Annual Highlights 2017 - 2018
The Institute empowers faculty to achieve their full potential by creating community and cultivating leadership.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Message from Leadership Faculty Fellowship Faculty Programs Academic Leaders Fellowship Grants IAH Statistics Institute Highlights Published Works and Honors Advisory Boards Q&A with Roger L. Perry Staff Contacts
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A Letter from the
A Letter from the
Director
Advisory Board Chair
Dear Friends, I hope you are as impressed with what you see in the following pages as I am. The accomplishments of Carolina’s faculty constantly amaze me—these are scholars and artists, teachers and leaders who are changing lives every day in the classroom and out in the world. You’ll read about the transformative experiences of Faculty Fellowship and Academic Leadership fellows. You’ll learn about some of the important events we hosted over the past year, such as the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II’s inspiring visit to the Institute for the Weil Lecture on American Citizenship; the thought-provoking conversation between author Charles Frazier and producer T Bone Burnett about artistic collaboration; Zia Haider Rahman’s bracing Brexit-themed Reckford Lecture in European Studies; and the lively Humanities Happy Hour series that we produced with our friends at Carolina Public Humanities. We are always asking how we can do more to serve our crucial mission of empowering faculty. In reflecting on this question, we realized that we could in fact do more to create community and cultivate leadership for a traditionally underserved segment of all university faculties. This led us to launch the Faculty of Color and Indigenous Faculty Working Group, which you will read about in this issue of Annual Highlights. I’m pleased to report that the response to our first year of programming has been tremendously positive. And there’s much more, including a Q&A with IAH Board Vice Chair and longtime supporter Roger Perry as well as blurbs about some of the prodigious work of IAH fellows. I hope this piques your interest, and I encourage you to visit our website to read our blog, listen to our podcasts, and learn about upcoming events. And then, of course, I hope you will follow your virtual visit with a trip to Hyde Hall for one of our many events, or just to stop by and say hello. To borrow Institute founder Ruel Tyson’s favorite closing: To be continued …
MARK KATZ, PH.D. Ruel W. Tyson, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Humanities Director, Institute for the Arts and Humanities Professor, Department of Music
Who was your favorite professor? Mine was Bernard Boyd, a religious studies professor. It’s not a particular text or lecture that sticks with me now, but his enthusiasm for the subject matter. Dr. Boyd showed me that it was easy to learn once you got excited about something. This also inspired the way I approach leadership—if I can get people excited about an idea, I can capture their interest. Who was your favorite professor? Who sparked your curiosity in something unexpected? The person who made it possible for you to think more creatively, solve a problem, listen more fully to others, with a critical mind? That professor needs support to do their research, publish a book, take time from teaching to stay at the top of their game at a Research One university. This leads to positive outcomes in the classroom. We want our best faculty to stay at UNC. How do we demonstrate the commitment to them that we have toward our Tar Heel culture? We support their research, their ideas, and their wisdom. We offer a community of faculty across disciplines so that they feel a part of a communal atmosphere. This is where the Institute for the Arts and Humanities comes in. Thirty years ago, Religious Studies Professor Ruel Tyson created the Program for the Arts and Humanities as a way to bring together faculty and discuss their work in communal accountability. Today, the Institute supports faculty through two highly competitive fellowships: Faculty Fellows and Academic Leadership, as well as 4 programs across ranks. Through this work, the retention rate among Fellows is more than 90%. At 30 years, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities is concerned, now more than ever, with making sure Carolina stays at the top. We know this begins with our faculty. As the Carolina Campaign is under way, the IAH priority is to endow the Faculty Fellowships. Please join us in getting there.
NELSON SCHWAB III Institute for the Arts and Humanities Advisory Board Chair
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FACULTY FELLOWSHIP
Fall 2017
Faculty Fellows
CLAUDE CLEGG
ELLISON FELLOW Lyle Jones Distinguished Professor African, African American, and Diaspora Studies Hope and Fury: Barack Obama, Black American and the Enduring Power of Race
The fellowships provide on-campus semester leaves for faculty to work on research for publication, exhibition, composition, and performance. These highly competitive fellowships enable faculty to develop new courses, programs and initiatives. The program consists of a semester-long weekly seminar in which each class of up to 10 Fellows meets to discuss their work with a group of colleagues across ranks and disciplines. Once appointed, Fellows join an expanding community of more than 600 scholars and artists who receive ongoing support from their new network. The Institute also supports conferences, lectures, workshops, exhibits, and performances of Fellows. Michele Berger has served as Program Director for five years. Tim Marr takes on the role beginning 2018-2019.
Sping 2018 “My IAH Fellowship taught me the immense value of interdisciplinary work with respect both to my own projects and to collaborations with colleagues from different departments. It also taught me how to be creative with scholarship, and to be publicly engaged without losing sight of my academic goals.” AFROZ TAJ
Asian Studies Associate Professor Faculty Fellow, Fall 2011
Faculty Fellows
MARISA ESCOLAR
BANU GÖKARIKSEL
COREY JOHNSON
ELIZABETH OLSON
CHARLES PRICE
MATTHEW TAYLOR
TURNER FELLOW Romance Studies Assistant Professor Allied Encounters: The Gendered Redemption of World War II Italy
GERSHUN AVILEZ
PAUL FRIGA
LAURA HALPERIN
JULIA HASLETT
T. WILLIAM LESTER
CARLA MERINO-RAJME
SARA SMITH
ARIANA VIGIL
CHAPMAN FELLOW Associate Professor Geography Teaching Feminist Geographies in a Time of Resurgent Nationalism
BLACKWELL FELLOW Associate Professor Engish & Comparative Literature Race, Sex, & Space: Black Queer Vulnerability and Public Embodiment
CHAPMAN FELLOW Business School Clinical Associate Professor Does Your University Have a Strategy for Centralization?
HOW WE CREATE COMMUNITY AND CULTIVATE LEADERSHIP We believe that faculty are the heart and soul of the University and that investing in faculty has the greatest impact for the future. At every stage of their career, the Institute offers support for faculty. In 1987, our organization was founded upon the Faculty Fellowship Program, which grants faculty a semester release from teaching and service to focus on their scholarship. This is a crucial “gift of time” since Carolina is a Research One institution.
