Category: News
Institute presents Schwab Excellence Award to 20 faculty
The Institute for the Arts and Humanities has announced the 20 winners of this year’s Schwab Academic Excellence Awards. The $3,000 prize recognizes one faculty member in each College of Arts and Sciences department across the arts, humanities and qualitative sciences. Department chairs nominate faculty for the award. Former IAH Advisory Board Chair Julia Sprunt Grumbles (who is now a member of the University Board o … Read more
IAH Podcast | 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, Associate Professor of Folklore and Anthropology in the American Studies Department. 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 Afr … Read more
IAH Podcast | Rob Kramer, Senior Leadership Consultant
Those of us who have had leadership training may wonder “How does that coach learn to do this?” To get some answers, we talked with Rob Kramer, Senior Leadership Consultant here at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. He brings a breadth of experience in coaching business and academic leaders, teams, and executives through his firm Kramer Leadership. Here at the IAH, where he has worked for 6 years, Kramer faci … Read more
IAH Podcast | 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.
IAH Podcast | Stephanie Schrader, J. Paul Getty Museum Curator
Stephanie Schrader, PhD, delivers the 22nd Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies entitled Appropriating Asia: The Depiction of the Exotic in European Art. In this special episode, she reveals the inspiration for this lecture and gives a preview of what appropriation and exotification might mean in history in the context of trade and religion in Europe and Asia.
Kenneth Janken on his book ‘Wilmington Ten’ and Black History Month
The way he tells it, Kenneth Janken is not a multi-tasker. “I don’t work well when I try to juggle two major research projects,” says Janken, UNC professor in the departments of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, as well as director of the UNC Center for the Study of the American South. “When I complete one project, I like to give myself time carefully to consider what the next one will be.” Except tha … Read more
IAH Podcast | Misha Becker and Kristen Lindquist on how they collaborated on a FIRE grant
What began as an idea linking language, art, and psychological development quickly became a project at a local museum. A $25,000 grant for radical interdisciplinary research can do that.
Reckford lecture focuses on exotification of Asian culture
Now in its 22nd year, the 2016 Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies is titled Appropriating Asia: The Depiction of the Exotic in European Art. The Institute for the Arts and Humanities will host the event Thursday, Feb. 25 at 7:30 in Hyde Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.
IAH Podcast | Mark Schoenfisch, Chemistry Professor
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.” Welcome to the IAH Podcast, a series from the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill … Read more
IAH co-sponsored $25,000 grant deadline Feb. 16
Fostering Interdisciplinary Research Explorations (FIRE) is now in its second year. The Institute for the Arts and Humanities and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research will offer up to three 25,000 grants. FIRE aims to encourage radically interdisciplinary innovation that transcends the boundaries of conventional partnerships, integrating the strengths of varying perspectives and methodologies and fos … Read more
VIEW MORE NEWS