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Annual Highlights
30 years
2016 - 2017
The Institute empowers faculty to achieve their full potential by creating community and cultivating leadership.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Message from Leadership Faculty Fellowship Program Academic Leadership Program IAH Statistics Faculty Programs IAH Lectures Published Works and Honors Schwab Academic Excellence Awards Institute Highlights Advisory Boards Q & A with Nelson Schwab III Staff Contacts
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A Letter from the
Acting Director
A Letter from the
Advisory Board Chair
Dear Friends,
Dear Friends,
It has been a gratifying experience to serve as the Institute’s Acting Director this year while Mark Katz was away on research leave. My office has been in Hyde Hall ever since I left South Building in 2008, but this year I have been more than an observer of the daily and weekly activity in Hyde Hall. I have been in the middle of it.
I am writing as my tenure as chair of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities Advisory Board comes to an end. It has been an amazing two years of learning, collaborating, and doing. I have been on the board since 2006, but assumed the role of chair in 2015 from the esteemed Julia Sprunt Grumbles and followed in the footsteps of several other university leaders. I began my term just as our new director, Mark Katz, was finishing his first year, and we were creating our bylaws that formalized term limits, succession planning, and future board participation for the chair.
I am particularly grateful to the Institute Advisory Board and its chair, Caroline Williamson, whose idea it was for me to assume the acting directorship. This board is a pillar of strong support for the Institute, and their advice and counsel is critical to our success. Our organization is very well served by a talented and dedicated staff. I have enjoyed getting to know them on an individual basis and seeing up close not only their professionalism, but also the wonderful way they support each other and work collaboratively. Tommie Watson, Director of Operations, built this team and continues to develop and lead the staff. They played a crucial role in helping the Institute refine its mission and vision for the future. As important as the staff, the faculty remains the main source of leadership at the Institute. We have great faculty directing our core programs: Faculty Fellows and Academic Leadership programs, our two highly competitive fellowships, as well as our programs for new faculty, recently tenured associate professors, the Chairs Leadership Program, and our newest program for retired faculty. New fellows are chosen each year by the Faculty Advisory Board, which also advises the director in other matters as needed. In this year-end report, you will read about all the highlights, but I would like to focus on just a few that have been particularly meaningful to me. One of the things I did not anticipate was the increasingly important role that the Institute plays in faculty retention and commitment in the College of Arts and Sciences. As a top public university, our faculty are often approached with offers from other competitive schools. In the last three years, the Institute has seen a 91% success rate in retention cases in which we have participated. Most of that work happens behind the scenes, and when we are successful, that faculty member stays at Carolina, and continues to be a highly productive scholar and a great professor. Among our fellows, we enjoy a commitment to Carolina of 98% in the past three years. Our fellowships are truly helping to keep our best faculty. My happiest moment this year was when I had the opportunity to write to 20 faculty members informing them they had been awarded a $3,000 Schwab Academic Excellence Award. The Schwab Academic Excellence Award, endowed by advisory board member and former trustee Nelson Schwab III, allows 20 department chairs in the arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences to designate a faculty member to receive this $3,000 award to support that person’s scholarship and creative pursuits. The award is intended to support outstanding faculty work and function as an early intervening retention tool for departments to use at their discretion. You can read the names of this year’s recipients and some statements of their appreciation (page 15). We have also updated the look and feel of the IAH brand to align with the University’s. You will notice these changes in this edition of the Annual Highlights and the new website we launched in April. I am pleased by how well organized the new website is across all digital platforms. For me, this year is ending all too fast. I have loved being the Acting Director for the Institute. Thanks to everyone who has made this year so enjoyable. This fall, we welcome Mark Katz back as director, after a year of intensive research and travel related to his grants and work on two books. I look forward to participating in the Retired Faculty Program and to the publication of my major addresses as UNC Chancellor through UNC Press. Next year promises to be an exciting year for the University and for the Institute. I can’t wait to see it unfold. To be continued…
JAMES MOESER, D.M.A. IAH Acting Director Chancellor Emeritus Professor, Music
Mark Katz and I began our time together with a strategic planning session provided by board member Sandy Cockrell, and his team at Deloitte. We reviewed all the Institute has been able to accomplish over its 30-year history, we evaluated how we could make an impact as individuals, we decided where we could highlight the Institute’s work on campus, and what we wanted to improve within the organization. It has been an invaluable tool for us to use as both a roadmap and a personal report card. One of my goals has been to further the reach of the Institute and its programs in supporting the College of Arts and Science and, by extension, the university. I met with several deans throughout campus about possible partnerships. As a result, the Institute has supported a Faculty Fellow from the Law School and and will soon host a fellow from the Kenan-Flagler School of Business. We also combined with the Honors Carolina Board to meet with honors students, learn the mission of each other’s boards and, of course, socialize. One outcome of our discussions is that we are using our Friday Fund as a joint board collaboration to pair honors students with our Fellows to serve as their research associates. Chancellor Carol Folt is gathering leaders at Hyde Hall, bringing more awareness about our work. A mentoring reception for Morehead-Cain Scholars with our current Fellows, started by Robert Hackney and Shauna Holiman, creates interactions between students and faculty outside the traditional classroom. We also piloted the IAH Honors Carolina Collaboration Grant with the generous support of the William C. Friday Leadership Fund. At the leadership level, I participated in a panel discussion with other institutes within the college on a range of topics, from board development and engagement to fundraising. At this meeting, we distributed our board packet dashboard to several participants, who were impressed and wanted to use them as a template for their boards. A special thanks to Tommie Watson for updating our metrics so we can track our progress and learn from our initiatives. I have given my time and resources to the Institute, and will continue to do so after I rotate off my position as chair, because I love that the collaborative spirit that began around the table at West House 30 years ago during those first Fellows’ Friday bag lunches continues in new ways today at Hyde Hall. Our organization stays true to its original mission by providing a semester-long leave to faculty to work on their scholarship, opening up new ways to mentor, host, and collaborate to make the Institute great and ultimately commit the best faculty to Carolina. Our work has an impact on the future. Chancellor Folt often calls the Institute a jewel in the University’s crown, and as I pass the leadership torch to Nelson Schwab III, I can’t wait to see what we do to set the stage for the next 30 years.
