2010 Annual Highlights

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j o i n t h e c o n v e r s a t i o n

2009–2010

a n n u a l h i g h l i g h t s

This page: The “conversation”

sculpture by Thomas Sayre

of Raleigh, N.C., given by IAH

Fellows, was dedicated to

IAH Founder Ruel Tyson at his

Farewell Celebration in 2006.

Sayre is a Morehead Scholar

and UNC-Chapel Hill graduate

of English and studio art, an

IAH Public Fellow and a friend

of Tyson.

Front cover: Jay Smith, the

John Van Seters Distinguished

Term Professor and associate

chair of the history department,

converses with his Faculty

Fellows seminar (Fall 2009).

f r o m t h e d i r e c t o r

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …” This Dickens quote is used so often because every historical moment presents its reasons for optimism — and pessimism. The budget cuts at UNC are real and are hurting the University’s ability to do its job as well as we would like. At such a time, the mission of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities is to help maintain faculty morale and to do everything we can, with the resources that we have, to create a vibrant intellectual community on campus for our faculty and our students.

To that end, we continue to support our faculty through our Faculty Fellows Program and to develop our campus leaders through our Academic Leadership Program. Although not immune from the state budget crisis, the IAH continues to support faculty who come to us for help in staging conferences, or to form working groups, or to develop new curricular programs. And we use Hyde Hall to showcase the work of our faculty.

But even as there is some feeling of scrambling to keep our chins up in these difficult financial times, there is a tremendous excitement about the future at UNC. Chancellor Thorp has launched his innovation initiative, calling on the Carolina community to think through what it would take to make UNC a world leader in innovative research and education. There is tremendous talent in UNC’s faculty and students — and the idea that we as a University are going to concentrate on the most effective ways to encourage that talent has generated a contagious optimism about our future. UNC is a great place that can become even better. That is the challenge the Chancellor has given us. The IAH has leapt into the effort to support faculty innovation in the College, as we’ll share in these pages.

CHAT, our digital arts and humanities festival, was the undoubted highlight of the past year — and the perfect example of how the IAH spurs innovation in the arts and humanities. A four-day festival encompassing more than 90 speakers and presenters, with events in 17 campus buildings and an audience that exceeded 500, CHAT displayed cutting-edge works in a variety of new media, examined the impact of new technologies on education and the creation and dissemination of information, and forged new collaborations between UNC, Duke, N.C. State and a number of Research Triangle Park tech firms. I would be remiss if I did not use this space to thank the IAH staff for a flawless job in pulling off this herculean task.

I will be on academic leave for the 2010–2011 academic year, researching and writing a book about American politics surrounding the volatile 1948 presidential election, but I leave the IAH in the capable hands of Bill Balthrop, who will serve as interim director. Bill was the chair of the communication studies department for 14 years and has taught at Carolina for more than 30 years. An alum of our Academic Leadership Program (2004), Bill has been an IAH associate director the past three years as the faculty director of our Chairs Leadership Program.

As always, thanks to all of our generous supporters who make what we do possible. Your vote of confidence in the IAH means the world to me and to our faculty who benefit from your generosity.

Bookmark iah.unc.edu for the latest news and our calendar of events. Find a lecture or an event that interests you, and come join the conversation.

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The Institute for the Arts and Humanities: who we are and what we do

The mission of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities (IAH) is to foster intellectual

community and faculty development at Carolina by supporting innovative teaching

and research, especially in the arts and humanities.

The IaH’s two signature programs, the Faculty Fellowship Program and

the Academic Leadership Program, build collegial relationships among

faculty through seminars that address teaching methods and goals, research interests and

leadership responsibilities.

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

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

leaders from among the faculty who will ensure UNC’s ongoing excellence.

The IaH also provides opportunities for our fellows and visiting scholars to reach on- and off-

campus audiences, communicating the spirit of the liberal arts to UNC’s many publics through

community programs and events.

Through our development of collegial relationships in our core programs, and our support for

innovative research and teaching, the IaH enables Carolina faculty and

students to create and disseminate new knowledge that is attuned to developments in our

rapidly changing world.

We rely on our advisory boards and staff to guide the IaH in its efforts to

develop the human resource of UNC’s faculty. We rely on philanthropic support from donors and foundations to pursue our mission of facilitating cutting-

edge teaching and research at UNC. Thank you to all our board members and donors for your

generous support.

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“the institute provides a unique opportunity for a faculty member at unc to interact

systematically with colleagues from other departments about their respective research.

this interaction is invaluable for teaching, doing interdisciplinary research and the

long-term cohesiveness of unc’s faculty community.”

— michael gerhardt samuel ashe distinguished professor of constitutional law school of law fellow (fall 2009)

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f a c u l t y f e l l o w s p r o g r a m

Memories of murdered civil rights leader Medgar Evers in

literature and song. A mysterious monster terrorizing French

provinces in the 1740s. Evaluating service learning and trying

to define “engaged scholarship.” It must be Wednesday in the

Fellows Room in Hyde Hall, where 10 Carolina faculty gather to

discuss their research, teaching and the changing university.

The Faculty Fellows Program provides faculty with a semester’s

leave — precious time to step back, reflect, revise courses

and work on scholarly projects. Fellows meet weekly to share

ideas and discuss each other’s work. These interdisciplinary

conversations push the Fellows to communicate their ideas to

non-specialist audiences, while widening their contacts across

the College of Arts and Sciences.

Refresh, renew, revitalize. By helping to develop Carolina’s most

important resource, its people, the IAH helps UNC attract and re-

tain a world-class faculty. The Faculty Fellows Program has served

more than 490 of UNC’s best teachers and scholars since 1988.

Learn more about our fellowships at

iah.unc.edu/programs/fellowships.

IAH Faculty FellowshipsOur foundational fellowship upon which the IAH was built, IAH Faculty Fellowships provide semester-long fellowships on campus for faculty members from the College of Arts and Sciences to pursue research and projects for publication, exhibition, composition and performance. Our Fellows represent a range of disciplines and ranks.

The 2009 – 2010 IAH Faculty Fellows:Kenneth (Andy) Andrews, Wilmer Kuck Borden Fellow, associate professor

of sociology, “Desegregating the South: Leadership, Strategy and Agency in

the Black Freedom Struggle”

Sarah Dempsey, D. Earl Pardue Fellow, assistant professor of

communication studies, “Translating the Ideals of Community Engagement

into Practice: A Study of Campus-Community Partnership Dilemmas”

Michael Gerhardt, UNC School of Law Fellow, professor of law, “The

Constitutional Significance of the Forgotten Presidents”*

Minrose Gwin, John W. Burress III Fellow, professor of English and

comparative literature, “Mourning Medgar Evers: Revolution, Aesthetics

and Collective Memory”

Christopher Lee, D. Earl Pardue Fellow, assistant professor of history,

“Colonial Kinships: Stories of Race, Social Knowledge and Peoplehood

from British Central Africa, 1915–1964”

C.D.C. Reeve, Espy Family Faculty Fellow, professor of philosophy,

“Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics Book VI: Text, Translation, Commentary

and Introductory Essay”

Jay Smith, Edith L. Bernstein Fellow, professor of history, “Monsters in

Gévaudan: A Tale of Horror from the Age of Reason”

Jane Thrailkill, Taylor Family Fellow, associate professor of English and

comparative literature, “Talking Back: American Literature and the

Subversive Child”

Mayron Tsong, Nelson Schwab III Fellow, assistant professor of music, “CD

Recording of Haydn Sonatas”

* Michael Gerhardt joined the IAH Faculty Fellows seminar funded by the

UNC School of Law.