CHAPMAN FELLOW Teaching Associate Professor Biology Developing an Undergraduate Anatomy Text for the 21st Century
BURRESS FELLOW Professor Geography Lifesaving Children: The Hidden Histories and Moralities of Youth Caregivers in the United States
MCGOWAN FELLOW Associate Professor Engish & Comparative Literature La Mala Educación: (Mis)educating Latinxs
TOWNSEND FELLOW Assistant Professor Communcation Pushed Up the Mountain
PARDUE FELLOW Associate Professor City & Regional Planning Dialectics of Failure? Urban Renewal and Neighborhood Change on Chicago’s South Side, 1950-2016
But we don’t stop there in our commitment to faculty. We offer grants, leadership development and programs across all faculty ranks. Our approach cultivates a mutual commitment between Carolina and its faculty.
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TAYLOR FELLOW Associate Professor Anthropology Rastafari: The Evolution of a People and Their Identity
SCHWAB FELLOW Associate Professor English & Comparative Literature Forms of Life: Biological Aesthetics in America, 1859-1953
BORDEN FELLOW Assistant Professor Philosophy Minds as Subjective Clocks
JOHNSON FELLOW Associate Professor Geography Himalayan Youth Remake the World: Education, Migration, and Intimate Life
CRAMER FELLOW Associate Professor Women’s and Gender Studies Public Negotiations: Gender, Journalism, and U.S. Latina/o Literature
2017-2018 Annual Highlights
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.
Operating since 2013, the IAH New Faculty Program is designed to introduce newly-arrived arts and humanities faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences to interdisciplinary conversations and mentoring networks at UNC-CH. The program engages a cohort of faculty through academic and social events throughout the academic year. The New Faculty Program is open to full-time faculty at all ranks who are within their first three years of appointment at UNC. To join, please contact Coordinator for Faculty Programs.
Associate Professor Program
Program Director: Morehead-Cain Alumni Distinguished Professor Geoff Sayre-McCord, Philosophy Throughout academe and across disciplines, newly tenured and promoted professors face unique professional and personal challenges. This program is designed to support them as they enter this transitional period. 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 typically consists of four dinners and two lunchtime events. The meals provide time and space for participants to forge connections beyond their departments and to discuss professional and academic issues of common interest. Lunch events generally 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.
Arce-Nazario’s specializes in Geographic Information Systems (GSI) and will use his expertise to capture land use changes from old mill towns. He will shift from Latin America and the Caribbean to the American South, as well as connect the research to his undergraduate research. With the $2,000 provided
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 Preparation for retirement is particularly challenging for members of the academic community 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 continue to inform a larger public of students outside the university community. This seminar is a project of the UNC Retired Faculty Association and the Institute for the Arts.
Program Director: Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor Peter Mucha, Mathematics The Chairs Leadership Program (CLP), which started in the 2007-2008 academic year, is a program of the College of Arts and Sciences offered in collaboration with the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. ABOVE, New faculty gather for a workshop on research centers and institutes across campus, providing them with contacts for future opportunities. This program is starting to act as a pipeline for the Faculty and Academic Leadership fellowships.
by the grant, Arce-Nazario is excited to start this important work and take his career to next level. For Colloredo-Mansfeld, a cultural anthropologist, his research has also focused on South America, particularly in Quito, Ecuador, and economic development in the area from the tourist market for textiles and apparel. He found that many factories and buildings locally are being put to other uses, including the tobacco district to Rocky Mount, Saxapahaw, as well as Lowell and Lawrence Massachusetts. Colloredo-Mansfeld recently hosted a group of Quito community leaders and scholars to tour these old textile mills in the United States, spurring meaningful conversation on what it means to be an old factory town in both Ecuador or here in Carrboro or Durham. The grant also helps build from that original global collaboration. “These funds may lead to other initiatives, such as writing a joint grant proposal or a developing a collaborative creative performance,” said Nguyen.
ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP PROGRAM FELLOWSHIPS
Retired Faculty Program
Chairs Leadership Program
The College recommends but does not require participation by newly appointed and reappointed chairs. The CLP is an addition to the College’s ongoing program of support for chairs, which also includes the annual chair’s retreat, the chair’s council, the
The first recipients of the award are Assistant Professor Javier Arce-Nazario (Geography) and Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld, Senior Associate Dean for Social Sciences and Global Programs (Anthropology). The projects by ArceNazario and Colloredo-Mansfeld aren’t just North Carolina stories, they are also global stories.
The Institute 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. Professor Suzanne Gulledge (School of Education) is Program Director.
Class of 2017-2018
Program Director: Associate Professor Mai Thi Nguyen, City and Regional Planning
chair’s manual and the assistance of the senior associate deans and other members of the Dean’s staff. Department chairs provide an important service to their colleagues and the university as a whole and sometimes face demanding and difficult situations. Chairs help form the strategic direction for their departments and manage budgets, instructional programs and new faculty recruitment. They have major responsibility for developing and evaluating new faculty. Modeled on the Academic Leadership Program (ALP) Fellowship, the CLP offers first-time and reappointed chairs a year of monthly confidential conversations in which they can share ideas, identify best practices and explore important issues related to the important roles they play within the university.
When you are a new faculty at UNC and starting up your research and teaching agenda, it is sometimes difficult to find the time to meet other faculty and reach out to them for collaborations,” said Mai Thi Nguyen, IAH New Faculty Program Director who conceived of the New Faculty Collaboration Grant.
Academic Leadership Program
New Faculty Program
NEW FACULTY COLLABORATION GRANTS
WENDY BREWSTER
MIMI CHAPMAN
ELIZABETH ENGELHARDT
MORGAN PITELKA
KARLA SLOCUM
ADAM ZANATION
Obstetrics & Gynecology Professor
Asian Studies History Professor Director, Carolina Asia Center
School of Social Work Professor Director, Center for Women’s Health Research
Anthropology Associate Professor Director, Institute of African American Research
American Studies John Shelton Reed Distinguished Professor Department Chair
Otolaryngology Distinguished Associate Professor
PENNY GORDON-LARSEN Nutrition Professor Associate Department Chair
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2017-2018 Annual Highlights
GRANTS AND AWARDS In order to remain at the top of its game as a Research 1 university, UNC faculty stay current in their research, scholarship and artistry. They then bring that knowledge to teaching Carolina students. The Institute is proud to be able to offer funding opportunities to faculty.
established the award in 2015 to help department chairs recognize teaching and scholarship. IAH Advisory Board Chair Nelson Schwab III (’67, English) recently endowed the fund.
