2012 annual highlights

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2012annual highlights

the university of north carolina at chapel hill

i n s t i t u t e f o r t h e a r t s a n d h u m a n i t i e s

through collegial conversations

that embody the spirit of the

liberal arts, the Institute for

the Arts and Humanities helps

UNC recruit, develop, support,

and retain a forward-looking

faculty of innovative scholars and

artists, imaginative leaders, and

inspirational teachers.

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Above: The fall 2011 Faculty Fellows get to know each other over breakfast at their first seminar. Photo by Chris Carmichael.

Front cover: Guests at the IAH 25th anniversary dinner walk from Hyde Hall across McCorkle Place to Graham Memorial. Photo by Chris Carmichael.

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On its 25th birthday, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities is humming along quite nicely. Our big celebration in the spring was classic IAH: good people, great conversation, lots of laughs, countless fond memories, and big plans for the future. It was wonderful to see so many of the Institute’s great friends coming together to celebrate what we, collectively, have accomplished.

But perhaps the most important thing to come out of this year of reminiscing is a renewed sense of why we came together in the first place: to face tough challenges head on and provide a space for conversation and ideas to flourish.

The IAH remains committed to making sure the arts and humanities respond creatively to the problems facing higher education today. As part of our 25th anniversary lecture series during the spring semester, South African playwright Athol Fugard, New York theater producer Ed Strong, National Humanities Center Director Geoffrey Harpham, and New Yorker writer Louis Menand all shared with us their thoughts on the current state of the arts and humanities. And our core programs continue to provide collegial fellowship and funding for research and faculty engagement across the College.

The Institute is also committed to the “public humanities,” the idea that our distinctive knowledge and viewpoints can connect to public audiences and social problems. This year’s Reckford Lecture brought historian Mark Mazower to talk about the current European crisis; Innovation Fund faculty are working on local economic development in Warren County, on high school drop-out rates in Durham, and on the provision of clean water in Peru; and the Carolina Digital Humanities Initiative, funded by a Mellon Foundation grant of $1.4 million, emphasizes the use of new digital technologies to place the knowledge created at UNC in the hands of the wider public.

Looking ahead, the Institute is also working to bring the arts and humanities to faculty and students in new ways. Our big project for 2012–2013 is a collaboration with Carolina Performing Arts (CPA) on a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. This ambitious undertaking involves 15 new courses, artist residencies, visiting scholars and academic conferences, and it will integrate what CPA is presenting in Memorial Hall with what students are doing in their classes and what faculty are working on in their research throughout UNC.

Who could have imagined in 1987 what the IAH has become? From our modest beginning in West House over brown bag lunches to our current range of programs and initiatives, the Institute has evolved as a collective imaginative response to opportunities and needs over the years. So let me express my deep appreciation to Ruel Tyson for what he built from scratch and to all the many people who made indispensable contributions toward making the IAH what it is today.

One of these extraordinary people is, undoubtedly, Mary Flanagan. As I hope most of you recognize, she has played a huge role in building the Institute as we know it. Mary’s dedication, endless enthusiasm and sheer hard work will all be missed now that she is retiring. I have both enjoyed and benefitted from working with her over these past six years, and I am counting on all of our good friends to help us with this transition.

Please keep in touch and visit us in beautiful Hyde Hall when you get the chance.

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the iAh’s signature programs, the Faculty Fellows Program and the

Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Academic Leadership Program, build collegial

relationships among faculty through interdisciplinary seminars that address teaching

methods and goals, research interests and leadership responsibilities.

the iAh supports innovative scholarship and cutting-edge research through exciting

initiatives and offers funding opportunities to help faculty find necessary

resources to create and disseminate new knowledge, promoting the spirit of the liberal arts

more generally.

the iAh assists in the recruitment and retention of a world-class faculty at UNC

by supporting and celebrating the work of our best professors while also developing campus

leaders from among the faculty.

the iAh celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2011–2012, bringing together unc faculty

and students, iAh fellows, friends and alumni throughout the year. Looking ahead, the

iAh aspires to be light on its feet, alert to innovative ideas and practices, and responsive to

opportunities to further the work of the arts and humanities

We rely on our advisory boards and staff to shape and fulfill the iAh’s mission.

Philanthropic support from donors and foundations help make all of

our programs and events possible, and we are grateful to our board members and friends

for their generous support.

“an iah fellowship provides a breathing space, an

opportunity for renewal, for intellectual growth, and more.”

— don rALeigh, edith L. Bernstein fAcuLty feLLoW (spring 2012), depArtment of history

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the institute for the Arts and humanities strengthens unc’s commitment to the liberal arts by supporting

and honoring unc faculty’s innovative research, inspirational teaching and imaginative leadership.

Who We Are and What We Do

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Faculty Fellows ProgramFaculty Fellowships offer a unique opportunity to enjoy a semester leave on campus to pursue exciting research and projects, develop new courses and programs, and reframe and refresh their teaching. Fellows meet weekly during the semester for a meal and the opportunity to exchange ideas with peers from across the College of Arts and Sciences in a lively, multi-disciplinary conversation. The IAH offers several types of fellowships for tenured, tenure-track and fixed-term faculty, including IAH Faculty Fellowships, Faculty Arts Fellowships, and Chapman Family Faculty Fellowships.

For more information, please visit iah.unc.edu/programs/fellowships

For a listing of this year’s Faculty Fellows, turn to page 8.

Laurie Maffly-Kipp, professor of religious studies, assumed the role of associate director of the Faculty Fellows Program in the spring of 2012. Having held several IAH fellowships during her career at UNC, she understands first-hand how valuable a semester at the Institute is for faculty and how it enriches their connection to the University. Her guidance, leadership and enthusiasm are much appreciated here in Hyde Hall, and we are so glad to have her join us each week for the Fellows seminars. We’d also like to extend our sincere thanks to Jane Thrailkill, professor of English and comparative literature, who served as the interim associate director of the program in fall 2011.

The Institute for the Arts and Humanities serves as the intellectual crossroads on unc’s campus

and supports unc faculty at every career stage. iAh programs help fund individual and collaborative

research, showcase faculty work, develop leaders and teachers, and create a community of

collaborative scholars at unc.

“if my own experience is

any indication, the Fellows

program does make people feel

more invested in this place. It

helps to develop a greater sense

of community at UNC and a

sense of being part of a broader

community of scholars.”

— LAurie mAffLy-Kipp

The spring 2012 Faculty Fellows gather around the table in the Hyde Hall Fellows Room. Photo by Justin Cook.


The Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Academic Leadership Programs

The Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Academic Leadership Programs at the IAH prepare faculty for academic, intellectual and institutional leadership roles at the University and provide ongoing support for faculty who have assumed such positions. As UNC continues to face new challenges moving forward, we are proud to provide an opportunity for honest, critical discussions among current and emerging leaders.

the Academic Leadership programEight Fellows are selected annually to participate in the Academic Leadership Program (ALP). Throughout

the year-long program, they engage in a series of activities to help cultivate leadership skills, clarify their

career commitments, and build a leadership network within the campus and in the community. The ALP is

open to faculty from across the University.

Activities for ALP participants include semester-long weekly seminars in Hyde Hall in the spring,

weekend retreats, and a five-day intensive leadership development training experience at the Center for

Creative Leadership in Greensboro. Each group of Fellows continues to meet regularly and support each

other after their fellowship semester at the Institute.

IAH Associate Director Kim Strom-Gottfried; Rob Kramer, founder of Kramer Leadership; and Jeanine

Simmons, IAH Coordinator for Faculty Programs, lead the ALP.

the chairs Leadership programThe Chairs Leadership Program (CLP) offers new 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 roles they play within the University. Topics for discussion typically include recruiting, mentoring,

retaining and evaluating faculty; strategic leadership and departmental goal setting; dealing with difficult

interactions; developing new departmental resources; and encouraging a collegial climate.

The CLP incorporates a mentoring component by including in each class a mix of returning and

newly appointed chairs. New chairs benefit from the knowledge of their more experienced colleagues, and

returning chairs are able to share in the development of future leaders while discussing their own challenges

and opportunities.

IAH Associate Director Bill Balthrop, professor of communication studies, and leadership consultant David

Kiel from the Center for Faculty Excellence have served as co-facilitators of the program since its beginning.

For a listing of this year’s Leadership Fellows, turn to page 9.


aLP Fellows in leadership roles at Unc

1 chancellor

5 chairs of the faculty

8 deans

9 senior Associate deans

11 heads of institutes

and centers

15 instruction and

curriculum officers

31 chairs of departments

Faculty Learning Community

The Faculty Learning Community (FLC) on

strategic planning and leadership is the newest

part of the Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Academic

Leadership Programs and is sponsored by

the IAH in partnership with the Center

for Faculty Excellence (CFE). Chancellor

Emeritus James Moeser and CFE Leadership

Coordinator David Kiel lead the FLC, along

with support from Kenan Flagler Business

School Associate Dean Peter Brews and

Entrepreneur in Residence Buck Goldstein.

The FLC accepts 10 participants per

year and provides support for exploration

of pressing issues with colleagues while

developing strategic plans for their units

on campus with the guidance of the

facilitator team.

Chancellor Holden Thorp

and Provost Bruce Carney

attend presentations of the

Faculty Learning Community,

led by Chancellor Emeritus

James Moeser.



IAH Initiatives

Support for innovative scholarship and inspiring teaching is at the core of the iAh. in addition to

its signature programs and traditional fellowships, the institute facilitates cutting-edge research and

teaching, resulting in several exciting initiatives.

iAh innovation fundBegun with funds from the Hyde Family Foundation, the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, and IAH Advisory Board member Duvall Fuqua and her husband Rex, the IAH launched its Innovation Fund in 2011 with five grants, providing projects with financial and resource support for three years and up to $50,000. The Fund supports risky, ambitious projects that aim for a large impact for an identified group and that can also serve as sustainable, scalable and translatable models for other scholars and educators on a departmental, local or even global scale. To date, each team has received support, guidance and workshops in everything from creating budgets and work plans to developing communications and fund-raising strategies. Here are a few highlights from the first round of funding:

Mark Katz (Department of Music) taught the first Beat Making Lab class in fall 2011, and he plans to expand the non-traditional music curriculum even further to include a DJ class and an Introduction to Rap and Spoken Word. He is currently pursuing additional sponsors to help provide scholarships and equipment in an effort to explore opportunities for more community involvement.

The Community Chorus Project (project leaders: Terry Rhodes, Department of Music; Pat Parker, Department of Communication Studies; Lauren Hodge, community volunteer) has now seen the involvement of more than 150 middle and high school students along with voice teachers, directors, choreographers and musicians from across the community and UNC. Their 2011 summer workshop and recordings drew national attention thanks to the support of the rock band R.E.M., and the team hopes to establish a foundation to provide scholarships and create an income-generating model of community-based music education.

The Sustained Participatory Action Research Collaborations (SPARCS) team, led by Dottie Holland (Department of Anthropology), has completed the first phase of the pilot program established in Warren County and formed action teams comprising SPARCS team members and community members. These collaborative teams have generated concrete projects and strategies to tackle the issue of local food and agriculture and how it relates to economic development and education. They received a $200,000 grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield and are now seeking ways to expand this model in other rural areas across the state.

In spring 2012, the IAH selected the second set of projects for support, including a proposal to start an agency for English to Spanish translation that enlists UNC undergraduate students; an incubator for new pieces by creative artists; a multimedia, performance-based approach to the problem of high school drop-out rates; and support for two start-up enterprises: a center for social action and undergraduate education in Peru, and a computer tool that improves the processing and analysis of web-specific linguistic challenges.

To learn more about our 2011 and 2012 Innovation Fund projects, please visit iah.unc.edu/innovation/fund.

Students in the Beat Making Lab participate in a beat battle on UNC’s campus.

Photo by Ariana van den Akker.

Members of the Community Chorus Project

gather around the piano to rehearse during

the summer 2012 recording workshop. Photo

courtesy of Community Chorus Project.



the rite of spring at 100Carolina Performing Arts (CPA) and the IAH have collaborated to create a series of courses, performances, visiting artists and scholars, and academic conferences to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring during 2012–2013. At the heart of this initiative, funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, is a more complete integration of what CPA is presenting in Memorial Hall with what students are doing in their classes and what faculty are working on in their research. As a result of this partnership with CPA, the UNC campus will engage in a year-long dialogue on the impact of The Rite of Spring and its historical narrative through artistic residencies, master classes and interdisciplinary courses. Faculty members have developed 15 new academic courses through this initiative, incorporating the artistic programming as a resource and participating in events and activities throughout the year.

digital Arts and humanitiesThe Carolina Digital Arts and Humanities Initiative (CDHI) was created to facilitate research projects that utilize digital technologies. Funded by a $1.4 million grant from the Mellon Foundation and substantial matching funds from UNC, CDHI supports the integration of digital media into

medical humanitiesIn 2011, the IAH, in partnership with Columbia University and King’s College in London, received a planning grant from the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) that was funded by the Mellon Foundation. In March 2012, participants from 10 Institutes and Centers from across the world gathered in Hyde Hall for a planning conference that focused on curricular initiatives in the medical humanities at both the undergraduate level and within medical schools; on research projects that would benefit from health care professionals, humanists, and health scientists working together; and on public policy issues relevant to health. The collaborations identified at the conference were presented at the annual CHCI meeting in June and funding is being sought for implementation of feasible projects that generated widespread interest.

traditional academic practice by promoting access to ideas, tools and cyber infrastructure. As a partner in CDHI, the IAH will award eight Digital Humanities Fellowships over the next four years and provide a research fund to support those Fellows’ digital projects.