CAROLINE WILLIAMSON Advisory Board Chair
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Fall 2016
Faculty Fellows BARBARA AMBROS
DOROTHEA HEITSCH
JOHN ROBERTS
DAVID BAKER
CHRISTIAN LENTZ
JINA VALENTINE
ELIZABETH ENGELHARDT
JEANNIE LOEB
ACLS Burkhardt/Legacy Fellow Professor, Religious Studies Sanctuary: Religion and Human-Wildlife Relationships in Contemporary Japan DIL/Preyer Fellow Peter G. Phialas Distinguished Professor, English & Comparative Literature MACMORRIS Taylor Fellow John Shelton Reed Distinguished Professor, American Studies The Lost Story of the Southern Boardinghouse
Chapman Fellow Senior Lecturer, Romance Studies Interreligious Dialogue in the Early Modern World Borden Fellow Assistant Professor, Geography Bounded Revolutions: Dien Bien Phu and the Making of Northwest Vietnam Chapman Fellow Senior Lecturer, Psychology and Neuroscience Teaching Tips from Award-Winning UNC Instructors
Townsend Fellow Professor, Philosophy Puzzlement and Its Relief: An Account of Explanation and Understanding DIL/Cramer Fellow Assistant Professor, Art The Black Lunch Table
ROBIN VISSER
McGowan Fellow Associate Professor, Asian Studies Bordering Chinese Eco-Literatures (1984-2014)
JENNIFER GATES-FOSTER
FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS Faculty Fellowships offer Carolina faculty members a unique opportunity: a semester-long, on-campus fellowship to work on projects for publication, exhibition, composition, or performance. IAH Fellowships are a key part of the College of Arts and Sciences’ efforts to retain the best faculty at Carolina. The fellowship centers on a weekly three-hour seminar and meal at Hyde Hall, where Fellows exchange ideas with seven to 10 peers from various disciplines. The fellowship allows the Fellow a full semester to pursue a project that ultimately enriches his or her research and teaching. Once appointed, Fellows join an expanding community of artists and scholars who receive ongoing support from their
new network of colleagues. The Institute provides proposal assistance to help Fellows attract outside funding and summer fellowships, and we support conferences, lectures, workshops, exhibits, and performances. Through IAH Fellowships, faculty at all ranks pursue projects vitally related to the arts, humanities, or qualitative social sciences. In each group of Fellows, we support a blend of ranks and disciplines. In a climate of diminished resources, increased teaching loads, and high expectations for publications, the Faculty Fellowship provides the invaluable gift of time for faculty to reinvigorate their scholarship.
Spring 2017 Faculty Fellow Morgan Pitelka (Asian Studies), left, listens as Meenu Tewari (City and Regional Planning) engages the discussion at the cohort’s last session. Samuel Amago (Romance Studies) and Lien Truong (Art) are shown in the foreground.
Schwab Fellow Assistant Professor, Classics The Archaeology of Borderlands in Hellenistic Egypt
Spring 2017
Faculty Fellows SAMUEL AMAGO
MORGAN PITELKA
GABRIEL TROP
DEBORAH GERHARDT
DANIEL SHERMAN
LIEN TRUONG
Blackwell Fellow Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor, Romance Studies Doing Things with Garbage in Contemporary Spain Law School Fellow Associate Professor, Law School Owning Colors
CARA MCCOMISH
Invest in us:
An expendable gift of $65,000 funds a one-time Faculty Fellowship. An endowment of $1,300,000 provides a named Faculty Fellowship every year in perpetuity.
Chapman Fellow Assistant Professor, Allied Health Sciences Teaching and Mentoring the Next Generation of Diverse Students in Speech Language Pathology
DAVE PIER
Pardue Fellow Assistant Professor, AAAD The Bard on the Radio: Memory, Morality, and Politics in Ugandan Pop Music
Dubose Fellow Professor, Asian Studies Sixteenth-Century Losers: A History of Daily Life and Destruction in Late Medieval Japan Bernstein Fellow Lineberger Distinguished Professor Art and History Sensations: French Archaeology Between Science and Spectacle
BEVERLY TAYLOR
Espy Fellow Professor, Engish & Comparative Literature Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Turner Fellow Assistant Professor, Germanic & Slavic Literatures Attraction and Indifference: Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Nature Whitton Fellow Assistant Professor, Art Mutiny in the Garden
MOLLY WORTHEN
Burress Fellow Assistant Professor, History Spellbound Nation: Charisma in American History
MEENU TEWARI
Belk Fellow Associate Professor, City & Regional Planning Ecologies of Risk and the Political Economy of Adaptation Stories
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2016-2017 Annual Highlights
THE INSTITUTE BY THE NUMBERS.
ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP PROGRAM FELLOWSHIPS
The Institute for the Arts and Humanities helps prepare and support current and emerging academic leaders through our Academic Leadership Program (ALP). Eight Fellows are selected annually to engage in a series of activities to help them develop leadership skills, clarify their career commitments, build a leadership network within the campus, and extend their contacts to other leaders beyond the University. Because the ALP requires a significant time commitment, a flexible use stipend of $5,000 is provided for each participant.
Fellowship Year:
• A week of leadership training with the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, N.C., one of the world’s most respected leadership development organizations. Fellows participate in CCL programs with senior executives from the military, government, business and the not-for-profit sector. • Semester-long weekly seminars in the spring in which faculty discuss critical issues facing the University and formulate possible responses • Opportunities to meet with senior leaders inside and outside the University • One overnight retreat and one full-day retreat focused on career development, leadership skill assessment and the creation of a personal vision
Post Fellowship:
After the Fellowship year, Fellows receive opportunities to: • Participate with their colleagues in a continuing monthly Leadership Forum • Attend additional workshops, short courses and seminars on advanced topics in academic leadership • Attend conferences and workshops on topics of concern to faculty and the University • Meet with University and state leaders to discuss important issues facing the University
Eligibility:
Academic Leadership Fellows must be tenured faculty or fixed term faculty members. Fixed term faculty must have at least seven years of service at UNC in a primarily instructional role. Applicants must submit applications during the fall semester. All applicants are required to submit both an application and receive two recommendations.
Academic Leadership Program Class of 2016-2017
GARY CUDDEBACK School of Social Work
HEIDI HENNINK-KAMINSKI School of Media and Journalism
KARIN PFENNIG Biology
TANYA SHIELDS
Women’s and Gender Studies
98%
807
91%
FELLOWS COMMITTED TO STAY AT CAROLINA IN THE LAST THREE YEARS
NUMBER OF FELLOWS SINCE THE INSTITUTE WAS ESTABLISHED
SUCCESS RATE IN RETENTION CASES IN WHICH THE INSTITUTE WAS INVOLVED
67
500
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NUMBER OF 2016-2017 APPLICANTS TO FACULTY FELLOWS PROGRAM; 12 WERE ACCEPTED.
CUMULATIVE YEARS OF TEACHING BY THE 2016-17 ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP PROGRAM AND FACULTY FELLOWS
NUMBER OF DEPARTMENTS SUPPORTED BY THE INSTITUTE
72 NUMBER OF GRANTS AWARDED TO FACULTY IN 2016-17
BETSY SLEATH School of Pharmacy
CONGHE SONG Geography
JEFFREY JOHNSON Chemistry
AMY WEIL
School of Medicine
Above: IAH senior Leadership Consultant Rob Kramer, foreground left, listens to a presentation at the Academic Leadership Program Retreat with ALP Fellows Tanya Shields (Women’s and Gender Studies) and Heidi Hennink-Kaminski (School of Media and Journalism).
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NUMBER OF EVENTS HELD AT HYDE HALL IN 2016-17
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Connecting our faculty’s passion with purpose. FAREWELL
BILL BALTHROP,
Chairs Leadership Program Director
Department of Communication Professor Bill Balthrop joined the IAH team at the genesis of the initiative in 2008. As of June 30, he steps down from his position as Chairs Leadership Program Director.
FACULTY PROGRAMS In addition to our fellowships, the Institute supports programs for faculty at every stage of their career. We begin from the moment new faculty arrive for their first semester, through the tenure process, networking, research, leadership opportunities, and retirement. IAH programs support Carolina scholars and artists because we believe that our faculty are crucial to the university’s success.
New Faculty Program
Program Director: Associate Professor Mai Nguyen, City and Regional Planning The New Faculty Program is designed to introduce newly-arrived arts and humanities faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences to interdisciplinary and mentoring networks at the university. The program engages a cohort of faculty through professional and social events throughout the academic year. It is open to full-time faculty at all ranks who are within their first three years of appointment at Carolina. The majority of participants are Assistant Professors.
