Fellows' work showcased at second annual IAH Fellows Recognition and Holiday Celebration

December 7, 2007

Chapel Hill, N.C. — Institute for the Arts and Humanities (IAH) community members gathered Dec. 6 to honor and recognize the work of 33 Fellows who wrote or edited books and multi-media projects published in 2007.

It was the second annual Fellows Recognition and Holiday Celebration hosted by the IAH to showcase the work of faculty who have participated in fellowship programs. More than 100 UNC faculty, administrators and supporters attended the celebration. A holiday jazz CD by Fellow James Ketch provided a musical backdrop for Fellows who were on hand to discuss their work. 

Many of the Fellows pursued these projects during their IAH fellowship semesters.

“These faculty members distinguish both themselves and this university by their extraordinary scholarship,” said IAH Director John McGowan. “The Institute is proud to showcase work by our Fellows, much of it made possible by semesters spent at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities.”

IAH Fellows with 2007 books, art and multimedia works showcased were:

• Allen Anderson, musical compositions
• William L. Barney, The Making of a Confederate: Walter Lenoir's Civil War (Oxford UP)
• Judith Blau [and Alberto Moncada], Freedoms and Solidarities (Rowman & Littlefield)
• Eric Downing, After Images: Photography, Archaeology, and Psychoanalysis and the Tradition of Bildung (Wayne State UP)
• Beth Grabowski, ceramics
• T.M.S. Evens and Don Handelman, The Manchester School: Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books)
• Mary Floyd-Wilson, Environment and Embodiment in Early Modern England (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Pika Ghosh, Fashioning the Divine (Ackland Art Museum)
• David J. Halperin, Sabbatai Zevi: Testimonies to a Fallen Messiah (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)
• Trudier Harris, Reading Contemporary African American Drama: Fragments of History, Fragments of Self (Peter Lang)
• Dorothy Holland et al., Local Democracy Under Siege: Activism, Public Interests and Private Politics (NYU Press)
• Michael H. Hunt, The American Ascendancy: How the United States Gained and Wielded Global Dominance (UNC Press)
• Sherryl Kleinman, Feminist Fieldwork Analysis (Sage)
• Valerie Lambert, Choctaw Nation: A Story of American Indian Resurgence (University of Nebraska Press)
• Michael Lienesch, In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement (UNC Press)
• Michael McFee, The Smallest Talk (Bull City Press)
• John McGowan, American Liberalism: An Interpretation for Our Time (UNC Press)
• Donald M. Nonini, The Global Idea of 'the Commons' (Berghahn)
• Elin o'Hara slavick, Bomb After Bomb: A Violent Cartography (Milan: Edizioni Charta)
• Bobbi Owen [with Jody Blake], Design USA (USITT in cooperation with Broadway Press)
• Jim Peacock, Grounded Globalism (U. Georgia Press) and Identity Matters: Ethic and Sectarian Conflict (Berghahn Books)
• Theta Perdue and Michael Green, The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears (Penguin/Viking)
• Donald Reid, Germaine Tillion, Lucie Aubrac, and the Politics of Memories of the French Resistance (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK)
• Steven Rosefielde, Russian Economics from Lenin to Putin (Blackwell) and Masters of Illusion: American Leadership in the Media Age [with Quinn Mills] (Cambridge UP)
• Joyce Rudinsky, multi-media project
• Kevin Stewart (and Mary-Russell Roberson), Exploring the Geology of the Carolinas: A Field Guide to Favorite Places from Chimney Rock to Charleston (UNC Press)
• Francesca Talenti, DVD documenting July 2007 gallery show, “Genesis: Mishaps in the Kitchen"
• Todd Taylor, Take 20 [film] (Bedford/St. Martin's) and Remembering Composition [DVD with Bump Halbritter] (JAC: A Journal of Rhetoric and Writing Studies)
• Jane F. Thrailkill, Affecting Fictions (Harvard UP)
• Joe Viscomi, William Blake archive, a hypertext of Blake's poetry and art
• Nadia G. Yaqub, Pens, Swords, and the Springs of Art (Boston and Leiden: Brill)

The Institute for the Arts and Humanities (IAH), part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's College of Arts and Sciences, offers programs and activities that support UNC faculty at every stage of their careers. The IAH funds individual and collaborative research, showcases faculty work, develops faculty leaders and teachers, and facilitates the formation of collaborative, interdisciplinary communities that promote intellectual exchange. For more information, visit www.iah.unc.edu.