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Yale’s Fatima El-Tayeb to Deliver 2025 Reckford Lecture
Yale University professor Fatima El-Tayeb will deliver the 2025 Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies.
Advancing Research on Central Asian Modern History and Asian Diasporic Foodscapes
After launching the Summer International Collaboration Research Grant in 2023, the Institute awarded SICR grants to associate professors Eren Tasar and Ji-Yeon Jo (FFP ’24) to conduct research in Austria and South Korea in summer 2024. Tasar used the grant to diversify the study of Islam in central Asia, while Jo’s grant supported her research on global foodscapes and gastronomic diasporas. The SICR grant provides … Read more
Meet Misha Becker, Chairs Leadership Program Co-Director
As linguistics professor Misha Becker steps in as co-director for the Chairs Leadership Program with dramatic art professor Adam Versényi, she passes on her own insights to other chairs in the College of Arts and Sciences.
The Institute’s Year in Review 2024
The Institute is the IAH’s podcast where we profile faculty, IAH grant recipients, and guest lecturers to share their expertise in teaching, service and research. At the end of each episode, we ask guests about a piece of media that has made a significant impact on them. From novels to theater productions, we’re looking back what each guest shared in 2024. Episode 132: International Collaborative Research wi … Read more
2023-24 Publication Support Grant Awardees
The Institute for the Arts and Humanities extends our congratulations to last year’s recipients of the Arts and Humanities Publication Support Grant. The Publication Support Grant is a partnership between the IAH and the Office of Research Development. The grant supports arts, humanities, and interpretive social science publications and performances by UNC-Chapel Hill faculty. The goal is to provide funding to … Read more
Decoding Fertility Paradoxes in East Asia
In November, the Carolina Asia Center and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities invited UNC Greensboro assistant professor Ting Wang to deliver a lecture about her research on fertility rates in East Asian countries. In 2024, the IAH collaborated with the CAC to offer a non-residential fellowship from a North Carolina Minority-Serving Institution, with support from the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI gr … Read more
Ex Machina’s Interdisciplinary Triumph: Bridging Technology and the Humanities
When Clara Yang first submitted her project for the UNC music department’s biennial Festival on the Hill, she didn’t anticipate Ex Machina to become as large as it is has become. What began as a series of questions about machines and music has evolved into a groundbreaking multimedia performance. Ex Machina is Yang’s interdisciplinary project exploring the intersection of technology and humanity. Reflecting on the … Read more
Mary Floyd-Wilson (FFP ’04, ALP ’10) Receives Johnson Prize for Distinguished Achievement
Mary Floyd-Wilson (FFP ’04, ALP ’10), professor of English and a nationally recognized scholar of early modern English literature, has been named the 2024-2025 recipient of the George H. Johnson Prize for Distinguished Achievement by an IAH Fellow. The award, given biennially by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, recognizes Floyd-Wilson’s distinguished scholarship, her deep commitment to the humanities, and … Read more
Q&A with IAH Advisory Board Member Reyna Walters-Morgan
Since her time as an undergraduate at Carolina, IAH advisory board member Reyna Walters-Morgan (B.A. ’99, political science) has spent years protecting the right to vote. Today, Walters-Morgan is a presidential appointee at the U.S. Department of Justice. Prior to her work at the DOJ, Walters-Morgan has worked at the Democratic National Committee and in private practice at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, and more. Her con … Read more
Friday Award supports creative research in the Ecuadorian Amazon
A recipient of a William C. Friday Arts and Humanities Research Award from the Institute for the Arts and Humanities and Honors Carolina, Gabriela Valdivia (FFP ’15, ALP ’22) is focusing on the changes taking place on the banks of the vibrant Hollin River in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The Friday Award is an opportunity for undergraduate students to assist former Faculty Fellows or Academic Leadership Fellows in their cur … Read more
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