Associate Professor Program
Program Director: Morehead-Cain Alumni Distinguished Professor Geoff Sayre-McCord, Philosophy When faculty earn tenure, they are promoted from Assistant to Associate Professor. Across disciplines, newly tenured professors face unique professional and personal challenges. This program is designed to support them as they enter this period of their career. The Associate Professor Program is co-sponsored by the Institute and the College of Arts and Sciences. All College faculty are invited to participate in the program in the first year following their promotion to associate professor. The program events provide time and space for participants to forge connections beyond their departments and to discuss professional and academic issues of common interest. Discussions focus on topics such as: sustaining work-life balance at mid-career, managing increased expectations and opportunities for university service, developing leadership and negotiating skills, preparing for promotion to full professor, and positioning oneself in the academy as an established scholar.
Above: Professor Emerita Jane Brown (School of Media and Journalism) was one of the founding co-facilitators of the Retired Faculty Program, along with Professor Emerita Pat Pukkila (Biology) and IAH Founder Ruel Tyson.
Chairs Leadership Program
Program Director: Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor Peter Mucha, Mathematics Modeled on the Academic Leadership Program (ALP), the Chairs Leadership Program (CLP) offers newly appointed and re-appointed chairs a year of monthly confidential conversations in which they can identify best practices, and explore issues related to the important roles they play within the university. Topics for discussion may include the chair’s role in mentoring and evaluating new faculty, developing incentives, and rewards for faculty productivity, 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. All newly appointed or reappointed chairs in the College of Arts and Sciences are eligible to participate in the year of their appointment or reappointment. IAH Senior Leadership Consultant Rob Kramer helps facilitate the program.
Retired Faculty Program
“The departmental chair’s position is one of the most critical academic leadership positions in the College,” says Balthrop. “It’s a critical, and very stressful, position” agrees Mark Katz, IAH Director and former chair of the Department of Music. “That’s why the CLP is so important—it is both a place of refuge and a great source of wisdom and best practices. Bill deserves so much credit for helping to create this lifeline for Carolina’s chairs. We owe him a great deal.” Balthrop also served as interim Director of the Institute in 2010 and hosted the ambitious and important “A Symposium on Faculty Innovation” at Hyde Hall that year. This summer Balthrop is in Europe conducting research into memorials. “I am currently working broadly at the intersection of rhetorical and cultural practices. I am working on an analysis of the rhetorical functions performed by the American memorials and monuments constructed in Europe following World War I and World War II.” Balthrop’s legacy in starting and maintaining the Chairs Leadership Program continues as Peter Mucha assumes the role this year. “An ongoing, professional network, in which knowledge and experience can be shared with candor, is an important additional support system for new and continuing chairs,” explains Balthrop. “That place of safety to address issues they can’t talk about anywhere else is what makes the program most useful for them.”
WELCOME
PETER MUCHA,
Chairs Leadership Program Director
Beginning July 1, Peter Mucha begins his work as the Chairs Leadership Program (CLP) Director. He succeeds Bill Balthrop, who was the founding chair of the program. Mucha, the Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor in Mathematics, came to UNC in 2005. “When Mark Katz asked me if I would be willing to be CLP Director, it was immediately an exciting opportunity for me,” said Mucha. He has varied experience in leadership roles. He served as chair of the Mathematics Department in 2010. He joined CLP as a new chair when Balthrop was the director. In 2012, he was appointed founding chair of the Applied Physical Sciences Department in 2015.
Co-facilitators: Louis Round Wilson Distinguished Professor Emerita Barbara Moran, School of Information and Library Science; W. R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor Emerita Barbara Wasik, School of Education
IAH Director Mark Katz says that Mucha’s experience in the role of chair at both an established department and an emerging interdisciplinary department have served him well.
This program is a collaboration between the UNC Retired Faculty Association and the Institute. Both organizations are committed to the vitality and well-being of the UNC faculty.
Mucha said he was inspired by Bill Balthrop when he participated in the program back in 2010.
Recognizing retirement as a life-shaping event, the purpose of this program is to contribute to the process of deliberation of faculty members entering retirement as a new stage of life. This includes service, research, leadership, and mentorship. Preparation for retirement is particularly challenging for members of the academy who have spent many years in a position of research, teaching and leadership in the university and larger community. Preserving and advancing the knowledge gathered during an academic career in the post-retirement lifetime requires not only a thoughtful examination of personal retirement issues, but also consideration of how this knowledge might have impact.
“He has served as a leader and has broad experience to share,” said Katz. “Bill Balthrop talked about how the department chair is one of the most essential position in the College of Arts and Sciences,” said Mucha. According to Mucha, since the faculty see the chair as an administrator and the administration views chairs as more aligned with the faculty, the Institute’s CLP is crucial. At Hyde Hall, the program is creating community among chairs. Bringing in more senior chairs to the program is part of that effort. “Who else on campus is dealing with that? It is potentially a very lonely position. For most it’s their first academic leadership role.” Mucha will facilitate the program alongside Rob Kramer, who has served as Senior Leadership Consultant for the Institute. Kramer also facilitates the Academic Leadership Program with ALP Director Suzanne Gulledge. “I am so thrilled to be part of the IAH team,” said Mucha.
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Upcoming Lectures
LECTURES Weil 2017 Lecture:
Dr. William J. Barber
At right, Bard College President and American Symphony Orchestra Conductor Leon Botstein delivers the 23rd Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies at Graham Memorial. Below, the audience gathers with Botstein for a reception.
Zia Haider Rahman
2017 Reckford Lecture:
Leon Botstein
“Music emancipates you from the tyranny of time.” American Symphony Orchestra Conductor and Bard College President Leon Botstein delivered the 23rd Annual Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies entitled, “Sounding Forms: What Music and Its Practice Reveals About Modern European History.” The lecture examined the aesthetics of music from the 19th century through 1945. Acting Director James Moeser welcomed the audience. Executive Director for the Arts Emil Kang introduced Botstein by discussing his work as a conductor, referring to him as “maestro.” Botstein began by noting, “I don’t normally do this sort of thing, but I was attracted to the lecture’s mission of pleasure in an academic talk,” a request from the endowment that the lecture provide “pleasure, instruction, an interdisciplinary approach and a sense of shared humanity.” He discussed, “in the 1830s after the fall of Napoleon, modernizing the piano changed music literacy.” To watch a video of the lecture, please visit the Institute’s YouTube channel at http://bit.ly/2timvr0.
Reckford 2018 Lecture:
About Mary Stevens Reckford The Institute hosts the annual Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies, established in 1990 by UNC Classics Professor Kenneth J. Reckford to honor his wife, Mary Stevens Reckford (February 25, 1934 – November 12, 1987). The lecture is designed to appeal to the public, rather than specialists. Speakers are asked to provide “pleasure, instruction, an interdisciplinary approach and a sense of shared humanity.” Because Mary Reckford’s birthday is Feb. 25, the Institute hosts the lecture within the month of February. A graduate of Lesley College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Mary Reckford took graduate courses at UNC through the Evening College (now known as The William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education) for five years, studying such topics as Renaissance intellectual history, St. Augustine, sixteenth-century English literature, Arthurian literature, the Mediterranean world in the sixteenth century, and the history of science from the late-medieval period through the eighteenth century. She was mother to the Reckford’s five children, Rachel, Joseph, Jonathan, Sam and Sarah.