UNC-Duke Exchange Fellowship

Endowed Fellows

Through the UNC-Duke Exchange Fellowship, a UNC humanities scholar joins the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University for a yearlong seminar, and one or two Duke humanities scholars join the IAH Faculty Fellows seminar for a semester.

Gregson Davis, professor of classics at Duke University, “Vergil’s Bucolics

(Eclogues)”

Arturo Escobar, T. Winfield Blackwell Jr. Fellow, Kenan distinguished

professor of anthropology at UNC

IAH Faculty Fellowships provide a semester’s leave for professors to do scholarly research, revise the courses they teach and develop new courses. The IAH “buys out” each professor’s time by providing the home department with funds to hire a replacement teacher during the fellowship semester. Thus, the endowment for an IAH Faculty Fellowship provides, year in and year out, the funds necessary for that buy-out. Endowed fellowships reward our best teachers and scholars with the opportunity to keep up with new developments in their fields of expertise, to contribute to new knowledge that scholars create, and to re-think both the content and form of their courses. Plus, our weekly seminars create the intellectual and collegial relations that make Carolina a great place to be a faculty member. For information on endowing a fellowship, contact Mary Flanagan at (919) 962-2528.

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Jane Thrailkill (Faculty Fellow, Fall 2002 and Fall 2009)

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Chapman Family Faculty FellowshipsThe Chapman Fellowship, generously funded by Max C. Chapman Jr. and the Chapman Family Fund, awards excellence in undergraduate teaching. In addition to participation in the Faculty Fellows seminar, Chapman Fellows receive a $5,000 stipend.

The 2009 – 2010 Chapman Family Faculty Fellows:Michael Chitwood, lecturer in English and comparative literature, “The

Weight of Water”

Dorothy Holland, professor of anthropology, “Expanding Teaching

through Engaged Scholarship”

Lloyd Kramer, professor of history, “Traveling to Unknown Places: The

Strange Journeys and Cultural Identities of Expatriate Writers, 1780–1880”

Alan Shapiro, professor of English and comparative literature “Night of the Republic”

Shapiro, the UNC William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of English and creative writing and an IAH Fellow (Spring 1999), was

a Faculty Arts Fellow in fall 2009. During his fellowship semester, he worked on Night of the Republic, which will be published in 2011 from Houghton Mifflin/Harcourt. In January, Shapiro treated us to a reading in Gerrard Hall from his forthcoming novel, Broadway Baby. Shapiro’s Old War (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) won the Ambassador Book Award in poetry in 2009, an award that recognizes authors for their outstanding contributions to interpreting the life and culture of the United States for people abroad.

Francesca Talenti, associate professor of communication studies“The Bathysphere”

Talenti teamed with up UNC computer scientist Greg Welch to create a mystical experience of an

underwater opera in Gerrard Hall during the CHAT digital arts and humanities festival, February 16–20. Audience members were treated to an underwater world created by advanced computer technology, clever lighting and set design, and an original musical score. Welch and Talenti used motion-capture technology to infuse a beach ball and fishing rod with the ability to direct the movement of computer-animated fish and an octopus throughout the space.

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Faculty Arts FellowshipsThe Faculty Arts Fellows program, sponsored by the IAH and the Office of the Executive Director for the Arts, is designed to allow a faculty member in an arts or arts-related field to advance his or her own research and to engage in creative endeavors on campus. The Arts Fellowship, in its inaugural year, was supported by a generous gift from Thomas S. Kenan III.

The 2009 – 2010 Faculty Arts Fellows:

We are thrilled to announce that, starting in the 2011–2012 academic year, Chapman Family Faculty Fellowships will become University Teaching Awards administered by the Office of the

Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost. The change raises the profile of the award and further honors our faculty who are committed to undergraduate teaching. As part of Max C. Chapman Jr.’s generous gift that makes this change possible, starting in the 2010–2011 academic year, Chapman Fellows will receive a $10,000 stipend, doubling the previous award amount, in addition to participating in the Institute’s fellowship seminar.

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Allen AndersonAllen Anderson, IAH Fellow (Fall 2000) and associate professor of music, took advantage of the Institute’s CHAT festival to collaborate with his students to compose a piece titled Cicadas in the Trees. The performance fit like a puzzle piece into the CHAT initiative: Not only was it a collaborative project, but the music also was produced live and digitally via several laptops that used sounds recorded from the audience.

Composition is notoriously a solo process, but Anderson had faith that his students could pull it off for the festival. “I thought it would be good for the music students to be involved in some way. I also knew for us to do anything in the CHAT festival the students had to lead the way.”

Anderson’s inspiration for the collaborative model arose from a seminar he attended in fall 2008 at Hyde Hall led by Katherine Hayles, postmodern literary critic and literature professor at Duke University.

“I came away from the lecture with the sense that education could be very much like what happens in a business, where many people, and that includes the students themselves, contribute to working toward a goal,” Anderson said.


“All that writers, scholars and even teachers crave is time. We need time to read, time to write and time to reflect on what we teach and how we teach it. There’s no greater gift we can be given than time itself. I’m now a better writer than I was before this semester, and a better, more informed reader not just in my own discipline of poetry, but in disciplines as wide-ranging as music theory, anthropology, history and varieties of scholarly engagement with non-academic communities. I know I’ ll be a better creative writing teacher for the conversations I’ve had with my colleagues about the challenges and opportunities they face in the classroom.”

— alaN SHapIro, FaCUlTy arTS FelloW (Fall 2009),

DeparTMeNT oF eNglISH aND CoMparaTIve lITeraTUre

Mayron TsongMayron Tsong, associate professor of piano and Steinway Artist in the music department, comes by her musical inclination naturally. Her house was always crowded with pianos, as her father made a living selling them. “I was always around pianos. I have never lived in a house without one,” Tsong said.

Tsong spent her fall 2009 semester as a Faculty Fellow at the IAH, engaging in weekly conversation with peers in the College of Arts and Sciences while she created a recording of Haydn sonatas.

Tsong has built a reputation as a decorated pianist and an outstanding educator. Her proudest achievement to date was an invitation to perform in Carnegie Hall on May 30, 2008, a performance the New York Concert Review called a “truly outstanding recital.”

In 2008, Tsong also released her debut album, Mayron Tsong Plays Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, & Scriabin. In response, Fanfare classical music magazine heralded Tsong as “a genius, pure and simple.”

Featured Fellows 2009–2010

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a c a d e m i c l e a d e r s h i p p r o g r a m

The Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Academic Leadership Program

leadership is one of the prominent buzz words of our time, but what exactly

it means is often unclear. The term has a very precise meaning for the Institute’s academic

leadership program (alp).

It means stepping up in mid-career and taking responsibility for a department or school at

UNC, or spearheading a research initiative in one’s professional community, or developing an

innovative curricular or research program at Carolina.

effective leaders must know how the University works, have a clear vision of what they want

to accomplish and be brutally realistic about their own strengths and weaknesses, as well as

the strengths and weaknesses of those with whom they will be working. Carolina’s faculty

leaders must know what they want to do, articulate how that desired outcome connects to

UNC’s overall mission and understand the resources available to them and how to deploy

those resources.

leadership in this sense is less about specific skills or techniques, more about a sensibility, a

way of approaching problems and of working with others. Can this sensibility be taught? perhaps

not directly. But the alp asks faculty to examine what they want to accomplish in their careers —

and then to sketch out what would be required to be successful. participants take up this task

in collegial conversation with peers who share their own experiences about how you get things

done at Carolina and about what kinds of accomplishments are the most rewarding, both person-

ally and for the greater good. our leadership Fellows learn to think more strategically while also

raising their sights beyond a focus on getting ahead individually.

alp Fellows attend a weeklong workshop at the Center for Creative leadership (CCl) in

greensboro, N.C.; participate in a semester-long seminar run by the IaH that includes two

retreats as well as weekly meetings; and then continue to meet as a cohort in subsequent

years through confidential “forums” that are modeled after the young presidents’ organization.

