or New York City; the books written, read, and taught; and the ideas spawned, debated, revamped, and put into practice.
The IAH is where Carolina’s past is cherished, its present unfolds, and its future is created.
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Our People
Institute Advisory Board 2011–2012 Steven P. Aldrich Outright, Inc. Mountain View, CA Victoria Tucker Borden Portraits South Greensboro, NC Kristin L. Breuss St. Paul’s Theological Center London, United Kingdom Sanford A. Cockrell Deloitte, LLP New York, NY Duvall Fuqua Community Volunteer Atlanta, GA Julia Sprunt Grumbles Chair, IAH Advisory Board Turner Broadcasting, Inc., retired Chapel Hill, NC
Robert Hackney First Eagle Investment Management New York, NY Barbara Rosser Hyde, emeritus Hyde Family Foundations Memphis, TN G. Allen Ives III Turnpike Properties, Inc. Rocky Mount, NC Thomas S. Kenan III, emeritus William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust Chapel Hill, NC Michael D. Kennedy Korn Ferry International Atlanta, GA Charles Craft Lucas III Elevation LLC Charlotte, NC
Lane Morris McDonald Avondale Strategic Partners NYC New York, NY
Nelson Schwab III Carousel Capital Charlotte, NC
Peter C. Moister Corbin Investment Holdings LLC Atlanta, GA
Professor Ruel W. Tyson Founding Director, Institute for the Arts and Humanities Chapel Hill, NC
Alan Saunders Neely, Sr. Korn Ferry International, retired Atlanta, GA John C. O’Hara, Jr. Rockefeller Financial New York, NY
John F. White III JFW Properties Raleigh, NC Nancy Hanes White Community Volunteer Raleigh, NC
Roger Lee Perry, Sr. East West Partners Management Company, Inc. Chapel Hill, NC
Caroline C. Williamson Community Volunteer New York, NY
Richard J. Richardson Former Provost, UNC Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC
Carol Payne Young Harry Norman Realtors Atlanta, GA
IAH Founder and Director Emeritus Ruel Tyson surrounded by friends and colleagues at the 25th anniversary dinner. Photo by Chris Carmichael.
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IAH Staff 2011–2012
Carole Blair Department of Communication Studies
Bill Balthrop Associate Director, Chairs Leadership Program Professor, Department of Communication Studies
E. Jane Burns Department of Women’s Studies Randall Hendrick Department of Linguistics James Ketch Department of Music Patricia McAnany Department of Anthropology Layna Mosley Department of Political Science Keith Simmons Department of Philosophy elin o’Hara slavick Department of Art Randall Styers Department of Religious Studies
Staff Changes This past year brought a lot of changes to our staff at the IAH. Megan Granda stepped down after serving as the Institute’s executive director for five years, and we are so grateful for all of her hard work. Megan has been essential to every aspect of the Institute’s mission, and as many of you have experienced first-hand, her dedication and innovative vision helped the IAH expand its reach and ability to assist faculty on this campus. Maria LaMonaca Wisdom, who holds a Ph.D. in Victorian literature from Indiana University, joined our team in July 2012 as our new executive director, and we are thrilled to have her experience, creativity and enthusiasm at the IAH.
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Kirsten Beattie Assistant Director of Development and Communications Jean Chandler Business Assistant Elaine Erteschik Director of Communications Mary Flanagan Director of Development Megan Granda Executive Director Erica Longenbach Graduate Assistant Laurie Maffly-Kipp Associate Director, Faculty Fellows Program Chair, Department of Religious Studies John McGowan Director 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 Coordinator for Faculty Programs Kim Strom-Gottfried Associate Director, Academic Leadership Program Smith P. Theimann Jr. Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Professional Practice School of Social Work Courtney Webster Events Coordinator
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H o n o r R o ll o f D o n o r s
Honor Roll of Donors The 2012 Honor Roll recognizes donors who gave to the Institute for the Arts and Humanities between July 1, 2011 and June 30, 2012. It omits the names of eight donors who wish to remain anonymous. The IAH is grateful for the generous support for our faculty and programs in fiscal year 2012. Private funds are essential for the Institute to fulfill our mission of faculty enrichment and to continue to serve as the intellectual crossroads at Carolina. We could not do what we do without the support of our donors. Please consider investing in UNC faculty by making a contribution and becoming a Friend of the Institute. Italics denote a member of the UNC faculty
McCorkle Place Friends — $1 to $249 Ann Baker Michael Barefoot Katherine Bates Kirsten Beattie Steve Birdsall Brad Bostian Christopher Browning Kathryn Burns Hodding Carter Nicole Carter Yera Chokshi Mike Cohen Charles Crockett Jane Danielewicz Madison Deese Michael Dowdy Mark Driscoll Lee and Tharon Dunn Shelton and Jo Anne Earp Connie Eble Kristen Enwright Steve and Nora Esthimer Ray and Cydne Farris Bill Ferris Lucinda Fink Mary Floyd-Wilson Bill Friday Manuel Garcia Owen Goslin Megan Granda John Green Lee Griffin Kevin Guskiewicz Herbert Hackney Jackie Hall Borden Hanes Sally Harris Anna Hayes Gail Henderson Jonathan Hess James Hirschfield 22
