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2014 Annual Highlights
Above: Music scholar Clara Yang performs at a New Faculty Microtalks event. On the cover: Academic Leadership Fellows Craig Buchman and Rebecca Macy share a quiet conversation in Hyde Hall.
“I love when Fellows talk about the work they are doing. I love learning about what’s going on at the university. I love the conversations at dinner where we discuss a question and hear different points of view.” — CAROLINE WILLIAMSON (BSBA ’83) IAH ADVISORY BOARD VICE CHAIR
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Building Faculty Communities 4 Investing in Scholarship 10 Sponsoring Events & Engagement 14 Fellows Honors & Awards 16 Looking Back, Looking Ahead 20 Become a Friend 22 Advisory Boards 23 Staff Contacts 24
INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES The Institute for the Arts and Humanities helps UNC develop and retain a world-class faculty by supporting faculty members at every career stage. We fund individual and collaborative research, develop faculty leaders and teachers, and foster collaborative, interdisciplinary communities that promote intellectual exchange.
J oin the conversation iah.unc.edu Mark Katz, Director | Maria LaMonaca Wisdom, Executive Director
Women’s and Gender Studies assistant professor Emily Burrill discusses her work at a spring Faculty Fellows meeting.
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create an environment where the very best faculty in the world can thrive. The faculty is the lifeblood of the University. Attracting and retaining a world-class faculty is paramount to its success and vitality. That’s where we come in. Our mission is to help UNC create an environment where the very best faculty in the world can thrive, particularly in the arts and humanities disciplines — the heart and soul of liberal arts education. We do that by building supportive faculty communities, making strategic investments in their work and sponsoring events that showcase their scholarship and extend their networks. We’re pleased to share in this 2014 Annual Highlights examples of our work from the past year — all made possible by the generous financial support and engagement of our community of donors, partners, friends and faculty. This work is having an impact. The College of Arts and Sciences reports that a significantly higher percentage of faculty members who have participated in our fellowship and leadership programs remain at UNC despite the attractive offers they receive from other institutions. But a new year has begun and many more faculty members need our support. We invite you to participate. Read what we’re doing to nurture our faculty, find something that speaks to your passions and Join the Conversation.
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“It’s the diversity of disciplines that enables you to frame the issues more broadly and communicate your findings more effectively.” Rachel Willis, American Studies associate professor, Chapman Family Fellow
Conversation opens minds and doors. It lies at the heart of all IAH programs. We convene interdisciplinary groups of faculty members at key career stages for conversations that promote scholarship, leadership and connections that advance their work. During 2013–2014, we hosted 50 faculty members in our core fellowship and leadership programs. We engaged nearly 50 more through two initiatives that support faculty in transition. We harnessed the power of community to energize faculty writing.
FAC U LT Y F E L LO W S H I P S O F F E R T I M E A N D S U P P O R T FOR SCHOL ARSHIP The IAH offers semester-long, on-campus leaves for up to 20 arts and sciences faculty members each year through our Faculty Fellows Program. Fellows receive the luxury of time to delve deeply into a topic of their choosing. They also participate in weekly Fellows discussions about their work and topics of mutual interest, gaining diverse perspectives on their projects. “This fellowship enables me to have a network that includes an anthropologist, a sociologist, a historian, a women’s studies scholar and a professor of German-Jewish Studies – really diverse faculty fields,” says Chapman Family Fellow Rachel Willis, labor economist and American Studies associate professor, one of 19 faculty members offered fellowships in 2013–2014. Willis used her fellowship semester to explore the implications of climate change on sustainable global freight transportation and its impact on economic well-being and access to work around the world. “When you present your work to a group of IAH colleagues, you get insights from them, they give you new leads, they tell you
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about a friend working on related topics, they help you find better ways to communicate your findings to general audiences. It’s the diversity of disciplines that enables you to frame the issues more broadly and communicate your findings more effectively,” Willis says. “Fellows gain a supportive community of peers with whom they can examine their work and talk through issues of academic life,” says Michele Berger, IAH associate director for the Faculty Fellows Program. “Our table talk discussions this year revolved around how faculty in a public university engage the public that supports them, writing practice and its changing patterns during the course of a faculty career, work-life balance, cultivating academic leadership, issues of gender equity in our academic units, and finding and mentoring research assistants,” Berger says. “Our Fellows are enriched by their Fellowship experience,” she says, “and, through them, so are intellectual life, teaching and scholarship at UNC.”
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Communications studies scholar Kumi Silva discusses with Fellows her research on global translation and consumption of romance novels.
