Category: IAH Podcast
Kim Strom-Gottfried, Director of Ethics Education and Policy Management
“Leadership can be a very lonely place,” Kim Strom-Gottfried says. “[Leaders] have to make decisions and hold confidences.” In an interview with Michele Berger, director of the Faculty Fellows Program, Strom-Gottfried, who is also the Smith P. Theimann Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Professional Practice at the School of Social Work, talked about what changes in leadership trends she’s observed in the eight ye … Read more
Mark Katz, Director, Institute for the Arts and Humanities
Mark Katz discusses his work as music professor and director of the Institute, as well as his position as director of the Next Level, a U.S. State Department program that brings hip-hop to serve as cultural diplomacy internationally.
Oswaldo Estrada, Associate Professor of Spanish
Associate Professor Oswaldo Estrada is no stranger to the classroom. He joined the Faculty Fellowship as the recipient of the Chapman Family Teaching Award. He says that it’s a blend of “preparing a lot” for a class and “being flexible” that allows him to bring his best as an educator. As the son of Peruvian immigrants, his family had pushed him to more lucrative ideas for professions, but Estrada felt called to life … Read more
Glenn Hinson, Associate Professor, Folklore and Anthropology
The difference between a toast and a poem was clear to Horace “Spoons” Williams, who readily shared this with in the mid-1980s with Glenn Hinson. Hinson, an Institute for the Arts and Humanities Faculty Fellow, later learns that this conversation was a “very humbling moment” that “transformed the path” of in his scholarly work of African-American and working-class culture.
Rob Kramer, IAH Senior Leadership Consultant
Rob Kramer brings a breadth of experience in coaching business and academic leaders, teams, and executives through his firm Kramer Leadership. Kramer has worked at the Institute for 6 years; he facilitates both the Academic Leadership Program and the Chairs Leadership Program. He discusses how mindfulness is an important tool for busy leaders.
Nichola Lowe, Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning
In one of the graduate-level courses Professor Nichola Lowe teaches, one starts with a real-life issue to solve: how to provide education for a manufacturing worker named Maddie. Lowe uses the story from an Atlantic essay that discusses labor to prime her students to think outside typical paths to education that may not be possible for working-class workers.
Stephanie Schrader, Curator, J. Paul Getty Museum; 2016 Reckford Lecture
Stephanie Schrader, PhD, delivered the 22nd Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies entitled “Appropriating Asia: The Depiction of the Exotic in European Art.” Schrader reveals the inspiration for this lecture and gives a preview of what appropriation and exotification might mean in the historical context of trade and religion in Europe and Asia. She uses four artworks in the Getty Museum collectio … Read more
Misha Becker (Linguistics) and Kristen Lindquist (Psychology and Neuroscience)
IAH Fellow and Associate Professor of Linguistics Misha Becker and Psychology and Neuroscience Professor Kristen Lindquist, who is also director of the Carolina Affective Science Lab, are currently working on their project, Children’s Development of Verbal and Perceptual Correlates of Human Emotions. They won the inaugural grant for Fostering Interdisciplinary Research Explorations (FIRE) in 2015.
Mark Schoenfisch, Professor, Chemistry
Can Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance be a pathway to learning chemistry? Professor Mark Schoenfisch, winner of the Chapman Family Teaching Award, uses it to show students what it means to “question things” and “experiencing life to the fullest by thinking.” The Chapman award includes a semester in the IAH Faculty Fellows Program. Schoenfisch discusses his desire to grow excitement around c … Read more
Susan Harbage Page, Assistant Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies
Assistant Professor Susan Harbage Page is the only artist in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. In our interview with her, she describes her role in this already interdisciplinary field and how this has served her in her experience as a Faculty Fellow. On the fellowship: “I think it’s very important to be able to communicate your work to someone who is in a different discipline.”
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