The Compagnie Marie Chouinard dance company will take

the stage at UNC’s Memorial Hall as part of The Rite of Spring

at 100. Photo courtesy of Carolina Performing Arts.

IAH Director John McGowan leads a discussion in

the Hyde Hall Incubator at the medical humanities

conference. Photo by Justin Cook.



Funding Opportunities

In addition to our signature Fellowships and ongoing initiatives, the iAh provides several

other funding opportunities.

nelson schwab “say yes” fundThanks to a generous gift from Nelson Schwab III, former chair of UNC’s Board of Trustees, the IAH will have a minimum of $50,000 every year to make available to chairs of departments in the arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences. Chairs may apply for these funds to use in any way that will enhance departmental excellence, with special attention to improving quality, morale, collegiality and mentoring. 2011–2012 marked the first year that the IAH solicited proposals and a committee of former department chairs elected to fund the following: the Departments of Art and Dramatic Art to provide state-of-the art digital technology equipment to their faculty and students; the Department of Linguistics to facilitate offering its field methods course; the Department of German to provide junior faculty with the funds to bring internationally prominent scholars to campus; and the Department of History for a monthly seminar on innovative teaching ideas and techniques.

faculty grants program The Institute’s Faculty Grants Program aims to help faculty in the arts and humanities attract more research funding, particularly on the national level. The IAH hosts an annual Grants Mentoring Workshop during which faculty mentors offer feedback and guidance to colleagues as they craft proposals for various grants in the arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences. The IAH is also developing a

successful proposal database in partnership with UNC’s Office of Sponsored Research to identify successful proposals to major granting agencies and provide examples and models for faculty currently applying for such grants.

faculty Working groups and eventsEach year, the IAH supports a variety of collaborative, interdisciplinary gatherings of faculty and graduate students who are investigating a scholarly topic, designing new curricular offerings, planning intellectual events or developing grant proposals. The Institute also co-sponsors conferences, lectures, workshops and other events in Hyde Hall and across campus in order to celebrate our Fellows and their accomplishments, create opportunities for challenging conversations on campus, support research and collaboration with institutions worldwide, and engage with Carolina alumni by bringing faculty into the community.

Mark Mazower of Columbia University delivered the 2012 Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies.

This annual lecture is one of many IAH events that inspires interdisciplinary discussion and engages faculty throughout the

University. Photo by Justin Cook.



“the faculty fellows program provides an important

and singular mechanism for scholars in the College

of Arts and Sciences to participate in an exchange

that deeply challenges them and helps them generate

excellent scholarship, which spills over into curricular

innovation and collaborative enterprises.”

— micheLe Berger, chApmAn fAmiLy fAcuLty feLLoW (spring 2012), depArtment of Women’s studies

Photo by Justin Cook.


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Meet the IAH Fellows for 2011–2012

Faculty Fellows

Ross Barrett, D. Earl Pardue Fellow Assistant Professor, Department of Art

“Rendering Violence: Riots, Strikes, and Upheaval in Nineteenth-Century American Art”

Michele Berger, Chapman Family Fellow Associate Professor, Department of Women’s Studies, “Speaking Sex, Speaking Family: Healing Conversations between Mothers and Daughters”

Melissa Bullard, Taylor Family Fellow Professor, Department of History

“The Atlantic and Brooklyn Renaissance: Networking Commerce and Culture in the Atlantic World, a Computer Assisted Analysis”

Eric Downing, IAH Fellow Professor, Department of Germanic Languages

“Magic Reading”

Oswaldo Estrada, Epsy Family Fellow Assistant Professor, Department of Romance

Languages, “Gender and Transgression: Rewriting Women in Contemporary Mexico”

Kelly Hogan, Chapman Family Fellow Lecturer, Department of Biology

“The Ethical, Legal and Social Limitations of Personal Genome Data in the Classroom”

Mark Katz, John W. Burress III Fellow Professor and Chair, Department of Music

“Music and Technology: A Very Short Introduction”

Margaret Lee, John L. Turner Fellow Associate Professor, Department of African and Afro-American Studies, “Trading Stories: Africa’s World Markets”

George Lensing, Chapman Family Fellow Professor, Department of English & Comparative Literature, “Stevens’ Signatures”

Pamela Lothspeich, Wilmer Kuck Borden Fellow Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies

“In Rama’s Kingdom: The Radheshyam

Ramayana and an ‘ordinary’ Ramlila Performance”

Nichola Lowe, Nelson Schwab III Fellow Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, “Safe and Sound: An Emerging Pathway for Immigrant Skill Development and Occupational Advancement”

Ashley Lucas, Nelson Schwab III Fellow Assistant Professor, Department of Dramatic Art “The Arts as Intervention in Prisons, Schools, and Communities”

Joseph Megel, Faculty Arts Fellow Artist in Residence, Department of Communication Studies, “The Process Series”

James O’Hara, Whitton Fellow Professor, Department of Classics

“Teaching, Pretending to Teach, and the Authority of the Speaker in Roman Didactic and Satire”

Afroz Taj (Asian Studies) and Ashley Lucas (Dramatic Art) look on as Oswaldo Estrada (Romance Languages) makes a point during a Faculty

Fellows seminar. Photo by Chris Carmichael.


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Don Raleigh, Edith L. Bernstein Fellow Professor, Department of History

“Through the Corridors of Power: A Biography of Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, 1906-1982”

Sara Smith, Valinda Hill Dubose Fellow Assistant Professor, Department of Geography

“The geopolitics of intimacy: Marriage, babies, and territory in Ladakh”

Alfredo Sosa-Velasco, IAH Fellow Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

“Remembering, Forgetting and Memory in Spain: Representations of the Spanish Civil War in Narrative from the Periphery, 1978–2010”

Afroz Taj, T. Winfield Blackwell Jr. Fellow Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies

“Fantasies of Resistance: The Urdu Theater from 1860 to 1960”

Academic Leadership Fellows Victoria Bautch, William C. Friday Fellow College of Arts and Sciences, Biology

Sudhanshu Handa, Ruel W. Tyson Fellow College of Arts and Sciences, Public Policy

Amy Herring, William C. Friday Fellow School of Public Health, Biostatistics

Jim Hirschfield, Ruel W. Tyson Fellow College of Arts and Sciences, Art

Peter Mucha, Marjorie M. Schwab Fellow College of Arts and Sciences, Mathematics

Richard Myers, Ruel W. Tyson Fellow School of Law

Abigail Panter, Marjorie M. Schwab Fellow College of Arts and Sciences, Psychology