IAH Faculty Fellows 2013–2014 Emily Burrill (N. Schwab Fellow) Women’s and Gender Studies Mother of All Our Children: Aoua Keita and the Birth of Modern Mali Jocelyn Chua (Blackwell Fellow) Anthropology In Pursuit of the Good Life: Aspiration and Suicide in Globalizing South India Daniel Cobb (Borden Fellow) American Studies Warrior: The Life and Times of Clyde Warrior Renee Alexander Craft (Turner/Digital Innovations Lab Fellow) Communication Studies Portobelo Digital Oral History Project Mark Crescenzi (Chapman Family Fellow) Political Science Economic Rent, Competition, and Conflict
Jonathan Hess (Bernstein Fellow) Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures Shylock’s Daughters: Philosemitism, Popular Culture, and the Liberal Imagination Tessa Joseph-Nicholas (Turner/Digital Innovations Lab Fellow) Computer Science IVI: Inquire, Visualize, Interact: Collaborative Course Development for the Humanities Sherryl Kleinman (Blackwell Fellow) Sociology Teaching Issues: Making Inequalities Visible Chris Nelson (IAH Advisory Board/Burkhardt Fellow) Anthropology Dreaming of the Dragon King: Life and Death in the Ruins of the Everyday Thomas Otten (Faculty Arts/Whitton Fellow) Music The Piano Etudes of H. Leslie Adams: A Recording Project
Kathleen DuVal (Burress Fellow) History Independence Lost: The Gulf Coast and the American Revolution
Michele Rivkin-Fish (Marley Fellow) Anthropology Unmaking Russia’s Abortion Paradigm: Gendered Citizenship at the Nexus of Nationalism, Religion and Public Health
Carl Ernst (Pardue Fellow) Religious Studies A Persianate Hindu: The Islamicate Framing of Indian Religions in “The Chain of Yogis” by Sital Singh
Kumarini Silva (Cramer Fellow) Communication Studies Circulating the Romance: Global Gendered Fantasies
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Jane Thrailkill (Chapman Family Fellow) English and Comparative Literature 2 Stories: 1 Deep Past, 1 From Yesterday Benjamin Waterhouse (Blackwell Fellow) History The Myth of Main Street: Small Business and the Modern American Political Tradition Brett Whalen (Chapman Family Fellow) History The Last Papal Monarch: Innocent IV and the ThirteenthCentury World Order Jeff Whetstone (Faculty Arts Fellow) Art The Visible Wild Rachel Willis (Chapman Family Fellow) American Studies Water Over the Bridge: The Critical Need for Strategic Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure Planning
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L E A D E R S H I P P R O G R A M S P R E PA R E A N D S U P P O R T
“One of the things I took from the program is that everyone, no matter where you are in an institution, can and should take a leadership role.” Craig Buchman, Academic Leadership Fellow 2013–2014
The IAH’s Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Academic Leadership Programs serve faculty across the UNC campus. We prepare emerging leaders through the Academic Leadership Program and support mid-level leaders through the Chairs Leadership Program. Academic Leadership Program Offers Tools and Context Craig Buchman already wore an astonishing number of leadership hats when he entered the Academic Leadership Program (ALP) this year. Vice chairman for clinical affairs for UNC School of Medicine’s department of otolaryngology/head and neck surgery, Buchman leads several UNC centers and programs and chairs a national nonprofit. So why would he carve out time to participate in the year-long program? “Having a broader perspective on leadership gives you a set of tools to work with as you’re moving forward in your career,” Buchman says “It seemed like the right program to put it all together within the scope and context of the university.” The ALP draws participants from across campus – some in leadership positions, others with leadership potential. “We’re trying to help people envision themselves as leaders or, if they’re already in leadership positions, to become better leaders,” says Kim Strom-Gottfried, IAH associate director for the ALP. “We offer ground-level leadership training, we help them understand how higher education operates, we offer a forum for discussing issues of leadership and we help break down some of the isolation faculty leaders experience. Transformative is a word
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Academic Leadership Program Class of 2013–2014 Craig Buchman Medicine Kenneth Janken African, African American, and Diaspora Studies Angela Kashuba Pharmacy Christian Lundberg Communication Studies Leslie Lytle Public Health Rebecca Macy Social Work Jocelyn Neal Music Krista Perreira Public Policy
ALP Fellows Tapped for UNC Leadership Roles 1 Chancellor 5 Chairs of the Faculty 10 Deans 10 Senior Associate Deans 14 Heads of Institutes and Centers 38 Chairs of Departments 19 Instruction and Curriculum Officers
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Leslie Lytle (left) and Jocelyn Neal were among eight members of the Academic Leadership Class of 2013-2014.
we hear pretty often to describe the experience.” This year’s eight ALP Fellows each spent a week at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, N.C., participated in two retreats and attended weekly discussions on issues of academic leadership. The class and discussions proved timely and relevant, Buchman says. “So often people see leadership as a title – you have this stamp that makes you somehow the leader and everyone else has to be the follower,” he says. “One of the things I took from the program is that everyone, no matter where you are in an institution, can and should take a leadership role. My role as a leader is to empower others to lead.”
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Chairs Leadership Program Provides Safe, Confidential Space
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“A confidential place to share questions, concerns and advice, as well as develop a sense of community.” “A welcoming support group during a difficult time in a new position.” “A life saver.” These are ways some of the 13 members of the 2013–2014 Chairs Leadership Program describe their experience. “Evaluations are very consistent from year to year,” says Bill Balthrop, IAH associate director for the Chairs Leadership Program. “It’s an incredibly valuable and worthwhile program for department chairs. That place of safety to address issues they can’t talk about anywhere else is what makes the program most useful for them.” The CLP gathers newly appointed chairs monthly for dinner and conversation. The confidential nature of the program offers chairs the freedom to share and receive fresh perspectives. “If they have a problem or an issue,” says Balthrop, “this is the one place they can talk about it with people who understand exactly what they are going through.”
Federico Luisetti Romance Languages and Literatures
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Victoria Bautch Biology Fitz Brundage History Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld Anthropology Michael Emch Geography Ken Hillis Communication Studies
Donald Lysle Psychology Richard McLaughlin Mathematics Darin Padua Exercise and Sport Science William Race Classics Harvey Seim Marine Sciences Randall Styers Religious Studies
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N E W I N I T I AT I V E S M E E T FAC U LT Y N E E D S
“…it makes such a difference in my transition here.” Jennifer Gates-Foster, classics assistant professor, New Faculty Program participant
The IAH launched a new program in 2013 to engage new faculty in the life of the University and teamed with the College to support newly tenured and promoted faculty with that transition. We also offered a series of writing supports to meet needs identified by Fellows.
