2014 Annual Highlights

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2014 Annual Highlights

Above: Music scholar Clara Yang performs at a New Faculty Microtalks event.

On the cover: Academic Leadership Fellows Craig Buchman and Rebecca Macy

share a quiet conversation in Hyde Hall.

TA B L E O F CO N T E N T S

Building Faculty Communities 4

Investing in Scholarship 10

Sponsoring Events & Engagement 14

Fellows Honors & Awards 16

Looking Back, Looking Ahead 20

Become a Friend 22

Advisory Boards 23

Staff Contacts 24

“I love when Fellows talk about the work they are doing. I love learning about what’s going on at the university. I love the conversations at dinner where we discuss a question and hear different points of view.”

— CAROLINE WILLIAMSON (BSBA ’83)IAH ADVISORY BOARD VICE CHAIR

The Institute for the Arts and Humanities helps UNC

develop and retain a world-class faculty by supporting

faculty members at every career stage. We fund individual

and collaborative research, develop faculty leaders

and teachers, and foster collaborative, interdisciplinary

communities that promote intellectual exchange.

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INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES

Mark Katz, Director | Maria LaMonaca Wisdom, Executive Director

Women’s and Gender Studies assistant professor Emily Burrill discusses her work at

a spring Faculty Fellows meeting.

o u r m i s s i o n is to help UNC create an environment where the very best faculty in the world can thrive.

The faculty is the lifeblood of the University.

Attracting and retaining a world-class faculty is paramount to its success and vitality.

That’s where we come in.

Our mission is to help UNC create an environment where the very best faculty in

the world can thrive, particularly in the arts and humanities disciplines — the heart

and soul of liberal arts education.

We do that by building supportive faculty communities, making strategic

investments in their work and sponsoring events that showcase their scholarship

and extend their networks.

We’re pleased to share in this 2014 Annual Highlights examples of our work

from the past year — all made possible by the generous financial support and

engagement of our community of donors, partners, friends and faculty.

This work is having an impact. The College of Arts and Sciences reports that a

significantly higher percentage of faculty members who have participated in our

fellowship and leadership programs remain at UNC despite the attractive offers

they receive from other institutions.

But a new year has begun and many more faculty members need our support.

We invite you to participate. Read what we’re doing to nurture our faculty, find

something that speaks to your passions and Join the Conversation.

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Conversation opens minds and doors. It lies at the heart of all IAH programs. We convene

interdisciplinary groups of faculty members at key career stages for conversations that promote

scholarship, leadership and connections that advance their work.

During 2013–2014, we hosted 50 faculty members in our core fellowship and leadership programs.

We engaged nearly 50 more through two initiatives that support faculty in transition. We harnessed

the power of community to energize faculty writing.

The IAH offers semester-long, on-campus leaves for up to 20 arts and sciences faculty members each year through our Faculty Fellows Program.

Fellows receive the luxury of time to delve deeply into a topic of their choosing. They also participate in weekly Fellows discussions about their work and topics of mutual interest, gaining diverse perspectives on their projects.

“This fellowship enables me to have a network that includes an anthropologist, a sociologist, a historian, a women’s studies scholar and a professor of German-Jewish Studies – really diverse faculty fields,” says Chapman Family Fellow Rachel Willis, labor economist and American Studies associate professor, one of 19 faculty members offered fellowships in 2013–2014.

Willis used her fellowship semester to explore the implications of climate change on sustainable global freight transportation and its impact on economic well-being and access to work around the world.

“When you present your work to a group of IAH colleagues, you get insights from them, they give you new leads, they tell you

about a friend working on related topics, they help you find better ways to communicate your findings to general audiences. It’s the diversity of disciplines that enables you to frame the issues more broadly and communicate your findings more effectively,” Willis says.

“Fellows gain a supportive community of peers with whom they can examine their work and talk through issues of academic life,” says Michele Berger, IAH associate director for the Faculty Fellows Program.

“Our table talk discussions this year revolved around how faculty in a public university engage the public that supports them, writing practice and its changing patterns during the course of a faculty career, work-life balance, cultivating academic leadership, issues of gender equity in our academic units, and finding and mentoring research assistants,” Berger says.

“Our Fellows are enriched by their Fellowship experience,” she says, “and, through them, so are intellectual life, teaching and scholarship at UNC.”

“It’s the diversity of disciplines that enables you to frame the issues more broadly and communicate your findings more effectively.”Rachel Willis, American Studies associate professor, Chapman Family Fellow

BU I LDING FACU LT Y COMMUNITIES

FACU LT Y FELLOWSHIPS OFFER T IME AND SUPPORT FOR SCHOL ARSHIP

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Communications studies scholar Kumi Silva discusses with Fellows her research on

global translation and consumption of romance novels.

IAH Faculty Fellows 2013–2014

Emily Burrill (N. Schwab Fellow)Women’s and Gender StudiesMother of All Our Children: Aoua Keita and the Birth of Modern Mali

Jocelyn Chua (Blackwell Fellow)AnthropologyIn Pursuit of the Good Life: Aspiration and Suicide in Globalizing South India

Daniel Cobb (Borden Fellow)American StudiesWarrior: The Life and Times of Clyde Warrior

Renee Alexander Craft (Turner/Digital Innovations Lab Fellow)Communication StudiesPortobelo Digital Oral History Project

Mark Crescenzi (Chapman Family Fellow)Political ScienceEconomic Rent, Competition, and Conflict

Kathleen DuVal (Burress Fellow)HistoryIndependence Lost: The Gulf Coast and the American Revolution