Eliana Perrin, Marjorie M. Schwab Fellow School of Medicine, Pediatrics

Chairs Leadership Program Participants

Jaye Cable Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology, Department of Marine Sciences

Larry Grossberg Department of Communication Studies

Sudhanshu Handa Department of Public Policy

Bernie Herman Department of American Studies

Marc Lange Department of Philosophy

Lauren Patton School of Dentistry, Department of Dental Ecology

Paul Roberge Department of Linguistics

Emile Rossouw School of Dentistry, Department of Orthodontics

Anna Schenck Gillings School of Global Public Health, Public Health Leadership Program

Eunice Sahle Department of African and Afro-American Studies

Faculty Learning Community Particpants

Lisa Carey Medical Director, UNC Breast Center

“Bringing Cancer Genetics to the Clinic”

Barbara Entwisle Vice Chancellor for Research

“Research at Carolina”

Paul Godley Executive Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Division of Hematology/Oncology,

“The Carolina Leadership Academy in Academic Medicine”

Jonathan Hess Director, Center for Jewish Studies, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures

“The Carolina Way: Creating a New National Model for Jewish Studies”

Emil Kang Executive Director for the Arts, “Carolina Performing Arts: From Rising Star to Global Leader”

Steve Matson Dean, Graduate School

“Preparing PhDs for the future”

Bill McDiarmid Dean, School of Education

“Yes we can: Addressing the Crisis in Our Schools”

Marilyn Oermann Professor and Chair, Adult/Geriatric Health, School of Nursing, “Clinical Nursing Education: A New Model for North Carolina”

Cam Patterson Associate Dean, Health Care Entrepreneurship and Chief of Cardiology

“UNC Medical School-Business School Joint Initiative in Medical Entrepreneurship”

The fall 2011 Faculty Fellows. Photo by Chris Carmichael.

The spring 2012 Faculty Fellows. Photo by Justin Cook.

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Brian Hogan

Since adopting a baby girl from Guatemala in 2006, Brian Hogan (Department of Chemistry) has dedicated his research, time and hard work to improving conditions in the country and creating opportunities for its people. Hogan, Chapman Family Faculty Fellow (Spring 2011), serves on the board of a local nonprofit, Guatemalan Student Support Group (GSSG), and is the academic director of the Scholars’ Latino Initiative, a program of UNC’s Center for Global Initiatives. Both programs provide support for Latino high school students in Chapel Hill, but Hogan resolved to do more.After traveling to the remote rural village

of Nueva Esperanza and seeing first-hand the level of poverty and illiteracy, along with the lack of education opportunities, he purchased books and writing materials as a first step. The village elders then presented him the seemingly impossible request to build a school. Using his Chapman award and on-site support from GSSG students, Hogan did just that, and the school was dedicated on January 7, 2012.But Hogan’s work is far from over. Since

then, he has formed a UNC student organization and nonprofit called “A Little Bit of Promise,” whose mission is to increase women’s literacy and build a self-perpetuating model of independence through education. They have already sent 11 girls to school this year and have 22 enrolled for next year. He is also working with students from GSSG to develop other community projects, including a health center and a facility for a women’s literacy and human rights group. Thanks to a grant from the Center for Global Initiatives, Hogan has also developed a course at UNC on water chemistry, pollution and poverty in Guatemala.He calls himself a “crazy scientist who

wanted to build a school in Guatemala,” but Brian Hogan is much more than that. He is someone who remains determined to make changes in the face of overwhelming challenges and a great example of how UNC faculty are making a difference across the globe.

All photos courtesy of Brian Hogan.

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Ashley Lucas

Ashley Lucas, IAH Faculty Fellow (Fall 2011) and assistant professor in the Department of Dramatic Art, understands the significance of giving someone a voice and a chance to be heard. Her research focuses on how incarceration affects not only 2.3 million U.S. prisoners, but also the individuals who have incarcerated family members and the ever-growing population of reentrants. She used her Fellowship semester to

begin writing a book on the Prison Creative Arts Project, a program that uses the arts to mitigate the negative impact of incarceration on prisoners and related communities, and she also used the time to travel and perform her one-woman play about the families of prisoners.This play, entitled Doin’ Time: Through the

Visiting Glass, is now set to be the subject of a documentary. In the fall of 2012, Lucas will travel to Lincoln, Illinois, with Joseph Megel (IAH Fellow, Fall 2011), in order to work with a theater troupe at a women’s correctional facility. The women are writing their own monologues about family visitation in prison, which Lucas and Megel will weave into Doin’ Time, and then they will all perform together for a large audience of incarcerated women. Through her work, Lucas is showing people the power and healing nature of artistic expression, and she credits the IAH with helping her push herself to the next level.

“very few programs exist to enable faculty to take time for

introspection and uninterrupted thinking about research and writing. What

most faculty members I know most crave is a moment to slow down, to

do their best possible work without being pulled in a thousand directions,

and my semester at the IAH gave me the chance to push my research and

writing to a new level.”

— AshLey LucAs

Photo by Chris Carmichael.


h o n o r s & AWA r ds

Janice B. Bardsley, Department of Asian Studies, Faculty Fellow Fall 2004 and Fall 2008 Received the Hiratsuka Raichō Prize from Japan Women’s University in Tokyo for her distinguished contributions to studies of Japanese women, especially for her book The Bluestockings of Japan: New Women Fiction and Essays from Seito, 1911–1916 (Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2007).

Dorit Bar-On, Department of Philosophy, Faculty Fellow Spring 1991, Spring 1995, Fall 1999 and Spring 2006 Awarded the Zachary Smith Distinguished Term Professorship for Research and Undergraduate Education.

Victoria L. Bautch, Department of Biology, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2012 Elected President of the North American Vascular Biology Organization for 2012–2013.

Margaret E. Bentley, School of Public Health, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2010 Named the Carla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global Nutrition.

Carole Blair, Department of Communication Studies, Faculty Fellow Spring 2009 Elected Second Vice President of the National Communication Association. Was also awarded a Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction at UNC and the Pennsylvania Communication Association’s Julia T. Wood Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award.

Judith Blau, Department of Sociology, Faculty Fellow Summer 1992 and Spring 1994 Honored with the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology; also named “Most Influential Faculty” by the La Unida Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity at UNC. The Human Rights Center of Chapel Hill and Carrboro,

of which she is the director, also received the Bob Sheldon Award and several external funding grants.

Inger Brodey, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Faculty Fellow Spring 2011 Awarded the Bank of America Honors Distinguished Professorship and was elected to the Board of Governors of UNC Press.

Kia Caldwell, Department of African and Afro-American Studies, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2013 Received the Explorations in Global Health grant from the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases.