New Faculty Program Engages Newcomers A New Faculty Microtalks event held in spring 2013 gave rise to a new program offered in 2013–2014 that introduces UNC faculty in their first three years on campus to the broader University community. The New Faculty Program offers a mix of social and academic activities that welcome and engage them. “We launched the New Faculty Program hoping to achieve in a year what might otherwise take several years on campus or never happen,” said Todd Ochoa, assistant professor of religious studies and IAH associate director for the New Faculty Program. Connections began almost immediately and developed over the year as new scholars participated in receptions and dinners with Fellows and campus partners, a field trip to nearby Piedmont Biofuels and two New Faculty Microtalks events that showcased their work. “It has already given me friendships and recognition from other departments, which is great, and it makes such a difference in my transition here,” says classics assistant professor Jennifer Gates-Foster.
Associates Dinners Ease Transition to New Role The IAH and College of Arts and Sciences hosted a series of dinner conversations for 27 newly tenured and promoted associate professors during 2013–2014, providing mentoring and support at this key mid-career point. IAH Fellow and philosophy scholar Geoff Sayre-McCord led conversations on a range of topics relevant to the group. The associates joined new faculty at the spring garden party, broadening the connections of both groups. Associates applauded the initiative for extending their knowledge and networks across campus at a pivotal time. The IAH plans to expand the program in 2014–2015.
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Classics assistant professor Luca Grillo defends his love of a dense Cicero oratory at the New Faculty Microtalks.
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UNC newcomer Kurt Gray (left) and IAH Fellow Geoff Sayre-McCord find areas of common interest at a New Faculty Program dinner.
Spring Initiative Propels Faculty Writing The IAH teamed with the Center for Faculty Excellence to coordinate summer writing groups for faculty following a successful pilot in summer 2013. More than 70 faculty participated. Based on its success and suggestions from Fellows, the IAH hosted two additional spring writing programs.
“Community Write-ins� provided coffee, snacks and quiet spaces throughout Hyde Hall. Michelle Berger, IAH associate director for the Faculty Fellows Program, and Fellow Mark Crescenzi opened with tips on managing writing. A May Write Now! workshop helped faculty launch summer projects. Fellows received feedback on their writing plus advice from best-selling author and IAH Fellow Bart Ehrman.
The IAH teamed with the Center for Faculty Excellence to coordinate summer writing groups for faculty, part of a series of spring activities that supported faculty writing.
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“What happens when you’re able to say yes, you’re able to create an atmosphere of hope. It’s just small things, but they build up and change the atmosphere.” McKay Coble, Milly Barranger DIstinguished Professor of Dramatic Art
The IAH attracts and invests grant funding that retains leading-edge faculty members, seeds interdisciplinary scholarship and contributes to UNC’s vibrant intellectual climate. In 2013–2014, we supported 11 innovative academic ventures, eight working groups and a variety of scholarly initiatives. Innovation Fund Seeds Enterprising Ventures The IAH’s Innovation Fund, launched in 2011, has invested $550,000 to date in 11 collaborative endeavors in humanistic and artistic enterprises that have attracted $1.2 million in outside funding. In 2014, an Innovation Fund-seeded project won $1 million in grants from the U.S. Department of State and UNC to launch a two-year international program, Next Level, which fosters cultural diplomacy through popular music and dance. The joint venture of the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and UNC’s music department, led by former music department chair Mark Katz (now IAH director), grew out of work he began in 2011 with producer/DJ Stephen Levitin using an Innovation Fund grant. Next Level sends teams of American hip-hop artists to six countries in Africa, Eastern Europe and South Asia to teach hip-hop music and dance. Artists from each of the six countries will visit Chapel Hill and Washington, D.C., to participate in workshops and performances. “Next Level’s artists will teach young people to develop skills and express themselves in ways they wouldn’t have thought possible,” Katz says. “In hip-hop, when artists say that they want to ‘take it to the next level,’ they are saying that they want to improve themselves, to surpass their current abilities. The name has another meaning, too,” Katz explains. “We want to use this as a way to model peaceful and productive collaboration, to transcend conflict in creative ways.”
Innovation Fund Projects Peerpress: A Platform for Transforming Scholarly Conferences Daniel Anderson, English and Comparative Literature UNC Center for Social Action and Undergraduate Education Brian Billman, Anthropology UNC Translators Ruy Burgos-Lovece, Romance Languages and Literatures The Taming of the WWW: Web-based Language Research of Tomorrow Bruno Estigarribia, Romance Languages and Literatures Community Chorus Project Lauren Hodge, Music Sustained Participatory Action Research Collaborations: A New Model of Community/ University Innovation Dottie Holland, Anthropology Beat Making Lab Mark Katz, Music The Process Series Joseph Megel, Communication Studies Reimagining Gaming: Program in Alternative Games and Digital Innovation Joyce Rudinsky, Communication Studies Servant of Two Masters: Debut of a RoboThespian Francesca Talenti, Communication Studies None of the Above Kathy Williams, Dramatic Art
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Next Level team member Trey Wallace works with students in Patna, India, part of a $1 million initiative funded by the State Department and UNC that grew out of Mark Katz’s Innovation Fund project.