Carl Ernst (Pardue Fellow)Religious StudiesA Persianate Hindu: The Islamicate Framing of Indian Religions in “The Chain of Yogis” by Sital Singh

Jonathan Hess (Bernstein Fellow)Germanic and Slavic Languages and LiteraturesShylock’s Daughters: Philosemitism, Popular Culture, and the Liberal Imagination

Tessa Joseph-Nicholas (Turner/Digital Innovations Lab Fellow)Computer ScienceIVI: Inquire, Visualize, Interact: Collaborative Course Development for the Humanities

Sherryl Kleinman (Blackwell Fellow)SociologyTeaching Issues: Making Inequalities Visible

Chris Nelson (IAH Advisory Board/Burkhardt Fellow)AnthropologyDreaming of the Dragon King: Life and Death in the Ruins of the Everyday

Thomas Otten (Faculty Arts/Whitton Fellow)MusicThe Piano Etudes of H. Leslie Adams: A Recording Project

Michele Rivkin-Fish (Marley Fellow)AnthropologyUnmaking Russia’s Abortion Paradigm: Gendered Citizenship at the Nexus of Nationalism, Religion and Public Health

Kumarini Silva (Cramer Fellow)Communication StudiesCirculating the Romance: Global Gendered Fantasies

Jane Thrailkill (Chapman Family Fellow)English and Comparative Literature2 Stories: 1 Deep Past, 1 From Yesterday

Benjamin Waterhouse (Blackwell Fellow)HistoryThe Myth of Main Street: Small Business and the Modern American Political Tradition

Brett Whalen (Chapman Family Fellow)HistoryThe Last Papal Monarch: Innocent IV and the Thirteenth-Century World Order

Jeff Whetstone (Faculty Arts Fellow) ArtThe Visible Wild

Rachel Willis (Chapman Family Fellow)American StudiesWater Over the Bridge: The Critical Need for Strategic Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure Planning


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LE ADERSHIP PROG R AMS PREPARE AND SUPPORT

The IAH’s Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Academic Leadership Programs serve faculty across the UNC campus.

We prepare emerging leaders through the Academic Leadership Program and support mid-level

leaders through the Chairs Leadership Program.

“One of the things I took from the program is that everyone, no matter where you are in an institution, can and should take a leadership role.”Craig Buchman, Academic Leadership Fellow 2013–2014

Academic Leadership Program Offers Tools and Context

Craig Buchman already wore an astonishing number of leadership hats when he entered the Academic Leadership Program (ALP) this year. Vice chairman for clinical affairs for UNC School of Medicine’s department of otolaryngology/head and neck surgery, Buchman leads several UNC centers and programs and chairs a national nonprofit.

So why would he carve out time to participate in the year-long program? “Having a broader perspective on leadership gives you a set of tools to work with

as you’re moving forward in your career,” Buchman says “It seemed like the right program to put it all together within the scope and context of the university.”

The ALP draws participants from across campus – some in leadership positions, others with leadership potential.

“We’re trying to help people envision themselves as leaders or, if they’re already in leadership positions, to become better leaders,” says Kim Strom-Gottfried, IAH associate director for the ALP. “We offer ground-level leadership training, we help them understand how higher education operates, we offer a forum for discussing issues of leadership and we help break down some of the isolation faculty leaders experience. Transformative is a word

ALP Fellows Tapped for UNC Leadership Roles

1 Chancellor

5 Chairs of the Faculty

10 Deans

10 Senior Associate Deans

14 Heads of Institutes and Centers

38 Chairs of Departments

19 Instruction and Curriculum Officers

Academic Leadership ProgramClass of 2013–2014

Craig BuchmanMedicine

Kenneth JankenAfrican, African American, and Diaspora Studies

Angela KashubaPharmacy

Christian LundbergCommunication Studies

Leslie LytlePublic Health

Rebecca MacySocial Work

Jocelyn NealMusic

Krista PerreiraPublic Policy


we hear pretty often to describe the experience.”This year’s eight ALP Fellows each spent a week at the Center for Creative Leadership

in Greensboro, N.C., participated in two retreats and attended weekly discussions on issues of academic leadership.

The class and discussions proved timely and relevant, Buchman says.“So often people see leadership as a title – you have this stamp that makes you somehow

the leader and everyone else has to be the follower,” he says. “One of the things I took from the program is that everyone, no matter where you are in an institution, can and should take a leadership role. My role as a leader is to empower others to lead.”

Chairs Leadership Program Provides Safe, Confidential Space

“A confidential place to share questions, concerns and advice, as well as develop a sense of community.” “A welcoming support group during a difficult time in a new position.” “A life saver.”

These are ways some of the 13 members of the 2013–2014 Chairs Leadership Program describe their experience.

“Evaluations are very consistent from year to year,” says Bill Balthrop, IAH associate director for the Chairs Leadership Program. “It’s an incredibly valuable and worthwhile program for department chairs. That place of safety to address issues they can’t talk about anywhere else is what makes the program most useful for them.”

The CLP gathers newly appointed chairs monthly for dinner and conversation. The confidential nature of the program offers chairs the freedom to share and receive fresh perspectives.

“If they have a problem or an issue,” says Balthrop, “this is the one place they can talk about it with people who understand exactly what they are going through.”

Chairs Leadership ProgramClass of 2013–2014

Victoria BautchBiology

Fitz BrundageHistory

Rudi Colloredo-MansfeldAnthropology

Michael EmchGeography

Ken HillisCommunication Studies

Jonathan LeesGeological Sciences

Federico LuisettiRomance Languages and Literatures

Donald LyslePsychology

Richard McLaughlinMathematics

Darin PaduaExercise and Sport Science

William RaceClassics

Harvey SeimMarine Sciences

Randall StyersReligious Studies

Leslie Lytle (left) and Jocelyn Neal were among eight members of the

Academic Leadership Class of 2013-2014.