North Carolina’s Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II will deliver the 2017 Weil Lecture The Institute for the Arts and Humanities announces that Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II will deliver the 2017 Weil Lecture on American Citizenship, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017, at Moeser Auditorium in Hill Hall. Barber is the pastor at Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro. He has served as president of the North Carolina National Association of Advancement for Colored People (NC NAACP) and sits on the national board of the organization. Barber is most recently well known as the architect of the Moral Mondays Movement, a weekly protest of the state legislature in Raleigh. He announced in May that he would step down from his role at the NC NAACP to begin the national Poor People’s Campaign. “As one of the great figures in American public life today, Rev. Barber is an ideal person to deliver the lecture,” said Mark Katz, IAH Director. “We are honored and delighted that he will be in our midst come October.” Barber graduated from North Carolina Central University (NCCU), receiving a B.A. in Political Science. He received a Master of
Divinity degree from Duke University, and he was a Benjamin Mays Fellow and a Dean scholar. Barber has a Doctoral degree from Drew University in Madison, N.J., with a concentration in Public Policy and Pastoral Care, and he has received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from NCCU. The Honorable Governor Beverly Purdue presented Dr. Barber with the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, North Carolina’s highest citizenship award presented to outstanding North Carolinians who have a proven record of service to the state. Activist and author Dr. Cornel West, the 1993 Weil Lecturer, has said of Barber that he is “the closest person we have to Martin Luther King in our midst.”
The lecture will be held Wednesday, October 11, 2017 at 5:30 p.m., followed immediately by a Q&A session. The Weil Lecture is a biennial series sponsored by the Weil Family since 1915. The first lecture was by former president William H. Taft after he finished his term but before he served on the U.S. Supreme Court. Other notable lecturers include Jon Huntsman, Jimmy Carter and Eleanor Roosevelt. The 2015 lecturer was U.S. Congressman Barney Frank.
The Institute is thrilled to announce Zia Haider Rahman, author of the highly acclaimed 2014 novel In Light of What We Know, will deliver the 2018 Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies. Rahman is Bangladesh-born but raised and educated in Great Britain. He currently holds the Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University and the Director’s Visitorship at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He graduated from Oxford and also studied at Cambridge and Yale. He worked as an investment banker for Goldman Sachs before practicing as a corporate lawyer and then as an international human rights lawyer. He has also worked as an anti-corruption activist. The lecture will be held February 22, 2018 at Hyde Hall. Tickets will be available in January. Stay tuned for updates on iah.unc.edu.
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PUBLISHED WORK & HONORS 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 2016–2017.
SAMUEL AMAGO
Spanish Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor of Spanish Faculty Fellow: Spring 2017 Co-authored: Vademécum del cine Iberoamericano: Métodos y Teorías, 2016 Appointed: Chair of the Department of Romance Studies
CEMIL AYDIN
MARIANNE GINGHER
English & Comparative Literature Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2000 and Spring 2008 Performance: “Beauty and the Botanist,” original play about a magical episode in the life of famous Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus. Written, created, produced, and acted by me and my company, Jabberbox Puppet Theater. Performed weekends May 19, 2017-June 21, 2017, a total of 16 shows, Greensboro.
History Associate Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2014 Publication: The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History, 2017 Promotion: Full Professor
STEPHANIE ELIZONDO GRIEST
MISHA BECKER
KAREN HAGEMANN
Linguistics Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2012 Promotion: Full Professor 2017
MELISSA MERIAM BULLARD
History Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2011 Publication: Brooklyn’s Renaissance: Commerce, Culture, and Community in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World, 2017.
CARL W. ERNST
Religious Studies William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2001, Spring 2014; Academic Leadership Fellow: Spring 2009 Publications: Refractions of Islam in India, 2017 Awards: Global Humanities Translation Award, from Buffett Institute for Global studies, Northwestern University, 2017, for the forthcoming translation from Arabic of Poems of a Sufi Martyr, by Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj
JENNIFER GATES-FOSTER
Classics Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2016 Award: Tanner Teaching Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching 2017
DEBORAH R. GERHARDT
School of Law Associate Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2017 Honors: Selected to Serve on the Board for the American Association of Law Schools Intellectual Property Section for 2017-2018. Selected to Participate in West Academic Publishing’s Innovation Summit St. Paul, Minnesota July 2016
Creative Nonfiction Writing Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2015 Publication: All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands, 2017 (UNC Press, 2017) History James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2008 Award: Hans Rosenberg Prize for the best book in Central European History by the Central European History Society for Revisiting Prussia’s Wars against Napoleon: History, Culture, and Memory, 2015
JENNIFER HO
English & Comparative Literature Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2008 and Fall 2012 Academic Leadership Fellow: Spring 2016 Award: SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association) best monograph award for Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture, 2015 Promotion: Full Professor
KELLY HOGAN
Biology Associate Teaching Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2011 Co-authored: Campbell Biology: Concepts and Connections, 9th Edition, 2017 Promotions: Assistant Dean of Instructional Innovation; Appointed QEP Director
THOMAS HOFWEBER
Philosophy Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2016 Publication: Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics, 2016
KENNETH JANKEN
African, African American, & Diaspora Studies Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 1994 and Fall 2001 Academic Leadership Fellow: Spring 2014 Publication: The Wilmington Ten: Violence, Injustice, and the Rise of Black Politics in the 1970s, 2016 Award: The Wilmington Ten was awarded the 2017 Clarendon Cup by the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society for best book in the preceding year on the history of the Lower Cape Fear region.
MARK KATZ
Music Ruel W. Tyson, Jr. Distinguished Professor Faculty Fellow: 2011 Grants: United States Department of State, $800,000, 2016; National Endowment for the Humanities, $50,000, 2016; Thrive@Carolina $25,000, 2016 Award: Dent Medal, Royal Musical Association (2016)
MARC LANGE
Philosophy Theda Perdue Distinguished Professor and Chair Faculty Fellow: Spring 2011 Publication: Because Without Cause: Non-Causal Explanation in Science and Mathematics, 2016
CHRISTIAN C. LENTZ
Geography Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2017 Award: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship for Assistant Professors, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, NJ
LAUREN LEVE
Religious Studies Associate Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2007 Publication: The Buddhist Art of Living in Nepal: Ethical Practice and Religious Reform, 2016
PAMELA LOTHSPEICH
Asian Studies Associate Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2012 Award: American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Research Fellowship with funds from National Endowment for the Humanities ($16,800, Fall 2017)
PATRICIA A. MCANANY
Anthropology Kenan Distinguished Professor, Chair Faculty Fellow: Spring 2011 Publication: Maya Cultural Heritage: How Archaeologists and Indigenous Communities Engage the Past. Exhibit: Revitalizing Maya History, Heritage, and Identity: My View from the Archives. Pleasants Room, Wilson Library, 2017. Grant: “Maya from the Margins: Archives and Experiences of History, Identity, and Migration.” U.S. State Department (administered by the American Alliance for Museums), $85,000. 2016-2017 Honor: Selected to deliver the V. Gordon Childe Lecture at University College London on May 2, 2017, awarded by the Department of Archaeology at UCL. Promotion: Chair, Department of Anthropology, 2017.