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NUMBER OF GRANTS AWARDED TO FACULTY
$151k SPENT ON RETENTION
NUMBER OF 2017-18 FACULTY FELLOWSHIP APPLICANTS
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.
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SCHWAB ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AWARD The Institute for the Arts and Humanities has announced the 21 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)
NEW FACULTY PROGRAM COLLABORATION GRANT The IAH Collaboration Grant is a new pilot program that will provide a grant to a participant of the New Faculty Program who collaborates with a more senior faculty member. Proposals for research projects that lead to a publication, creative activity, or a grant proposal will be prioritized. The pilot program has a total of $3,000 and we may provide one or more grants depending on the quality and quantity of proposals.
The new faculty member should be the lead on the project. One faculty member receives $3,000 to work in collaboration with a more senior faculty member. Priority is given to collaborations outside the home department and that lead to new faculty advancing their careers in their respective fields.
IAH HONORS CAROLINA COLLABORATION GRANT The IAH Honors Carolina Collaboration Grant—with the support of the William C. Friday Leadership Fund—are proud to offer an exciting opportunity for Honors Carolina students to assist fellows in their current research projects. The student will contribute 8–10 hours per week during one semester to support the project.
This opportunity is for Honors Carolina students and for IAH Faculty Fellows or Academic Leadership Program Fellows. Student and fellow need to submit a joint application. Preference will be given to faculty/student pairings that have not previously worked together on funded research projects. Interdisciplinary projects are highly encouraged.
ARTS & HUMANITIES RESEARCH GRANT The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities co-sponsor the Arts & Humanities grant program. The partnership supports the Chancellor’s Blue Print for Next strategic framework and promotes the Vice Chancellor’s mission to build the University’s pre-eminence as a national and world-renowned leader in research.
2017-2018 INSTITUTE BY THE NUMBERS.
This initiative 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 range from $2,500 to $7,500, to be used within one full year from the date of award.
AWARDED TO FACULTY IN 2017-18
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NUMBER OF RETENTION CASES AND PREEMPTIVE RETENTION AWARDS
NUMBER OF ACCEPTED FACULTY FELLOWSHIP APPLICANTS
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NUMBER OF EVENTS HELD IN HYDE HALL
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NUMBER OF ALP AND FFP FELLOWS SINCE THE INSTITUTE WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1987
NUMBER OF ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS SUPPORTED BY THE INSTITUTE
CUMULATIVE YEARS OF TEACHING BY THE 2017-18 ACADEMIC LEADERS AND FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS
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EVENTS AND HIGHLIGHTS
Creating Community. BELOW, Author Zia Haider Rahman, who wrote the critcally acclaimed 2014 novel In the Light of What We Know, delivered the 2018 Annual Mary Stevens Reckford Lecture in European Studies in February. FAR BELOW, IAH Associate Director Jennifer Ho, introduces Rahman, whose lecture was entitled “Brexit: The Reckoning.”
AT RIGHT, “Most authors spend their days in their underwear,” admitted Charles Frazier ‘73, at right, author of Cold Mountain. He was joined by music producer T Bone Burnett (pictured, right of Frazier) to discuss the art of collaboration at Moeser Auditorium in Hill Hall on Sept. 29. FAR RIGHT, students, faculty, and members of the public came to ask questions of the industry giants about their craft.
AT RIGHT, Civil rights activist Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, right, delivered the 2017 Weil Lecture in American Citizenship on Oct. 11. FAR RIGHT, members of the UNC Gospel Choir perform before Barber’s lecture. ABOVE, a participant in the Humanities Happy Hour listens as Associate Professor Mai Thi Nguyen (City and Regional Planning), ABOVE RIGHT, discusses her performance piece on the history of Ferguson. The project was awarded the 2017 IAH Arts and Social Justice Grant. AT RIGHT, participants discuss the event. Humanities Happy Hour is a joint event series with the Carolina Public Humanities. Each month of the academic year, a Faculty Fellow delivers a talk to the public at Top of the Hill’s BackBar in Chapel Hill.
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FAREWELL Current IAH Faculty Fellowship Program Director Michele Berger is finishing 5 years in the position. “This role allowed me to bring my expertise as a faculty member and passion for mentoring and professional development to support interdisciplinary inquiry and research. This highly rewarding position provides a mechanism to “pay it forward” in nurturing and developing faculty talent.” IAH Director Mark Katz said he deeply appreciated Berger’s leadership. “I especially admire how she created an inclusive, collaborative, and affirming culture that demonstrated the importance of community to the work of scholars and artists.” Michele Tracy Berger is Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. She holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of City and Regional Planning. She was awarded a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies in 1995 and her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan in 1998.
MICHELE BERGER,
IAH Faculty Fellowship Program Director
Her books include Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS (Princeton University Press, 2004) and the co-edited collections Gaining Access: A Practical and Theoretical Guide for Qualitative Researchers (Altamira Press, 2003) and The Intersectional Approach: Transforming the Academy Through Race, Class and Gender (University of North Carolina Press, 2010). Workable Sisterhood won a ‘Best Book’ Award from the American Political Science Association and was nominated for a ‘Distinguished
WELCOME Timothy Marr, Distinguished Term Associate Professor (American Studies), has been appointed Faculty Fellowship Program Director at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities beginning July 1. He succeeds Associate Professor Michele Berger (Women’s and Gender Studies), who has served in the role for five years.
TIM MARR,
IAH Faculty Fellowship Director
Book’ Award from the American Sociological Association. In 2006, she received an American Association of University Women (AAUW) ‘American Fellow’ award for her new work on African American mother and daughter communication on health and sexuality. Her latest book Transforming Scholarship: Why Women’s and Gender Studies Students Are Changing Themselves and the World (Routledge 2011) definitively answers the question, ‘What can you do with an interest in women’s and gender studies?’ The book argues that not only are women’s and gender studies graduates able to find fulfilling employment, they also comprise an emerging vanguard of knowledge producers in the U.S. and globally, and maintain a strong commitment to gender equality and social justice after graduation. Dr. Berger and her collaborator Dr. Cheryl Radeloff surveyed over 900 women’s and gender studies graduates (1995-2010) from around the globe about their career paths. This is currently the largest global data set about contemporary women’s and gender studies graduates. Her teaching and research interests include multiracial feminisms, qualitative methods, and HIV/AIDS activism. She served as Vice President of the National Women’s Studies Association from 2010-2014.