Kim Strom-gottfried, the Smith p. Theimann Jr. Distinguished professor of Social Work, directs

the alp with the expert assistance of IaH Senior leadership Consultant David Kiel. after 10

years at the IaH, David is moving on from his duties with the alp, but he will continue to work

with our Chairs leadership program (page 7). He will be replaced for this coming year by rob

Kramer, formerly the director of the Center for leadership and organizational excellence at

North Carolina a&T State University in greensboro.

The 2009–2010

ALP FellowsPeggy Bentley, Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public HealthStephanie Davis, Pediatrics, School of MedicineDonald Lysle, Psychology, College of Arts and SciencesDennis Mumby, Communication Studies, College of Arts and SciencesAndrew Perrin, Sociology, College of Arts and SciencesCarol Runyan, UNC Injury Prevention Research CenterRichard Superfine, Physics, College of Arts and SciencesJay Swaminathan, Kenan-Flagler Business SchoolMary Floyd-Wilson, English and Comparative Literature, College of Arts and Sciences

For a personal account of how the

alp changed one participant’s career

and life, visit iah.unc.edu, where

Michele Berger, associate professor

of women’s studies and alp Fellow

(2009), shares her experience.

“This invaluable experience

has provided me with a vibrant

intellectual community, critical tools

and knowledge about academic

leadership, and increased self-

awareness about my core goals. My

implementation of the skills I’ve

learned, my practice of healthier

attitudes toward work and goal

achievement, and use of the tools I

received at CCl have given me the

confidence and equipment to step

into a fresh realization of my talents

as an academic leader.”

— Michele Berger

leadership Fellows gather at Hyde Hall for continued

conversation after their fellowship semesters.

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the institute for the

arts and humanities

changed my life.Before my semester as a leadership Fellow, I had heard of the

IaH, known people who had IaH fellowships of different kinds;

and watched Hyde Hall being built. But I never knew the power

of the place until I began an academic leadership Fellowship in

fall 2005, just as I began chairing the department of dramatic art.

My Fellows class was an amalgamation of the most unlikely

partners one could imagine: biology, drama, psychology,

history, public health, cultural studies and folklore. Some of us

were starting in administration; some had been chairs here or

elsewhere. Some were caught in transition within their units and

some seemed to just want to be left alone.

Throughout the year of reading and lessons, we learned leadership

skills and attitudes from professionals. With the guidance of our

teachers, Jane Brown and David Kiel, we learned to present,

provoke and participate in meaningful discussions that took place

around a well-seasoned conference table, family style, like the

meals we shared.

McKay Coble (leadership Fellow 2006) is the Chair of the Faculty.

every Thursday we discovered more about the possibilities within

(and outside) concepts of leadership. We began to see ourselves

as part of a system that believed and invested in us as leaders.

each of us began to identify or create our style of leadership.

We shared real and theoretical issues and worked through them

together; many of them long term. We learned about each other in

our professional and personal lives. We became friends.

The experience with my Fellows — my classmates, my support

system, my friends — that changed my outlook on leadership and

the true meaning of collegiality is still a big part of my life. every

one of us is presently in a position of key leadership at Carolina.

We continue to meet even now and talk to each other when good

and bad news comes. I know that if I need to confer around our

table or over the wires I have a forum that is willing to listen and

help.

The Institute took eight strangers and invited us to examine

our leadership potential as a group and as individuals. For an

institution to invest in its faculty and administrators is not only

admirable, it also signals extraordinary confidence in the potential

and power of each one of us.

My academic and, in many ways, my personal life has been altered

by the IaH and the fellowship I learned there. Having IaH leaders

as mentors set in a deep tradition of collegiality, and at least seven

people I admire believing in me, I have felt confident and prepared

to offer myself to a broader range of leadership positions.

Having recently been elected to serve the UNC Faculty as its

Chair, I am very clear that the IaH and my time there has been a

big part of the journey.

McKay Coble, Chair of the Faculty

Chair, Dramatic art

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The Chairs Leadership Program

The 2009–2010

CLP ParticipantsJan Bardsley, Asian Studies DepartmentFitz Brundage, Interim Chair, History DepartmentEd Carlstein, Statistics and Operations Research DepartmentArt Champagne, Physics DepartmentDale Hutchinson, Interim Chair, Anthropology DepartmentAnselmo Lastra, Computer Science DepartmentWayne Lee, Peace, War, and Defense CurriculumDave Moreau, Ecology and Environment CurriculumMatt Redinbo, Chemistry DepartmentAndrew Reynolds, Global Studies CurriculumTerry Rhodes, Music Department

ably headed by Bill Balthrop of communi-

cation studies, assisted by IaH Senior leadership Consultant

David Kiel, the Chairs leadership program (Clp) concluded its

third year in 2009–2010.

Featured in a University Gazette article on May 12, 2010, the Clp

won accolades from the participating chairs and Senior associate

Dean for the arts and Humanities Bill andrews. especially

important for andrews is the way that the program responds

to the increasing complexity of the chair’s position, which now

includes alumni and donor relationships along with personnel and

curricular matters.

The Clp, like all IaH programs, is collegially organized, with the

topics for consideration generated by the group and an emphasis

on sharing experiences and solutions. Jan Bardsley, the new chair

of asian studies, appreciated “the open-ended discussions” that

helped her examine specific problems she was facing from a “big-

picture perspective.” The “learning curve for new chairs is very

steep,” she said, but she found that the Clp helped tremendously

by giving her a place to go to get advice and concrete information.

originally established as a collaborative program between the

IaH and the Dean’s office in the College of arts and Sciences, the

Clp serves academic chairs campus-wide. Starting in 2010, the

Center for Faculty excellence (CFe), represented by David in his

new role as leadership Coordinator of the CFe, will work with the

IaH and the College on this program.

Bill Balthrop (left) heads the Clp and

will serve as the IaH interim director

in 2010–2011. alan Neely Sr. (right) is

a member of the Institute’s leadership

advisory Board.

patricia parker (IaH Fellow Fall 2002, Kaufman Fellow Fall

2007), associate professor of communication studies, is a

member of the Institute’s leadership advisory Board.

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a w a r d s & h o n o r s

every year our Faculty Fellows and leadership Fellows garner an extraordinary

number of honors, awards and funding from the University and from national and international

institutions. This year, we began to compile a database of our Fellows’ great accomplishments.

Here, we’re publishing our first round of results. We are extremely proud of these accomplishments

and apologize that some might not have made these pages. We will continue to collect and share our

Fellows’ accolades in future publications. In the meantime, enjoy this first sampling of an impressive

array of awards and honors by IaH Fellows.

Patrick Akos, School of Education / Leadership Fellow 2009Honored with the Robert O. Stripling Award for Excellence in Standards for his work with the Standards Revision Committee of the national Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs.

Sahar Amer, Department of Asian Studies / Faculty Fellow Spring 2003Awarded the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies by the Modern Language Association for Crossing Borders: Love between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).

Dorit Bar-On, Department of Philosophy /Faculty Fellow Spring 1991, Spring 1995 (Chapman Fellow), Fall 1999, Spring 2006 (Chapman Fellow), and 2010-11 (Duke Exchange Fellow)Awarded a fellowship from the National Humanities Center and a three-year Collaborative Research Grant for the project “Expressive Communication and the Origins of Meaning” from the National Science Foundation.

Margaret Bentley, Gillings School of Global Public Health / Leadership Fellow 2010Serving as the primary investigator on “MaMI” (Malawi Mothers and Infants), funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation at $2.2 million for three years, and chair of the Triangle Global Health Consortium.

