Institute for the Arts and Humanities hosts inaugural Fellows Recognition event

November 29, 2006

Chapel Hill, N.C. — The Institute for the Arts and Humanities hosted its inaugural Fellows Recognition event today to honor the former Fellows who authored and edited 20 books published during 2006.

"The Institute is proud to recognize these Fellows, who are models of extraordinary scholarship at UNC-Chapel Hill," said Director John McGowan.

Twenty-three fellows wrote or edited a total of 29 books published in 2006, which range in subject matter from African-American literature to the culture of eBay to the geology of the Carolinas. Fellows worked on these books during their fellowship semesters.

Here is the complete list of the books published by fellows honored at the event:

• Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves: A History of American Environmental Policy, Second Edition, Yale University Press, by Pete Andrews, Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished professor of Public Policy.
• The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature, UNC Press, by William Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor of English.
• The Curse of Caste, Oxford University Press, also by William Andrews.
• Justice in the United States, Rowman & Little field, by Judith Blau, professor of Sociology.
• Public Sociologies Reader, Rowman & Littlefield, co-edited by Judith Blau.
• Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction, Louisiana State University Press, by James Coleman, professor of English and Comparative Literature.
• After Images: Photography, Archaeology, and Psychoanalysis, Wayne State University Press, by Eric Downing, professor of Comparative Literature.
• Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene: Followers of Jesus in History and Tradition, Oxford University Press, by Bart Ehrman, James A. Gray professor and chair of Religious Studies.
• Studies in the Textual Criticism of the New Testament, E. J. Brill Publishers, by Bart Ehrman.
• The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed, Oxford University Press, by Bart Ehrman.
• World Anthropologies: Disciplinary Transformations in Contexts of Power, Oxford: Berg, co-edited by Arturo Escobar, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology.
• Fashioning the Divine: South Asian Sculpture at the Ackland Art Museum, Ackland Art Museum, by Pika Ghosh, associate professor of Art.
• Everyday eBay: Culture, Collecting and Desire, Routledge Press, co-edited by Ken Hillis, associate professor of Media Studies.
• Off the Rim: Basketball and Other Religions in a Carolina Childhood, University of Missouri Press, by Fred Hobson, professor of English.
• "Walter White: Mr. NAACP" (paper edition), UNC Press, by Kenneth Janken, professor of Afro-American Studies.
• Melancholia's Dog: Reflections on Our Animal Kinship, University of Chicago Press, by Alice Kuzniar, professor of German and Comparative Literature..
• Practicing Protestants: Histories of Christian Life in America, 1630-1965, Johns Hopkins University Press, coedited by Laurie Maffly-Kipp, associate professor of Religious Studies.
• The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism, Cambridge University Press, by Tim Marr, associate professor of American Studies.
• Shinemaster, Carnegie Mellon University Press, by Michael McFee, professor of English.
• The Napkin Manuscripts: Selected Essays and an Interview, University of Tennessee Press, by Michael McFee.
• Russia's Sputnik Generation: Soviet Baby Boomers Talk about Their Lives, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, by Donald Raleigh, Jay Richard Judson Distinguished Professor of History.
• Masters of Illusion: American Leadership in the Media Age, Cambridge University Press, coauthored by Steven Rosefielde, professor of Economics.
• Russian Economics from Lenin to Putin, Blackwell, by Steven Rosefielde.
• The Inner Islands: A Carolinian's Sound Country Chronicle, UNC Press, by Bland Simpson, Bowman and Gordon Gray associate term professor of english and creative Writing.
• Free Trade and Freedom: Neoliberalism, Place, and Nation in the Caribbean, University of Michigan Press, by Karla Slocum, associate professor of Anthropology.
• Exploring the Geology of the Carolinas, UNC Press, by Kevin Stewart, associate professor of Geological Sciences.
• Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion, Harvard University Press, by Thomas Tweed, Zachary Smith Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies.
• Handbook of Gender and Communication, Sage in Thousand Oaks, CA, coedited by Julia T. Wood, Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies.
• Pens, Swords, and the Springs of Art: The Oral Poetry Dueling of Palestinian Weddings in the Galilee, Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, by Nadia Yaqub, associate professor of Asian Studies.

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