“Tim brings so much to this position—his winning enthusiasm, his generosity of spirit, his breadth of knowledge. This program, and the Institute as a whole, exists to foster the community of faculty, and to empower them to realize their scholarly and artistic potential. Tim is exceptionally qualified to serve this mission, and we welcome his presence in Hyde Hall.”
FAREWELL
MARK KATZ, PH.D. Director, Institue for the Arts and Humanaties
The Faculty Fellowship Program (FFP) catalyzed the founding of the Institute more than 30 years ago. The aim of the program is to support faculty in their scholarship and art by giving them a semester leave from teaching. Fellows meet weekly to facilitate accountability among peers across fields.
Marr is a third-generation teacher who taught high school and university in California, Connecticut, Pakistan, and Australia before joining the American Studies Department at UNC in 2000. He was awarded the Chapman Family Teaching Award in 2009, which bestowed a Faculty Fellowship at the Institute.
“I’m delighted to work with those faculty fortunate to be selected as Fellows at the Institute,” said Marr. “The weekly lunch seminars serve as a dynamic wellspring of collective and interdisciplinary engagement in the heart of our campus.”
“My own experience as a Fellow opened me to kindness of colleagues across the University in ways that broaden the ambit of my thinking, provided valuable perspectives on my scholarship, and generated important connection in the fabric of our university community.”
Director of the Associate Professor Program Geoff Sayre-McCord finishes his term June 2018. Coordinator for Faculty Programs Philip Hollingsworth, Ph.D., will run the program.
2013, Sayre-McCord became the director. He began with Ruel Tyson’s special way of gathering faculty, “Convening dinners at local restaurants,” mostly, said Sayre-McCord.
“Geoff is a great mentor for faculty,” said IAH Director Mark Katz. “And his expertise in philosophy is a natural fit for tenured professors in thinking about the next chapter in their careers. We will miss him. We wish him well in his ventures, especially in the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program (PPE).”
“Which topics we chose depended on the constitution of the group.” said MccCord. Most recently, one session dove into “what it takes to get tenure and what it takes to become full professor, the next rank in the tenure track.” People get to meet other people in the same rank, even though they are in different departments.
PPE received a 3.75 million grant in April from the Pope Foundation to expand the program, run jointly with Duke University. Currently 350 students are enrolled in the program. “I have really enjoyed working with the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. It’s a special place for faculty.”
GEOFF SAYRE-MCCORD,
Associate Professors Program
If you want to get started on Hume? Sayre-McCord recommends The Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding and The Inquiry Concerning Morals.
The Associate Professors Program seeks to provide newly tenured and promoted associate professors with mentoring and support at this key mid-career point. Once the Institute began hosting the program in
IAH Focus on Equity and Inclusion As part of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities 2018-2021 Strategic Plan, one chief goal is to support equity efforts in supporting faculty. This focus was the result of work across the staff and leadership at the Institute. In February 2018, the entire IAH staff attended training at the Racial Equity Institute based in Greensboro, NC. The organization’s two-day training and subsequent staff meetings helped the team understand the history of the racism as an institution. “An education in equity and inclusion provides the perfect platform to test ideas and our relationships toward a greater good,” said M. Clay, IAH Communications Specialist. “REI was crucial education for us as we support the faculty who teach Carolina students and the leaders of this fine university.”
Groups met and hosted speakers, discussed issues they were facing in their departments, and celebrated each other’s successes. “Like many other academic institutions, UNC-Chapel Hill does not have a high number of department chairs, deans or other administrators who are faculty of color,” said Kia Caldwell. “In addition to supporting leadership development among faculty of color and indigenous faculty, the group seems to have provided an important and rare space for faculty to interact and support one another.” The next step is a report by the working group to outline the issues and possible solutions facing faculty as part of the Strategic Plan.
Faculty diversity continues to challenge institutions of higher education. One lasting impact: Faculty of Color/Indigenous Faculty are often the most recruited away from Carolina by other colleges and universities. In 2016, Jennifer Ho and M.Clay, as well as then-graduate assistant Paula Mukherjee, developed programming for faculty women of color. In 2017, Jennifer Ho, Michele Berger, and Kia Caldwell started a series of gatherings for faculty of color and indigenous faculty. “When you are either the only or one of the only few faculty of color in a department, then you are asked to do more: more committee work and more mentoring of students of color, who often gravitate to the few faculty of color in a department,” said Jennifer Ho. “It leaves less time to do research and focus on teaching.”
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2017-2018 Annual Highlights
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 2017–2018.
IN MEMORIAM: JONATHAN HESS Faculty, staff, and students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are profoundly shaken by the sudden and unexpected loss of their beloved colleague and dear friend Jonathan M. Hess, a Faculty Fellow on April 9, 2018. He was 52. Hess completed two Masters of Arts degrees, one in German from The Johns Hopkins University and another in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at at the University of Pennsylvania where he continued his doctoral studies. Immediately following the completion of his dissertation entitled “Aesthetic States: The Political Investments of Aesthetic Autonomy” in 1993, Hess joined the faculty of the then Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Carolina. He remained at UNC for the entirety of his esteemed career. Jonathan was promoted to full professor in 2003 and appointed the prestigious Moses M. and Hannah L. Malkin Distinguished Professor of Jewish History and Culture in
MICHAEL GERHARDT
ANNA AGBE-DAVIES
Anthropology Associate Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2014 Exhibited/Performed: Plasticon (Carolina Performing Arts)
BARBARA AMBROS
Religious Studies Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2016 Published: Barbara Ambros with Timothy Smith. “Tenrikyō.” Handbook of East Asian New Religious Movements. Eds. Franz Winter and Lukas Pokorny, 2018. Barbara Ambros and Laura Hobgood. “Animal and Death in Religious Practice.” Companion to Death and Dying. Ed. Christopher M. Moreman, 2017 Barbara Ambros. “Urban Space and Famous Places: Temples and Shrines in Early Modern Edo.” In Early Modern Urban Sacred Landscapes. Eds. Jonathan Wright and Eric Nelson, 2017. Promotion: Chair of the Department
JANE DANIELEWICZ
English & Comparative Literature Professor Academic Leadership Fellow: 2007-2008 Published: Contemporary American Memoirs in Action: How to Do Things with Memoir, 2017. Awarded: 2018 Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction. Office of the Chancellor, UNC-Chapel Hill. Promotion: Full Professor.