Carole Blair, Department of Communication Studies /Faculty Fellow Spring 2009Elected as a National Communication Association Distinguished Scholar, the highest research award given by the NCA.

Judith Blau, Department of Sociology / Faculty Fellow Spring 1992 and Spring 1994Secured funding for the Human Rights Center from the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation, Strowd Roses Foundation and Town of Carrboro; appointed to the Executive Committee of the Human Rights Coalition of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and elected chair of the Human Rights Section of the American Sociological Association.

Evan Bonds, Department of Music /Faculty Fellow Spring 1999 (Chapman Fellow)Honored with the W.N. Reynolds Research Fellowship from the University and awarded an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship.

Michael Corrado, School of Law, Department of Philosophy / Faculty Fellow Spring 2002 (School of Law Fellow)Awarded the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Law at the University of Trento (Italy) for spring 2011.

Jane Danielewicz, Department of English and Comparative Literature /Faculty Fellow Spring 1998 and Spring 2006 (Chapman Fellow)Leadership Fellow 2008Honored as the Richard Grant Hiskey Distinguished Term Professor of Research and Undergraduate Teaching.

Bob Duronio, Department of Biology / Leadership Fellow 2009Serving as the principal investigator on a National Institutes of Health T32 Genetics Training Grant, a $1.6 million, five-year award that provides 12 months of stipend, tuition and health care support for eight doctoral students per year in the Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Carl Ernst, Department of Religious Studies / Faculty Fellow Spring 2001, Leadership Fellow 2009Inducted in fall 2009 into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Mass., and received a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for the 2010 calendar year. (Photo: Dan Sears)

Michael Gerhardt, School of Law / Faculty Fellow Fall 2009 (School of Law Fellow)Awarded the Van Hecke-Wettach Book Award, a prize given every other year at the UNC Law School for a book of national significance published by a faculty member, for The Power of Precedent (Oxford University Press, 2008).

Marianne Gingher, Department of English and Comparative Literature / Faculty Fellow Fall 2000 (Chapman Fellow) and Spring 2008 (Chapman Fellow)Awarded a Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professorship.

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Allen Glazner, Department of Geological Sciences / Faculty Fellow Fall 2007 (Chapman Fellow)Named the Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences.

Beth Grabowski, Department of Art / Faculty Fellow Summer 1988, Spring 1994 and Fall 2003 (Chapman Fellow)Leadership Fellow 2008 Received funding from the Vice Chancellor of Research and Economic Development for support for Creativity in the Fine Arts.

Thomas Hill, Department of Philosophy / Faculty Fellow Summer 1991, Spring 1997 and Spring 2005Honored by the University with the Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction for his work with graduate students.

Jim Hirschfield, Department of Art / Faculty Fellow Summer 1990, Spring 1993 and Fall 2001Public Art Commissions for LeBonheur Children’s Medical Center in Memphis, Tenn.; International Pain Center at Texas Tech University; and Union High School Courtyard in Vancouver, Wash.

Evelyne Huber, Department of Political Science / Leadership Fellow 2007Awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, as well as a Residential Fellowship from the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin, Italy.

Hap Kindem, Department of Communication Studies / Faculty Fellow Fall 1994, Spring 2004 and Spring 2010 (Arts Fellow)Fox Soccer Channel nationally aired his documentary about the UNC women’s soccer team, Winning Isn’t Everything, in September 2009, and Worldwide Film Entertainment in Los Angeles is preparing for

international distribution of the documentary to coincide with the women’s soccer world cup in 2011. Also received a Norwegian Marshall Fund Grant for the production of a documentary about a blind Danish Paralympic biathlon champion.

Michael Lienesch, Department of Political Science / Faculty Fellow Spring 1990, Spring 1997, Fall 2001 and Fall 2010Received the University Professor of Distinguished Teaching Award, which recognizes career-long excellence in teaching, from UNC.

Donald T. Lysle, Department of Psychology / Leadership Fellow 2010Awarded an NIH grant for “Neural Mechanisms of Heroin-induced Conditioned Immunomodulation.”

Michael McFee, Department of English and Comparative Literature /Faculty Fellow Fall 1995 (Chapman Fellow) and Spring 2008Honored with the Carolina Women’s Leadership Council Faculty Mentoring Award.

Laurie McNeil, Department of Physics and Astronomy / Faculty Fellow Fall 2004 (Chapman Fellow), Leadership Fellow 2003Awarded a 2010 University Award for the Advancement of Women by the University. (Photo: Dan Sears)

Louise McReynolds, Department of History / Faculty Fellow Spring 2009Received a Senior Research Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.

Ruth Moose, Department of English and Comparative Literature / Faculty Fellow Fall 2008 (Chapman Fellow)Honored by the North Carolina Writers Association for her contributions to literature in North Carolina and appeared on North Carolina People with Dr. William Friday. (Photo: Chris Carmichael)

Christopher Nelson, Department of Anthropology / Faculty Fellow Fall 2006Received a Fulbright Faculty Research Fellowship to Japan for 2010-2011 and a Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars to the National Humanities Center for 2012-2013.

Mary Palmer, School of Nursing / Leadership Fellow 2009Awarded the 2010 School of Nursing Global Health Travel Award to serve as a visiting scholar at Flinders University in South Australia; serving as a fellow of the American Geriatrics Society, which also presented her an award for Outstanding Service, Public Education Committee; serving as co-chair of the program committee for the Gerontological Society of America; and working on four grant- funded projects.

Theda Perdue, Department of History / Faculty Fellow Fall 2000Selected as president-elect of the Southern Historical Association and serving as a member of the executive board of the Organization of American Historians.

Andrew J. Perrin, Department of Sociology / Faculty Fellow Fall 2007Leadership Fellow 2010Honored with the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement.

Gerald Postema, School of Law, Department of Philosophy / Faculty Fellow Fall 2000Served as a fellow in the law department at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and served as the visiting fellow of law faculty at the University of Athens in Greece.

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C.D.C. Reeve, Department of Philosophy / Faculty Fellow Spring 2010Awarded the W.N. Reynolds Research Leave from the University for fall 2009.

Steve Reznick, Department of Psychology / Leadership Fellow 2009Honored with the C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Award.

Steven Rosefielde, Department of Economics / Faculty Fellow Fall 2000 and Spring 2007Received a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Policy for two symposia this fall in Japan tied to the publication of two books.

Marc Schachter, Duke University, Department of Romance Studies /Faculty Fellow Spring 2009 (Duke Exchange Fellow)Served as the Francesco De Dombrowski Fellow at the Villa I Tatti for The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy, and awarded a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.

Mary Sheriff, Department of Art / Faculty Fellow Spring 2002Awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.

Sarah Shields, Department of History / Faculty Fellow Spring 1996 and Spring 2001 (Chapman Fellow) Leadership Fellow 2003Honored with a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies to commence fall 2010 and awarded a Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professorship.

Bland Simpson, Department of English and Comparative Literature /Faculty Fellow Fall 1998 (Chapman Fellow) and Fall 2006 (Chapman Fellow)Received the R. Hunt Parker Memorial Award for Significant Contributions to the Literature of North Carolina, awarded by the North Carolina Literary & Historical Association, and the North Caroliniana Society Award for Extraordinary Contributions to the Cultural, Historical, Literary and Musical Life of North Carolina.

elin o’Hara slavick, Department of Art / Faculty Fellow Fall 1995 and Fall 2002Served as the artist-in-residence at URDLA, an international center for books and printmaking, in Lyon, France from January to June, creating a series of etchings inspired by the French Resistance during World War II. A set of the prints has been acquired by the National Library of France in Paris.