ANNE MACNEIL
Music Associate Professor Fall 2014; Fall 2009 Honor: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Digital Publications, 2017-18
JOSEPH L. MEGEL
Communication Artist in Residence Faculty Fellow: Fall 2011 Awards: National Endowment of the Arts $15,000: Streetsigns Center (theatre) for production of “Closer Than They Appear,” 2017; Arts Everywhere $10,000: Process Series 2017-18” Promotion: Teaching Professor
HASSAN MELEHY
Romance Studies Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2012 Publication: A Modest Apocalypse (2017)
RUTH MOOSE
English & Comparative Literature Professor Emeritus Faculty Fellow: Fall 2008 Publication: Wedding Bell Blues, 2016
ELLIOTT MORETON
Linguistics Associate Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2016 Grant: National Science Foundation Collaborative Proposal “Inside Phonological Learning”; total of $628,000 across two sites UNC-CH and UMass-Amherst
CHÉRIE RIVERS NDALIKO
Music Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2014 Publication: Necessary Noise: Music, Film, and Charitable Imperialism in the East of Congo, 2016
DONALD M. NONINI
Anthropology Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2007 Awards: Wenner Gren Foundation Award, $20,000. Luce Senior Visiting Fellow (Invited), Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 2016
TODD RAMON OCHOA
Religious Studies Associate Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2012 Award: National Humanities Center Fellow 2017-2018
MORGAN PITELKA
Asian Studies and History Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2017 Award: Winner of the 2016 Book Prize, Southeastern Conference of the Association of Asian Studies, for Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability
PETER REDFIELD
Anthropology Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2003 Award: Institute for Advanced Study Residential Fellowship, 2016-17
C.D.C. REEVE
Philosophy Delta Kappa Epsilon Distinguished Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2010 Publication: Aristotle: Politics: A New Translation with Introduction and Notes, 2017
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2016-2017 Annual Highlights
MICHELE RIVKIN-FISH
Anthropology Associate Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2013 Exhibit: ANTH 248 and I organized a public exhibit entitled, “Keep Out of Reach of Children: The Effects of Inequality on Children’s Lives” in Alumni Building, May 1-31, 2016. Grant: Peer-to-Peer Dialogue Grant ($94,000) from the U.S. State Department and U.S. Embassy in Moscow for the project, “Increasing Public Awareness about the Effects of Inequality on Children’s Lives.”
STEVE ROSEFIELDE
Economics Professor Publication: Transformation and Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe: Challenges and Prospects (with Bruno Dallago), Routledge, 2016; Kremlin Strikes Back: Russia and the West after Crimea’s Annexation, Cambridge University Press, 2017; The Trump Phenomenon and Future of US Foreign Policy (with Quinn Mills), Singapore: World Scientific, 2016
Performances: “King Mackerel & The Blues Are Running” at Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro, NC (Dec 9th-11th, 2016); and at Joslyn Hall, Morehead City, NC (April 8th-9th, 2017), these performances sponsored by the North Carolina Coastal Federation and the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center, celebrating the 35th anniversary of NCCF and the 25th anniversary of CSWM&HC; “King Mackerel” is a collaboration with Jim Wann, Don Dixon, with additional material by Jerry Leath Mills. Promotion: Served as Interim Chair, Dept of English & Comparative Literature, 2016-17
MEENU TEWARI
City and Regional Planning Associate Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2017 Publication: Labor in Global Value Chains in Asia (with Dev Nathan and Sandip Sarkar), 2016. Grants: Fostering Interdisciplinary Research Explorations (FIRE) Grant, ($25,000) with Dr. Nancy Rodriguez, Department of Mathematics Promotions/Appointments: Master’s Admissions Director (City and Regional Planning); Global Planning Educators Interest Group (GPEIG), of the American Collegiate Schools of Planning
DIRECTOR EMERITUS JOHN MCGOWAN IS AWARDED THE 2016 JOHNSON PRIZE John McGowan, the John W. and Anna H. Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Director Emeritus of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, is the 2016 recipient of the George H. Johnson Prize for Distinguished Achievement by an IAH Fellow.
recipient $7,500 and a banquet in his/her honor. Janet and George Johnson consider this a very important award and are delighted to be involved with the ceremony, scheduled for Nov. 4.
Presented by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences, where McGowan served as Director from 20072014, the Johnson Prize is a lifetime achievement award.
In his 24 years at Carolina, McGowan authored and edited dozens of works on philosophy, political theory, and literary studies. He is a founding and active member of UNC’s Program in Cultural Studies, was the first Director of the Graduate School’s Royster Society of Fellows, and in 2015 he received the Graduate Mentoring Award. His involvement with the IAH has included the genesis of the organization.” “I got involved in the IAH almost the day I arrived on campus, said McGowan. “I got pulled into West House within two weeks. [IAH Founder and professor] Ruel Tyson had gathered this intellectual community and created the organization.
“I know John McGowan—a renowned scholar of literary and political theory—best through his role as the second Director of the IAH, and my predecessor,” said IAH Director Mark Katz, who is on research leave. “In his eight years at the IAH he worked tirelessly to promote the scholarship and welfare of Carolina’s faculty, whether through funding research and collaboration, creating programs to attend to the needs of professors at different stages of their careers, or simply engaging in enthusiastic intellectual conversation with whomever came through Hyde Hall. With this award we recognize how deeply the IAH, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the University are in his debt.” The IAH began granting the biennial award in 2008. George Johnson is one of the Institute’s greatest ambassadors, and the IAH created this award to honor George while at the same time recognizing exemplary contributions by faculty in the arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences. The biennial award provides the
KUMARINI SILVA
Department of Communication Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2014 Publication: Brown Threat: Identification in the Security State, 2016 Promotion: Associate Professor
BLAND SIMPSON
English & Comparative Literature Kenan Distinguished Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 1998, Fall 2006
“I was thrilled [to learn I won the award],” said McGowan. “George is one of the great people in the world. To be associated with him is wonderful.”
From there he went on to participate in and then run the Faculty Fellows and the Academic Leadership programs before becoming the associate director and then IAH director in 2007. McGowan says his latest class last semester — on the Iliad, Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, among others — is an example of the joy of teaching UNC students. Students of different disciplines contributed greatly to the class. “We have these astounding students and there’s moments every day when you see the light bulb go on, and a student gets excited about something.”