B U I L D I N G FAC U LT Y CO M M U N I T I E S

NE W IN IT IATIVES MEET FACU LT Y NEEDS

The IAH launched a new program in 2013 to engage new faculty in the life of the University and

teamed with the College to support newly tenured and promoted faculty with that transition. We

also offered a series of writing supports to meet needs identified by Fellows.

“…it makes such a difference in my transition here.”Jennifer Gates-Foster, classics assistant professor, New Faculty Program participant

New Faculty Program Engages Newcomers

A New Faculty Microtalks event held in spring 2013 gave rise to a new program offered in 2013–2014 that introduces UNC faculty in their first three years on campus to the broader University community. The New Faculty Program offers a mix of social and academic activities that welcome and engage them.

“We launched the New Faculty Program hoping to achieve in a year what might otherwise take several years on campus or never happen,” said Todd Ochoa, assistant professor of religious studies and IAH associate director for the New Faculty Program.

Connections began almost immediately and developed over the year as new scholars participated in receptions and dinners with Fellows and campus partners, a field trip to nearby Piedmont Biofuels and two New Faculty Microtalks events that showcased their work.

“It has already given me friendships and recognition from other departments, which is great, and it makes such a difference in my transition here,” says classics assistant professor Jennifer Gates-Foster.

Associates Dinners Ease Transition to

New Role

The IAH and College of Arts and Sciences hosted a series of dinner conversations for 27 newly tenured and promoted associate professors during 2013–2014, providing mentoring and support at this key mid-career point.

IAH Fellow and philosophy scholar Geoff Sayre-McCord led conversations on a range of topics relevant to the group. The associates joined new faculty at the spring garden party, broadening the connections of both groups.

Associates applauded the initiative for extending their knowledge and networks across campus at a pivotal time. The IAH plans to expand the program in 2014–2015.

Classics assistant professor Luca Grillo

defends his love of a dense Cicero oratory

at the New Faculty Microtalks.


UNC newcomer Kurt Gray (left) and IAH Fellow Geoff Sayre-McCord find areas

of common interest at a New Faculty Program dinner.

Spring Initiative Propels Faculty Writing

The IAH teamed with the Center for Faculty Excellence to coordinate summer writing groups for faculty following a successful pilot in summer 2013. More than 70 faculty participated. Based on its success and suggestions from Fellows, the IAH hosted two additional spring writing programs.

“Community Write-ins” provided coffee, snacks and quiet spaces throughout Hyde Hall. Michelle Berger, IAH associate director for the Faculty Fellows Program, and Fellow Mark Crescenzi opened with tips on managing writing.

A May Write Now! workshop helped faculty launch summer projects. Fellows received feedback on their writing plus advice from best-selling author and IAH Fellow Bart Ehrman.

The IAH teamed with the

Center for Faculty Excellence

to coordinate summer writing

groups for faculty, part of a series

of spring activities that supported

faculty writing.

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INVESTING IN SCHOL ARSHIP

“What happens when you’re able to say yes, you’re able to create an atmosphere of hope. It’s just small things, but they build up and change the atmosphere.”

McKay Coble, Milly Barranger DIstinguished Professor of Dramatic Art

The IAH attracts and invests grant funding that retains leading-edge faculty members, seeds

interdisciplinary scholarship and contributes to UNC’s vibrant intellectual climate.

In 2013–2014, we supported 11 innovative academic ventures, eight working groups and a variety

of scholarly initiatives.

Innovation Fund Seeds Enterprising Ventures

The IAH’s Innovation Fund, launched in 2011, has invested $550,000 to date in 11 collaborative endeavors in humanistic and artistic enterprises that have attracted $1.2 million in outside funding.

In 2014, an Innovation Fund-seeded project won $1 million in grants from the U.S. Department of State and UNC to launch a two-year international program, Next Level, which fosters cultural diplomacy through popular music and dance.

The joint venture of the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and UNC’s music department, led by former music department chair Mark Katz (now IAH director), grew out of work he began in 2011 with producer/DJ Stephen Levitin using an Innovation Fund grant.

Next Level sends teams of American hip-hop artists to six countries in Africa, Eastern Europe and South Asia to teach hip-hop music and dance. Artists from each of the six countries will visit Chapel Hill and Washington, D.C., to participate in workshops and performances.

“Next Level’s artists will teach young people to develop skills and express themselves in ways they wouldn’t have thought possible,” Katz says.

“In hip-hop, when artists say that they want to ‘take it to the next level,’ they are saying that they want to improve themselves, to surpass their current abilities. The name has another meaning, too,” Katz explains. “We want to use this as a way to model peaceful and productive collaboration, to transcend conflict in creative ways.”

Innovation Fund Projects

Peerpress: A Platform for Transforming Scholarly ConferencesDaniel Anderson, English and Comparative Literature

UNC Center for Social Action and Undergraduate EducationBrian Billman, Anthropology

UNC TranslatorsRuy Burgos-Lovece, Romance Languages and Literatures

The Taming of the WWW: Web-based Language Research of TomorrowBruno Estigarribia, Romance Languages and Literatures

Community Chorus Project Lauren Hodge, Music

Sustained Participatory Action Research Collaborations: A New Model of Community/University InnovationDottie Holland, Anthropology

Beat Making LabMark Katz, Music

The Process SeriesJoseph Megel, Communication Studies

Reimagining Gaming: Program in Alternative Games and Digital InnovationJoyce Rudinsky, Communication Studies

Servant of Two Masters: Debut of a RoboThespianFrancesca Talenti, Communication Studies

None of the AboveKathy Williams, Dramatic Art

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Say Yes Fund Helps UNC Win International Conference

More than 500 scholars from 200 colleges, universities and research centers and seven countries converged on Chapel Hill in March to attend the third biennial C19, the prestigious Society of Nineteenth Century Americanists conference.