Jay M. Swaminathan, Kenan-Flagler Business School / Leadership Fellow 2010Principal Investigator on a four-year Department of Education grant valued at $1.51 million for the UNC Center for International Business Education and Research.

Silvia Tomaskova, Department of Anthropology / Faculty Fellow Fall 2004Awarded a 2010–2011 Andrew Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship valued at $221,000.

Joseph Viscomi, Department of English and Comparative Literature / Faculty Fellow Fall 1998 and Spring 2001Awarded a three-year NEH grant valued at $230,000 for the William Blake Archive Phase IV.

Julia T. Wood, Department of Communication Studies / Faculty Fellow Fall 2000 (Chapman Fellow), Leadership Fellow 2002Named the inaugural Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Distinguished Professor of Graduate Education. (Photo: Chris Carmichael)

Nadia Yaqub, Department of Asian Studies / Faculty Fellow Spring 2004 Honored with a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.

Sheryl Zimmerman, School of Social Work / Leadership Fellow 2007Named Kenan-Flagler Bingham Distinguished Professor and awarded funding for three grants on long-term care and preparing for end of life in nursing homes valued at nearly $1.6 million.

visit iah.unc.edu/ programs to learn about our fellowship, leadership and grants programs

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while planning for our digital arts and humanities festival, CHaT (see pages

14–17), took up much of our time this year, we still maintained a robust schedule of speakers and events.

Some highlights from this year were:

Tobias Wolff, fiction writer and memoirist (A Boy’s Life), spoke to a packed house in Hyde Hall’s University Room in September.

Sir Christopher Meyer, British ambassador to the United States from 1997 to 2003, talked about the run-up to the Iraq War in 2002–2003 in November.

Bill T. Jones, choreographer and dancer, a winner of a MacArthur “genius” grant, participated in a lively discussion about minimalism and the expression of emotion through dance on the afternoon of January 15, just prior to his dance company’s Memorial Hall evening performance of his recent work on

Abraham Lincoln, Fondly Do We Hope… Fervently Do We Pray. The talk was co-sponsored by the Office of the Executive Director of the Arts.

Talal Asad, distinguished professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, visited for two days in February. Asad presented a formal lecture on “The Origins of Human Rights,” met for an informal lunch with students and faculty connected with the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations, and participated in a colloquium about the American presence in Afghanistan.

Steven Shapin, Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, visited UNC and Duke in April in an appearance jointly sponsored by the IAH and Duke University’s Franklin Humanities Institute. Shapin presided over a lunch conversation in Hyde Hall that focused on a series of essays he has written on the history of taste, then gave a formal public lecture over at Duke in the evening on the history of the phrase “the ivory tower.”

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visit iah.unc.edu/calendar to view our upcoming events and join the conversation.

For this spring’s 16th Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies, distinguished historian Catherine Hall explored the role of storytelling in national histories — the stories the British tell about themselves — through the work and biography of famed British 19th century national historian Thomas Babington Macaulay.

UNC Classics Professor Kenneth J. Reckford established the lecture series in 1990 to honor his wife, Mary Stevens Reckford. The lecture is designed to appeal to educated lay people rather than specialists. Speakers are asked to provide “pleasure, instruction, an interdisciplinary approach and a sense of shared humanity.”

Hall, professor of modern British social and cultural history at University College London, delivered the lecture, “The Shadow of Empire: Re-Writing British History for the

21st Century,” to about 150 people in Gerrard Hall on March 25.

Hall explored Macaulay’s legacy of glorify-ing the history of the British isle and margin-alizing the people and history of its colonies. She ultimately argued that the British should reflect honestly on the stories they have told about their own history and reshape them to

include the multiculturalism of the nation created by those who have immigrated to the nation, particularly from British colonies.

“It is so clearly the case in the world today that despite globalization, nation remains an absolutely essential key to identity formation,” Hall argued. “People want to have a sense of national identity and the protections associated with it. Being outside of nation is a deeply uncomfortable place to be because of the privileges afforded by being part of a nation.”

Following the lecture, Hall led workshops themed on “Gender and Empire” as part of the UNC Workshop Series “Gender, Politics and Culture in Europe and Beyond.” The workshop organizers were IAH Fellow Karen Hagemann of the

history department (Fall 2008), Chad Bryant (history), Emily Burrill (women’s studies) and the Graduate Working Group on Gender History. Our special thanks to Karen for her efforts toward making the lecture and workshops so successful.

Hall (left) participated in a workshop themed on “gender and empire”

with workshop organizer and IaH Fellow Karen Hagemann (above,

right). photos: gary Kurtz

Mary reckford, a graduate of lesley College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, took graduate courses at UNC through the evening College for five years, studying such topics as renaissance intellectual history, St. augustine, Dante, sixteenth-century english literature, arthurian literature, the Mediterranean world in the sixteenth century, and the history of science from the late medieval period through the eighteenth century.

She was mother to rachel, Joseph, Sarah, Jonathan and Sam.

To view a list of previous reckford lecturers, visit iah.unc.edu/programs/community-programs/lectures/reckford.

The 16th Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies

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Incubator Projects

the iah incubator, dedicated to the memory of UNC Chancellor Michael

Hooker, represents the Institute’s ongoing support of innovative, interdisciplinary and collaborative

work in the arts and humanities. The faculty and students engaged in incubator projects are developing

new curricular offerings, exploring different ways of connecting academic work to various publics, and

pursuing research agendas that cross fields and schools.

Faculty Working GroupsUsing resources provided by the Schwab Opportunity Fund and our Friends’ fund (gifts received through our annual appeal), the IAH currently supports 10 faculty-initiated collaborative working groups:

• Carolina Critical Speakers: Bringing cutting-edge scholars to campus for lectures and informal discussions with faculty and graduate students (Richard Langston, German)

• The Center for the Integration of Research and Action: Creating examples and models of engaged scholarship (Dorothy Holland, Anthropology)

• Contemporary Studies: Building a cross-disciplinary community of UNC scholars who study “the contemporary” in all its forms (Cary Levine, Art and Art History)

• Facing Our Neighbors: Students and faculty working with an African-American community in Chapel Hill to develop a public history site (Della Pollock, Communication Studies)

• Latino/a Studies: Developing courses and bringing speakers to campus relevant to the experience of Latinos and Latinas in the Americas (Maria Deguzman, English and Comparative Literature)

SalonsIn November 2009, the IAH continued it series of salons with an evening at John and Cyndy O’Hara’s home in Chapel Hill. The salons bring together IAH Fellows and members of the local community to discuss a topic of common interest. Our November salon considered the transformations wrought by technology — and included some eye-opening reports from two high school teachers about the ways the Internet is changing education and shaping the ways that young people access and understand information.

Retreat at CherokeeChancellor Holden Thorp has appointed a distinguished group of alumni to consider how to make Carolina a world leader in innovative research and education. Working with Barbara Hyde and Julia Sprunt Grumbles, both IAH Advisory Board members who are also members of the Chancellor’s Innovation Circle, the IAH hosted a series of conversations to specify what innovation in the arts and humanities means and to craft a list of concrete ways to foster such innovation at UNC.

Particularly useful was a three-day retreat with eight faculty members and IAH Advisory Board members John O’Hara and Julia Sprunt Grumbles that developed a position paper on these issues. Our retreat was made possible by the generosity of IAH donor Max C. Chapman Jr., who provided us access to his property in South Carolina.