MARÍA DEGUZMÁN
English & Comparative Literature Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2004 Published: “Fatal Hieroglyph: Mexico for Writers of Exile Malcolm Lowry and William Burroughs” Scripta: Revista do Programa de Pós-graduaçao em Letras do Centro de Estudos Luso-afro-brasileiros da PUC Minas, 2017. “Latinx: ¡Estamos Aqui!, or Latinx in the Contest of UNC–Chapel Hill” for a special issue of Cultural Dynamics on “Theorizing Latinx”, 2017.
FLORENCE DORE
English & Comparative Literature Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2013 Published: Novel Sound: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll, 2018.
ERIC DOWNING
Germanic & Slavic Languages and Literatures English & Comparative Literature Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2012 Published: The Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940, 2018.
KATHLEEN DUVAL
History Faculty Fellow: Fall 2000 Bowman & Gordon Gray Term Professor Published: Afterword, European Empires in the American South: Colonial and Environmental Encounters, ed. Joseph P. Ward (University Press of Mississippi, 2017). “Writing Translations, Writing History: Colonial American Voices and the Problem of Verticality,” co-authored with John DuVal, Early American Literature, 2018. Awarded: Guggenheim Fellowship, 2018-2019. Appointed: Elected Member, Society of American Historians, 2018.
OSWALDO ESTRADA
Romance Studies Professor Faculty Fellow, Spring 2016 Promotion: Full Professor Appointment: Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Romance Studies
ANNEGRET FAUSER
Music Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor and Harold J. Glass USAF Faculty Mentor/Graduate Fellow Distinguished Term Professor (2017-20) Faculty Fellow: Spring 2005 Published: Aaron Copland’s Appalachian
Spring, 2017. “French Entanglements in International Musicology during the Interwar Years,” Revue de Musicologie, 2017.
WILLIAM FERRIS
History Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2007 Published: Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris, 2018. Exhibited: South in Color Photography Exhibition, Fisher Gallery, Jackson, MS South in Color Photography Exhibition, Margaret Mitchell Home, Atlanta History Center (Atlanta, GA).
JENNIFER GATES-FOSTER
Classics Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2016 Awarded: European Research Council Starting Grant, EUR 1,500,000 €. Team Leader, ‘Desert Networks: Into the Eastern Desert of Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Roman period,’ Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris, France, [PI Bérangère Redon]), 2017-23.
DEBORAH R. GERHARDT
School of Law Associate Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2017 “Trademarks as Entrepreneurial Change Agents for Legal Reform”, 95 N.C.L. Rev 1519 (2017) Awarded: University Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction at UNC 2017; Appointed: Selected to Serve on the Board for the American Association of Law Schools Intellectual Property Section for 2017-2018; Selected to Serve as Chair Elect for the American Association of Law Schools Art Law Section 2018
UNC School of Law Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law Faculty Fellow: Spring 2010 Academic Leadership Fellow, 2012-2013 Impeachment: What People Need to Know, 2018 Awarded: Scholar in Residence, National Constitution Center; Richard Beeman Visting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania Law School.
MARIANNE GINGHER
English and Comparative Literature Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2000; Fall 2007 Performance: “Beauty and the Botanist” a play by my company, Jabberbox Puppet Theater, 2018.
STEPHANIE ELIZONDO GRIEST
Associate Professor English & Comparative Literature Faculty Fellow: Fall 2015 Published: All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands, 2017. Live Storytelling, The Moth Mainstage, 2018; Promotion: Associate Professor of Creative Nonfiction.
LAWRENCE GROSSBERG
Communication Professor Faculty Fellow: Academic Leadership Fellow Under the Cover of Chaos: Trump and the Battle for the American Right. 2018. “Between political economy and cultural studies: A response to Bryan and Rafferty.” Journal of Cultural Economy, 2017. “Tilting at Windmills: A Cynical Assemblage of the Crises of Knowledge.” Cultural Studies, 2018. “Searching for Meaghan (Morris).” Cultural Studies Review, 2018.
2006. Jonathan became the director of UNC’s Center for Jewish Studies in 2003 and that same year was also appointed as adjunct faculty in the Department of Religious Studies. In 2012, the Center became a undergraduate degree program with ties to eight different academic departments in the College of Arts and Sciences. In 2016, Jonathan was appointed chair of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures. He published Deborah and Her Sisters: How One Nineteenth-Century Melodrama and a Host of Celebrated Actresses Put Judaism on the World Stage in 2017. The Carolina community knew him for his exemplary service to his department, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the University.
JIM HIRSCHFIELD
Art and Art History Kenan Distinguished Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2001 Academic Leadership Fellow 2012 Exhibited: Lattawood Park, Bellevue WA, 2017 Joyner Park Community Center, Wake Forest, NC.
JENNIFER HO
English & Comparative Literature Professor Faculty Fellow: Academic Leadership Fellow, 2015 Published: Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States. Co-edited with James Donahue and Shaun Morgan. (2017)
CARMEN HSU
Romance Studies Associate Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2013 Awarded: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the Newberry Library, 2018-2019
KENNETH JANKEN African, African American, and Diaspora Studies Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2001 Academic Leadership Fellow, 2014-2015 Inaugural Presidential Lecturer, Halifax Community College, Weldon, NC, March 22, 2018. Title of lecture: “Remembering the Wilmington Ten.” CHRISTIAN LENTZ
Geography Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2016 “Cultivating subjects: Opium and rule in postcolonial Vietnam.” Modern Asian Studies, 2017.
LAUREN LEVE
Religious Studies Associate Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2007
Awarded: The Buddhist Art of Living in Nepal: Ethical Practice and Religious Reform, was awarded the 2017 James Fisher Prize for Books on the Himalayan Region. UNC Center for Faculty ExcellenceLenovo Grant: “Developing 3D models and Virtual Reality Experiences for Use in Teaching Himalayan Buddhism.”