The competitive, coveted role of conference host fell to UNC in part because of the strength of UNC’s proposal and financial support generated for the conference. Chief among its supporters, financial and programmatic, was the IAH.

The IAH contributed $10,500 from its Nelson Schwab Chairs “Say Yes” Fund, created with a gift from IAH Advisory Board member Nelson Schwab III. The fund enables chairs of departments in the arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences to provide funds for activities that enhance departmental excellence and support faculty work.

The result, a premier conference that put UNC front-and-center in the field of 19th-century American literary studies, showcased unique and extensive UNC assets in 19th-century scholarship and birthed a new graduate student off-shoot organization, G19.

“This conference would simply not have happened without the IAH,” says IAH Fellow Jane Thrailkill, a conference co-organizer with Eliza Richards, both English and comparative literature professors.

Next Level team member Trey Wallace works with students in Patna, India, part of a $1 million initiative funded by the State Department and UNC that grew

out of Mark Katz’s Innovation Fund project.

“This conference would simply not have happened without the IAH.”Jane Thrailkill, IAH Fellow and conference co-organizer


I N V E S T I N G I N S C H O L A R S H I P

Working Groups Pursue Engaged Scholarship

Eight groups of faculty currently collaborate on new models of engaged scholarship and new degrees in arts and humanities and disciplines thanks to funding provided by the Schwab Opportunity Fund and donations from Friends of the Institute, our annual fund contributors.

Working groups may spawn new enterprises and initiatives that attract funding and wider audiences. A faculty-student working project organized by communications studies professor Della Pollock, for instance, works with an African American community in Chapel Hill to develop a public history site. Anthropology associate professor Michele Rivkin-Fish leads a group examining ways different societies organize and conceptualize health care. A team led by Undergraduate Research and Faculty Governance representatives explores ways to support “alternative academic” Ph.D.s, a growing group of Ph.D.-prepared scholars who pursue non-faculty professional positions.

IAH Directs Campuswide WWI

Conversation in 2014–2015

UNC-Chapel Hill commemorates the 100-year anniversary of World War I with a multi-disciplinary“conversation” on its legacy and impact during 2014–2015.

The World War I Centenary Project grew from an IAH-funded working group.

It aims to increase awareness of and interest in the war among faculty, students and the community beyond the university.

The project features more than 20 undergraduate and graduate courses, seminars, lectures, conferences, workshops, exhibitions, dramatic performances, music and dance events, and a workshop for K–12 teachers.

The project is organized by the IAH, with funding from the Georges Lurcy Charitable and Educational Trust, Kurt Weill Foundation for Music and Paul Green Foundation. UNC partners and contributors include the College of Arts and Sciences, Office of the Chancellor, Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense, Carolina Performing Arts, PlayMakers Repertory Company and the departments of music, dramatic arts and history.

Funded Working Groups

World War I: The LegacyBill Balthrop, Communication StudiesAndy Reynolds, Global Studies

Altac Working GroupDonna Bickford, Undergraduate ResearchAnne Mitchell Whisnant, Faculty Governance

Latino/a StudiesMaria Deguzman, English and Comparative Literature

North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop SeriesKaren Hagemann, History

Pass the Popcorn: “Obesogenic” Behaviors and Stigma in Children’s MoviesEliana Perrin, Pediatrics

Facing Our NeighborsDella Pollock, Communication Studies

Moral Economies of MedicineMichelle Rivkin-Fish, Anthropology

Medical HumanitiesJane Thrailkill, English and Comparative Literature


Thomas R. Cole of the University of Texas Health Science Center attends a UNC medical humanities event. UNC will share in a $1.35 million grant

project to advance its medical humanities research collaboration and partnership with six universities around the world.

UNC Tapped for Mellon-funded Medical

Humanities Consortium

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation this year tapped UNC and five other universities to share in a $1.35 million grant to advance the study of medical humanities thanks to groundwork laid by an IAH-funded working group.

Humanities centers at the six universities will use Mellon funding for two pilot projects that advance collaborative research and partnerships.

“The IAH has been working to develop the medical humanities at UNC even as it has pursued the opportunity to become part of this evolving international network,” says former IAH Director John McGowan, professor of English and comparative literature, who spearheaded the initiative. “The Mellon funding is going to consolidate our progress on both fronts and is an affirmation of all the hard work we’ve done so far.”

Medical humanities refers to an emerging field of medical

research and practice. Scholars study the history of medicine, the ways different cultures experience illness and aging, and information that informs medical diagnoses and treatment. In clinical practice, care givers pay attention to the ways patients describe their health problems and the full social context in which they live.

The IAH working group, with funding from the William C. Friday Fund, has created an undergraduate minor in medicine, health and society and a Master of Arts degree in medicine, literature and society.

The new Mellon-funded consortium of centers at UNC, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Columbia University, Dartmouth University, King’s College London and University of Witswatersrand in South Africa will conduct research on issues related to aging. Members will gather in the summers of 2015 and 2016 to share results, discuss developments in the field and develop models for undergraduate and medical school course offerings.