Jean DeSaix, Department of Biology, Faculty Fellow Spring 2005 Given a faculty-to-student mentor award from the Carolina Women’s Leadership council and was a recipient of the Lifetime Mentor Award, established to honor Dean E. Smith when he retired.

Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, Department of Health Policy and Management, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2008 Awarded the faculty-to-faculty mentoring award from the Carolina Women’s Leadership Council.

Carl W. Ernst, Department of Religious Studies, Faculty Fellow Spring 2001, Academic Leadership Fellow 2009 Appointed as a research associate with a collaborative group sponsored by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the Sorbonne Nouvelle, the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, and the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris. Also serves on the Board of Directors of the Middle East Studies Association of North America.

Oswaldo Estrada, Department of Romance Languages, Faculty Fellow Fall 2011 Won a Distinguished Award for Post-Baccalaureate Teaching and Mentoring at UNC.

William Ferris, Department of History, Faculty Fellow Fall 2007 Awarded a W.N. Reynolds Leave in fall 2011 and a publication grant from the Institute for African American Research.

Annegret Frauser, Department of Music, Faculty Fellow Spring 2004 Received the Edward J. Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association for 2011.

Janet M. Guthmiller, Department of Dentistry, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2013 Became a Fellow in the American College of Dentists and was awarded the Faculty Advisor Appreciation Award for distinguished service from 2007-2012 from the National Student Research Group of the American Association for Dental Research.

Karen Hagemann, Department of History, Faculty Fellow Fall 2008 Received the John G. Medlin Jr. Fellowship from the National Humanities Center.

Sudhanshu Handa, Department of Public Policy, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2012 Won the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) to study social cash transfer programs in Malawi and Zimbabwe.

Amy H. Herring, Department of Biostatistics, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2012 Won the Gertrude M. Cox Award for Excellence in Applied Statistics from the Washington Statistical Society, received the Teaching Innovation Award for Biostatistics in the Gillings School of Global Public Health, and is the principle investigator for a study that received an NIH grant of over $1.6 million.

Reginald F. Hildebrand, Department of African and Afro-American Studies, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2003 Received a Tanner Faculty Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at UNC.

Every year, iAh faculty fellows and Leadership fellows earn an extraordinary number of honors,

awards and funding from the university and beyond. here is a selection of this impressive array of

achievements by iAh fellows in 2011–2012:



Kelly Hogan, Department of Biology, Faculty Fellow Spring 2012 Awarded a statewide, student-nominated Spirit of Inquiry Award from the Pope Foundation for Higher Education. Was also named a National Academies Education Mentor in the Life Sciences due to her leadership role with the National Academies Summer Institutes on Undergraduate Education in Biology.

Sharon L. James, Department of Classics, Faculty Fellow Spring 2007 Received a grant for a 2012 NEH Summer Institute entitled “Roman Comedy in Performance.”

Mark Katz, Department of Music, Faculty Fellow Spring 2012 and Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2013 Named Chair of the Department of Music and was awarded the Ruth and Phillip Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement. Also was appointed editor of the Journal of the Society for American Music and senior editor for Oxford Research Reviews in Music.

Sheryl Kleinman, Department of Sociology, Faculty Fellow Summer 1989, Fall 1995, Spring 2001 and Spring 2007 Received the University Award for the Advancement of Women.

Laurie Langbauer, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Faculty Fellow Fall 2003 and Spring 2005 Held a John E. Sawyer Fellowship at the National Humanities Center and was asked to lead a DuPont Summer Seminar on childhood in Britain and America for liberal arts college faculty at the NEH.

Marc Lange, Department of Philosophy, Faculty Fellow Spring 2011 Awarded a Theda Perdue Distinguished Professorship. Also named associate editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

Margaret Carol Lee, Department of African and Afro-American Studies, Faculty Fellow Fall 2011 Received a

research grant from the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden, as well as a Craver Research Grant at UNC.

Pamela Jo Lothspeich, Department of Asian Studies, Faculty Fellow Spring 2012 Received a Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship from the United States-India Educational Foundation to support nine months of research in India.

Nichola Lowe, Department of City and Regional Planning, Faculty Fellow Spring 2012 Promoted with tenure to Associate Professor in January 2012 and was one of six Faculty Fellows at UNC’s Global Research Institute in 2011–2012.

Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, Department of Religious Studies, Faculty Fellow Summer 1990, Spring 1998, Spring 2008 and Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2002 Named president of the American Society of Church History.

Steven K. May, Department of Communications Studies, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2003 Given Top Book Awards for Handbook of

Communication Ethic and Handbook of Communication and Corporate Social Responsibility by the National Communication Association.

Joseph Megel, Department of Communication Studies, Faculty Fellow Fall 2011 Recipient of the IAH Innovation Fund for “The Process Series.”

Peter J. Mucha, Department of Mathematics, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2012 Selected as a Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor for 2012–2017.

Dennis Mumby, Department of Communications, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2010 Inducted as a Fellow of the International Communication Association and was awarded the National Communication Association’s Organizational Communication Division Excellence in Research Award.

Patricia Parker, Department of Communications, Faculty Fellow Fall 2002 and Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2011 Appointed Director of

Nichola Lowe (City and Regional Planning) explains her work during a Faculty Fellows seminar.




Diversity Initiatives for the College of Arts and Sciences.

James Peacock, Department of Anthropology, Faculty Fellow Fall 1989 and Spring 1999 Selected as Awardee of the Year for Rotary district 1710 for founding and directing the UNC-Duke Rotary Center for Peace and Conflict.

Theda Perdue, Department of History, Faculty Fellow Fall 2000 Served as president of the Southern Historical Association.

Eliana M. Perrin, Department of Pediatrics, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2012 Named one of the Best Doctors of America and listed in America’s Top Pediatricians. Also awarded the American Academy of Pediatrics Special Achievement Award for Distinguished Service and Dedication to the Mission and Goals of the Academy for her leadership in addressing pediatric obesity.

Richard Pfaff, Department of History, Faculty Fellow Spring 2001 Awarded the Haskins Medal, the highest prize of the Medieval Academy of America, for his book

The Liturgy in Medieval England: a History (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Gerald J. Postema, Department of Philosophy and School of Law, Faculty Fellow Fall 2000 Honored with the George H. Johnson Prize for Distinguished Achievement by an IAH Fellow. Also appointed Arthur L. Goodhart Distinguished Visiting Professor of Legal Science at Cambridge University for academic year 2013–2014 and Honorary Professor at Zhengzhou University Law School, Zhengzhou, China.

Robert G. Quercia, Department of City and Regional Planning, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2008 Appointed chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning and received the Dinell Outstanding Urban and Regional Planning Alumni Award from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Awarded grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Ford Foundation to continue research on mortgage lending; also was invited to present research to national policymakers and regulators.