Say Yes Fund Helps UNC Win International Conference More than 500 scholars from 200 colleges, universities and research centers and seven countries converged on Chapel Hill in March to attend the third biennial C19, the prestigious Society of Nineteenth Century Americanists conference. The competitive, coveted role of conference host fell to UNC in part because of the strength of UNC’s proposal and financial support generated for the conference. Chief among its supporters, financial and programmatic, was the IAH. The IAH contributed $10,500 from its Nelson Schwab Chairs “Say Yes” Fund, created with a gift from IAH Advisory Board member Nelson Schwab III. The fund enables chairs of departments in the arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences to provide funds for activities that enhance departmental excellence and support faculty work. The result, a premier conference that put UNC front-and-center in the field of 19th-century American literary studies, showcased unique and extensive UNC assets in 19th-century scholarship and birthed a new graduate student off-shoot organization, G19. “This conference would simply not have happened without the IAH,” says IAH Fellow Jane Thrailkill, a conference co-organizer with Eliza Richards, both English and comparative literature professors.
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“This conference would simply not have happened without the IAH.” Jane Thrailkill, IAH Fellow and conference co-organizer
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Working Groups Pursue Engaged Scholarship Eight groups of faculty currently collaborate on new models of engaged scholarship and new degrees in arts and humanities and disciplines thanks to funding provided by the Schwab Opportunity Fund and donations from Friends of the Institute, our annual fund contributors. Working groups may spawn new enterprises and initiatives that attract funding and wider audiences. A faculty-student working project organized by communications studies professor Della Pollock, for instance, works with an African American community in Chapel Hill to develop a public history site. Anthropology associate professor Michele Rivkin-Fish leads a group examining ways different societies organize and conceptualize health care. A team led by Undergraduate Research and Faculty Governance representatives explores ways to support “alternative academic” Ph.D.s, a growing group of Ph.D.-prepared scholars who pursue non-faculty professional positions.
Funded Working Groups World War I: The Legacy Bill Balthrop, Communication Studies Andy Reynolds, Global Studies Altac Working Group Donna Bickford, Undergraduate Research Anne Mitchell Whisnant, Faculty Governance Latino/a Studies Maria Deguzman, English and Comparative Literature North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop Series Karen Hagemann, History Pass the Popcorn: “Obesogenic” Behaviors and Stigma in Children’s Movies Eliana Perrin, Pediatrics Facing Our Neighbors Della Pollock, Communication Studies Moral Economies of Medicine Michelle Rivkin-Fish, Anthropology Medical Humanities Jane Thrailkill, English and Comparative Literature
IAH Directs Campuswide WWI Conversation in 2014–2015 UNC-Chapel Hill commemorates the 100year anniversary of World War I with a multidisciplinary“conversation” on its legacy and impact during 2014–2015. The World War I Centenary Project grew from an IAH-funded working group. It aims to increase awareness of and interest in the war among faculty, students and the community beyond the university. The project features more than 20 undergraduate and graduate courses, seminars, lectures, conferences, workshops, exhibitions, dramatic performances, music and dance events, and a workshop for K–12 teachers. The project is organized by the IAH, with funding from the Georges Lurcy Charitable and Educational Trust, Kurt Weill Foundation for Music and Paul Green Foundation. UNC partners and contributors include the College of Arts and Sciences, Office of the Chancellor, Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense, Carolina Performing Arts, PlayMakers Repertory Company and the departments of music, dramatic arts and history.
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Thomas R. Cole of the University of Texas Health Science Center attends a UNC medical humanities event. UNC will share in a $1.35 million grant project to advance its medical humanities research collaboration and partnership with six universities around the world.
UNC Tapped for Mellon-funded Medical Humanities Consortium The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation this year tapped UNC and five other universities to share in a $1.35 million grant to advance the study of medical humanities thanks to groundwork laid by an IAH-funded working group. Humanities centers at the six universities will use Mellon funding for two pilot projects that advance collaborative research and partnerships. “The IAH has been working to develop the medical humanities at UNC even as it has pursued the opportunity to become part of this evolving international network,” says former IAH Director John McGowan, professor of English and comparative literature, who spearheaded the initiative. “The Mellon funding is going to consolidate our progress on both fronts and is an affirmation of all the hard work we’ve done so far.” Medical humanities refers to an emerging field of medical
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research and practice. Scholars study the history of medicine, the ways different cultures experience illness and aging, and information that informs medical diagnoses and treatment. In clinical practice, care givers pay attention to the ways patients describe their health problems and the full social context in which they live. The IAH working group, with funding from the William C. Friday Fund, has created an undergraduate minor in medicine, health and society and a Master of Arts degree in medicine, literature and society. The new Mellon-funded consortium of centers at UNC, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Columbia University, Dartmouth University, King’s College London and University of Witswatersrand in South Africa will conduct research on issues related to aging. Members will gather in the summers of 2015 and 2016 to share results, discuss developments in the field and develop models for undergraduate and medical school course offerings.
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“Alumni play a vital role in enriching the IAH experience for faculty, students and the UNC community.” Allison Burnett Smith, IAH Development Director
The IAH extends its culture of conversation beyond the Fellows Room walls by hosting and cosponsoring events that promote UNC’s rich intellectual climate and engage others who can contribute to the work and scholarship of the faculty. In 2014, we hosted and supported a range of conferences, lectures and events that showcased faculty work, connected Fellows to scholars across campus and around the world, and invited alumni, students and scholars to “Join the Conversation.”
