Annual Highlights 2020 - 2021
Community Collaboration Inquiry EMPOWERING FACULTY by creating community and cultivating leadership
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Letter from the IAH Director
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Letter from the Advisory Board Chair
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Faculty Fellowship Program
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Academic Leadership Program
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Faculty Programs and Initiatives
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Grants and Awards
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Events and Highlights
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Published Works and Honors
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Advisory Boards
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By the Numbers
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Q&A with Lane McDonald
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The Institute Podcast
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Staff Contacts
Letter from the IAH Director
Letter from the IAH Advisory Board Chair
Dear Friends,
In the pages that follow, you will see highlights from the Institute’s activities and faculty achievements this past year. You will also see evidence of the commitment of the IAH staff, our program directors, and Advisory Board members in supporting the work of the Institute.
As I write this letter, I am about five months into my fouryear term as director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. Although I am new to this role, I have had the privilege of being involved with the IAH since I became a Faculty Fellow in 2002. In 2006, I was among the select group of Kauffman Faculty Fellows for Social Entrepreneurship, which advanced my research in that area of humanistic scholarship. I completed the Academic Leadership Program in 2011, and I was twice a participant in the Chairs Leadership Program. It is an honor to give back as director to an institute that has given me so much during my 23 years at Carolina.
Recognizing the challenging context in which that work was accomplished not only demonstrates the resilience of the human spirit, but it also points to the critical role of the IAH as a sure place during difficult times. The recent loss of some faculty colleagues, including faculty of color and Indigenous faculty who make up a fraction of the university, is a wake-up call for those who strive for a place that welcomes all. Moreover, we are facing ongoing global public health crises, social injustices surrounding race, urgent issues of climate change, and negative national and international headlines focusing on governance at UNC-Chapel Hill. And yet, faculty, staff, and students are showing up in their classrooms, labs, offices, art studios, and other spaces to do their work — meaningful work that is making a difference in the lives of people locally, nationally, and globally.
Patricia Parker
The Institute is one of the sure places on this campus where faculty can find an inclusive and affirming culture to develop their research and creative scholarship; where they can engage with faculty from across the university who, like them, are consumed with curiosity and driven by compassion to tackle the world’s pressing problems; and where we can imagine a vibrant, just, and equitable future. At the IAH, we aim to be a model of faculty support in the service of students and the public good.
Director, Institute for the Arts and Humanities
As with other sectors across campus, the IAH will join efforts to vigorously pursue an ethic of care that can hold our community as we make our way back into some new sense of normalcy. I envision the IAH as a model for cultivating a culture of belonging across the College of Arts & Sciences and beyond. In these uncertain times, ensuring that our faculty have all the resources they need to flourish has never been more critical. As we head into a new year, I am hopeful that the Institute for the Arts and Humanities will stay true to its legacy as a sure place on campus where human flourishing is the order of the day.
My goal as director is to continue this legacy through steady, collaborative leadership and ardent fundraising that sustain the Institute’s core programs and position us for strategic growth. I am grateful to my predecessor, Andrew Perrin, for his leadership of the Institute through June 30, 2021, and for continuing — and elevating — the important work of supporting faculty. We wish him the best in his new role at Johns Hopkins University.
To be continued,
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Hark the sound of Tar Heel voices… in the classroom, in the auditoriums, and in the athletic stands. It is very exciting to see a return towards “normalcy” at UNCChapel Hill and here at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. Despite the challenges presented by the pandemic, the IAH continues forward with its important mission of supporting and empowering faculty. We appreciate the dedication, hard work, and perseverance of the IAH staff and the faculty who have participated in the programs through these uncertain times.
In her introductory remarks to the Advisory Board, Pat spoke to a vision of the IAH as a “sure place” which “can be defined as the people or places that ignite confidence. The 21st century professoriate is emerging at a time of great uncertainty in the world in general and in the academy in particular. We need sure places in the academy to empower faculty to meet their full potential.” The impact of her words was palpable and I believe that I speak for my fellow Advisory Board members in saying that we are invigorated and excited to be working closely with Pat to make the IAH the surest of places. I would like to recognize and express appreciation to our former director, Andrew Perrin, for all his contributions to the Institute. Andy was truly an IAH culture carrier as a two-time Faculty Fellow, Academic Leadership Program Fellow and, most recently, as the fourth director of the IAH. We wish him the best in his future endeavors.
As we resume more normal operations this academic year, we welcome a cohort of 17 to the Faculty Fellowship Program, eight to the Tyson Academic Leadership Program and eight to John Wickham the Chair’s Leadership Program. Chair, IAH Advisory Board We have also welcomed three new program directors who will bring new energy and ideas. The Institute remains in a strong position to offer these programs due to the exceptional support from the faculty, the College’s leadership, the University’s leadership, and our generous benefactors.
As has been communicated previously, Terry Rhodes, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, is retiring at the end of this academic year. As a former Faculty Fellow and Academic Leadership Fellow, and an incredibly strong advocate for the IAH in her many leadership roles, Terry will be missed. In Ruel Tyson’s farewell remarks as IAH director almost 15 years ago he said, “…you must know and own the magic of your presence — you show up — never underestimate the effect and the affect of that.” I would extrapolate that sentiment to all of us who are interested in helping to develop and retain faculty of the highest quality at UNC. We need to support them, demonstrate our interest in their careers, and communicate our appreciation of their efforts. We simply need to show up.
