Category: Podcasts
Podcast with Senator Claire McCaskill
Ahead of the Weil Lecture on American Citizenship, Director Patricia Parker talks with Senator Claire McCaskill about her political career, important figures in her life, and more.
Italian Medieval Literature With Maggie Fritz-Morkin
Assistant Professor of Italian Maggie Fritz-Morkin speaks with us about her work in Medieval Studies.
Chris Clemens, Senior Associate Dean for Natural Sciences
IAH Director Mark Katz interviews astrophysicist and College of Arts and Sciences Dean Chris Clemens about his research of the stars, as well as his self-identified conservatism on a college campus, where liberalism is the dominant language. He discusses why different views on campus are fundamental to a higher educational experience, highlighting the UNC-Duke Philosophy, Politics, and Economics program, co-directed … Read more
IAH Podcast | Jeannie Loeb, Senior Lecturer, Psychology and Neuroscience
Senior Lecturer Jeannie Loeb is a current Institute for the Arts and Humanities Faculty Fellow through the Chapman Family Teaching Award at UNC-Chapel Hill.
IAH Podcast | Christian Lentz, Assistant Professor, Geography
A current Faculty Fellow, Geography Department Assistant Professor Christian Lentz has been using his time away from teaching to concentrate on his book manuscript. He describes the project as “a story of territory as it is experienced and constructed in the Vietnamese revolution when they were fighting for independence from the French in the 1940s and ’50s.”
IAH Podcast | Michele Berger, Director, Faculty Fellows Program
When Michele Berger is not teaching, researching and writing, she is preparing to guide faculty through their fellowships at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities.
IAH Podcast | Elizabeth Engelhardt, Professor, American Studies
Elizabeth Engelhardt is looking closely at the history and culture of boarding houses in the U.S. South. “There is a surprising number of stories of people re-inventing themselves, passing their gender, passing their race,” she reports. Engelhardt’s research during her current Faculty Fellowship Program begins not by defining the boarding house, but using research to tell their stories.
IAH Podcast | Todd Ochoa, Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Todd Ochoa is an anthropologist who focuses on religion. This semester he is teaching Introduction to Religion and Culture to 180 students as well as a graduate course, Religion in Postcolonial Americas. Ochoa explains that Religious Studies is not the same as theology. Rather than focusing on particular faiths and texts, Religious Studies, especially through an anthropological lens, examines the people and cultures, … Read more
The IAH awards John McGowan the Johnson Prize
John McGowan is the 2016 recipient of the George H. Johnson Prize for Distinguished Achievement by an Institute for the Arts and Humanities Fellow.
IAH Podcast | Mariska Leunissen, Associate Professor, Philosophy
We talked to Faculty Fellow Mariska Leunissen after she completed her fellowship Spring 2016. Leunissen discusses her unique perspective on the philosophy of Aristotle, especially his foundational text on biology. she provides insight on how we can apply his work to our modern lives. She examines his morally reprehensible views in the context of the time. “I don’t want to necessarily better his picture, but I do want … Read more
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