PATRICIA A. MCANANY
Kenan Eminent Professor Anthropology Faculty Fellow: Spring 2011 Academic Leadership Fellow, 2017-2018 Awarded: Kenan Eminent Professor and Chair Bold Ideas grant from the National Geographic Society for The Cultural Heritage, Ecology, and Conservation of Yucatec Cenotes. Promotion: Chair of Department
CARA MCCOMISH
Allied Health Sciences Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2017 Chapman Teaching Award Faculty Fellow Published: Pados, B., Thoyre, S., Estrem, H., Park, J., & McComish, C. “Factor structure and psychometric properties of the Neonatal Eating Assessment Tool- Bottle feeding (NeoEAT- Bottle feeding)” Advances in Neonatal Care, 2018. Awarded: Preparation of Pediatric Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists to serve Children with Hearing Loss and Developmental Disabilities, U.S. Department of Education. (2017-2021). Appointment: Graduate Program Director, M.S. program in Speech-Language Pathology, Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Department of Allied Health Sciences, School of Medicine.
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JAMES MOESER
LAUNCHES NEW BOOK OF HIS SPEECHES
“I did this at [the University of Nebraska],” said Moeser, where he served as Dean. “But I didn’t come up with this idea. I copied other presidents whom I saw successfully doing this.”
Most of his time as Chancellor he had many short speeches crafted by other people, usually his staff. “But these speeches were different,” said Moeser. “I wrote these myself, often over a long period of time many weeks, sometimes up to two months. But the writing is all mine because these were important to me. They were intended to motivate, inspire, and to recognize people.” As a highly regarded organist, it was also a way to work on a different stage. “Delivering a speech is a form of performance for me.” The book also includes remarks to the National Press Club in 2002 and a speech on leadership for the Merrill Center Research Conference at the University of Kansas in 2010. One of the hallmarks of his 8-year chancellorship, Moeser established the Carolina Covenant, which ensures admitted students at or below 200% of the poverty level are guaranteed financial aid without debt. At the time no other public university had endeavored to accomplish this and only Princeton, among private universities, had achieved this monumental initiative. The book includes a forward by James LeLoudis, History Professor, and the Peter T. Grauer Associate Dean of Honors Carolina. LeLoudis is also a Faculty Fellow (Spring
English & Comparative Literature Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2008 Published: Appointed Rounds: Essays, 2018.
LOUISE MCREYNOLDS
JIM O’HARA
JOSEPH MEGEL
1997). In it, he discusses the Carolina First Capital Campaign launched in 1999 with a goal of raising $1.8 billion. Eight years later, LeLoudis writes, the campaigned under Moeser’s leadership “roared past that goal” to $2.38 billion. Moeser also addressed controversy over Approaching the Qur’an by Michael Sells, the book assignment for first-year students in 2002. A faculty committee was responsible, Moeser supported the decision despite a backlash at a time that followed 9/11 by less than a year. Moeser stands by his position even now. “The purpose of the public university is exactly to have these kinds of conversations,” said Moeser. Yet he kept his humor throughout the controversy. “There were no known conversions,” he said in his remarks to the National Press Club. “Carolina’s religion remains basketball.” He also candidly discussed budget issues, including the Carolina First Campaign to re-imagine infrastructure. Even in retirement, Moeser continues to champion the importance of the public university. “Employers are looking for students who think for themselves,” Moeser emphasized. “The job of a trade school is to prepare students for their first jobs. Our job [at a university] is to prepare students… figuring they will have 7 careers over a lifetime.”
TODD RAMON OCHOA
Religious Studies Associate Professor Faculty Fellow: 2012 Awarded: National Humanities Center Fellow, 2017-2018.
History Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2009 Published: “P. I. Kovalevskii: Criminal Anthropology and Great Russian Nationalism,” Born to be Criminal: The Discourse on Criminality and the Practice of Punishment in Late Imperial Russia and Early Soviet Union. Eds. Riccardo Nicolosi, Anne Hartmann, 2018. Awarded: Fulbright Faculty Fellowship to Ukraine, Fall, 2018.
Delivering a State of the University address was not a unique idea, admits UNC Chancellor Emeritus James Moeser. But he brought his own style, using it to set the agenda for Carolina each year.
Now, a book of those speeches published through UNC Press is available. The State of the University, 2000-2008: Major Addresses by UNC Chancellor James Moeser, offers a glimpse at contemporary history of UNC.
MICHAEL MCFEE
Professor Department of Communication Faculty Fellow: Fall 2011 Director: “Freight: The Five I ncarnations of Abel Green” by Howard Craft (New Federal Theater & Castillo Theater, NYC - NY Times Pick); “Closer Than They Appear” for StreetSigns and Process Series (Indy’s Top Ten List); “Magnificent and The Mundane” by Howard Craft (ManBites Dog Theater); “The Talk” by Sonny Kelly (ABD) for Dept. of Communication. Restaged “The Black Pioneers Project” at Wilson Library; and “Eight Nights” for Making Tracks reading Series, The Process Series & Playmakers Rep. Awarded: National Endowment for the Arts Teaching Professor
CARLA MERINO-RAJME
Assistant Professor Philosophy Faculty Fellow: Spring 2018 Awarded: Junior Faculty Development Awards, UNC-Chapel Hill
TOWNSEND MIDDLETON
Anthropology Associate Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2014 “The Afterlives of a Killing: Assassination, Thanatos, and the Body Politic in South Asia.” Public Culture, 2018. Darjeeling Reconsidered: Histories, Politics, Environments. New Delhi. Edited with Sara Shneiderman, 2018. Awarded: National Science Foundation Collaborative Research Grant: ChokepointsA Comparative Global Ethnography (2016-2019) Promotion: Associate Professor
JEANNE MOSKAL
English & Comparative Literature Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 1992 Exhibited: “Reconstructing Frankenstein’s Monster: Mary Shelley’s World in Print,” UNC Wilson Library, 2018.
LAYNA MOSLEY
Political Science Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2008 Academic Leadership Fellow, 2014-2015 Published: “Labor and the Global Political Economy.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. 2017. Awarded: Fulbright Faculty Fellow Award, Germany, Fall 2017.
Classics George L. Paddison Professor of Latin Faculty Fellow: Spring 2012 Published: Vergil: Aeneid Book 8, 2018.