LiddyBet Holsten Beth Holtzclaw Jordynn Jack Kenneth Janken Gary Johnson Claire Boychuk Andrew Kanter Eszter Karvazy John and Joy Kasson Lance and Abby Kimbrough Harvey and Marsha Koenig Lloyd Kramer H. R. Kurrie David Labell Dana Lacy Marty and Chris Lagod Melinda Lawrence Theodore Leinbaugh Diane Leonard Michael Lienesch Walker Long Pamela Lothspeich Perry Luckett Vivian Lutian Douglas Maclean Laurie Maffly-Kipp Jodi Magness Gerald Malmo Knox and Mary Ann Massey Pete Maydanis Michael McFee Frank McGaughey Christopher Meinecke Siegfried Mews Eric Mlyn Addie Moody Severine Neff Phil and Georgia Nelson Anna Neuman Will Overlock Patricia Parker William Peck
Andrew and Eliana Perrin Erik and Christyn Mike Poe Gwynne Pomeroy Anne Powell Charlotte Powell David Price Patricia Pukkila Donald Raleigh Bill Rand Kenneth Reckford Peter Redfield Charlene Regester Terry Rhodes Frank Riggs Randall Roden and Ann Stewart Elizabeth Rogerson Lars Schoultz Mary Sotile Bob and Pat Spearman Steven Squires Vincas Steponaitis Kevin Stewart Gene Story Kim Strom-Gottfried Torrey Stroud Randall Styers Beverly Taylor Holden and Patti Thorp Graham Todd Ann Urquhart Milada Vachudova Joseph Viscomi Van and Kay Weatherspoon Brent Wissick Cecil Wooten Jim Yoder Gang Yue W. Trent Ragland Jr. Foundation
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Hyde Hall Friends — $250 to $999 Allen Anderson Pete Andrews Tim Burnett Jack Evans Pam Ferguson Pamela Freeman Buck Goldstein Becky Hilstad Slocum Howland Bert and Ellen Kaplan Michael Kennedy David Kessler Tom and Donna Lambeth Ken Lee John McGowan James and Susan Moeser Mary Morrow Pat and Mary Norris Oglesby David and Becky Pardue Billy Pizer Jim Protzman Bill Race Matthew Redinbo Donald Reid and Holly Russell Dick and Sue Richardson Barbara Rimer David Robert Chris Sawyer Betsy Sawyer Dee Schwab John and Susie Sherrill Alfred Smith Donna Sorgi Ruel Tyson Sue Wall Nan Weiss Buddy Wester Len and Judy White Charlie and Flo Winston Charles M. Winston Family Foundation Highland Vineyard Foundation
Fellows Terrace Friends — $1,000 to $9,999 Steven and Allison Aldrich Nathan and Karrie Andrews Joe and Gail Austin Dan Bernstein Ed Borden Katharine Chapman Sandy Cockrell Carolyn and Bob Connor Cress and Rebecca Darwin James Lee Davis Roddey and Pepper Dowd John Ellison Bill Espy Mary Flanagan Peter Formanek Diane Frazier Jim Gilliland Bill and Barbara Graham Julia Sprunt Grumbles Jake and Florence Hanes Jim Hynes Betty Kenan Tom Kenan Dick and Lynne Kohn Memrie Lewis Lane McDonald Morris McDonald Sallie McMillion Jim Medford Bill and Sandra Moore Alan and Butchie Neely Kurt Newman Charlie Noell John O’Hara Josie Patton Al Purrington Shuchen Shieh Sherwood Smith Ed and Laurel Strong John Taylor David and Treva Tyson Martha Tyson
Bill Walton Chuck and Jean Wilson Bob and Tracy Winston Julia Wood Blake and Carol Young Chapman Family Fund Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Ellison Family Foundation Emwiga Foundation Formanek Foundation Georges Lurcy Charitable & Educ Trust Renaissance Charitable Foundation Robert & Tracy Winston Foundation Inc Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving Triangle Community Foundation IAH Fellowship Society — $10,000 and up Anne Whitton Boylea Kristin Breuss and Geoff Burgess John and Mary Louise Burress Max Chapman Duvall and Rex Fuqua Robert Hackney Barbara and Pitt Hyde Peter Moister Nelson Schwab Jane Whitton Trevey John and Evelyn Turner Monty and Nancy White Barbara Miller Whitton James Whitton, Jr. Robert and Caroline Williamson Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund The B.W. & Barbara Miller Foundation Chapman Family Charitable Trust Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Foundation for the Carolinas Hyde Family Foundations Realan Foundation William R Kenan Jr Charitable Trust Winston-Salem Foundation
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m ak e a g i f t
Private gifts from alumni and Friends of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities have a profound effect on the lives of UNC faculty, which in turn enriches the lives of students and strengthens teaching and research at Carolina. Private funding pays for most of the cost of our programs for faculty development, faculty leadership and the growing community of knowledge that is the hallmark of the Institute experience. Here are two special ways for you to invest in UNC faculty:
Left: Mark Katz, professor and chair of the Department of Music, works with a student during a Beat Making Lab class, part of his Innovation Fund project. Photo by Ariana van den Akker. Right: Alfredo Sosa-Velasco (Romance Languages and Literature) and Don Raleigh (History) converse during a spring Faculty Fellows seminar. Photo by Justin Cook.