Terry Ellen Rhodes, Department of Music,

Faculty Fellow Fall 2001 and Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2011 Appointed Senior Associate Dean for Fine Arts and Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Carol W. Runyan, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2010 Named a 20 for 20 Leader by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control as one of the most influential injury and violence prevention professionals over the past 20 years.

Bland Simpson, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Faculty Fellow Fall 1998 and Fall 2006 Awarded the Roberts Literary Inspiration Award by East Carolina University. Also shared in the PlayMakers Repertory Company’s Distinguished Achievement Award as a member of The Red Clay Ramblers, which received the award for the group’s work in music and theater.

Karla Slocum, Department of Anthropology, Faculty Fellow Fall 2003 Received a National Endowment for the Humanities Resident Scholars Fellowship to

“a semester fellowship at the IAH invigorates one’s

teaching and personal commitment to the Humanities.

I found it also reinvigorated each of us in the seminar,

for we were all reaffirming the important reasons why

we chose a career in academia.”

— meLissA BuLLArd, tAyLor fAcuLty feLLoW (fALL 2011), depArtment of history



be held during academic year 2012-2013 at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, NM.

Kevin Stewart, Department of Geological Sciences, Faculty Fellow Fall 2003 Received a research grant from the U.S. Geological Survey.

Randall Styers, Department of Religious Studies, Faculty Fellow Spring 2004 and Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2013 Recipient of UNC’s Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction.

John Sweet, Department of History, Faculty Fellow Spring 2007 Held a Faculty Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and was a Center Fellow at the National Humanities Center. Also served as Director of the UNC Program in Sexuality Studies and as a member of the Provost’s GLBTQ Life Committee.

Jane F. Thrailkill, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Faculty Fellow Fall 2002 and Fall 2009 Selected as a Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Associate Professor for 2012–2017.

Anthony J. Viera, Department of Family Medicine, Academic Leadership Fellow Spring 2013 Named a Charles B. Wilkerson Distinguished Scholar, elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, and appointed as director of the MD-MPH Program at UNC.

Michael S. Waltman, Department of Communication Studies, Faculty Fellow

Spring 2006 His book, The Communication of Hate (Peter Lang Publishers, 2010), received a Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Titles from the Association for College and Research Libraries and was also awarded the Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression by the National Communication Association.

Melissa Bullard,

Department of

History. Photo by

Chris Carmichael.



25 y e A r s

The Institute for the Arts and Humanities celebrated its 25th anniversary

in 2011–2012 and commemorated the occasion with a large celebratory

dinner and a lecture series examining the past, present and future of the arts

and humanities, bringing together unc faculty and students, iAh fellows,

friends and alumni throughout the year.

Right: John McGowan participated in a conversation

with undergraduate students in the Hyde Hall University

Room. The forum involved small group discussions

between students, faculty and community members and

addressed how the humanities are at work in the world

outside of the academy.

Below, left: Athol Fugard, South African playwright and

Morgan Writer-in-Residence, and Ed Strong, producer

of Broadway hit Jersey Boys, discussed the importance

of the arts in a panel on the state of the theater today.

Photo by Gary Kurtz.

Below, right: Pulitzer Prize recipient Louis Menand

addressed current and future challenges for the arts and

humanities in the culmination of the 25th anniversary

lecture series. Photo by Justin Cook.


25 y e A r s

Clockwise from above: Guests walked from Hyde Hall across the UNC quad to attend dinner

in Graham Memorial on April 20, 2012; IAH Friend George Butler of Atlanta delivered a special

recitation of Tennyson’s “Ulysses” with a UNC twist as part of the night’s entertainment;

The evening offered a chance to celebrate the work of IAH Fellows such as Pete Andrews,

Department of Public Policy; IAH Director of Development Mary Flanagan assisted in a

puppet show written and performed by Faculty Fellow Marianne Gingher, Department of

English and Comparative Literature; Guests, including Innovation Fund recipients Pat Parker

(Communication Studies) and Mark Katz (Music) and IAH Friend Becky Pardue relished years

of friendship and memories while a string quartet played in the Hyde Hall courtyard.

All photos by Chris Carmichael.


As we reflect on the last 25

years, we’d like to express our

deep appreciation to our board

members, donors, faculty, friends,

staff and unc administrators

for helping to make the iAh

everything it is today. thank you

for celebrating with us.

Top left: IAH Advisory Board member and former UNC

Provost Dick Richardson greeted Julia Wood, former IAH

Associate Director of the Faculty Fellows Program, with a

warm hug hello.

Top right: Lloyd Kramer (History) and IAH Associate

Director Bill Balthrop shared a laugh and conversation

over cocktails.

Bottom left: Hyde Hall’s architect Jaque Robertson

offered a detailed tour of the IAH’s beautiful home, which

opened its doors ten years ago.

Bottom right: Chancellor Holden Thorp and IAH Advisory

Board Chair Julia Grumbles both gave speeches at the

dinner, representing the evening’s theme of “honor the

past, savor the present and imagine the future.”

All photos by Chris Carmichael.


celebrating all that the iAh has accomplished in 25 years is certainly impressive, but it only tells part

of the story. much more important are the friendships made; the transforming conversations around

the fellowship table or in a living room in Atlanta or new york city; the books written, read, and taught;

and the ideas spawned, debated, revamped, and put into practice.

…a 20 million dollar endowment

526faculty fellows 89Academic Leadership fellows

10years in hyde hall

47department chairs

The IAH is where Carolina’s past is cherished, its present unfolds, and its future is created.


o u r p e o p L e

steven P. aldrichoutright, inc.mountain view, cA

victoria tucker Bordenportraits southgreensboro, nc

Kristin L. Breuss st. paul’s theological centerLondon, united Kingdom

sanford a. cockrelldeloitte, LLpnew york, ny

Duvall Fuquacommunity volunteerAtlanta, gA

julia sprunt GrumblesChair, iAh Advisory Board turner Broadcasting, inc., retired chapel hill, nc

robert hackney first eagle investment managementnew york, ny

Barbara rosser hyde, emeritushyde family foundationsmemphis, tn

G. allen ives iiiturnpike properties, inc.rocky mount, nc

thomas s. Kenan iii, emeritusWilliam r. Kenan Jr. charitable trustchapel hill, nc

Michael D. KennedyKorn ferry internationalAtlanta, gA

charles craft Lucas iiielevation LLccharlotte, nc

Lane Morris McDonaldAvondale strategic partners nycnew york, ny

Peter c. Moistercorbin investment holdings LLcAtlanta, gA

alan saunders 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 company, inc.chapel hill, nc

richard j. richardsonformer provost, unc chapel hillchapel hill, nc

nelson schwab iiicarousel capitalcharlotte, nc

Professor ruel W. tysonfounding director, institute for the Arts and humanitieschapel hill, nc

john F. White iiiJfW propertiesraleigh, nc

nancy hanes Whitecommunity volunteer raleigh, nc

caroline c. Williamsoncommunity volunteernew york, ny

carol Payne Youngharry norman realtorsAtlanta, gA

Institute Advisory Board 2011–2012

IAH Founder and Director Emeritus Ruel Tyson surrounded by friends and colleagues at the 25th anniversary dinner.