I would like to warmly welcome the Institute’s newest director, Dr. Patricia Parker, who began her four-year term on July 1. She has been a member of the faculty since 1998, and was most recently the chair of the department of communication, one of the largest departments within the College of Arts & Sciences. Pat is no stranger to the Institute — her first Faculty Fellowship was in 2002, the same year that Hyde Hall opened, and she has remained a friend of the Institute ever since.
Best regards,
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FALL 2020 Faculty Fellows
The Faculty Fellowship Program has supported over 600 fellowships in the College of Arts & Sciences since the program’s inception. A semester-long leave allows faculty to pursue research and creative work that leads to publication, exhibition, composition, and performance. The interdisciplinary cohorts meet weekly, and the exchange of ideas enhances individual research projects. The IAH Race, Memory, and Reckoning Initiative supports two additional fellowships dedicated specifically to faculty research, publication, support, education and outreach on race, reckoning and memory, from 2020-2023.
SPRING 2021 Faculty Fellows
Faculty Fellowship Program
Florence Babb
Maya Berry
Oswaldo Estrada
HOPE FELLOW Anthropology, Distinguished Professor
MCGOWAN FELLOW African, African American and Diaspora Studies, Assistant Professor
ARTS & HUMANITIES FELLOW RACE, MEMORY, AND RECKONING INITIATIVE Romance Studies, Professor
Scaling Differences: Place, Race, and Gender in Andean Peru
Choreographing Rumba: Race, Gender, the Sacred & the Uses of Black Popular Dance
Tar Dreams: Latina/o Stories of Migration in North Carolina
Tim Marr, professor of American Studies, completed his term as Faculty Fellowship Program Director at the end of the 2020-2021 academic year. Oswaldo Estrada, a three-time Fellow (2011, 2016, 2021), succeeded him on July 1, 2021. Jocelyn Chua
Michael Figueroa
BORDEN FELLOW Anthropology, Associate Professor
PARDUE FELLOW Music, Assistant Professor
Enduring War: Psychopharmaceuticals and Medicated Soldiering in America’s Post-9/11 Conflicts
Music and the Racial Awakening of Arab America
Maggie Fritz-Morkin
Torin Monahan
Priscilla Layne
Townsend Middleton
TOWNSEND FELLOW Romance Studies, Professor
BERNSTEIN FELLOW Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Associate Professor
SCHWAB FELLOW Anthropology, Associate Professor
The Ecocritical Calvino
Susan Pennybacker
TURNER FELLOW Romance Studies, Assistant Professor
ELLISON FELLOW Communication, Professor
BURRESS FELLOW History, Distinguished Professor
Dante’s Trecento: A Century of Fake News, Counterfeits, and Forgeries
Crisis Vision: Critical Art and the Cultural Production of Surveillance
Fire By Night; Cloud By Day: Refuge and Exile in Postwar London
The Quinine Chronicles: The Lives and Afterlives of a World-Historical Substance
Courtney Rivard
Katherine Turk
Claudia Yaghoobi
WOODBURY FELLOW Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Assistant Professor
TYSON/BELK FELLOW English and Comparative Literature, Teaching Associate Professor
HYDE FELLOW History, Associate Professor
TAYLOR FELLOW Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Assistant Professor
Decay and Afterlife: Reading Ruins, Time and History (1100-1900)
Voice of a Nation: Mapping Documentary Expression in New Deal America
Rebecka Rutledge Fisher
Petal Samuel
John Sweet
TOWNSEND FELLOW Art and Art History, Professor
JOHNSON FELLOW English and Comparative Literature, Associate Professor
BLACKWELL FELLOW African, African American and Diaspora Studies, Assistant Professor
The Thinker as Poet: The Poetry and Poetics of W.E.B. Du Bois
The Decolonial Acoustic: Noise Control, Antiblackness, and the Colonial Sensorium
IAH LEGACY FELLOW RACE, MEMORY, AND RECKONING INITIATIVE History, Associate Professor
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Out of this World: Afro-German Afrofuturism
Aleksandra Prica
Victoria Rovine
Cloth Colonialism: Cultures of Cotton in France and French West Africa
Serenella Iovino
Seeing Segregation in Everyday Places: The Legacies of Chapel Hill’s Cultural Landscapes
A Dangerous Sisterhood: The Lost History of the National Organization for Women
Iranian-Armenian-American Diasporic Transnational Literary Subjects
The IAH is currently seeking funds to support the Faculty Fellowship Program. Endowment and expendable giving opportunities start at $55,000. For more information about these giving opportunities, please contact IAH Director of Development Angela O’Neill at angela.oneill@unc.edu. GIVING.UNC.EDU/GIFT/IAH
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INVEST IN CAROLINA
FACULTY
Through the program, Fellows develop their leadership skills, clarify their career commitments and enhance their leadership networks through connections on and off campus.
Class of 2020–2021
Tyson Academic Leadership Program
The Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Academic Leadership Program (ALP) prepares and supports current and emerging academic leaders across Carolina.
Todd BenDor
Thad Domina
Heidi Kim
Lisa Lindsay
CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
HISTORY
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Professor
ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
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Fellows meet weekly in the spring to discuss critical issues facing the University, and meet with University senior and state leaders. They also participate in a weeklong training at the Center for Creative Leadership, one of the world’s most respected leadership development organizations. The ALP was introduced in 2001, and is one of the flagship programs of the Institute. Last year, 66 ALP alumni held leadership roles, helping to make our campus and the academic community stronger. Mai Thi Nguyen served as program director in the 20202021 year. Viji Sathy began her term as program director on July 1, 2021.