SILVIA TOMÁŠKOVÁ
Women’s and Gender Studies, Anthropology Professor and Chair of WGST Faculty Fellow: 2004 Academic Leadership Fellow: 2015 Award: 2016-18 National Geographic Society ($23,000)
HONG-AN TRUONG
Art Associate Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2013 Solo Exhibitions: Lump Gallery, Raleigh; Nhà Sàn
Collective, Hanoi, Vietnam Group Exhibitions: Spaces Gallery, Cleveland; Newspace Center for Photography, Portland; Soho20 Gallery, New York; Performance at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Residency: at Marble House Projects (Vermont)
LIEN TRUONG
Art Assistant Professor Solo Exhibitions: Seeping of a Ghost, Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia, 2016; Musings on an Origin, Spectre Arts, Durham, 2016 ; Startup Art Fair, Chicago, 2016 Group Exhibitions: Show Off: Digiscapes! Curated by Anthony Hamilton, Lump, Raleigh, 2017; Art on Paper, Curated by Emily Stamey, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, 2017; Objectifying Myself: Works by Women Artists from the Pennsylvania Academy of Arts, The William Benton Museum of Art, CT, 2017; For Liberty and Justice for Some, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, 2017; Shimmer, Light and Design Gallery, Chapel Hill, 2017 Grants/honors: North Carolina Artist Fellowship ($10,000), North Carolina Arts Council, 2016-2017; Artist-in-Residence (fully funded) , The Marble House Project, Dorset, VT, 2016
JINA VALENTINE
Art Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2016 Solo Exhibitions: Aporia, Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill Jina Valentine & Hong An Truong: New Works, Biggin Gallery, Auburn University Black Lunch Table events during this period: University of Toronto, Canada Boston University, Boston, MA Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA UNC Chapel Hill; Tarble Art Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, SC BRIC Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY; Brooklyn Museum, NY All Rise project (with Hong-An Truong) spring 2017, UNC (with IAH Arts & Social Justice Grant); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Group Exhibitions: Art On Paper, The Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro; Jina Valentine & Jayden Moore 21C Hotel Collection, Durham; Enscribe, The Front Gallery, New Orleans; Anywhere But Here, LUMP Gallery, Raleigh; The Nothing That Is, The Carnegie, Covington, KY; Awards: Creative Capital Emerging Fields Grant; North Carolina Arts Council Individual Artist Grant
ADAM VERSÉNYI
Dramatic Art Professor and Chair Faculty Fellow: 1993 Academic Leadership Fellow: Spring 2004 Ramón Griffero: Your Desires in Fragments and Other Plays Honor: Eugene O’Neill Foundation Travis Bogard Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, Tao House, Danville, CA
ROBIN VISSER
Asian Studies Associate Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2016 Award: National Humanities Center Fellowship, 2017-2018
BENJAMIN C. WATERHOUSE
History Associate Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2014 Publication: The Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States , 2017
MOLLY WORTHEN
History Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2017 Award: Manekin Family Teaching Award, Honors Carolina, 2017
2017 SCHWAB ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AWARDS The Institute for the Arts and Humanities has announced the 20 winners of this year’s Schwab Academic Excellence Awards. The $3,000 prize recognizes one faculty member in each College of Arts and Sciences department across the arts, humanities and qualitative sciences. Department chairs nominate faculty for the award. Former IAH Advisory Board Chair Julia Sprunt Grumbles (who is now a member of the University Board of Trustees) RELIGIOUS STUDIES: JOSEPH LAM
“The award will support my current research project, ‘How Sacrifice Became Atoning,’ which examines both textual material and archaeological data to interrogate varying conceptions of sacrifice in ancient Israel and the broader Near East.”
POLITICAL SCIENCE: TIM RYAN
“I’m thrilled and honored to receive the IAH Academic Excellence Award. I plan to put these funds to good use in the coming year testing how psychology can help us understand and bridge political divides.”
PHILOSOPHY: MARISKA LEUNISSEN
“I am most grateful for this award, which couldn’t have come at a better time. It will be a great help in the months to come to finish the production process of my current book project (From Natural Character to Moral Virtue in Aristotle), while jump-starting my new project on problems and problem-solving strategies in Aristotle’s natural science.”
MUSIC: ALLEN ANDERSON
“This is particularly meaningful for me, as I hold the IAH and its commitment to faculty research and the exchange of ideas in the highest regard. I deeply appreciate this recognition. I will put the award to good use, helping to fund a recording of several recent compositions.”
LINGUISTICS: JENNIFER L. SMITH
“I was very excited when I found out that I had won this award. I plan to use the award funds toward my current research projects, in which I am applying cutting-edge methods of conducting ‘language experiments’ in order to investigate how humans learn and use the structure of sounds (such as consonants, vowels, or syllables) in language.”
established the award in 2015 to help department chairs recognize teaching and scholarship. IAH Advisory Board Vice Chair Nelson Schwab III (’67, English) recently endowed the fund. Awardees may use the funds to advance their teaching or scholarship. “We thought this way of giving to the chairs was the best way to retain the best and brightest at Carolina, a goal of mine, since I began supporting the Institute,” said Schwab, co-founder and senior advisor at Carousel Capital and past chair of the University Board of Trustees.
GERMANIC AND SLAVIC LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE: GABRIEL TROP
“I feel grateful. This summer I have been invited to the University of Tübingen for a visiting professorship in May, during which time I will participate in a summer workshop program, as well as hold talks and seminars on Flaubert, Hegel, Schiller, and Joyce. I will also participate in conferences and workshops in Vienna (centering on “Red Vienna,” or Vienna from 1918-1934) and Utrecht for the American Comparative Literature Association conference. I intend to use the funds from the award to help defray the cost of these events, and I express my sincerest gratitude for this generous financial support.”
GEOGRAPHY: BETSY OLSON
“I’m so very grateful for this award. It will allow me to complete some critical research for my manuscript on the phenomena of the Progressive Era’s ‘Little Mothers,’ children who cared for their infant siblings, and the leagues created across the U.S. to educate them as part of a strategic campaign to reduce infant mortality at that time.”
ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: JANE THRAILKILL
“Often, faculty and researchers spend hours and hours writing grants for uncertain returns. This feels like a true gift, unexpected funds that will allow HHIVE lab to do something extra: bring in a visiting speaker, top up a student’s research grant, or send a team member to a national conference.”
DRAMATIC ART: JEFFREY CORNELL
“I’m honored and excited to use this award to support my artistic research and my teaching. How the theatrical event can lead and challenge society has never been more important, and I’m grateful for the IAH’s recognition and support.”
CLASSICS: SHARON L JAMES
“It came as a complete but very welcome surprise. The award will support my travel to Italy to use archive resources and to another conference.”
ASIAN STUDIES: UFFE BERGETON
“It will enhance my research on the history of early Chinese thought through changes in language. More specifically, it will allow me to promote my first book, Coining Chinese Civilization: History Word By Word, do research for my second book project on the conceptual history of warfare in ancient China, and cover expenses related to my ongoing digital humanities projects.”
ART: VICTORIA ROVINE
“I’m so pleased to receive this award, which will enable me to pursue my research on the many roles of clothing and textiles in the cultural politics of colonial-era France and West Africa. It means a great deal to be recognized by the Institute, the standard bearer for support of the arts and humanities here at UNC.”
ANTHROPOLOGY: DALE HUTCHINSON
“I am honored and grateful to be considered for and to receive an IAH Academic Excellence Award. Some or all of the award will contribute to the costs of research travel for my next book, The Archaeology of Health and Well-Being.”
AMERICAN STUDIES: KEITH RICHOTTE
“I am deeply grateful to receive this award and I thank my chair for nominating me. I will use it to continue my research into tribal governmental systems and toward my work as an associate justice on the Turtle Mountain Tribal Court of Appeals.”
HISTORY: CHAD BRYANT
COMMUNICATION: JULIA HASLETT
AFRICAN, AFRICAN AMERICAN AND DIASPORA STUDIES: LYDIA BOYD
SOCIOLOGY: NEAL CAREN
CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING: NIKHIL KAZA
ROMANCE STUDIES: JESSICA TANNER
“This award will allow me to pursue my current book project, Imagination City: Prague in the Modern Era. It is especially meaningful to receive this recognition from the IAH. I have always admired the IAH’s efforts to promote intellectual creativity while promoting thoughtful, meaningful discussions.”
“Receiving an IAH Schwab Academic Excellence Award was unexpected delight. The funding will be used to support a graduate student working on a new project that seeks to understand trends in contemporary U.S. protests.”