ELIZABETH OLSON
Geography and Global Studies Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2017 Academic Leadership Fellow, 2018-2019 Published: “Rethinking Youth Spirituality through Sacrilege and Encounter.” Olson, E., Hopkins, P, and Vincett, G. Geographies of Spirituality. Bartonlini, N. MacKian, S, and Pile, S. Eds. 2018. “The largest volunteer life-saving corps in the world”: Caregiving youth, infant mortality, and national security in the U.S. Little Mothers’ Leagues, 1910-1930’. Social and Cultural Geography. 2018. Awarded: Bookend Caregiving Network, Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Pipeline to Proposal Award Promotion: Full Professor, Chair of Department of Geography
BOBBI OWEN
Dramatic Art Michael R. McVaugh Distinguished Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2001 Academic Leadership Fellow, 2004-2005 Published: The Designs of William Ivey Long, 2018. Costume Design: A Christmas Carol; PlayMakers Repertory Company, 2017 Awarded: Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, Marquis Who’s Who; Who’s Who in Fine Arts Higher Education
MORGAN PITELKA
History and Asian Studies Faculty Fellow: Spring 2017 Academic Leadership Fellow 2017-2018 “Chinese Ceramics and Warrior Sociability in Sixteenth-Century Japan,” Chigusa in Context: In and Around Chanoyu in Sixteenth-Century Japan. Dora Ching, Louise Cort, and Andrew Watsky, eds. 2017. “Form and Function: Tea Bowls and the Problem of Zen in Chanoyu,” Zen and Material Culture. Pamela D. Winfield and Steven Heine, eds. 2017. “The Return of Seduction.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 2017.
C. D. C. REEVE
Philosophy Delta Kappa Epsilon Distinguished Professorship Faculty Fellow: Spring 2010 Published: Aristotle Physics, translation, introduction, & notes Aristotle De Anima, translation, introduction & notes
DONALD REID
History Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2006 Published: Opening the Gates: The Lip Affair, 1968-1981, 2018. “Re-mémoration et créativité dans Le Verfügbar aux Enfers,” Le Genre humain, 2018.
DANIEL SHERMAN
Art and Art History History Lineberger Distinguished Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2017 Published: May 1968: New Approaches,
New Perspectives, special issue of French Historical Studies, co-edited with Donald Reid, 2018. Awarded: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.
KUMI SILVA
Communication Associate Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2013 Published: “Having the Time of Our Lives: Love-cruelty as patriotic impulse,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 2018 Promotion: Promoted to Associate Professor
BLAND SIMPSON
English & Comparative Literature Kenan Distinguished Professor of English & Creative Writing Faculty Fellow: Fall 2006 Published: Two Captains From Carolina, Paperback Edition, 2018. Performance: “King Mackerel & The Blues Are Running” (musical), Laurie Beechman Theatre, NY, NY, May 18th-19th, 2018; The Red Clay Ramblers (headliners), Ol’ Porch Festival, Oriental, NC, Oct. 7, 2017. Awarded: John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities, NC Humanities Council, 2017.
AFROZ TAJ
Asian Studies Associate Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2011 Published: “Noor Bano” (short story) in Vibhom Swar, 2018. Performance: “Ae meri zohra jabeen” qawwali at Pratham NC Dancing with the Stars event 2017. “Rahim aur Rama” (original song) at Heart of a River Benefit Concert, 2018.
MEENU TEWARI
City and Regional Planning Associate Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2017 Published: Development with Global Value Chains: Upgrading and Innovation in Asia, 2018. Awarded: FIRE Grant, 2017-2019 Global Patterns in Gentrification, With Nancy Rodriguez.
HONG-AN TRUONG
Art and Art History Associate Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2013 Exhibited: “Being: New Photography 2018,” Museum of Modern Art, NYC. “Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp,” New Orleans Triennial, 2017-2018. “In(di)visible,” Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, 2018. “Where Do We Stand? Two Years of Drawings with Open Sessions,” The Drawing Center, 2017. “12 x 12: 12 Artists from the 12th State,” Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston Salem, NC, 2018.
LIEN TRUONG
Art and Art History Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2017 Exhibited: “Art New York,” with 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, NY; West Building, the North Carolina Museum of Art; “In(di)visible, Station,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX; Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC; Startup Art Fair Exhibition, San Francisco, CA; “Digiscapes, Lump,” Raleigh, NC; “Art on Paper,” Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; “Objectifying Myself: Works by Women Artists from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,” William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT; Gutterbox Gallery, Lump, Raleigh, NC.
MILADA ANNA VACHUDOVA
Political Science Associate Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2015 Awarded: Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration, $48,000, Grant from 2015-2018, Title for life.
ADAM VERSÉNYI Dramatic Art Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 1993 Academic Leadership Fellow, 2004 “Theatrical Translation/Theatrical Production: Ramón Griffero’s Pre-Texts for Performance,” Adapting Translation for the Stage. Eds. Geraldine Brodie and Emma Cole, 2017 Edited: two issues of The Mercurian: A Theatrical Translation Review, 2017. Translation: Prometheus, the Beginning, 2017. Dramaturgy: Tartuffe (Molière), PlayMakers Repertory Company; Leaving Eden (Mike Wiley/Laurelynn Dossett), PlayMakers Repertory Company. Awarded: Travis Bogard Artist-in-Residence, Eugene O’Neill Tao House, 2017. Appointment: Department Chair JOSEPH VISCOMI
English & Comparative Literature James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of English Literature Faculty Fellow: Spring 2001 Published: “The Newly Discovered Adam and Eve Asleep: Blake’s or Copy?” Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly, 2017. “Signing Large Color Prints: The Significance of Blake’s Signature.” Huntington Library Quarterly, 2017.
ROBIN VISSER
Asian Studies Associate Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2016 Published: “Posthuman Policies for Creative, Smart, Eco-Cities? Case Studies from China.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2018. Awarded: National Humanities Center Fellow
RICK WARNER
English & Comparative Literature Associate Professor Faculty Fellow: Fall 2015 Published: “Jack Nicholson in The Passenger.” In Close-Up: Great Cinematic Performances Volume 1: America, edited by Murray Pomerance and Kyle Stevens. 2018. “Orange is the Warmest Color: Mood and Chromatic Temperature in Robert Altman’s McCabe & Mrs. Miller.” New Review of Film and Television Studies, 2017. Promotion: Associate Professor
MOLLY WORTHEN
History Associate Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2017 Promotion: Associate Professor
NADIA YAQUB
Asian Studies Associate Professor Faculty Fellow: Spring 2016 Academic Leadership Fellow, Spring 2013 Published: Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution. 2018. Bad Girls of the Arab World. Edited with Rula Quawas. (2017).