Photo by Chris Carmichael.


o u r p e o p L e

carole Blairdepartment of communication studies

e. jane Burnsdepartment of Women’s studies

randall hendrickdepartment of Linguistics

james Ketchdepartment of music

Patricia Mcananydepartment of Anthropology

Layna Mosleydepartment of political science

Keith simmonsdepartment of philosophy

elin o’hara slavick department of Art

randall styersdepartment of religious studies

Bill BalthropAssociate director, chairs Leadership programprofessor, department of communication studies

Kirsten BeattieAssistant director of development and communications

jean chandlerBusiness Assistant

elaine erteschikdirector of communications

Mary Flanagandirector of development

Megan Grandaexecutive director

erica Longenbachgraduate Assistant

Laurie Maffly-KippAssociate director, faculty fellows programchair, department of religious studies

john McGowandirectorruel W. tyson Jr. distinguished professor of humanitiesdepartment of english and comparative Literature

christopher MeineckeBusiness manager

james Moeserchancellor emeritussenior fellow for special initiativesprofessor, department of music

joyce rudinskyAssociate director, digital Arts and humanitiesvisual Artist, Associate professor, department of communication studies

jeanine simmonscoordinator for faculty programs

Kim strom-GottfriedAssociate director, Academic Leadership programsmith p. theimann Jr. distinguished professor of ethics and professional practiceschool of social Work

courtney Websterevents coordinator

Faculty Advisory Board 2011–2012 IAH Staff 2011–2012

staff changesthis past year brought a lot of changes to our staff

at the iAh. megan granda stepped down after

serving as the institute’s executive director for five

years, and we are so grateful for all of her hard

work. megan has been essential to every aspect

of the institute’s mission, and as many of you

have experienced first-hand, her dedication and

innovative vision helped the iAh expand its reach

and ability to assist faculty on this campus. maria

Lamonaca Wisdom, who holds a ph.d. in victorian

literature from indiana university, joined our team

in July 2012 as our new executive director, and we

are thrilled to have her experience, creativity and

enthusiasm at the iAh.

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h o n o r r o L L o f d o n o r s

Honor Roll of Donors

The 2012 Honor Roll recognizes donors who gave to the institute for the Arts and humanities between

July 1, 2011 and June 30, 2012. it omits the names of eight donors who wish to remain anonymous.

The IAH is grateful for the generous support for our faculty and programs in fiscal year 2012. Private funds are essential for the Institute to fulfill our mission of faculty enrichment and to continue to serve as the intellectual crossroads at Carolina. We could not do what we do without the support of our donors. Please consider investing in UNC faculty by making a contribution and becoming a Friend of the Institute.

Italics denote a member of the UNC faculty

McCorkle Place Friends — $1 to $249Ann BakerMichael BarefootKatherine BatesKirsten BeattieSteve BirdsallBrad BostianChristopher BrowningKathryn BurnsHodding CarterNicole CarterYera ChokshiMike CohenCharles CrockettJane DanielewiczMadison DeeseMichael DowdyMark DriscollLee and Tharon DunnShelton and Jo Anne EarpConnie EbleKristen EnwrightSteve and Nora EsthimerRay and Cydne FarrisBill FerrisLucinda FinkMary Floyd-WilsonBill FridayManuel GarciaOwen GoslinMegan GrandaJohn GreenLee GriffinKevin GuskiewiczHerbert HackneyJackie HallBorden HanesSally HarrisAnna HayesGail HendersonJonathan HessJames Hirschfield

LiddyBet HolstenBeth HoltzclawJordynn JackKenneth JankenGary JohnsonClaire BoychukAndrew KanterEszter KarvazyJohn and Joy KassonLance and Abby KimbroughHarvey and Marsha KoenigLloyd KramerH. R. KurrieDavid LabellDana LacyMarty and Chris LagodMelinda LawrenceTheodore LeinbaughDiane LeonardMichael LieneschWalker LongPamela LothspeichPerry LuckettVivian LutianDouglas MacleanLaurie Maffly-KippJodi MagnessGerald MalmoKnox and Mary Ann MasseyPete MaydanisMichael McFeeFrank McGaughey Christopher MeineckeSiegfried MewsEric MlynAddie MoodySeverine NeffPhil and Georgia NelsonAnna NeumanWill OverlockPatricia ParkerWilliam Peck

Andrew and Eliana PerrinErik and ChristynMike PoeGwynne PomeroyAnne PowellCharlotte PowellDavid PricePatricia PukkilaDonald RaleighBill RandKenneth ReckfordPeter RedfieldCharlene RegesterTerry RhodesFrank RiggsRandall Roden and Ann StewartElizabeth RogersonLars SchoultzMary SotileBob and Pat SpearmanSteven SquiresVincas SteponaitisKevin StewartGene StoryKim Strom-GottfriedTorrey StroudRandall StyersBeverly TaylorHolden and Patti ThorpGraham ToddAnn UrquhartMilada VachudovaJoseph ViscomiVan and Kay WeatherspoonBrent WissickCecil WootenJim YoderGang Yue

W. Trent Ragland Jr. Foundation


h o n o r r o L L o f d o n o r s

Hyde Hall Friends — $250 to $999Allen AndersonPete AndrewsTim BurnettJack EvansPam FergusonPamela FreemanBuck GoldsteinBecky HilstadSlocum HowlandBert and Ellen KaplanMichael KennedyDavid KesslerTom and Donna LambethKen LeeJohn McGowanJames and Susan MoeserMary MorrowPat and Mary Norris OglesbyDavid and Becky PardueBilly PizerJim ProtzmanBill RaceMatthew RedinboDonald Reid and Holly RussellDick and Sue RichardsonBarbara RimerDavid RobertChris SawyerBetsy SawyerDee SchwabJohn and Susie SherrillAlfred SmithDonna SorgiRuel TysonSue WallNan WeissBuddy WesterLen and Judy WhiteCharlie and Flo Winston