Chapman Summer Fellows 2020-21 The Chapman Teaching Awards were established in 1993 with a gift from IAH Advisory Board member Max C. Chapman to honor distinguished teaching of undergraduate students. The application process is administered by the Provost’s Office as part of the annual Teaching Awards process. Jennifer Coble BIOLOGY | Teaching Associate Professor
Elizabeth Dickinson MANAGEMENT AND CORPORATE COMMUNICATION, KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL | Teaching Associate Professor
Michael Kris MUSIC | Teaching Associate Professor
Viji Sathy PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE | Teaching Associate Professor
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Rohit Ramaswamy
Michelle Robinson
Viji Sathy
Amanda Thompson
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
AMERICAN STUDIES
ANTHROPOLOGY
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PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE Teaching Associate Professor
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Faculty Programs and Initiatives At the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, we support faculty at every stage of their careers.
NEW FACULTY PROGRAM
Program Director: Pamela Lothspeich, Professor of Asian Studies Established in 2013, the New Faculty Program (NFP) introduces newly arrived College of Arts & Sciences faculty to interdisciplinary conversations and mentoring networks at the University. The New Faculty Program is open to full-time faculty at all ranks who are within their first three years of appointment at UNC-Chapel Hill. The program also offers the NFP Collaboration Grant, encouraging participants to work with a more senior faculty member. Read more on page 11.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PROGRAM
CHAIRS LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
Program Director: Philip Hollingsworth, IAH Program Administrator
Program Director: Peter Mucha, Professor of Mathematics
This program is designed to support newly tenured and promoted professors as they enter this transitional period, which may come with unique personal and professional challenges. All College faculty are invited to participate in the program in the first year following their promotion to associate professor. Participants in the Associate Professor Program discuss opportunities for University service, preparing for promotion to full professor and more.
Spotlight: PUBLISHING 101 RETIRED FACULTY PROGRAM In 2020-2021, the New Faculty Program hosted “Publishing 101,” a virtual series to help new faculty successfully navigate the book publishing process, with a focus on the critical early phase of writing and editing, prior to submission of a manuscript to a press. Due to the broad appeal of these events, they were opened to all faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences, though priority was given to new faculty for the workshop, where they received important feedback on their book proposals. The series included: • “Your Book, From First Draft to Book Proposal to Book in Hand” • “Polishing Your Book: Working with an Academic Editor” • “Workshopping Your Book Proposal with an Academic Editor”
Co-facilitators: William Andrews, E. Maynard Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature and Catherine Marshall, Professor Emerita of the School of Education Members of the academic community spend many years in teaching, research, and leadership at a university. The transition to retirement can be challenging, but the Retired Faculty Program offers the space and time to shape this new stage of life. The program is a project of the UNC Retired Faculty Association and the Institute. In 2021-2022, the Retired Faculty Program is led by William Andrews and Lynne Vernon-Feagans, the William C. Friday Distinguished Professor Emerita at UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Education.
For more events, see page 12.
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FACULTY OF COLOR AND INDIGENOUS FACULTY WORKING GROUP
Facilitator: Michael Figueroa, Associate Professor of Music Launched in spring 2017, the Faculty of Color and Indigenous Faculty Group was established to provide support, community, and professional and leadership development for faculty of color and Indigenous faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences and professional schools at UNCChapel Hill. The group is one example of the Institute’s initiative to foster a diverse and affirming culture at Carolina.
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Modeled on the Academic Leadership Program Fellowship, the Chairs Leadership Program hosts monthly confidential conversations where chairs can share ideas, identify best practices and explore critical issues related to the important roles they play within the university. Chairs often balance multiple responsibilities and challenges within their department; the CLP offers them strategic direction and guidance in managing budgets and instructional programs, and recruiting and retaining faculty. The CLP is open to newly appointed or reappointed chairs, creating a cohort that incorporates mentoring. In addition to the support the College provides to chairs through a council, comprehensive manual and support from the Dean’s Office senior leadership, the CLP provides peer support to discuss challenges facing the individual department chairs. Peter Mucha led the program from 2017 to 2021. Amarjit Budhiraja, statistics and operations research professor, is serving as program director for the 2021-2022 year.
Grants and Awards To maintain the University’s status as a leading Research 1 university, UNC-Chapel Hill faculty stay current in their research, scholarship, and artistry. The Institute is proud to offer funding opportunities to support faculty. When faculty are supported, they can bring the knowledge they have acquired into the classroom as they teach Carolina students.
SCHWAB ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AWARD Current IAH Advisory Board member and former Chair Julia Sprunt Grumbles established the award in 2015 to help department chairs recognize teaching and scholarship. Nelson Schwab III, former IAH Advisory Board Chair, has since endowed the fund. The $3,000 prize recognizes one faculty member in each department housed in the fine arts, humanities, and qualitative social sciences. Awardees may use the funds to advance their research, scholarship, or teaching. Each January, the IAH announces the 21 award winners. The winners for 2021 are listed below.