SPONSORING E VENTS & ENGAGEMENT

“Alumni play a vital role in enriching the IAH experience for faculty, students and the UNC community.” Allison Burnett Smith, IAH Development Director

Alumni Engagement Enables IAH Impact

The IAH teamed with UNC’s Alumni Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity to host alumnus and Baltimore pediatrician Dr. Michael Zollicoffer and IAH Fellow and health care policy expert Jonathan Oberlander for a discussion on the impact of the Affordable Care Act as it took effect.

Both Zollicoffer and Oberlander drew on their years of experience and expertise in health care to shed light on this timely topic for the IAH community. It was one of many examples of how alumni contribute to the faculty experience.

Generous support from Carolina alumni provides core funding for many of the IAH’s faculty programs, but the value of alumni support goes far beyond that. Alumni during the past year provided strategic advice as board members, sponsored and participated in public events and connected the IAH and Fellows with others who could advance their work.

UNC alumni hosted four “salons” during the year. These signature gatherings of smalls groups of alumni and a Fellow focus conversation on a single scholarly topic.

“Alumni play a vital role in enriching the IAH experience for faculty, students and the UNC community,” says IAH Development Director Allison Burnett Smith.

“It’s wonderful when we have alumni back on campus, sharing in the intellectual exchange that takes place,” she says. “Alumni tell us that participating in our activities helps them feel connected to the Carolina community as well as what is happening on campus. So, there is mutual benefit.”

The IAH extends its culture of conversation beyond the Fellows Room walls by hosting and

cosponsoring events that promote UNC’s rich intellectual climate and engage others who can

contribute to the work and scholarship of the faculty.

In 2014, we hosted and supported a range of conferences, lectures and events that showcased

faculty work, connected Fellows to scholars across campus and around the world, and invited

alumni, students and scholars to “Join the Conversation.”

IAH Advisory Board member Alan Neely and his

wife, Butchie, hosted an alumni salon at their

Highlands, N.C., home in May.


UNC alumnus Dr. Michael Zollicoffer (left) joins IAH Fellow Jonathan Oberlander (center) for a health care

discussion moderated by John McGowan (right).

Geyer Speaks on World War I at 2014

Reckford Lecture

University of Chicago historian Michael Geyer examined the causes of World War I and its longer-lasting effects before an audience of 110 people gathered in February for the IAH’s 2014 Mary Stevens Reckford Lecture in European Studies.

His remarks officially launched the World War I Centenary Project, a year-long cross-campus “conversation” on the legacy of The Great War coordinated by the IAH.

The Reckford lecture, established in 1990 by UNC Classics Professor Kenneth Reckford, is held each February to honor his wife, Mary Stevens Reckford.

The 2015 Reckford Lecture will be held Feb 26. Guest speaker will be Modris Ecksteins, author of Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age.

Chancellor Carol Folt joined more than 100

newcomers and guests for the IAH’s 2013 fall

welcome reception.


Patrick AkosEducationALP Fellow Spring 2009Elected to the American School Counseling Association board of directors.

Barbara AmbrosReligious StudiesFaculty Fellow Fall 2008Elected co-chair of the Committee of Japanese Religions Group of the American Academy of Religions; named to the steering committee and elected co-chair of the Animals and Religion Group of the American Academy of Religions; received publication subvention grants from the UNC University Research Council; and received publication subvention, travel and research grants from the Triangle Center for Japanese Studies/Japan Foundation.

Carol ArnostiMarine SciencesALP Fellow Spring 2007Received a UNC College of Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Research Initiative Award for “Shedding light on the ‘cheaters of the carbon cycle:’ a multi-disciplinary investigation” and a

fellowship from the Hanse Institute for Advanced Studies in Delmenhorst, Germany, for research with colleagues at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research and Max-Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology.

Janice BardsleyAsian StudiesFaculty Fellow Fall 2004 and Fall 1998 Named chair of the Department of Asian Studies and received a $3,000 grant from the

Northeast Council, Association for Asian Studies for research travel to Japan.

Jane BrownSchool of Journalism and Mass CommunicationsALP Fellow Spring 2002Faculty Fellow Fall 1997Named 2013 Educator of the Year, Mass Communication and Society Division by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Jane DanielewiczEnglish and Comparative LiteratureALP Fellow Spring 2008Faculty Fellow Spring 1998Received a J. Carlyle Sitterson Freshman Teaching Award from UNC and a three-year

College Composition and Communication Conference research grant.

Carl ErnstReligious StudiesFaculty Fellow Spring 2014 and Spring 2001ALP Fellow Spring 2009Elected president-elect of the American Society for the Study of Religion.

Arturo EscobarAnthropologyFaculty Fellow 2003 and 2009–2010 Received a doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico.

Mary Floyd-WilsonEnglish and Comparative Literature ALP Fellow Spring 2010Faculty Fellow Fall 2004 Named director of the Office of Distinguished Scholarships for UNC-Chapel Hill; awarded a Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professorship; awarded The Frank and Eleanor Griffiths Distinguished Chair in English Literature by the Bread Loaf School of English in Summer 2013; invited to the Shakespeare Institute’s 2014 International Shakespeare Conference in Stratford-upon-Avon; received a University Research Council Publication Grant to support research in Stratford-upon-Avon in the United Kingdom during 2014-2016; and received a UNC Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies grant for travel to the Renaissance Society of

America Conference in New York City.

Gail HendersonSocial MedicineALP Fellow Spring 2011Named chair of the search committee for the next director of UNC’s Office of Human Research Ethics and guest editor of a special issue of the journal, AIDS

IAH Faculty Fellows and Leadership Fellows receive a wide range of honors and awards for their

teaching, scholarship and leadership. Here is a sample of their achievements during 2013–2014.