“This builds on all the support and mentoring the IAH has provided me since coming to Carolina almost three years ago. I plan to use the funds to continue filming on my current project, Pushed up the Mountain, a documentary film about nature conservation in southwest China.”
“I am delighted to receive this award. It will be used to support work on characterizing informal and irregular settlements in India through satellite imagery and field work.”
“Funding for faculty research is so essential, and a grant like this will enable me to conduct a valuable summer research trip to lay the foundation for my new project. Preliminary research trips such as this make all the difference when it comes to securing larger grants that sustain longterm projects.”
“I am so grateful for this award, which will allow me to travel to France this summer and begin research on my new book project, on weather and climate in 19th-century France.”
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Food and the Humanities Series “When we think about trying to address food insecurity and hunger, we often think about donations...but actually only about five percent of the food assistance comes from those... programs, and over 95% comes from federal nutrition assistance programs,” said PhD student Jessica Soldavini, speaking at “Food Insecurity in the Triangle,” a panel hosted by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Hyde Hall on Dec. 8.
INSTITUTE HIGHLIGHTS Park Cannon and David Price share how the humanities influence their public life
Faculty Women of Color and Indigenous Women
“Linguistics shapes language, which shapes message,” said Georgia State Rep. Park Cannon (’14), the youngest legislator in Georgia history and the first queer woman of color to hold office in that state.
The Institute continues efforts on a national issue, the lack of diversity among faculty ranks, particularly in the full professorship.
Cannon, a Carolina alum with a double major in Gender and Women’s Studies and Linguistics, spoke as part of a two-part series on the humanities and public life in 2016. At the Nov. 17 event, Cannon fielded questions from her former professors, Faculty Fellows Michele Berger (Associate Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies) and Misha Becker (Professor, Linguistics). The event then opened to questions from an audience comprised mostly of students.
IAH Associate Director Jennifer Ho, Communications Specialist M. Clay, and former graduate assistant Paula Mukherjee spearheaded the idea to gather Women of Color and Indigenous women.
Earlier that year, Congressman David Price (’61), who has represented the UNC community for 40 years in the house of representatives, talked about how the humanities changed his life. The Morehead Scholar explained that even as STEM disciplines are trending lately, “there is inherent value of our own understanding of our history.” The Oct. 6 public talk was facilitated by acting IAH Director UNC Chancellor Emeritus James Moeser. Both Price and Cannon spoke to students about how to become involved, how to find their voice, and reminded them that they too could run for office in their communities. “Consider running for office,” said Cannon. “Use your networks to raise funding.”
Above: Park Cannon Below: David Price with IAH Founder Ruel Tyson and Acting IAH Director and Chancellor Emeritus James Moeser.
“Of the full professors in the College of Arts and Sciences, I am the 13th,” according to Ho. The Institute hosted two events, an opening reception on Sept. 14, 2016 that drew over 50 women, followed by a panel discussion on mentorship and career guidance on Jan. 24. Malinda Maynor Lowery, Associate Professor in History and director of the Center for the Study of the American South, participated in the panel. She told her story as a member of the Lumbee tribe who obtained her PhD at Carolina and then went on to become a faculty member. One of the barriers facing faculty of color and indigenous faculty are overwhelming demands for service on committees. Because there are so few diverse voices, the faculty who represent diverse groups are called upon even more. This interferes with scholarship and even teaching. She was joined by Dramatic Art Professor Kathy Perkins who offered that while service commitments are daunting, “we have to do it. Our numbers are so small and we have an opportunity to make a difference.” Associate Professor Michele Berger, who is also the Faculty Fellowship Program Director, discussed how mentoring is a vehicle to personal and professional growth. And mentorship is a two-way street. “We need to look at mentorship across ranks,” said Berger. This means looking at “not just post-doc and pre-tenure, but also post-tenure. We can lean on national peers for support as well.”
Soldavini spoke on behalf of No Kid Hungry North Carolina, an initiative within the larger Share Our Strength program. The organization’s efforts focus on expanding access to federal nutrition programs that already exist but are underutilized. The discussion was the final event in the Institute’s “Food and the Humanities” series, and included three panelists from organizations in the Triangle all working to eradicate food security. Dr. Alice Ammerman, moderator and Director for the Center for Health Promotion and Disease prevention, uses the term “to describe a situation where an individual or a family [doesn’t] have reliable access to an adequate quantity of affordable, nutritious food.” The panel also included George Barret, Associate Director at the Jackson Center; and Tiffany Turner, Bonner Leader Intern at TABLE. Each panelist presented an overview of the different ways in which their respective organizations address hunger and food insecurity. While their models differ, each are making meaningful strides toward minimizing the number of people who are food insecure within the region. George Barret, a 2013 UNC graduate, coordinates a program called “Heavenly Groceries.” The program is run through the Jackson Center located in Chapel Hill’s historically-black
Northside Community (an area composed of the neighborhoods between Rosemary, Carver, Columbia, and Lloyd streets). One unique aspect of the model at Heavenly Groceries is the way it presents the donated food on shelves rather than as pre-packaged bags. Barret explained that Heavenly Groceries gives people agency and doesn’t force new or unfamiliar cuisine onto patrons. “It allows people to maintain their own cultural heritage and cultural food practices because they get the individual choice of choosing what they want as well,” he said. TABLE feeds nearly 500 kids through its four programs, which include “Summer TABLE,” “TABLE on the Go,” “Camp TABLE,” and “SnackChef.” The organization tries to focus its efforts on providing fresh food to school-age children. Turner explained that the organization aims to provide good food to the 30% of Carrboro students who rely on school programs for meals. Similarly, No Kid Hungry focuses on ensuring school children have access to good food. Soldavini explained that a lot of funding already exists, however there needs to be concerted effort to access it. Access isn’t the only hurdle, however. Many eligible children don’t want to utilize these programs because of the stigma attached to free meals.
Above: At right, George Barret, AssociateDirector at the Jackson Center, talksabout the Heavenly Groceries programat the Food Insecurity event in the University Room at Hyde Hall. He is joined by Tiffany Turner, Bonner Leader Intern at TABLE.
Dr. Ammerman opened the room to questions, which led to a lively discussion about access to programs and how bad food influences whether or not children use the services. Efforts have been made to engage children in the menu planning process in hopes that more students in need will use the programs.
William Kumpf
Academic Freedom Series The Academic Leadership Program (ALP) hosted a two-part series on Academic Freedom in April, beginning with a public screening and discussion of the 2016 documentary Starving the Beast on April 4 in the University Room. On April 24, discussion continued through a panel including ALP Fellows Andrew Perrin, Barbara Entwisle, Andy Reynolds, and Richard Myers about how academic freedom can be examined from all who serve a university. Acting IAH Director James Moeser and ALP Director Suzanne Gulledge facilitated discussions about how political forces, donors, administration, faculty, and students shape the culture of academic freedom at institutions of higher education. “Our aim in the series is to listen, thoughtfully gather information, consider diverse perspectives and then engage in discussion,” said Gulledge. “We hope these ALP-sponsored events will reflect that approach to understanding complex issues.” Faculty made up most of the audience and shared their experiences, thoughts and ideas about the aspects of the university that contribute to fears of exercising academic freedom.
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ADVISORY BOARDS
The Advisory Board comprises alumni and IAH friends who serve as strategic advisors and ambassadors for IAH programs and activities. The Faculty Board advises the direction of fellowship programs and selects new Fellows. Both groups are crucial to guiding the IAH toward its mission: Empowering facultyto achieve their full potential by creating community and cultivating leadership.