African, African American and Diaspora Studies Petal Samuel
Communication Kumi Silva
Music Clara Yang
Dramatic Art Triffin Morris
Philosophy Tom Dougherty Political Science Anna Bassi
Anthropology Benjamin Arbuckle
English and Comparative Literature H.M. Cushman
Art and Art History Eduardo Douglas
Geography Banu Gökariksel
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Jonathan Kief
Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures Aleksandra Prica
American Studies Kelly Alexander
City and Regional Planning Danielle Spurlock
History Lauren Jarvis
Classics Janet Downie
Linguistics Jennifer Smith
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Religious Studies Hugo Mendez Romance Studies Carmen Hsu Sociology Jessica Houston Su Women’s and Gender Studies Jacob Lau
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH GRANT PROGRAM
GRANTS FOR FACULTY FROM UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS
In partnership with the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, the grant supports research in scholarly, creative, and artistic pursuits in the fine arts and humanities. Grants provide support to individuals conducting their own research programs and to teams of two or more faculty developing a collaborative research program. Awards are for one academic year and range from $2,000 to $8,000.
In keeping with the University’s commitment to providing a diverse intellectual and educational environment, this grant supports the professional careers and art/scholarship of faculty from underrepresented groups. Funds support research, conferences, workshops, professional development, work equipment, student research assistants, and similar. Awards are provided up to $2,500.
WILLIAM C. FRIDAY ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH FUND
NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH THE OFFICE OF THE VICE CHANCELLOR FOR RESEARCH
With generous support from the William C. Friday Leadership Fund, the Institute is proud to offer an exciting and enriching opportunity to undergraduate students to assist Carolina faculty in their research projects. The students contribute eight to 10 hours per week during one semester to support the project. Awards provide a $2,000 stipend to students and there are typically two to four per semester.
GEORGE JOHNSON PRIZE The George H. Johnson Prize for Distinguished Achievement by an IAH Fellow is a biennial award, which provides the recipient research funds and a banquet in the fellow’s honor. The prize started in 2008 and is named after one of the Institute’s great ambassadors. The IAH created this award to honor Johnson and to recognize the exemplary contributions by faculty in the arts, humanities, and qualitative social sciences. The 2020-21 winner was Elizabeth Olson, an IAH Fellow and ALP Fellow who is currently Chair of the Department of Geography.
Arts and Humanities Publication Support Grant In 2020-21, the partnership launched a new grant that supports arts, humanities, and interpretive social science publication and performance by UNC-Chapel Hill faculty. The goal is to provide funding to increase the quality, contribution, or reach of books, recordings, and other academic or scholarly works. Examples include illustrations, indexing, publisher’s subventions, cover art, and similar. Awards are provided up to $2,500.
KING’S COLLEGE FUND UNC-Chapel Hill faculty and graduate students from participating units may apply to the fund for support of projects and collaborative events that advance the relationship between Carolina and King’s College London. This program is supported by the College of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Office, participating departments, UNC Global and administered by the IAH. Support for each funded proposal will typically range between $2,000 - $8,000.
“The Ink in the Grooves: Novelists and Musicians on Literature and Rock ‘n Roll (Cornell University Press, 2023) is a collection of essays and interviews about rock and literature from some of the most renowned novelists and musicians of our day. Taken together, the essays ask readers to consider the familiar and fraught American story of how Black vernacular music was resurrected and reused by white rock and rollers. The IAH Publication Support Grant, which went towards honoraria for its contributors, made this essential element of the book possible.” Florence Dore PROFESSOR, ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE, 2020 GRANT RECIPIENT
FIXED-TERM FACULTY SUPPORT FUND
NEW FACULTY PROGRAM COLLABORATION GRANT
Fixed-term faculty teach more total classes and introductory courses than tenure-track faculty. Despite reaching more students, fixed-term faculty do not receive the support, prestige, or job security of their tenure-line colleagues. The IAH provides a fund of $6,000 to support their pedagogical or research portfolios.
The program provides funding for one to two participants in the New Faculty Program who collaborate with a more senior faculty member. Proposals for research projects that lead to a publication, creative activity, or grant proposal are prioritized. The grant has a total budget of $5,000 to award.
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Events and Highlights Fostering conversation and creativity while together and apart
IAH ZOOM TALKS When the COVID-19 pandemic brought many in-person events to a halt, the Institute responded and offered stimulating conversations in a virtual space, including the IAH Zoom Talks. The subjects of IAH Zoom Talks varied, but all brought the Institute to people’s homes across the country — and in some cases, the world. Topics ranged from the unprecedented issues related to the coronavirus outbreak to new works spurred by or created during the pandemic. AUGUST 9, 2020
Karol Mason: "Where Do We Go From Here: What Can Each of Us Do to Create a More Perfect Union?"
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Welcome Back Series Part I with Sheila Jasanoff: “Ignorance Is Bliss: COVID-19 and the Politics of Knowledge" AUGUST 31, 2020
Lydia Boyd and Emily Burrill: “Legislating Gender and Sexuality in Africa”
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Welcome Back Series Part II with Alondra Nelson: “Society after Pandemic” FEBRUARY 10, 2021
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George H. Johnson Prize Lecture [April 27, 2020]: Geography professor Elizabeth Olson received the 2020 George H. Johnson Prize for Distinguished Achievement by an IAH Fellow. After receiving the award, Olson spoke on “Care as Meeting Place.”
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The 27th Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies [Feb. 25, 2021]: Catherine Woollard, director of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles, was the 2021 Reckford speaker. The lecture, “Protection vs. Externalization: The politics and law of asylum in Europe 2015-2020,” was presented to the public over Zoom.