• Medical Humanities: Developing a new curricular program that combines courses in the College of Arts and Sciences with courses in the School of Medicine (Laurie Langbauer, English and Comparative Literature)

• Moral Economies of Medicine: Exploring the ways that different societies organize and conceptualize health care (Michelle Rivkin-Fish, Anthropology)

• The Process Series: A performing arts series featuring works-in-progress that provides audience feedback to the creating artists (Joseph Megel, Communication Studies)

• Public Film Series: Showing films in the Varsity Theater on Franklin Street for students and the general public with a guided discussion after the show (Shayne Legassie, English and Comparative Literature)

• Transoceanic 18th- and 19th-Century Studies: Studying the movement of people, goods and ideas across national boundaries from 1700–1900 (Karen Hagemann, History)

above: The IaH used a retreat at Cherokee plantation to develop a

position paper on innovation in the arts and humanities.

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CHAT (Collaborations: Humanities, Arts & Technology)

the iah spent most of the academic year considering

how new technologies are transforming arts and humanities

disciplines, an inquiry that arose out of conversations among

faculty here at the Institute. our exploration of this initiative

culminated in a campus-wide, regional festival held February

16–20, 2010, called CHaT (Collaborations: Humanities, arts &

Technology).

CHAT explored pressing issues of our digital age such as intellectual property, knowledge creation and dissemination, artistic production and technology in the classroom through:

• Lectures• Panel discussions• Faculty and student project exhibitions• Performances• Hands-on workshops

Through this initiative, we encouraged faculty to push the boundaries of how they teach and do research. The IAH supported faculty projects that were collaborative and engaged with new technologies as subject matter or as media. The more than 60 partnerships we forged across campus and regionally continue to feed this ongoing initiative.

collaboration For the past year and half the Institute has supported several projects of arts and humanities faculty interested in exploring new ways of engaging with digital media. Some of these projects debuted during CHAT; some are ongoing. In each case the Institute facilitated faculty collaboration with computer scientists and technologists to explore digital media and to use cutting-edge technologies to engage in new ways with traditional arts and humanities subject matter.

Collaboration with StudentsIn some of our most exciting projects, faculty and students teamed up on digital arts and humanities projects or, in the case of our K–12 teaching clinics, addressed issues of pedagogy and technology.

N.C. State graduate student Melissa Church, right, took the

lead on a project supervised by N.C. State faculty member

patrick Fitzgerald. Here, Church shows art history faculty

member John Bowles her project, “Then/Now: 3-D virtual

Space as Temporal Telescope”, which created a virtual

cityscape of Downtown raleigh.

The UNC School of education took the lead in coordinating workshops

for K–12 teachers from across the region. Faculty and graduate

students in education from UNC and N.C. State shared the latest

research and tools for educating young students and held lunchtime

“translational sessions” to discuss with school teachers how to apply

what they experienced at CHaT in their own classrooms.

IaH arts Fellow and filmmaker Francesca Talenti and computer

scientist greg Welch decided to merge their talents to create an art

installation using motion-capture technology. aided by 11 graduate

and undergraduate students from Carolina and N.C. State, they

crafted “The Bathysphere: Motion Capture as art”, an underwater

environment in gerrard Hall (pictured above).

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Collaboration with IndustryThrough CHAT, we partnered with the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), an advanced technology lab engaged with seven regional academic campuses including UNC, Duke University and North Carolina State University; with several of the technology companies in the Research Triangle Park, including Icarus Studios, Insomniac Games, Curious Sense, Red Storm, Virtual Heroes, Zenph Sound Innovations, Triangle Game Initiative, Cisco and IBM; and with technology support units at Carolina.

Collaboration Across CampusAlthough the IAH sponsored and organized CHAT, more than 30 groups on campus contributed to or participated in making the festival, which drew more than 500 participants, such a success.

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Wilson library was one of 17 venues across campus that hosted CHaT

festival activities. The pleasants Family assembly room featured

faculty projects, many of which arose from working group meetings

the IaH hosted in summer 2008. Here, Senior associate Dean for Fine

arts & Humanities Bill andrews (center) explores an Internet archive

of african-american performance art created by John Bowles (right),

associate professor of art history, and his graduate seminar while

Natasha Smith (left) of the Carolina Digital library looks on.

More than 15 local technology companies participated in CHaT.

With more than 30 gaming companies located in the rTp, it was

natural that games would feature in many of our conversations. on

this “games and Storytelling” panel, vicious Cycle game designer

David ellis (left) and Insomniac games writers Todd Fixman and Jon

paquette discussed gaming as an emerging narrative genre.

our special thanks go to the music department and, in particular,

faculty members Mark Katz and Stephen anderson, who coordinated

the digital-music themed Festival on the Hill to coincide with CHaT.

one of many outstanding events was a musical collaboration

between Charanga Carolina, a UNC student ensemble that plays

Cuban and salsa music, and composer raúl yañez and turntablist DJ

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Joseph Megel, communication studies faculty, partnered with a local

gaming company, Icarus Studios of Cary, N.C., to create his “virtual

performance Factory”. This live and virtual simulation of a video game

invited audience members to explore notions of identity and reality,

confronting participants with questions about how they participate in

the virtual world and how that informs who they really are.

above: robbie Bach, UNC alum and former Microsoft executive, presented the

opening keynote of the festival, sharing his view of the future of entertainment.

right: Cultural anthropologist Mike Wesch of Kansas State University explored

new meanings of knowledge in his keynote address.

Zenph Sound Innovations is a Triangle-based software company

that has developed the technology to “re-perform” recordings of

music. By transforming sound waves into data that are then fed into

a computer hooked up to an instrument, such as a piano, we can

experience nuanced, live “re-performances” of recordings from such

greats as rachmaninoff. During the panel conversation “Capturing

performance vs. Capturing Sound,” Mayron Tsong (left), an associate

professor of music and IaH Fellow (fall 2009), chatted with Zenph

Chairman and Founder John Q. Walker, a Carolina alumnus.

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author Steven Hockensmith

(right) and publisher Jason

rekulak discussed the

cultural phenomenon of

literary mash-up, including

Hockensmith’s prequel to

the novel Pride and Prejudice

and Zombies.

International game theorist

Jesper Juul explored the use

of gaming in the humanities.

As an IAH associate director and the domain scientist for the arts and humanities at RENCI, Joyce Rudinsky is leading a task force of colleagues from UNC, Duke and N.C. State as well as industry leaders from the RTP to develop a detailed plan to create an inter-university consortium called Intermedia: Program in Digital Innovation.

Intermedia is a research lab for faculty, students and technologists to collaborate. The program will support both physical and virtual workspaces to develop technology-enabled research and practice, as well as create entrepreneurial opportunities between researchers and local industry. Intermedia will also support post-doctoral, graduate and undergraduate study.

Truly innovative and productive research in the 21st century requires multidisciplinary collaboration, and the Intermedia Lab will break down the barriers that often inhibit such research. Students will gain hands-on experiences that will help them succeed when they enter the workforce, where the ability to work in multi-faceted teams is essential. Students, faculty and post-docs will have opportunities to interact with digital media and gaming communities in the RTP, which will pave the way for academic innovation to quickly impact the business community and help students build ties to potential future employers.

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b o a r d s & s t a f f

Institute Advisory Board 2009–2010steven p. aldrichCeo, posit ScienceSan Francisco, Calif.

victoria tucker bordenrepresentative, portraits Southgreensboro, N.C.