Charles M. Winston Family FoundationHighland Vineyard Foundation

Fellows Terrace Friends — $1,000 to $9,999Steven and Allison AldrichNathan and Karrie AndrewsJoe and Gail AustinDan BernsteinEd Borden Katharine ChapmanSandy Cockrell Carolyn and Bob ConnorCress and Rebecca DarwinJames Lee DavisRoddey and Pepper DowdJohn EllisonBill EspyMary FlanaganPeter FormanekDiane FrazierJim Gilliland Bill and Barbara GrahamJulia Sprunt GrumblesJake and Florence HanesJim HynesBetty KenanTom Kenan Dick and Lynne KohnMemrie LewisLane McDonaldMorris McDonaldSallie McMillionJim MedfordBill and Sandra MooreAlan and Butchie NeelyKurt NewmanCharlie NoellJohn O’HaraJosie PattonAl PurringtonShuchen ShiehSherwood SmithEd and Laurel StrongJohn TaylorDavid and Treva TysonMartha Tyson

Bill WaltonChuck and Jean WilsonBob and Tracy WinstonJulia WoodBlake and Carol Young

Chapman Family FundCommunity Foundation of Greater MemphisEllison Family FoundationEmwiga FoundationFormanek FoundationGeorges Lurcy Charitable & Educ TrustRenaissance Charitable FoundationRobert & Tracy Winston Foundation IncSchwab Fund for Charitable GivingTriangle Community Foundation

IAH Fellowship Society — $10,000 and upAnne Whitton BoyleaKristin Breuss and Geoff BurgessJohn and Mary Louise BurressMax Chapman Duvall and Rex FuquaRobert HackneyBarbara and Pitt HydePeter MoisterNelson SchwabJane Whitton TreveyJohn and Evelyn TurnerMonty and Nancy WhiteBarbara Miller WhittonJames Whitton, Jr.Robert and Caroline Williamson

Bank of America Charitable Gift FundThe B.W. & Barbara Miller FoundationChapman Family Charitable TrustCommunity Foundation for Greater AtlantaFidelity Charitable Gift FundFoundation for the CarolinasHyde Family FoundationsRealan FoundationWilliam R Kenan Jr Charitable TrustWinston-Salem Foundation

visit iah.Unc.eDU/invest to BecoMe a FrienD oF the institUte.


m A K e A g i f t

private gifts from alumni and friends of the institute for the Arts and humanities have a profound effect

on the lives of unc faculty, which in turn enriches the lives of students and strengthens teaching and

research at carolina. private funding pays for most of the cost of our programs for faculty development,

faculty leadership and the growing community of knowledge that is the hallmark of the institute

experience. here are two special ways for you to invest in unc faculty:

Support a Fellow — It costs about $27,000 to fund one faculty fellowship for one semester, and the College of Arts and Sciences applies those funds toward the faculty member’s home department to hire a replacement teacher for the semester. IAH fellowships are a critical component of UNC’s efforts to retain the best faculty at Carolina, providing the invaluable gift of time in order to refresh, renew and reinvigorate their teaching.

IAH Innovation Fund — Today’s faculty are increasingly called upon to explore new models of teaching and research that are collaborative, interdisciplinary, translatable and scalable, and that impact the wider community. The IAH Innovation Fund offers both financial and resource support for projects that venture beyond traditional methods in the arts and humanities as they are practiced and taught on the UNC campus, and for which there are not other resources commonly available, either on campus or externally. This model, unique at UNC, encourages an entrepreneurial mindset and provides project teams with the tools to create their own success. The IAH looks to raise $750,000 in expendable funds to support innovation in the arts and humanities over the next three years.

You may make your gift online or use the gift envelope enclosed in this magazine. We also encourage you to consider including the Institute in your will or estate plan. For more information on giving to the IAH, please visit iah.unc.edu/invest.

RecognitionAll donors who do not wish to remain anonymous are recognized within their giving levels in this annual magazine, published each fall. The publication is sent to all Friends, Fellows, UNC community members, and subscribers and it is also made available at iah.unc.edu.

In addition, annual gifts of $1,500 or more qualify donors for membership in the Dean’s Circle of the College of Arts and Sciences. Gifts of $2,000 or more qualify donors for membership in the Chancellor’s Club as well as the Dean’s Circle.

Please see giving.unc.edu for more information on University recognition societies.

Left: Mark Katz, professor and chair of the Department of Music, works with a student during a Beat Making Lab class, part of his Innovation Fund

project. Photo by Ariana van den Akker. Right: Alfredo Sosa-Velasco (Romance Languages and Literature) and Don Raleigh (History) converse during

a spring Faculty Fellows seminar. Photo by Justin Cook.


s p e c i A L f r i e n ds o f t h e i n s t i t u t e

Making a Difference: George H. Johnson ’58

Alumnus. friend. Advisor. of all the words used to describe george Johnson’s affiliation to the university

and the institute, the one that best defines him is leader.

Almost since the Institute began, George has been an active leader and supporter in one way or another, either through his service on the IAH Advisory Board or through his extraordinary giving. Why?As George explains, “Long ago, an amazing teacher impacted my life,

and for me, UNC is where I learned to love to learn. The Institute embodies this spirit of learning. Many of my favorite and most engaging conversations have taken place in the halls of West House and Hyde Hall where faculty from across disciplines share and exchange ideas. Ruel Tyson envisioned the Institute 25 years ago, and many have worked hard to make it the storied success it is today.”In spring 2012, in honor of the Institute’s 25th anniversary, George

offered to match all new and unrestricted gifts up to $25,000 to support the IAH Annual Fund. These gifts will provide critical support to help fund fellowships, co-sponsor faculty learning opportunities, support faculty working groups, and continue the conversations that are the hallmark of the Institute’s program.This gift is the tip of the iceberg, as George’s support began before Hyde

Hall was even a reality. Whatever the call, he has answered it. In addition to the annual fund, George’s gifts have supported academic leadership,

endowment, and building construction.It is in his honor that the Institute created The George H. Johnson

Prize for Distinguished Achievement by an IAH Fellow, an accolade IAH Director John McGowan characterizes as a lifetime achievement award. The IAH is pleased to announce that Gerald Postema, Department of Philosophy and School of Law, will be awarded this prestigious honor in the fall of 2012.Mary Flanagan, IAH Director of Development, explained that part of

what makes Johnson so special is his ability to spread his enthusiasm.“George just has a wonderful quality about him of inciting enthusiasm

in others,” Flanagan said. “He is probably the greatest champion the IAH will ever have.”With his reputation for livening IAH board meetings, it is not surprising

that George coined the Institute’s unofficial cheer, “Rooty Toot Toot for the Institute!”

George Johnson graduated from UNC in 1958 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. He is the founder and president of George H. Johnson Properties of Atlanta.

George Johnson (center) attends an IAH event with former Advisory Board Chair John O’Hara and former Advisory Board member Jennifer Halsey.


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humanities is one of the great

and unique gifts to the carolina

faculty. It has continually nurtured

both the ideas and values, and the

community conversation about ideas

and values that makes this both a

great and a good public university.”

— pete AndreWs, fAcuLty feLLoW fALL 2000 And LeAdership feLLoW 2002, depArtment of puBLic poLicy

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