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The 2021 Weil Lecture on American Citizenship [Feb. 19, 2021]: Former Attorney General Eric Holder delivered the 2021 Weil Lecture as part of the keynote address of the UNC School of Law’s Center for Civil Rights’ two-day symposium.
4, 5. Salons: In January 2021, Advisory Board members Brian Fenty ’08, Lane McDonald ’00, and Neil King rang in the new year with a salon for New York City alumni featuring a virtual conversation with music professor Jocelyn Neal on songwriting, bluegrass, and narrative in music. E-salons were also held for alumni in Atlanta and San Francisco. 6.
Dylan Robinson: “thá:ytset: shxwelí li te shxwelítemelh xíts’etáwtxw / The Museum’s Incarceration of Indigenous Life” APRIL 5, 2021
Zeynep Tufekci: “Pandemics and the Public Sphere: Lessons from Navigating a Global Challenge in the New Era”
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Leadership Unplugged: A new series established by Director Andrew Perrin, Leadership Unplugged was designed as an informal “unplugged” conversation between on- and off-campus leaders with Academic Leadership Fellows. Three virtual sessions took place in 2020-21, the first in October 2020, with UNC Board of Trustee members Teresa Artis Neal and Chuck Duckett. In March, IAH Advisory Board member and Chair of the UNC-Chapel Hill Investment Fund Board John Townsend III discussed the University’s endowment. In April, Vice Chancellor of Development David Routh and Senior Associate Dean and Executive Director of the Arts and Sciences Foundation Anne Collins discussed development and fundraising.
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EMILY BURRILL
CARL W. ERNST
SYLVIA FRAZIER-BOWERS
KAREN HAGEMANN
Women’s and Gender Studies Faculty Fellow: 2014 Academic Leadership Fellow: 2019 Published: Legislating Gender and Sexuality in Africa: Human Rights, Society, and the State with Lydia Boyd, University of Wisconsin Press, 2020.
Religious Studies Faculty Fellow: 2001, 2014 Academic Leadership Fellow: 2009 Featured in: Words of Experience: Translating Islam with Carl W. Ernst, edited by Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst and Brannon M. Wheeler, Equinox Publishing, 2020.
Adams School of Dentistry Academic Leadership Fellow: 2016 Awarded: Richard Hunt Jr. Award for Teaching Excellence, Adams School of Dentistry, 2021; Faculty Mentor Award, American Association for Dental Research National Student Research Group, 2021.
History Faculty Fellow: 2008 Published: The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600, edited with Stefan Dudink and Sonya Rose, Oxford University Press, 2020.
ANNEGRET FAUSER
MICHAEL GERHARDT
Music Faculty Fellow: 2004 Published: Performing Commemoration: Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma, with Michael Figueroa, University of Michigan Press, 2020.
School of Law Faculty Fellow: 2010 Published: Lincoln’s Mentors: The Education of a Leader, HarperCollins, 2021.
MAGGIE CAO Art and Art History Faculty Fellow: 2020 Awarded: National Humanities Center Fellowship for “Painting and the Making of American Empire‚ 1830–1898,” 2021-2022.
Published Works & Honors
TIM CARTER Music Faculty Fellow: 2015 Published: Oklahoma! The Making of an American Musical, Revised and Expanded Edition, Oxford University Press, 2020.
DANIEL GITTERMAN WILLIAM R. FERRIS
Public Policy Academic Leadership Fellow: 2009 Published: The Intersector: How the Public, Nonprofit, and Private Sectors Can Address America’s Challenges, edited with Neil Britto, Brookings Institution Press, 2021.
History Faculty Fellow: 2007 Published: I AM A MAN: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970, University Press of Mississippi, 2021.
MIMI CHAPMAN
Despite unprecedented challenges from the pandemic, the Institute’s Faculty and Academic Leadership Fellows continued to excel in 2020–2021, publishing scholarship, creating artistic works, receiving recognition, and more. Here is a selection of their achievements.
DANIEL ANDERSON
MAYA BERRY
CHAD BRYANT
English and Comparative Literature Faculty Fellow: 2003, 2007 Published: Video Scholarship and Screen Composing, University of Michigan Press, 2021.
African, African American and Diaspora Studies Faculty Fellow: 2021 Performance: In Gratitude: A Choreography of Freedom choreography project, performed at the Visionary Aponte: Art & Black Freedom exhibit at the Power Plant Gallery, 2020. Awarded: Johnston Teaching Excellence Award, 2021.
History Faculty Fellow: 2019 Published: Prague: Belonging in the Modern City, Harvard University Press, 2021. Appointed: Interim Director of Graduate Studies, History, 2020.
STEPHEN ANDERSON Music Faculty Fellow: 2014 Published: Duo (LP) with Jason Foureman, Summit Records, 2020.
MARK EVAN BONDS
DAVID BAKER
Music Faculty Fellow: 1999 Published: Beethoven: Variations on a Life, Oxford University Press, 2020. Awarded: National Humanities Center Fellowship for “Music’s Fourth Wall and the Rise of Modern Listening,” 2021-2022.
English and Comparative Literature Faculty Fellow: 2016 Awarded: Fulbright Scholar, Ireland Award, 2021.
JANICE BARDSLEY Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Faculty Fellow: 1998, 2004, 2015 Published: Maiko Masquerade: Crafting Geisha Girlhood in Japan, University of California Press, 2021.