FELLOWS HONORS & AWARDS

“I really credit the IAH’s leadership program with where I am today.”Eliana Perrin, M.D., M.P.H., UNC Associate Vice Chancellor for Research

Flaxman receives Mellon fellowship

English and comparative literature associate professor Gregory Flaxman, director of Global Cinema Studies, received a $250,000 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship to study

the connection between techniques used in classical painting and in cinema. Flaxman also was named visiting professor at Paris West University Nanterre La Défense. He was a Faculty Fellow in 2007 and 2008–2009.

Gökarıksel wins NSF, National Geographic grants

Geography associate professor Banu Gökarıksel was named principal investigator of a $376,219 National Science Foundation study, “Collaborative Research: The Role of Religion in Public Life in Turkey Today,” and collaborator on a $19,506 National Geographic Society study, “Islam, public space, and democracy in Turkey.” She was a Faculty Fellow in Spring 2008 and will be again in Spring 2015.



and Behavior, “Contextualizing HIV/STI in China: Interdisciplinary Studies in a South China City,” with articles from her National Institutes of Health research grant, “Partnership for Social Science Research on HIV/AIDS in China.”

Thomas HillPhilosophyFaculty Fellow Spring 2005, Spring 1997 and Summer 1992 Elected president of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division and received UNC’s 2014 Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement in Teaching Beyond the Classroom.

Jim HirschfieldArtALP Fellow Spring 2012Faculty Fellow Fall 2001, Spring 1993 and Summer 1990 Received a public art commission from Fort Worth, Texas.

Kelly HoganBiologyFaculty Fellow Spring 2012Received the 2014 Robert E. Bryan Public Service Award from UNC-Chapel Hill.

Kenneth JankenAfrican, African American, and Diaspora StudiesALP Fellow Spring 2014Faculty Fellow Spring 1994 and Fall 2001Named interim director of the Center for the Study of the American South and to the editorial board of the Journal of American History.

Christopher JonesMathematicsALP Spring 2005Granted a Reynolds senior research leave by the UNC Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost.

Angela KashubaPharmacyALP Fellow Spring 2014Named as the first pharmacy representative to the National Institutes of Health Advisory Committee on Research on Women’s Health and received a five-year National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases grant.

Joy KassonAmerican StudiesALP Fellow Spring 2004Faculty Fellow Spring 1998, Summer 1994 and Summer 1992Received a three-year appointment as an Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Scholar for Carolina Performing Arts and a Mary C. Turpie Prize from the National American Studies Association for outstanding abilities and achievement in American Studies teaching, advising and program development at the local or regional level.

Charles KurzmanSociologyFaculty Fellow Spring 2001Elected to the board of the Middle East Studies Association.

Wayne LeeHistoryFaculty Fellow Fall 2008Named chair of the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense and received a 2014 Society for American Archaeology Scholarly Book of the Year Award for Light and Shadow: Isolation and Interaction in the Shala Valley of Northern Albania, co-edited with Michael Galaty, Ols Lafe and Zamir Tafilica.

Anne MacNeilMusicFaculty Fellow Spring 2009Received a Digital Innovation Lab/IAH Faculty Fellowship, access to the Digital Innovation Lab and a $15,000 project stipend for work on “Parsing Ottaviano Petrucci’s Prints;” an American Council of Learned Societies Digital Innovations Fellowship for a two-semester leave and $85,000 for “Mapping Secrets:” a $12,000 Dorothy Ford Wiley Grant to organize an interdisciplinary seminar about Isabella d’Este studies; and a $5,000 Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Fellowship for “On Jacopo’s Boat.”

Patricia A. McAnanyAnthropologyFaculty Fellow Spring 2011Serving as president-elect of the Archaeology Division of the American Anthropological Association 2013–2015; received a research fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University September-November 2014; and appointed as an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute in Santa Fe, N.M.

Laurie McNeilPhysics & AstronomyFaculty Fellow Fall 2004ALP Fellow 2003Elected co-chair of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers’ Joint Task Force on Undergraduate Physics Programs; received a Bernard Gray Distinguished Professorship; and received a National Science Foundation Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics grant for “Physics and Biology Partnership for a New Learning Environment.”

Ruth MooseCreative WritingFaculty Fellow Fall 2008Writer-in-residence February 2014 at Eastern Arizona College in Thatcher, Ariz., and winner of the $10,000 Malice Domestic award for Best First Novel for Doing it at the Dixie Dew, published by St. Martin’s Press in May 2014.

F E L LOW S H O N O R S & AWA R DS

Marr named NEH fellow

American studies associate professor Tim Marr was named 2013-2014 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the National Humanities Center for work on “’Muhammadans Under The American Flag:’ Moro-American Relations in the Muslim Philippines.” He was a Faculty Fellow in Spring 2003 and 2009.

Parker honored for diversity initiatives

Patricia Parker, communications studies associate professor and director of diversity initiatives for the College of Arts and Sciences, received the 2014 University Diversity Award for Faculty. She was a Faculty Fellow in Fall 2002 and ALP Fellow in Spring 2011.

Ketch selected for teaching award

Music professor James Ketch, director of jazz studies and the annual Carolina

Jazz Festival, received UNC’s 2014 Student Undergraduate Teaching Award. He was a Faculty Fellow in Fall 1992, 2006 and 2012 and ALP Fellow in Spring 2002.


Perrin tapped for top research post

Associate professor of pediatrics Eliana Perrin, M.D., M.P.H., was named associate vice chancellor for research. She also received major grants for

interdisciplinary research from the National Institutes of Health. She was an ALP Fellow in Spring 2012.