Kristin l. breussTheology Student, St. paul’s Theological Centerlondon, england

dr. j. mcneely dubosepresident, Meadowmont FarmsDurham, N.C.

julia sprunt grumblesCorporate vice president (retired), Turner BroadcastingChapel Hill, N.C.

robert hackneySenior vice president, arnhold & S. Bleichroeder advisers, llCNew york, N.y.

jennifer lloyd halseyFounder/Managing Director, asante partners, llCMenlo park, Calif.

barbara rosser hydepresident, Hyde Family FoundationsMemphis, Tenn.

g. allen ives iii president, Turnpike properties, Inc.rocky Mount, N.C.

thomas s. Kenan iiiTrustee, William r. Kenan Jr. Charitable TrustChapel Hill, N.C.

michael d. Kennedy partner, Korn Ferry Internationalatlanta, ga.

charles craft lucas iiipartner, The Mcaulay FirmCharlotte, N.C.

peter c. moisterCorbin Investment Holdings, llCatlanta, ga.

john c. o’hara jr.Chair, IaH advisory BoardChapel Hill, N.C.

richard j. richardsonprofessor emeritus and Former provost, UNC-Chapel Hillpittsboro, N.C.

nelson schwab iii Chairman, Carousel CapitalCharlotte, N.C.

professor ruel w. tyson Founding Director, Institute for the arts and Humanitiesprofessor, Department of religious StudiesChapel Hill, N.C.

john f. whitepresident, JFW propertiesraleigh, N.C.

nancy hanes whiteCommunity volunteerraleigh, N.C.

caroline c. williamsonCommunity volunteerNew york, N.y.

robert w. winston iiiCeo and co-founder, Winston Hospitalityraleigh, N.C.

carol payne youngrealtor, Harry Norman realtorsatlanta, ga.

Faculty Advisory Board 2009–2010Carole BlairDepartment of Communication Studies

Jane BurnsDepartment of Women’s Studies

Eric DowningDepartment of english and

Comparative literature, german

Marianne GingherDepartment of english and Comparative literature

Randall HendrickDepartment of linguistics

Jerma JacksonDepartment of History

Andrew PerrinDepartment of Sociology

Keith SimmonsDepartment of philosophy

Randall StyersDepartment of religious Studies

Julia T. Wood, ChairDepartment of Communication Studies

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Leadership Advisory Board 2009–2010gail agrawalDean, School of law University of Kansas

gerald d. bell, ph.d.Founder and Ceo, Bell leadership Institute

chris boganpresident and Ceo, Best practices, llC

jane brownprofessor, UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication

sanford a. cockrell iiipartner, Deloitte & Touche, llp

william c. fridaypresident emeritus, University of North Carolina

barbara rosser hydepresident, Hyde Family Foundations

richard h. Kohnprofessor, UNC Department of History and peace, War, and Defense

alan neely sr.Senior Client partner and global leader of Communications (retired), Korn Ferry International

patricia parkerassociate professor, Department of Communication Studies, and Founder, The ella Baker Women’s Center for leadership and Community activism

john r. ryanpresident, Center for Creative leadership

Staff 2009–2010john mcgowanDirector, The ruel W. Tyson Jr. Distinguished professor of HumanitiesDepartment of english and Comparative literature

megan grandaexecutive Directoradjunct Faculty, Department of art

fellowship programs julia t. woodassociate Director, Faculty Fellows programlineberger Distinguished professor of Humanities, Communication Studies

martha s. marksprogram Coordinator, Faculty Fellows program

development mary f. flanaganDirector of Development

Kimberley c. morrisDevelopment assistant

academic leadership programs Kim strom-gottfriedassociate Director, academic leadership programSmith p. Theimann Jr. Distinguished professor of ethics and professional practice, School of Social Work bill balthropassociate Director, Chairs leadership programprofessor, Communication Studies

david KielSenior Consultant, leadership programs

jeanine simmonsprogram Coordinator, academic leadership programevents and Facilities Coordinator

digital arts and humanities initiativejoyce rudinskyassociate Director, Digital arts and Humanitiesassociate professor, Communication Studies

special initiativesjames moeserSenior Fellow for Special InitiativesChancellor emeritus and professor, Music

administration Kirsten beattiepublic Communications Specialist

christopher meineckeBusiness Manager

jean chandlerBusiness assistant

graduate studentsjanel beckhamprogram assistant, grants Mentoring program

lauren garrettprogram assistant, Chairs leadership program

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h o n o r r o l l o f d o n o r s

the 2010 honor roll recognizes

donors who gave to the Institute for the Arts and Humanities

between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010.

The Institute for the Arts and Humanities gratefully thanks those

who generously supported our faculty and programs in fiscal

year 2009-2010. Private gifts from alumni and Friends of the

Institute for the Arts and Humanities have a profound effect on

the lives of Carolina faculty, which in turn enriches the lives of

students and strengthens teaching and research at Carolina.

Help us extend the benefits to more faculty members at UNC

by making a contribution to the Institute or becoming a Friend

of the Institute.

For information or to report an error in this list, please contact

Mary Flanagan at (919) 962-2528.

Steven and Allison AldrichLex and Ann AlexanderPete AndrewsWilliam Joseph Austin Jr.Wayne A. BabbCarolyn Ann BachlAnn Fairfax BakerPhyllis Campbell Barrett*Katherine Vansant BatesDeborah Elizabeth BenderRobert H. and Carol BilbroStephen BirdsallTessa Ellen BlakeJennifer Willis BockEdwin Brownrigg Borden Jr.Robert Hanes and Victoria Tucker BordenJane D. BrownChristopher BrowningFrances Haywood BullockJason Shade BurgessKristin Breuss and Geoff BurgessJane BurnsKathryn J. BurnsMr. and Mrs. John Woodfin Burress IIITom CampanellaBrooks CareyNicole Kristin CarterBeverly Long and Hugh ChapinKatherine Mason ChapmanMax C. Chapman Jr.Sanford A. Cockrell IIIMr. and Mrs. Donald E. CollinsJames Robert Cox Jr.Sarah Elizabeth CrumleyRonald Nelson CummingsJohn Morgan Darden IIIRebecca and Cress DarwinJames Lee and Jean L. DavisStacie Rebecca DavisMr. and Mrs. Roddey Dowd Sr.

J. McNeely DuBoseLee and Tharon DunnH. Shelton and Jo Anne EarpConnie EbleJohn Gray Blount Ellison Jr.Ann Adams EllisonWilliam Wright EspySteven and Nora EsthimerRay Simpson and Cydne Wright FarrisBill FerrisPeter G. FileneLucinda S. FinkMary Floyd-WilsonJohn T. FrancisDiane FrazierMs. Pamela Joyner FreemanMr. and Mrs. William C. FridayPatricia Helena Fuentes LimaManuel GarciaJames S. Gilliland Jr.Allen F. GlaznerBuck and Kay GoldsteinWilliam A. and Barbara S. GrahamMegan GrandaH. Lee GriffinJulia Sprunt GrumblesHerbert Nelson HackneyRobert Hackney and Shauna Holiman Jacquelyn D. HallFrank Borden Hanes Jr.John J. HanesAnna Ragland HayesHannah Frances HecknerMiriam Leslie HermanJonathan M. HessJames N. HirschfieldFred Colby Hobson Jr.William Edwin Hollan Jr.Dorothy C. HollandElizabeth Myatt HolstenW. Slocum Howland Jr.