INGER BRODEY English and Comparative Literature Faculty Fellow: 2011 Published: “Jane Austen in the Public Humanities: The Jane Austen Summer Program” with Sarah Schaefer Walton and Anne Fertig in The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Maria Frawley and Cheryl Wilson, Routledge, 2021. Jane Austen & Co. web series (codirector, co-founder, co-host), 2021. Awarded: National Endowment for the Humanities Public Humanities Grant for “Jane Austen’s Desk,” 2021.
MICHELE BERGER Women’s and Gender Studies Faculty Fellow: 2012, 2020 Academic Leadership Fellow: 2009 Published: Black Women’s Health: Paths to Wellness for Mothers and Daughters, NYU Press, 2021.
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MARA BUCHBINDER School of Medicine Faculty Fellow: 2019 Published: Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America, University of California Press, 2021. Appointed: PI, “Physicians’ Moral Stress During COVID-19: A Qualitative Analysis of Systems Factors,” The Greenwall Foundation, 2020. Promoted: Full Professor.
BANU GÖKARIKSEL
School of Social Work Academic Leadership Fellow: 2018 Appointed: Chair of the Faculty, 2020.
Geography Faculty Fellow: 2008, 2015, 2017 Academic Leadership Fellow: 2020 Published: Feminist Geography Unbound, edited with Sara Smith, Michael Hawkins and Christopher Neubert; West Virginia University Press, 2021.
MARK J.C. CRESCENZI Political Science Faculty Fellow: 2013 Published: Market Power Politics: War, Institutions, and Strategic Delay in World Politics with Stephen E. Gent, Oxford University Press, 2021. Promoted: Nancy Hanes White Distinguished Professor.
MARÍA DEGUZMÁN English and Comparative Literature Faculty Fellow: 2004 Promoted: Eugene H. Falk Distinguished Professor. Published: “Key of Lightning” in Solstice Lit: A Magazine of Diverse Voices, 2021. “Gestalt” in Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts, Northeastern University, 2021. “Ganzfeld of Water” in Bombay Gin journal, Naropa University, 2021. “Cyclorama of Souls” (mixed media) in The Closed Eye Open, 2021. Original music by DeGuzmán and available on SoundCloud. Honor: Inducted into the Order of the Golden Fleece, 2021.
MARK W. DRISCOLL Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Faculty Fellow: 2006 Published: The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven: Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection, Duke University Press, 2021.
MICHAEL FIGUEROA SABINE GRUFFAT
Music Faculty Fellow: 2004 Published: Performing Commemoration: Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma, with Annegret Fauser, University of Michigan Press, 2020.
Art and Art History Faculty Fellow: 2016 Awarded: National Endowment for the Arts grant for Cosmic Rays Film Festival, founded with Bill Brown. Grants for Arts Projects: Media Arts to support creation of Cosmic Rays Digital in collaboration with Arts Everywhere, 2021.
My IAH Faculty Fellowship provided the thinking space and inspiration I needed to complete my book. I continue to lean on colleagues whom I met during that semester, too. I will be forever grateful for my time at the IAH.” Chad Bryant 2019 FACULTY FELLOW HISTORY
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JACQUELYN HALL History Faculty Fellow: 2004 Published: Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America (Paperback), W.W. Norton, 2020. Awarded: Charles S. Sydnor Award, Southern Historical Association, 2020; Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, Southern Association of Women Historians, 2020; Willie Lee Rose Prize, Southern Association of Women Historians, 2020; Bell Award, Georgia Historical Society, 2020.
JULIA HASLETT Communication Faculty Fellow: 2018 Published: Pushed Up the Mountain (documentary). Screened at Wild & Scenic Film Festival (U.S. Premiere), Wildscreen Festival (U.K.), Banff Mountain Film Festival (Canada), and more.
ELIZABETH HAVICE Geography Faculty Fellow: 2019 Awarded: Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2021.
PRISCILLA LAYNE
PATRICIA S. PARKER
DANIEL SHERMAN
Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures Faculty Fellow: 2021 Published: “Racialisation in Contemporary German Theatre,” with Lizzie Stewart, The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Race. “Halbstarke and Rowdys: Consumerism, Youth Rebellion, and Gender in the Postwar Cinema of the Two Germanys,” Central European History, 2020. Awarded: Faculty Diversity Award, 2021.
Communication Faculty Fellow: 2002 Academic Leadership Fellow: 2011 Published: Ella Baker’s Catalytic Leadership: A Primer on Community Engagement and Communication for Social Justice, University of California Press, 2020. Appointed: Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Ruel W. Tyson Distinguished Professor of Humanities.
Art and Art History Faculty Fellow: 2017 Published: “Staging Archaeology: Empire as Reality Effect at the fêtes de Carthage, 1906-07,” in Classical Receptions Journal, 2021.
JAMES LELOUDIS History Faculty Fellow: 1992, 1997 Academic Leadership Fellow: 2003 Published: Fragile Democracy: The Struggle Over Race and Voting Rights in North Carolina with Robert R. Korstad, UNC Press, 2020.
CHRISTIAN C. LENTZ
Kathryn Hunter-Williams as Marvel Cooke in the world premiere of Edges of Time, which was streamed to audiences in May 2021 as part of PlayMakers Repertory Company’s virtual season. Written by Jacqueline Lawton, costume design by Bobbi Owen. PHOTO BY ALEX MAINES.
I wrote Edges of Time as part of my IAH Faculty Fellowship. The time I spent in conversation with my esteemed colleagues was rigorous, inspiring , and transformative. I learned so much from each of them, and their invaluable insights helped shape the early stages of my script.”