Shackelford named business school dean

Dean and Meade H. Willis Distinguished Professor of Taxation Doug Shackelford was named dean of

UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. He was an ALP Fellow in Spring 2007.

Jeanne MoskalEnglish & Comparative LiteratureFaculty Fellow Fall 1992 and Summer 1989Named editor of the Keats-Shelley Journal and selected by the IAH to participate in an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-supported book manuscript workshop for her book-in-progress, “Jane Eyre’s

Sisters: Women Missionaries and the Novel in the Age of Fundamentalism.”

Layna MosleyPolitical ScienceFaculty Fellow Fall 2008Named program co-chair for the 2015 American Political Science annual meeting.

Bobbi OwenDramatic ArtALP Fellow Spring 2005Faculty Fellow Fall 2001 and Summer 1990 Received a W. N. Reynolds Senior Faculty Research and Study Leave, a Peter T. Grauer Award for outstanding contributions to Honors Carolina and a William F. Little Award for Distinguished Service to the College of Arts and Sciences, and named a Harry Ransom Center Research Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and to Who’s Who in America 2014.

John PicklesGeographyALP Spring 2007Named distinguished visiting fellow for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, and granted a Nadácia VÚB distinguished visiting professorship in the department of public administration and regional development, Faculty of National Economy, at Economics University of Bratislava, Slovakia.

Karla SlocumAnthropologyFaculty Fellow Fall 2003 Named director of UNC’s Institute of African American Research.

Lynda StoneSchool of EducationFaculty Fellow Fall 1996Her Samuel M. Holton Distinguished Professorship was renewed.

Francesca TalentiCommunication StudiesFaculty Fellow Spring 2010 and Fall 2003 A new play written by Talenti, The Uncanny Valley, was performed in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Hong-An TruongArtFaculty Fellow Spring 2013Received a Carolina Asia Center Jimmy and Judy Cox Asia Initiative Summer Travel Award, a Jerome Foundation Fellowship to Franconia Sculpture Park and an Emerging Artist Fellowship to Socrates Sculpture Park.

Milada Anna VachudovaPolitical ScienceFaculty Fellow Spring 2005Appointed chair of UNC’s Curriculum in Global Studies.

Adam VersenyiDramatic ArtALP Fellow Spring 2004Faculty Fellow Fall 1993Elected chair of the department of dramatic art and to a three-year term on the executive committee of the American Society of Theatre Research.

Anthony VieraFamily MedicineALP Fellow Spring 2013Selected for a Medical Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professorship by the UNC School of Medicine, an Educational Scholarship Award from the UNC School of Medicine Academy of Educators and an Outstanding Educational Program Award from the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research for the MD-MPH Program he directs, and elected Fellow of the American Heart Association by the Council for High Blood Pressure Research.

Jeff WhetstoneArtFaculty Fellow Fall 2013Selected for State of the Art, an exhibition of work by more than 100 contemporary American artists representing the face of American art at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

Perreira named associate dean, receives major grant

Public policy professor Krista Perreira was named director and associate dean of the Office for Undergraduate Research and received a $100,000 New Connections grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant for a study on implementing health care reform for immigrant populations. She was a Faculty Fellow in Spring 2008 and ALP Fellow Spring 2014.


Music Scholar and Innovator

Named IAH Director

Mark Katz, former chair of UNC’s music department, co-founder of UNC’s Beat Making Lab and director of the Next Level international music and dance exchange, took the IAH helm July 1.

Katz brings significant assets to his leadership role at the Institute, says Terry Ellen Rhodes, senior associate dean for fine

arts and humanities for UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences. “He is an inspiring scholar, teacher, fundraiser and administrator, committed to

faculty excellence and creative engagement,” she says.

Directors Discuss the IAH’s Role and Future

Shortly after Katz’s appointment as director, the IAH hosted a conversation with its three directors – founding director Ruel Tyson, outgoing director John McGowan and Katz.

UNC College of Arts and Sciences Dean Karen Gil welcomed more than 50 faculty fellows, friends and supporters to the discussion, and she applauded the Institute for the key role it plays helping UNC attract and retain leading faculty.

Katz says his vision for the IAH is inspired by a letter he received from Tyson, who noted that Hyde Hall has two entrances – one that faces campus and one that faces outward, to the town.

“To move forward, we have to look outward and make our case to the public,” Katz said. “I think engagement is the future of the Institute.”

LOOKING BACK , LOOKING AHE AD

“To move forward, we have to look outward and make our case to the public. I think engagement is the future of the Institute.”Mark Katz, Director, Institute for the Arts and Humanities

Transition marked the IAH’s 2013–2014 academic year as John McGowan passed the reins

after eight years to a new director, Mark Katz. IAH asked the Institute’s three directors to reflect

on its role during a spring conversation.

“[Mark Katz] is an inspiring scholar, teacher, fundraiser and administrator, committed tofaculty excellence and creative engagement.”Terry Ellen Rhodes, Senior Associate Dean for Fine Arts and Humanities, UNC College of Arts and Sciences


Former IAH directors (from left) Ruel Tyson and John McGowan join Director Mark Katz for a conversation

moderated by Academic Leadership Fellow Jane Brown.

Board honors McGowan’s Service with

Fellowship

Current and former IAH board members paid tribute to John McGowan’s eight years as director by creating a faculty fellowship in his name, praising his mentoring spirit and skilled leadership.

“By defining the IAH as a full-service faculty center, John McGowan worked tirelessly to support the Institute’s mission to recruit, retain and refresh a world-class faculty of teachers and scholars at UNC,” said IAH Advisory Board Chair Julia Sprunt Grumbles.