Alumni Engagement Enables IAH Impact The IAH teamed with UNC’s Alumni Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity to host alumnus and Baltimore pediatrician Dr. Michael Zollicoffer and IAH Fellow and health care policy expert Jonathan Oberlander for a discussion on the impact of the Affordable Care Act as it took effect. Both Zollicoffer and Oberlander drew on their years of experience and expertise in health care to shed light on this timely topic for the IAH community. It was one of many examples of how alumni contribute to the faculty experience. Generous support from Carolina alumni provides core funding for many of the IAH’s faculty programs, but the value of alumni support goes far beyond that. Alumni during the past year provided strategic advice as board members, sponsored and participated in public events and connected the IAH and Fellows with others who could advance their work. UNC alumni hosted four “salons” during the year. These signature gatherings of smalls groups of alumni and a Fellow focus conversation on a single scholarly topic. “Alumni play a vital role in enriching the IAH experience for faculty, students and the UNC community,” says IAH Development Director Allison Burnett Smith. “It’s wonderful when we have alumni back on campus, sharing in the intellectual exchange that takes place,” she says. “Alumni tell us that participating in our activities helps them feel connected to the Carolina community as well as what is happening on campus. So, there is mutual benefit.”
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IAH Advisory Board member Alan Neely and his wife, Butchie, hosted an alumni salon at their Highlands, N.C., home in May.
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UNC alumnus Dr. Michael Zollicoffer (left) joins IAH Fellow Jonathan Oberlander (center) for a health care discussion moderated by John McGowan (right).
Geyer Speaks on World War I at 2014 Reckford Lecture University of Chicago historian Michael Geyer examined the causes of World War I and its longer-lasting effects before an audience of 110 people gathered in February for the IAH’s 2014 Mary Stevens Reckford Lecture in European Studies. His remarks officially launched the World War I Centenary Project, a year-long cross-campus “conversation” on the legacy of The Great War coordinated by the IAH. The Reckford lecture, established in 1990 by UNC Classics Professor Kenneth Reckford, is held each February to honor his wife, Mary Stevens Reckford. The 2015 Reckford Lecture will be held Feb 26. Guest speaker will be Modris Ecksteins, author of Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age.
Chancellor Carol Folt joined more than 100 newcomers and guests for the IAH’s 2013 fall welcome reception.
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“I really credit the IAH’s leadership program with where I am today.” Eliana Perrin, M.D., M.P.H., UNC Associate Vice Chancellor for Research IAH Faculty Fellows and Leadership Fellows receive a wide range of honors and awards for their teaching, scholarship and leadership. Here is a sample of their achievements during 2013–2014.
Flaxman receives Mellon fellowship English and comparative literature associate professor Gregory Flaxman, director of Global Cinema Studies, received a $250,000 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship to study the connection between techniques used in classical painting and in cinema. Flaxman also was named visiting professor at Paris West University Nanterre La Défense. He was a Faculty Fellow in 2007 and 2008–2009.
Patrick Akos Education ALP Fellow Spring 2009 Elected to the American School Counseling Association board of directors. Barbara Ambros Religious Studies Faculty Fellow Fall 2008 Elected co-chair of the Committee of Japanese Religions Group of the American Academy of Religions; named to the steering committee and elected co-chair of the Animals and Religion Group of the American Academy of Religions; received publication subvention grants from the UNC University Research Council; and received publication subvention, travel and research grants from the Triangle Center for Japanese Studies/ Japan Foundation. Carol Arnosti Marine Sciences ALP Fellow Spring 2007 Received a UNC College of Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Research Initiative Award for “Shedding light on the ‘cheaters of the carbon cycle:’ a multi-disciplinary investigation” and a 16
fellowship from the Hanse Institute for Advanced Studies in Delmenhorst, Germany, for research with colleagues at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research and Max-Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology.
Janice Bardsley Asian Studies Faculty Fellow Fall 2004 and Fall 1998 Named chair of the Department of Asian Studies and received a $3,000 grant from the Northeast Council, Association for Asian Studies for research travel to Japan. Jane Brown School of Journalism and Mass Communications ALP Fellow Spring 2002 Faculty Fellow Fall 1997 Named 2013 Educator of the Year, Mass Communication and Society Division by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Jane Danielewicz English and Comparative Literature ALP Fellow Spring 2008 Faculty Fellow Spring 1998 Received a J. Carlyle Sitterson Freshman Teaching Award from UNC and a three-year
College Composition and Communication Conference research grant. Carl Ernst Religious Studies Faculty Fellow Spring 2014 and Spring 2001 ALP Fellow Spring 2009 Elected president-elect of the American Society for the Study of Religion. Arturo Escobar Anthropology Faculty Fellow 2003 and 2009–2010 Received a doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico. Mary Floyd-Wilson English and Comparative Literature ALP Fellow Spring 2010 Faculty Fellow Fall 2004 Named director of the Office of Distinguished Scholarships for UNC-Chapel Hill; awarded a Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professorship; awarded The Frank and Eleanor Griffiths Distinguished Chair in English Literature by the Bread Loaf School of English in Summer 2013; invited to the Shakespeare Institute’s 2014 International Shakespeare Conference in Stratford-upon-Avon; received a University Research Council Publication Grant to support research in Stratford-upon-Avon in the United Kingdom during 2014-2016; and received a UNC Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies grant for travel to the Renaissance Society of America Conference in New York City.