BRIAN HOGAN
School of Medicine Academic Leadership Fellow: 2011 Published: Multiple journal articles in International Health, European Journal of Human Genetics, Genetics in Medicine, and more. Appointed: Co-investigator, “Incidental Enhancements: Addressing a Neglected Policy Issue in Human Genome Editing,” National Human Genome Research Institute. Co-Principal Investigator, “Decision Support for Early-Phase HIV Remission Trials,” National Institute of Mental Health.
Chemistry Faculty Fellow: 2011 Appointed: Vice Chair of Education, Chemistry Department.
City and Regional Planning Faculty Fellow: 2012 Published: Putting Skill to Work: How to Create Good Jobs in Uncertain Times, MIT Press, 2021.
MARK KATZ
LOUISE McREYNOLDS
Music Former IAH Director Faculty Fellow: 2012 Academic Leadership Fellow: 2013 Promoted: John P. Barker Distinguished Professor.
History Faculty Fellow: 2020 Published: “Excavating Byzantium: Russia’s Archaeologists and ‘Translatio Imperii’,” in Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 2020.
MIGUEL LA SERNA
BOBBI OWEN
GLENN HINSON Anthropology, American Studies Faculty Fellow: 1994, 2005, 2010 Awarded: Humanities for the Public Good Critical Issues Project Award, 2021.
History Faculty Fellow: 2015 Published: With Masses and Arms: Peru’s Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, UNC Press, 2020.
JACQUELINE LAWTON Dramatic Art Faculty Fellow: 2018 World Premiere: Edges of Time (play), PlayMakers Repertory Company, 2021.
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GAIL HENDERSON
Jacqueline Lawton 2018 FACULTY FELLOW DRAMATIC ART
Geography Faculty Fellow: 2016 Published: “The Crucible of Điên Biên Phủ: Making Vietnam in the First Indochina War,” in Political Violence in Southeast Asia since 1945: Case Studies from Six Countries, Routledge, 2021. Awarded: Harry J. Benda Prize for outstanding first book in any discipline of Southeast Asian studies by the Association of Asian Studies for Contested Territory, Yale University Press, 2019.
Dramatic Art Faculty Fellow: 1990, 2001 Academic Leadership Fellow: 2005 Published: PlayMakers Repertory Company: A History with Adam Versényi, UNC Press, 2021. Costume Design: Edges of Time, PlayMakers Repertory Company, 2021.
TANYA SHIELDS Women’s and Gender Studies Faculty Fellow: 2020 Academic Leadership Fellow: 2017 Promoted: Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor, 2020. Awarded: Carlyle Sitterson Freshman Teaching Award, 2021.
DAVID PFENNIG Biology Academic Leadership Fellow: 2019 Published: “Phenotypic Plasticity & Evolution: Causes, Consequences, Controversies,” editor, CRC Press, 2021.
STANISLAV SHVABRIN Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literature Faculty Fellow: 2015 Published: The Nose by Nikolai Gogol. (English translation, foreword, and commentary), Arion Press, 2021.
MORGAN PITELKA Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Faculty Fellow: 2017 Academic Leadership Fellow: 2018 Published: Letters from Japan’s Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries with Reiko Tanimura and Takashi Masuda, University of California, Berkeley IEAS Publications, 2021.
KARLA SLOCUM Faculty Fellow: 2003, 2020 Academic Leadership Fellow: 2018 Appointed: Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, College of Arts & Sciences, 2021. Awarded: Office of the Provost Engaged Scholarship Award.
DONALD REID History Faculty Fellow: 1991, 1993, 1995, 2006 Published: L’affaire Lip, 1968-1981 (French Edition), PU Rennes, 2020.
SARA SMITH Geography Faculty Fellow: 2011, 2018 Published: Feminist Geography Unbound, edited with Banu Gökariksel, Michael Hawkins and Christopher Neubert, West Virginia University Press, 2021.
STEVEN ROSEFIELDE Economics Faculty Fellow: 2000, 2007 Published: Populists and Progressives: The New Forces in American Politics, editor, World Scientific, 2020. Transformation and Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe: Challenges and Prospects, Routledge, 2020.
WILLIAM STURKEY History Faculty Fellow: 2018 Published: “The Future of Black History,” The Atlantic, 2021. Awarded: Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement, 2020. National Endowment for the Humanities’ Summer Stipend to support the development of “Stranger in His Own Land,” 2021.
VICTORIA ROVINE Art and Art History Faculty Fellow: 2020 Published: “Colonies and Clothing: The Uses of Fashion in Interwar France and West Africa,” in Fashion, Performance, and Performativity, 2021. “Crafting Colonial Power: Weaving and Empire in France and l’Afrique Occidentale Française,” in Circulating Crafts: Art, Agency, and the Making of Identities. “Colonial Time,” in Time in Fashion: Industrial, Antilinear, and Uchronic Temporalities, Bloomsbury, 2020. “Woven Beliefs: Textiles and Religious Practice in Africa,” The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religion and Materiality, 2020.
JAYASHANKAR SWAMINATHAN Kenan-Flagler Business School Academic Leadership Fellow: 2010 Published: Multiple articles in Springer Series in Supply Chain Management, Production and Operations Management, and Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.
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Awarded: Distinguished Fellow, Manufacturing and Service Operations Society, 2020.