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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 faculty to achieve their full potential by creating community and cultivating leadership.
2018-2019
Institute Advisory Board James Keith Brown New York, NY
Alan Sanders Neely, Sr.
Max Carrol Chapman, Jr.
McKee Nunnally II
Houston, TX
Tom Chapman Jackson, WY
Sanford A. Cockrell III
Roger Lee Perry, Sr.
Rebecca Wesson Darwin Charleston, SC
New York, NY
Vice Chair
Chapel Hill, NC
Julnar Rizk
San Francisco, CA
John Gray Blount Ellison, Jr.
Chair
Brian M. Fenty
John C. Staton III
Robert H. Hackney, Jr.
John L. Townsend III
Barbara R. Hyde
Charlotte, NC
Greensboro, NC New York, NY
New Preston, CT Memphis, TN
IAH Board Member Brian Fenty and his spouse Gia hosted a salon with IAH Director Mark Katz leading a discussion with a group of international hip-hop artists taking part in the State Department’s Next Level program. After the conversation the artists turned the Fenty’s Manhattan apartment into a stage for an impromptu performance. PICTURED HERE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT, Brian Fenty welcomes attendees. Burmese rapper Ya Ya (left), Cambodian rapper Mora (right) perform as part of the May 23 event. Brian’s spouse Gia Fenty and IAH Board Member Lane McDonald watch the performance. Moroccan beatboxer Double-M performs.
Atlanta, GA
Willard J. Overlock III
New York, NY
ABOVE, the IAH Advisory Board conducts its Spring Meeting on April 27, 2018.
Atlanta, GA
Miles Lamont
Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX
Nelson Schwab III Charlotte, NC
Atlanta, GA
Greenwich, CT
John R. Wickham Michael Yelverton Mill Valley, CA
Kathryn Long Greensboro, NC
Honorary Lifetime Member
Lucrecia R. Moore
Ruel W. Tyson, Jr.
Charlotte, NC
Chapel Hill, NC
2018-2019
Faculty Advisory Board Andy Andrews Sociology Professor
Misha Becker Linguistics Professor
Claude Clegg
AAAD Lyle Jones Distinguished Professor
Susan Harbage Page Women’s and Gender Studies Assistant Professor
Emilio del Valle Escalante Romance Studies Associate Professor
Heidi Kim
English & Comparative Literature Associate Professor
Rebecca Walker
Social Medicine, Philosophy Associate Profesor
Nadia Yaqub Asian Studies Chair, Professor
Q&A with
ROGER L. PERRY (‘71) Vice Chair IAH Advisory Board President of East West Partners Management Company, a real estate development and management company in Chapel Hill
Who was your favorite professor? Why?
My major was Political Science. I was a poor student and my favorite professors are ones I have developed a relationship with recently as a volunteer. People like Professor Ruel Tyson (Religious Studies and IAH founder) and Dr. Geoff Sayre-McCord (Philosophy) have had a profound impact on me in terms of stimulating intellectual curiosity and a thirst for knowledge.
In what way you have been able to serve as an alum?
I have had the privilege of volunteering for numerous efforts at Carolina. It is the best way I know of making a positive impact on the economic, social and health outcomes of the citizens of North Carolina. The transfer of knowledge and services through teaching and discovery from research sets Carolina apart at the top of assets of our State. I have been lucky to serve as a Trustee, member of the Board of Visitors and in numerous fund-raising roles. Being on the advisory board of IAH has been one of the most rewarding ways I have served. The Institute’s role in faculty support is of enormous importance.
How has your time in college contributed to your success?
Despite squandering much of my opportunity for formal learning, my years as an undergraduate were filled with great joy and growth. As a provincial product of eastern North Carolina, the exposure to a diverse and brilliant group of people with unique perspectives and ideas provided a glimpse into worldly enlightenment that has made me more confident and competitive in our fast-changing society.
Why is it important to support faculty through the Institute for the Arts and Humanities?
The fellowships and programs for faculty have proven to be the best tools to retain great faculty. It is currently a golden age at Carolina in terms of the depth and quality of our faculty. Carolina is constantly under attack from other great universities trying to raid our faculty and the Institute is one of the strongest lines of defense in repelling those efforts.
What advice would you give Carolina students?
Do not do as I did. Instead, take complete advantage of the opportunity to learn, to learn how to learn, to be creative and to think in the company of some of the most brilliant people, our incredible faculty.
What is a book you read that changed your life?
I read a book in the 7th grade titled Oliver Wiswell by Kenneth Roberts. It is about the American Revolution written from the British Loyalist viewpoint. It opened my eyes to the fact that there are generally at least two sides to all issues of disagreement between people and nations, and seldom is one totally right and one totally wrong.
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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 of Operations tommie@unc.edu
SOPHIA RAMOS
Communications Specialist sophiav@email.unc.edu
TIM MARR, PH.D.
Director, Faculty Fellows Program marr@unc.edu
SUZANNE GULLEDGE, PH.D.
Director, Academic Leadership Program sgulledg@email.unc.edu
MAI NGUYEN, PH.D. Director, New Faculty Program nguyen@unc.edu
PHILIP HOLLINGSWORTH, PH.D.
PETER MUCHA, PH.D.
Coordinator, Faculty Programs pholling@email.unc.edu
Director, Chairs Leadership Program mucha@unc.edu
REBECCA WILLIAMS
TOM CLEGG, PH.D.
Business Manager rcwilliams@unc.edu
EBONY JOHNSON Events Coordinator erj@email.unc.edu
HANNAH PEREZ
Development Coordinator hannah.perez@unc.edu
MAUREEN VIDGER
Operations Coordinator maureenv@email.unc.edu
Co-facilitator, Retired Faculty Program clegg@physics.unc.edu
MARILA CORDEIRO-STONE, PH.D.
Co-facilitator, Retired Faculty Program marila_cordeiro-stone@med.unc.edu
ROB KRAMER
Senior Leadership Consultant rob_kramer@unc.edu
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