Gökarıksel wins NSF, National Geographic grants Geography associate professor Banu Gökarıksel was named principal investigator of a $376,219 National Science Foundation study, “Collaborative Research: The Role of Religion in Public Life in Turkey Today,” and collaborator on a $19,506 National Geographic Society study, “Islam, public space, and democracy in Turkey.” She was a Faculty Fellow in Spring 2008 and will be again in Spring 2015.
Gail Henderson Social Medicine ALP Fellow Spring 2011 Named chair of the search committee for the next director of UNC’s Office of Human Research Ethics and guest editor of a special issue of the journal, AIDS
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Ketch selected for teaching award Music professor James Ketch, director of jazz studies and the annual Carolina Jazz Festival, received UNC’s 2014 Student Undergraduate Teaching Award. He was a Faculty Fellow in Fall 1992, 2006 and 2012 and ALP Fellow in Spring 2002. and Behavior, “Contextualizing HIV/STI in China: Interdisciplinary Studies in a South China City,” with articles from her National Institutes of Health research grant, “Partnership for Social Science Research on HIV/AIDS in China.” Thomas Hill Philosophy Faculty Fellow Spring 2005, Spring 1997 and Summer 1992 Elected president of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division and received UNC’s 2014 Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement in Teaching Beyond the Classroom. Jim Hirschfield Art ALP Fellow Spring 2012 Faculty Fellow Fall 2001, Spring 1993 and Summer 1990 Received a public art commission from Fort Worth, Texas.
Kelly Hogan Biology Faculty Fellow Spring 2012 Received the 2014 Robert E. Bryan Public Service Award from UNC-Chapel Hill.
Charles Kurzman Sociology Faculty Fellow Spring 2001 Elected to the board of the Middle East Studies Association.
Kenneth Janken African, African American, and Diaspora Studies ALP Fellow Spring 2014 Faculty Fellow Spring 1994 and Fall 2001 Named interim director of the Center for the Study of the American South and to the editorial board of the Journal of American History.
Wayne Lee History Faculty Fellow Fall 2008 Named chair of the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense and received a 2014 Society for American Archaeology Scholarly Book of the Year Award for Light and Shadow: Isolation and Interaction in the Shala Valley of Northern Albania, co-edited with Michael Galaty, Ols Lafe and Zamir Tafilica.
Christopher Jones Mathematics ALP Spring 2005 Granted a Reynolds senior research leave by the UNC Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost. Angela Kashuba Pharmacy ALP Fellow Spring 2014 Named as the first pharmacy representative to the National Institutes of Health Advisory Committee on Research on Women’s Health and received a five-year National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases grant. Joy Kasson American Studies ALP Fellow Spring 2004 Faculty Fellow Spring 1998, Summer 1994 and Summer 1992 Received a three-year appointment as an Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Scholar for Carolina Performing Arts and a Mary C. Turpie Prize from the National American Studies Association for outstanding abilities and achievement in American Studies teaching, advising and program development at the local or regional level.
Marr named NEH fellow American studies associate professor Tim Marr was named 2013-2014 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the National Humanities Center for work on “’Muhammadans Under The American Flag:’ Moro-American Relations in the Muslim Philippines.” He was a Faculty Fellow in Spring 2003 and 2009.
Parker honored for diversity initiatives Patricia Parker, communications studies associate professor and director of diversity initiatives for the College of Arts and Sciences, received the 2014 University Diversity Award for Faculty. She was a Faculty Fellow in Fall 2002 and ALP Fellow in Spring 2011.
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Anne MacNeil Music Faculty Fellow Spring 2009 Received a Digital Innovation Lab/IAH Faculty Fellowship, access to the Digital Innovation Lab and a $15,000 project stipend for work on “Parsing Ottaviano Petrucci’s Prints;” an American Council of Learned Societies Digital Innovations Fellowship for a two-semester leave and $85,000 for “Mapping Secrets:” a $12,000 Dorothy Ford Wiley Grant to organize an interdisciplinary seminar about Isabella d’Este studies; and a $5,000 Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Fellowship for “On Jacopo’s Boat.” Patricia A. McAnany Anthropology Faculty Fellow Spring 2011 Serving as president-elect of the Archaeology Division of the American Anthropological Association 2013–2015; received a research fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University September-November 2014; and appointed as an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute in Santa Fe, N.M. Laurie McNeil Physics & Astronomy Faculty Fellow Fall 2004 ALP Fellow 2003 Elected co-chair of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers’ Joint Task Force on Undergraduate Physics Programs; received a Bernard Gray Distinguished Professorship; and received a National Science Foundation Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics grant for “Physics and Biology Partnership for a New Learning Environment.” Ruth Moose Creative Writing Faculty Fellow Fall 2008 Writer-in-residence February 2014 at Eastern Arizona College in Thatcher, Ariz., and winner of the $10,000 Malice Domestic award for Best First Novel for Doing it at the Dixie Dew, published by St. Martin’s Press in May 2014.