During McGowan’s tenure, the Institute raised more than $12 million to support programs, added a leadership program for department chairs and created the Innovation Fund to support entrepreneurial, publicly engaged and cutting-edge faculty projects in the arts and humanities.

McGowan helped secure a $1.4 million Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to create a Digital Humanities Initiative and a $115,000 Mellon grant for a new Medical Humanities initiative. He also helped seed campus-wide “conversations” featuring courses, lectures, performances and art focused on a single topic – the Rite of Spring at 100 in 2012–2013 and World War I Centenary Project in 2014–2015.


BECOME A FR IEND

“UNC gave me a huge head start. It changed my life. I feel a need to pay that forward and give back to UNC.”Lane McDonald (ABJM ’00),

IAH Advisory Board member

IAH Faculty Fellowships, the

cornerstone on which all of our other

programs were built, are one of the

most powerful tools for recruiting and

retaining top faculty and enabling

them to continue growing as

educators, researchers and leaders.

Generous donations from alumni and Friends of the Institute have enabled the IAH to provide these fellowships for 27 years. But costs for semester-long leaves are rising and more fellowships are needed.

Your unrestricted gift can help us continue offering fellowships as well as a rich portfolio of programs and activities that support faculty work and enrich the intellectual climate of our campus. Please consider making or increasing a gift to the IAH or remembering us in your will.

Alumna Lane McDonald provides financial support for IAH programs.


Institute Advisory Board 2014–2015

Steven P. Aldrich GoDaddySunnyvale, CA Victoria Tucker Borden Portraits SouthGreensboro, NC

Max Carrol Chapman Jr.Gardner Capital Management Corp.Little Falls, NJ

Sanford A. Cockrell III Deloitte & Touche LLPNew York, NY

John Gray Blount Ellison Jr. Ellison Co. Inc.Greensboro, NC

Brian M. Fenty TodayTixNew York, NY

Duvall Fuqua Atlanta, GA Julia Sprunt Grumbles, Chair Chapel Hill, NC

Robert HackneyFirst Eagle Investment ManagementNew York, NY

Barbara Rosser HydeHyde Family FoundationsMemphis, TN

G. Allen Ives III Turnpike Properties Inc.Rocky Mount, NC

Michael D. Kennedy Korn Ferry InternationalAtlanta, GA

Lane Morris McDonald Partners Group (USA) Inc.New York, NY

Alan Sanders Neely Sr. Korn Ferry International (retired)Atlanta, GA

John C. O’Hara Jr. Rockefeller FinancialNew York, NY

Roger Lee Perry Sr. East West Partners Management Co. Inc. Chapel Hill, NC

Jane Bethell Preyer NC Environmental Defense FundRaleigh, NC

Nelson Schwab III Carousel CapitalCharlotte, NC

John L. Townsend III Tiger Management LLCNew York, NY

Ruel W. Tyson The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel Hill, NC

ADVISORY BOARDS

IAH advisory boards provide financial support and programmatic guidance that make our work possible.

John F. White III JFW PropertiesRaleigh, NC

John Robinson Wickham Collwick Capital LLCCharlotte, NC

Caroline C. Williamson, Vice-ChairNew York, NY Carol Payne Young Harry Norman RealtorsAtlanta, GA

Faculty Advisory Board 2014–2015

Allen Anderson Music

Jocelyn Chua Anthropology

Mark Crescenzi Political Science

Jo Anne Earp Health Behavior

Carmen Hsu Romance Languages

Douglas MacLean Philosophy

Kumarini Silva Communication Studies

James Thompson English & Comparative LiteratureJulia Sprunt Grumbles chairs the IAH Advisory Board. Members Max Chapman (center)

and Nelson Schwab provide funds for key programs.

Carmen Hsu and Allen Anderson serve on the

IAH’s Faculty Advisory Board.

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Directors

Mark Katz, Ph.D.

Director

The Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Distinguished Professor of

Humanities

Department of Music

(919) 962-6831

[email protected]

Maria LaMonaca Wisdom, Ph.D.

Executive Director

Adjunct Associate Professor

Department of English and Comparative Literature

(919) 843-2653

[email protected]

Development

Allison Burnett Smith

Director of Development

(919) 962-2528

[email protected]

Jeanine Simmons

Assistant Director of Development

(919) 962-0918

[email protected]

Fellowship Program

Michele Tracy Berger, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Faculty Fellows Program

Associate Professor, Department of Women’s and

Gender Studies

(919) 962-3908

[email protected]

Kristen Lloyd Southworth

Coordinator for Faculty Programs

(919) 843-5464

[email protected]

Academic Leadership Programs

Kim Strom-Gottfried, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Academic Leadership Program

Smith P. Theimann Jr. Distinguished Professor of

Ethics and Professional Practice

School of Social Work

(919) 962-6495

[email protected]

Bill Balthrop, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Chairs Leadership Program

Professor, Department of Communication Studies

(919) 962-4982

[email protected]

Rob Kramer

Senior Leadership Consultant

[email protected]

New Faculty Program

Todd Ramon Ochoa, Ph.D.

Associate Director, New Faculty Program

Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies

(919) 962-3934

[email protected]

Special Initiatives

James Moeser, Ph.D.

UNC Chancellor Emeritus

Senior Fellow for Special Initiatives

Professor, Department of Music

(919) 962-2658

[email protected]

Administration

Christopher Meinecke

Business Manager

(919) 962-6830

[email protected]

Jean Chandler

Business Assistant

(919) 843-5108

[email protected]

Theresa Flores

Events Coordinator

(919) 962-0249

[email protected]

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