Support a Fellow — It costs about $27,000 to fund one faculty fellowship for one semester, and the College of Arts and Sciences applies those funds toward the faculty member’s home department to hire a replacement teacher for the semester. IAH fellowships are a critical component of UNC’s efforts to retain the best faculty at Carolina, providing the invaluable gift of time in order to refresh, renew and reinvigorate their teaching. IAH Innovation Fund — Today’s faculty are increasingly called upon to explore new models of teaching and research that are collaborative, interdisciplinary, translatable and scalable, and that impact the wider community. The IAH Innovation Fund offers both financial and resource support for projects that venture beyond traditional methods in the arts and humanities as they are practiced and taught on the UNC campus, and for which there are not other resources commonly available, either on campus or externally. This model, unique at UNC, encourages an entrepreneurial mindset and provides project teams with the tools to create their own success. The IAH looks to raise $750,000 in expendable funds to support innovation in the arts and humanities over the next three years. 24
You may make your gift online 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 giving to the IAH, please visit iah.unc.edu/invest.
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 and it is also made available 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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S p e c i al F r i e n d s o f t h e I n s t i t u t e
Making a Difference: George H. Johnson ’58 Alumnus. Friend. Advisor. Of all the words used to describe George Johnson’s affiliation to the University and the Institute, the one that best defines him is leader. Almost since the Institute began, George has been an active leader and supporter in one way or another, either through his service on the IAH Advisory Board or through his extraordinary giving. Why? As George explains, “Long ago, an amazing teacher impacted my life, and for me, UNC is where I learned to love to learn. The Institute embodies this spirit of learning. Many of my favorite and most engaging conversations have taken place in the halls of West House and Hyde Hall where faculty from across disciplines share and exchange ideas. Ruel Tyson envisioned the Institute 25 years ago, and many have worked hard to make it the storied success it is today.” In spring 2012, in honor of the Institute’s 25th anniversary, George offered to match all new and unrestricted gifts up to $25,000 to support the IAH Annual Fund. These gifts will provide critical support to help fund fellowships, co-sponsor faculty learning opportunities, support faculty working groups, and continue the conversations that are the hallmark of the Institute’s program. This gift is the tip of the iceberg, as George’s support began before Hyde Hall was even a reality. Whatever the call, he has answered it. In addition to the annual fund, George’s gifts have supported academic leadership,
endowment, and building construction. It is in his honor that the Institute created The George H. Johnson Prize for Distinguished Achievement by an IAH Fellow, an accolade IAH Director John McGowan characterizes as a lifetime achievement award. The IAH is pleased to announce that Gerald Postema, Department of Philosophy and School of Law, will be awarded this prestigious honor in the fall of 2012. Mary Flanagan, IAH Director of Development, explained that part of what makes Johnson so special is his ability to spread his enthusiasm. “George just has a wonderful quality about him of inciting enthusiasm in others,” Flanagan said. “He is probably the greatest champion the IAH will ever have.” With his reputation for livening IAH board meetings, it is not surprising that George coined the Institute’s unofficial cheer, “Rooty Toot Toot for the Institute!” George Johnson graduated from UNC in 1958 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. He is the founder and president of George H. Johnson Properties of Atlanta.
George Johnson (center) attends an IAH event with former Advisory Board Chair John O’Hara and former Advisory Board member Jennifer Halsey.
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both the ideas and values, and the community conversation about ideas and values that makes this both a great and a good public university.” — Pete Andrews, Faculty Fellow Fall 2000 and Leadership Fellow 2002, Department of Public Policy
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