MATTHEW TAYLOR English and Comparative Literature Faculty Fellow: 2017 Published: The Palgrave Handbook of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature and Science, co-editor, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. “Posthuman Postapocalypse,” Apocalypse in American Literature and Culture, 2021. Awarded: Manekin Family Award for Teaching Excellence, Honors Carolina, 2021.
JANE THRAILKILL English and Comparative Literature Faculty Fellow: 2002, 2009, 2013 Awarded: National Humanities Center Fellowship for The Agony of Empathy: A Health Humanities Intervention, 2021-2022.
MILADA ANNA VACHUDOVA Political Science Faculty Fellow: 2005, 2015 Published: “Ethnopopulism and Democratic Backsliding in Central Europe” in East European Politics, 2020. “Populism, Democracy and Party System Change in Europe” in Annual Review of Political Science, 2021. Awarded: Charles Robson Award for Excellence in Graduate Instruction, Department of Political Science.
ADAM VERSÉNYI Dramatic Art Faculty Fellow: 1993 Academic Leadership Fellow: 2004 Published: PlayMakers Repertory Company: A History with Bobbi Owen, UNC Press, 2021. The Mercurian: A Theatrical Translation Review, editor. On Stage: The Agony of Ecstasy (translation of El suplicio del placer by Sabina Berman), performed at California State University, 2021.
JOSEPH VISCOMI English and Comparative Literature Faculty Fellow: 1988, 2001 Published: William Blake’s Printed Paintings: Methods, Origins, Meanings, Yale University Press, 2021. “Europe a Prophecy copies C and F” digital edition, William Blake Archive, 2020. Digital Exhibition: William Blake’s Biblical Illustrations, with others, William Blake Archive, 2021.
Advisory Boards JOHN WICKHAM Chair | Charlotte, NC
ROBERT HACKNEY, JR. New Preston, CT
LUCRECIA MOORE Charlotte, NC
LANE MCDONALD Vice Chair | New York, NY
HAROLD PAGAN HOPE III New York, NY
WALKER MORRIS Charlotte, NC
JAMES KEITH BROWN New York, NY
BARBARA HYDE Memphis, TN
ALLEN MOSELEY Atlanta, GA
TOM CHAPMAN Jackson, WY
WILLIAM KEYES IV McLean, VA
WILLARD J. OVERLOCK III New Canaan, CT
PHILLIP CLAY Boston, MA
JOHN MILES LAMONT Dallas, TX
JOHN STATON III Atlanta, GA
REBECCA WESSON DARWIN Charleston, SC
KATHRYN LONG Greensboro, NC
JOHN TOWNSEND III Greenwich, CT
CATHERINE EDWARDS Charlotte, NC
KAROL VIRGINIA MASON New York, NY
TOM M. WOODBURY North Palm Beach, FL
MARY FLANAGAN Chapel Hill, NC
DEBORAH MILLER Atlanta, GA
MICHAEL F. YELVERTON Mill Valley, CA
JULIA GRUMBLES Chapel Hill, NC
JAMES MOESER Chapel Hill, NC
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2021-2022 Faculty Advisory Board
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2021-2022 IAH Advisory Board
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CHAD BRYANT History Associate Professor
ABIGAIL PANTER Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Psychology and Neuroscience Professor
DANIELLE CHRISTMAS English and Comparative Literature Assistant Professor
JOYCE RUDINSKY Communication Professor
JENNIFER GATES-FOSTER Classics Associate Professor
TANYA SHIELDS Women’s and Gender Studies Associate Professor
MICHAEL GUTIERREZ English and Comparative Literature Teaching Associate Professor
J. MICHAEL TERRY Linguistics Associate Professor
CHRISTIAN O. LUNDBERG Communication Associate Professor
LIEN TRUONG Art and Art History Associate Professor
TODD RAMÓN OCHOA Religious Studies Associate Professor
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CLAUDIA YAGHOOBI Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Associate Professor
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Lane Morris McDonald ’00 is the Vice Chair of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities Advisory Board. She is the co-founder and managing partner of ESG Portfolio Partners, a boutique advisory firm. Prior to ESG, McDonald was the founding North American member of Partners Group’s Industry Value Creation team for its $100B AUM portfolio as its Global Head of Financials & Business Services. She has also held strategic operating roles at Ropes & Gray, JetBlue Airlines, Delta Air Lines, American Express and Bain & Company.
I LOVED my short time at UNC and my experience was influenced by so many wonderful people who helped me get here and thrive here. I feel an enormous obligation to do anything I can to support this place to ensure it can play the same role in the lives of others.
My career has always been in the business world, and I cannot tell you what a strategic advantage my humanities and journalism training has been — the ability to see connections, quickly get to the root of an issue, and tell stories in a clear and factual way is foundational. Anyone can read a spreadsheet, but can you make someone understand the story in the data and help those around you work together to accomplish something? That’s the magic. My husband is also a history professor so political, societal, and economic history are all big dinner table topics in my house.
WHO WAS A FACULTY MEMBER THAT WAS IMPACTFUL TO YOU AS AN UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT AT UNC? So many! I specifically remember taking James Kimball King’s English class as he also taught my father the same class 35 years before. I also remember Professor James White’s 20th century Asian political science class. Both professors were masters of their craft and excellent storytellers.
WHAT IS A GOOD BOOK YOU’VE READ RECENTLY? I tend toward ‘trash’ fiction… murder mysteries, spy novels, historical novels. Christopher Moore’s Fool, Shakespeare for Squirrels, and Biff all made me laugh
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