Barbara and Pitt HydeJames and Margaret HynesAllen IvesJordynn JackGary Chase JohnsonGeorge and Janet JohnsonBert and Ellen KaplanBetty KenanThomas S. Kenan IIIHarvey and Marsha KoenigLynne and Dick KohnLloyd S. KramerH.R. KurrieDavid Elliott LabellDana Borden LacyMartin Leon LagodKenneth Burdette LeeDiane R. LeonardMemrie Mosier LewisMichael LieneschDr. Walker Anderson LongDr. Perry Downington LuckettElizabeth Trescot MacIntyreDouglas E. MacleanGerald Michael Malmo IIIVivian Dixon ManekinHope ManvilleKnox Massey Jr.Steven W. MatsonCarol Perry MayberryMr. and Mrs. William O. McCoyLane Morris McDonaldMorris McDonald Jr.Frank Samuel McGaughey IIIJohn P. McGowanTimothy John McMillanSallie Armfield McMillionJames Allen MedfordChristopher MeineckeSusan Anne MeiselSiegfried Mews

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Chancellor James and Susan MoeserPeter Corbin MoisterRuth M. MooseMary Nunn MorrowAlan and Butchie Neely Severine NeffPhilip Francis NelsonDonald M. NoniniMr. and Mrs. H. Patrick OglesbyJohn and Cynthia O’HaraDavid and Rebecca Pardue Patricia ParkerTodd and Yvonne PattonJames L. PeacockKrista PerreiraAndrew PerrinHeidi Perov and C. David Perry Jr.William Aaron PizerAnne PowellPatricia PukkilaAlfred L. Purrington IIIBill RaceWilliam Goodyear RandKenneth J. ReckfordDr. Charlene Bessie RegesterMichael D. ResnikTerry Ellen RhodesRichard J. RichardsonThomas Cleveland Ricketts IIIBarbara K. RimerDavid L. RobertJennifer Ayer SandellBetsy Ivey SawyerChristopher Glenn SawyerJ. Henry and Augusta ScattergoodLars SchoultzMarjorie Moses SchwabDhruva R. Sen

John Anderson SherrillAlfred Emory Smith Jr.Donna Marie SorgiMary Owen SotileSteven James SquiresVin SteponaitisKevin and Carolyn StewartMary Lass StewartW. Gene StoryKim Strom-GottfriedTorrey Green StroudRandall StyersMichael and Lynne S. TannerBeverly W. TaylorJohn A. and Peggy TaylorMonet Uzzell ThomsonEvelyn and John L. TurnerDavid Erich TysonRuel W. TysonSusan Burress WallLucy WallaceJames Creekmore Wann Jr.John WarasilaKay and Van WeatherspoonJohn Robbins and Campbell Lucas WesterNancy and Monty WhiteThomas Leonard and Julia E. White James G. WhittonIan Richard WilliamsRobert and Caroline WilliamsonCharles T. and Jean Jones WilsonGlenn and Helen WilsonRobert and Tracy WinstonErica H. WiseJulia T. WoodCecil W. WootenJames C. Yoder

Carol and Blake YoungDr. Gang YueDenise Zack

FoundationsChapman Family Charitable TrustChapman Family FundCommunity Foundation of Greater MemphisCommunity Foundation of Western N.C., Inc.Dowd Foundation, Inc.Ellison Family FoundationFidelity Charitable Gift FundFoundation for the CarolinasGeorge H. Johnson Family Charitable Lead TrustHyde Family FoundationsJewish Foundation of Durham & Chapel HillJulia Sprunt Grumbles Charitable Lead Annuity TrustRenaissance Charitable FoundationResearch Triangle FoundationRobert & Tracy Winston Foundation, Inc.Schwab Fund for Charitable GivingSpray Foundation, Inc.Triangle Community FoundationVanderwoude Family FundVanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramW. Trent Ragland Jr. FoundationWinston-Salem Foundation

Italics denote members of the UNC Faculty*Deceased

To consult the happiness of a rising generation, and endeavour to fit them for an honourable discharge of the social duties of life, by paying strictest attention to their education

— University Charter, 11 December 1789

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The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust was established in 1965 through the bequest of William R. Kenan, Jr., a gifted scientist and

engineer, an astute and resourceful business executive, an inventive dairy farmer, and a generous philanthropist with a deep and

abiding commitment to education. The Kenan Charitable Trust supports educational institutions and programs across the United

States, with particular emphasis in New York, North Carolina, Virginia, and Florida. Aiming to support high-quality education in the

U.S. as well as improve access to high-quality education for students regardless of socio-economic background, the Trust serves

its mission through investment in proven intervention models such as endowed professorships (130 chairs at 56 top colleges and

universities in the U.S.), merit-based fellowship and scholarship programs (including the Kenan Music Scholars at UNC), and a

variety of enrichment programs.

The Trustees and Executive Director of the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust are: Thomas S. Kenan III, Trustee; Mary Lily Flagler

Wiley (died, June 2010), Trustee; Mary G. Campbell and Robert P. Baynard, representatives of Corporate Trustee, JPMorgan Chase

Bank; and Richard M. Krasno, Executive Director.

The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust has been particularly generous to the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. Responding to UNC’s efforts to retain our best faculty when other universities try to hire them away, the Trust provided a $500,000 challenge grant to establish the Kenan Retention Fund at the Institute. After securing an additional $500,000 from IAH donors, this $1 million endowment enables the College of Arts and Sciences to proactively reward faculty who have been IAH Fellows and who have made significant contributions to their scholarly discipline or to the academic life at UNC. More than 15 faculty, several of whom have received outside offers, have benefitted from Kenan Retention funds since the program came online in 2007.

The Kenan Charitable Trust, through a grant of $70,000, also has funded major intellectual initiatives at the IAH over the past three years. This fund enabled the visit of Paul Gilroy, a world-renowned scholar on global migration, in January 2008 and the conference around his work; underwrote a series of lectures and workshops exploring “memory studies” in 2008–2009; and provided the seed money for the CHAT Festival of February 2010 discussed on pages 14–17. With these funds in hand, the IAH has been able to commit itself to large-scale projects —and then go out and raise additional funds to carry out those projects. The IAH has leveraged that initial $70,000 gift into more than $250,000 worth of programming.

Apart from the Trust, Thomas S. Kenan III has been a generous personal donor to the IAH, including his gift of the garden, fountain and terrace at Hyde Hall honoring his mother, Harriet DuBose Gray; the portrait in Hyde Hall of IAH Founding Director Ruel Tyson by John Sandin

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the william r. Kenan, jr. charitable trust

has generously contributed both to the Institute for the Arts and Humanities and to the UNC community

throughout the years. We thank you for your continued support, which allows us to invest in Carolina’s best and

brightest faculty in numerous ways.

Chancellor Holden Thorp, right, presented a plaque to Thomas

Kenan III, center, and richard Krasno, executive director of the

William r. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust, left, at the dedication of the

Kenan Music Building in 2009.

Kenan funds supported a conference around the

work of paul gilroy (left) in 2008.

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commissioned upon Ruel’s retirement; a landscape painting by Paul Harcharik; and support of the Faculty Fellowship Program through many years. In 2009-2010, Tom provided the funding for one of our new Faculty Arts Fellowships, which was awarded to Francesca Talenti, a filmmaker and animator who worked with computer science faculty member Greg Welch to develop the ethereal “Bathysphere” experience for the CHAT Festival. Tom has also been a great friend, entertaining us all with his stories, spreading the word about the IAH to his large circle, and offering us advice on everything from the interior design of Hyde Hall to ways we can better collaborate with the arts on campus.

We would be remiss if we did not mention the Kenan Charitable Trust’s recent gift that continues its long tradition of supporting Carolina: This $5 million gift will enable UNC to hire 18 new faculty members at a time when budget cutbacks have made hiring in higher education just about impossible nationwide. With these funds, UNC can bring the best young professors to our campus, a huge boost to morale, as well as an investment in our future. In addition, in 2006 the Trust created a $4 million endowment to fund the Kenan Music Scholars program, which awards four-year merit scholarships to four music majors at UNC each year. The trust also contributed another $4 million for the newly constructed Kenan Music Building, which houses the music department.

Exactly this kind of visionary philanthropy is what we have come to expect from the Kenan Charitable Trust and Tom Kenan. Carolina is an immensely better place because the Trust has supported it so generously and so intelligently over the years.

The Hyde Hall Terrace honors Kenan’s mother, Harriet DuBose gray.

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