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Bobbi Owen Dramatic Art ALP Fellow Spring 2005 Faculty Fellow Fall 2001 and Summer 1990 Received a W. N. Reynolds Senior Faculty Research and Study Leave, a Peter T. Grauer Award for outstanding contributions to Honors Carolina and a William F. Little Award for Distinguished Service to the College of Arts and Sciences, and named a Harry Ransom Center Research Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and to Who’s Who in America 2014. John Pickles Geography ALP Spring 2007 Named distinguished visiting fellow for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, and granted a Nadácia VÚB distinguished visiting professorship in the department of public administration and regional development, Faculty of National Economy, at Economics University of Bratislava, Slovakia. Karla Slocum Anthropology Faculty Fellow Fall 2003 Named director of UNC’s Institute of African American Research. Lynda Stone School of Education Faculty Fellow Fall 1996 Her Samuel M. Holton Distinguished Professorship was renewed. Jeanne Moskal English & Comparative Literature Faculty Fellow Fall 1992 and Summer 1989 Named editor of the Keats-Shelley Journal and selected by the IAH to participate in an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-supported book manuscript workshop for her book-in-progress, “Jane Eyre’s Sisters: Women Missionaries and the Novel in the Age of Fundamentalism.” Layna Mosley Political Science Faculty Fellow Fall 2008 Named program co-chair for the 2015 American Political Science annual meeting.
Francesca Talenti Communication Studies Faculty Fellow Spring 2010 and Fall 2003 A new play written by Talenti, The Uncanny Valley, was performed in Brooklyn, N.Y. Hong-An Truong Art Faculty Fellow Spring 2013 Received a Carolina Asia Center Jimmy and Judy Cox Asia Initiative Summer Travel Award, a Jerome Foundation Fellowship to Franconia Sculpture Park and an Emerging Artist Fellowship to Socrates Sculpture Park.
Perreira named associate dean, receives major grant Public policy professor Krista Perreira was named director and associate dean of the Office for Undergraduate Research and received a $100,000 New Connections grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant for a study on implementing health care reform for immigrant populations. She was a Faculty Fellow in Spring 2008 and ALP Fellow Spring 2014.
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Perrin tapped for top research post Associate professor of pediatrics Eliana Perrin, M.D., M.P.H., was named associate vice chancellor for research. She also received major grants for interdisciplinary research from the National Institutes of Health. She was an ALP Fellow in Spring 2012.
Milada Anna Vachudova Political Science Faculty Fellow Spring 2005 Appointed chair of UNC’s Curriculum in Global Studies. Adam Versenyi Dramatic Art ALP Fellow Spring 2004 Faculty Fellow Fall 1993 Elected chair of the department of dramatic art and to a three-year term on the executive committee of the American Society of Theatre Research.
Shackelford named business school dean Dean and Meade H. Willis Distinguished Professor of Taxation Doug Shackelford was named dean of UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. He was an ALP Fellow in Spring 2007. Anthony Viera Family Medicine ALP Fellow Spring 2013 Selected for a Medical Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professorship by the UNC School of Medicine, an Educational Scholarship Award from the UNC School of Medicine Academy of Educators and an Outstanding Educational Program Award from the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research for the MDMPH Program he directs, and elected Fellow of the American Heart Association by the Council for High Blood Pressure Research. Jeff Whetstone Art Faculty Fellow Fall 2013 Selected for State of the Art, an exhibition of work by more than 100 contemporary American artists representing the face of American art at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
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“To move forward, we have to look outward and make our case to the public. I think engagement is the future of the Institute.” Mark Katz, Director, Institute for the Arts and Humanities
Transition marked the IAH’s 2013–2014 academic year as John McGowan passed the reins after eight years to a new director, Mark Katz. IAH asked the Institute’s three directors to reflect on its role during a spring conversation. Music Scholar and Innovator Named IAH Director Mark Katz, former chair of UNC’s music department, co-founder of UNC’s Beat Making Lab and director of the Next Level international music and dance exchange, took the IAH helm July 1. Katz brings significant assets to his leadership role at the Institute, says Terry Ellen Rhodes, senior associate dean for fine arts and humanities for UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences. “He is an inspiring scholar, teacher, fundraiser and administrator, committed to faculty excellence and creative engagement,” she says.
Directors Discuss the IAH’s Role and Future Shortly after Katz’s appointment as director, the IAH hosted a conversation with its three directors – founding director Ruel Tyson, outgoing director John McGowan and Katz. UNC College of Arts and Sciences Dean Karen Gil welcomed more than 50 faculty fellows, friends and supporters to the discussion, and she applauded the Institute for the key role it plays helping UNC attract and retain leading faculty. Katz says his vision for the IAH is inspired by a letter he received from Tyson, who noted that Hyde Hall has two entrances – one that faces campus and one that faces outward, to the town. “To move forward, we have to look outward and make our case to the public,” Katz said. “I think engagement is the future of the Institute.” 20
“[Mark Katz] is an inspiring scholar, teacher, fundraiser and administrator, committed to faculty excellence and creative engagement.” Terry Ellen Rhodes, Senior Associate Dean for Fine Arts and Humanities, UNC College of Arts and Sciences
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Former IAH directors (from left) Ruel Tyson and John McGowan join Director Mark Katz for a conversation moderated by Academic Leadership Fellow Jane Brown.
Board honors McGowan’s Service with Fellowship Current and former IAH board members paid tribute to John McGowan’s eight years as director by creating a faculty fellowship in his name, praising his mentoring spirit and skilled leadership. “By defining the IAH as a full-service faculty center, John McGowan worked tirelessly to support the Institute’s mission to recruit, retain and refresh a world-class faculty of teachers and scholars at UNC,” said IAH Advisory Board Chair Julia Sprunt Grumbles. During McGowan’s tenure, the Institute raised more than $12 million to support programs, added a leadership program for department chairs and created the Innovation Fund to support entrepreneurial, publicly engaged and cutting-edge faculty projects in the arts and humanities. McGowan helped secure a $1.4 million Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to create a Digital Humanities Initiative and a $115,000 Mellon grant for a new Medical Humanities initiative. He also helped seed campus-wide “conversations” featuring courses, lectures, performances and art focused on a single topic – the Rite of Spring at 100 in 2012–2013 and World War I Centenary Project in 2014–2015.