Friends of the Institute
Clockwise, from top: Board members and staff have breakfast in Hyde HAll kitchen just before the semi-annual Board Meeting on April 28. Board members Duval Fuqua, Michael Kennedy, Lucrecia Moore and John Wickham continue the conversation. Willard Overlock speaks with Academic Leadership Program Director Suzanne Gulledge and former ALP Director Kim Strom-Gottfried. Allen Ives talks with Faculty Fellows Program Director Michele Berger and Heidi Kim at the Board Dinner on April 27.
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Q&A with new IAH Advisory Board Chair NELSON SCHWAB III Nelson Schwab III (’67) has worked tirelessly in service of UNC, through work on the Board of Visitors, as a Board of Trustees member, and on the board of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. For the last two years, he served as Vice Chair of the IAH Advisory Board. Beginning July 1, Schwab begins his position as Chair, succeeding Caroline Williamson. Below is an edited Q&A. You can listen to the full interview on the Institute podcast at www.iah.unc.edu/podcasts. You were an English major. What was your favorite class? My favorite class ended up being a religion course. Dr. Boyd, who is no longer with us, he was a fantastic teacher. His courses had 300-400 people in a class and yet they were hard to get into. That was one of my favorites. You are basically studying the bible but it came to life in that classroom. He was terrific. What are some of the ways you have been able to serve as a Carolina alum? It really changed my life. I came here not knowing one person and left with friends 50 years later I still have to this day. And I am making new ones still. It’s really enriched my life in so many ways. I just looked for ways to give back, to express that gratefulness in actions that would benefit the university in some way. Originally, I got involved with the Board of Visitors. And then my second area of involvement was with the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. I met IAH founder Ruel W. Tyson. This was probably about 25 years ago. I really liked what he was trying to do. It was the very early days of the Institute. He asked me to help and I willingly did. I served eight years on the Board of Trustees. This was a great honor and privilege. I got to know the university so much better. I have been on the investment board and that ties into somewhat with what I do in my day job, but a great learning experience. And hopefully I have done something good for the university. Why is it important to support the Institute for the Arts and Humanities? Ruel’s vision was to create something that would support and foster really good professors. I mentioned Dr. Boyd as someone who stood out in my mind -- I can recall several others.
That became the soul of the university. They are conveying the knowledge to the next generation that hopefully perpetuates itself. The better prepared, the better trained, the happier the professors are here, the better off the experience will be for the students. It creates a great learning environment. I just thought that made sense. I love that it became about the arts and humanities. That’s something that is important for students to learn. It broadens your life. You can’t just go into business, law, or medicine and not live a life outside of that as well. This prepares you for a more whole life. You are Co-Founder of Carousel Capital, a private equity firm. How has your time at Carolina contributed to your success? One of my best friends here was Erskine Bowles, and he and I formed Carousel together. It was that association that started off here. As I look back on my days here, I participated in many clubs and different organizations. It was working with people and how you form a team to try to accomplish something. That’s not too dissimilar from what I am doing today. What advice would you give Carolina students? Use this as a tremendous learning opportunity. Obviously, we have great resources here: great teachers and great minds. Take advantage of the time you have here to tap into as many of those as you can. I wish I had been a more serious student. I was here to learn, but I also had an awfully good time. I think if I were to do it over again, I would try to be a little bit more serious student. What is a book that changed your life? The book Good to Great by Jim Collins espoused a lot of principles I was trying to live and do in business but didn’t know it: More effective ways of building teams, setting goals. I can remember sharing that with my team. It was a like a “Wow” moment for all of them, and it had a ripple throughout the whole team. Have you ever done radio? You have a great voice. I am going to keep my day job.
Institute Advisory Board JAMES KEITH BROWN
WILLARD J. OVERLOCK III
MAX CARROL CHAPMAN, JR.
ROGER LEE PERRY, SR.
SANFORD A. COCKRELL III
JANE BETHELL PREYER
REBECCA WESSON DARWIN
NELSON SCHWAB III
JOHN GRAY BLOUNT ELLISON, JR.
JOHN C. STATON III
New York, NY
Houston, TX
Madison, CT
Charleston, SC
Greensboro, NC
New York, NY
Chapel Hill, NC
Chapel Hill, NC
Vice Chair Charlotte, NC
Atlanta, GA
BRIAN M. FENTY
JOHN L. TOWNSEND III
DUVALL S. FUQUA
RUEL W. TYSON
ROBERT HACKNEY
JOHN F. WHITE III
BARBARA R. HYDE
JOHN R. WICKHAM
New York, NY
Atlanta, GA
New Preston, CT
Greenwich, CT
Chapel Hill, NC
Raleigh, NC
Memphis, TN
Charlotte, NC
G. ALLEN IVES III
CAROLINE C. WILLIAMSON
MICHAEL D. KENNEDY
EMERITUS
Rocky Mount, NC
Atlanta, GA
LANE MORRIS MCDONALD New York, NY
LUCRECIA R. MOORE Charlotte, NC
ALAN SANDERS NEELY, SR. Atlanta, GA
Chair New York, NY
BURTON B. GOLDSTEIN, JR. JULIA S. GRUMBLES THOMAS S. KENAN III JOHN C. O’HARA, JR. SHERWOOD H. SMITH, JR.
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Faculty Advisory Board MISHA BECKER
KUMARINI SILVA
JOCELYN CHUA
BRETT WHALEN
MARK CRESCENZI
STEPHANIE ELIZONDO GRIEST
Linguistics
Anthropology
Political Science
OSWALDO ESTRADA
Communication History
English & Comparative Literature
Romance Studies
SUSAN HARBAGE PAGE Women’s and Gender Studies
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IAH CONTACTS MARK KATZ, PH.D. Director mkatz@email.unc.edu
JENNIFER HO, PH.D Associate Director jho@email.unc.edu
TOMMIE WATSON
Director, Faculty Fellows Program mtberger@email.unc.edu
SUZANNE GULLEDGE, PH.D.
Director of Operations tommie@unc.edu
Director, Academic Leadership Program sgulledg@email.unc.edu
ALLISON BURNETT SMITH
MAI THI NGUYEN, PH.D.
Director of Development allison.smith@unc.edu
M. CLAY
Communications Specialist meclay@email.unc.edu
PHILIP HOLLINGSWORTH, PH.D. Coordinator, Faculty Programs pholling@email.unc.edu
REBECCA WILLIAMS Business Officer rcwilliams@unc.edu
EBONY JOHNSON
Director, New Faculty Program nguyen@unc.edu
GEOFF SAYER-MCCORD, PH.D.
Director, Associate Professors Program mucha@unc.edu
PETER MUCHA, PH.D.
Director, Chairs Leadership Program mucha@unc.edu
BARBARA MORAN, PH.D.
Events Coordinator erj@email.unc.edu
Co-facilitator, Retired Faculty Program moran@ils.unc.edu
HANNAH PEREZ
BARBARA WASIK, PH.D.
Development Coordinator hannah.perez@unc.edu
‘To be continued…’
MICHELE TRACY BERGER, PH.D.
WILLIAM KUMPF
Administrative Assistant wckumpf@email.unc.edu
Co-facilitator, Retired Faculty Program wasik@unc.edu
ROB KRAMER
Senior Leadership Consultant rob_kramer@unc.edu
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