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BECOME A FRIEND
“UNC gave me a huge head start. It changed my life. I feel a need to pay that forward and give back to UNC.” Lane McDonald (ABJM ’00), IAH Advisory Board member
IAH Faculty Fellowships, the cornerstone on which all of our other programs were built, are one of the most powerful tools for recruiting and retaining top faculty and enabling them to continue growing as educators, researchers and leaders. Generous donations from alumni and Friends of the Institute have enabled the IAH to provide these fellowships for 27 years. But costs for semester-long leaves are rising and more fellowships are needed. Your unrestricted gift can help us continue offering fellowships as well as a rich portfolio of programs and activities that support faculty work and enrich the intellectual climate of our campus. Please consider making or increasing a gift to the IAH or remembering us in your will.
Alumna Lane McDonald provides financial support for IAH programs.
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A DV I S O RY B OA R D S IAH advisory boards provide financial support and programmatic guidance that make our work possible.
Institute Advisory Board 2014–2015 Steven P. Aldrich GoDaddy Sunnyvale, CA Victoria Tucker Borden Portraits South Greensboro, NC Max Carrol Chapman Jr. Gardner Capital Management Corp. Little Falls, NJ Sanford A. Cockrell III Deloitte & Touche LLP New York, NY John Gray Blount Ellison Jr. Ellison Co. Inc. Greensboro, NC Brian M. Fenty TodayTix New York, NY Duvall Fuqua Atlanta, GA Julia Sprunt Grumbles, Chair Chapel Hill, NC Robert Hackney First Eagle Investment Management New York, NY Barbara Rosser Hyde Hyde Family Foundations Memphis, TN
G. Allen Ives III Turnpike Properties Inc. Rocky Mount, NC
John F. White III JFW Properties Raleigh, NC
Michael D. Kennedy Korn Ferry International Atlanta, GA
John Robinson Wickham Collwick Capital LLC Charlotte, NC
Lane Morris McDonald Partners Group (USA) Inc. New York, NY
Caroline C. Williamson, Vice-Chair New York, NY
Alan Sanders Neely Sr. Korn Ferry International (retired) Atlanta, GA
Carol Payne Young Harry Norman Realtors Atlanta, GA
John C. O’Hara Jr. Rockefeller Financial New York, NY Roger Lee Perry Sr. East West Partners Management Co. Inc. Chapel Hill, NC Jane Bethell Preyer NC Environmental Defense Fund Raleigh, NC Nelson Schwab III Carousel Capital Charlotte, NC John L. Townsend III Tiger Management LLC New York, NY Ruel W. Tyson The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC
Carmen Hsu and Allen Anderson serve on the IAH’s Faculty Advisory Board.
Faculty Advisory Board 2014–2015 Allen Anderson Music Jocelyn Chua Anthropology Mark Crescenzi Political Science Jo Anne Earp Health Behavior Carmen Hsu Romance Languages Douglas MacLean Philosophy Kumarini Silva Communication Studies
Julia Sprunt Grumbles chairs the IAH Advisory Board. Members Max Chapman (center) and Nelson Schwab provide funds for key programs.
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James Thompson English & Comparative Literature
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Fellowship Program
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Mark Katz, Ph.D. Director The Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Distinguished Professor of Humanities Department of Music (919) 962-6831 mkatz@email.unc.edu
Michele Tracy Berger, Ph.D. Associate Director, Faculty Fellows Program Associate Professor, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (919) 962-3908 mtberger@email.unc.edu
Todd Ramon Ochoa, Ph.D. Associate Director, New Faculty Program Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies (919) 962-3934 tochoa@email.unc.edu
Maria LaMonaca Wisdom, Ph.D. Executive Director Adjunct Associate Professor Department of English and Comparative Literature (919) 843-2653 mwisdom@email.unc.edu
Development Allison Burnett Smith Director of Development (919) 962-2528 allison.smith@unc.edu Jeanine Simmons Assistant Director of Development (919) 962-0918 jeanine.simmons@unc.edu
Special Initiatives Kristen Lloyd Southworth Coordinator for Faculty Programs (919) 843-5464 lloydk@email.unc.edu
James Moeser, Ph.D. UNC Chancellor Emeritus Senior Fellow for Special Initiatives Professor, Department of Music (919) 962-2658 james_moeser@unc.edu
Academic Leadership Programs Kim Strom-Gottfried, Ph.D. Associate Director, Academic Leadership Program Smith P. Theimann Jr. Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Professional Practice School of Social Work (919) 962-6495 stromgot@email.unc.edu Bill Balthrop, Ph.D. Associate Director, Chairs Leadership Program Professor, Department of Communication Studies (919) 962-4982 vwb@email.unc.edu Rob Kramer Senior Leadership Consultant rob_kramer@unc.edu
Administration Christopher Meinecke Business Manager (919) 962-6830 meinecke@email.unc.edu Jean Chandler Business Assistant (919) 843-5108 chandlej@email.unc.edu Theresa Flores Events Coordinator (919) 962-0249 tflores@email.unc.edu
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“I see the IAH as one of the most important assets we have to attract and retain a stellar faculty. It brings faculty members together, gives them an opportunity to collaborate, to think, to imagine, to develop a vision and then to execute it all.” — KAREN GIL DEAN, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP FELLOW SPRING 2006
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