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Meet FOCIF Steering Chair Suzanne Lye

Suzanne Lye, Faculty of Color and Indigenous Faculty Group Steering Committee Chair

“My aim is to create a place where people can feel accepted for who they are in their whole beings, not just in relation to what they’re teaching or what they research,” said Suzanne Lye on her term as the Steering Committee Chair for the Faculty of Color and Indigenous Faculty Group.   The FOCIF Group provides support, community, and professional development for faculty of color and Indigenous faculty at UNC-Chapel … Read more



Meet Michelle Robinson, Interim Director for the Faculty Fellowship Program

Michelle Robinson, Interim Director for the Faculty Fellowship Program

This year, American studies professor Michelle Robinson serves as the interim director for the Faculty Fellowship Program.   An alumna of the Faculty Fellowship Program (’18) and the Academic Leadership Program (’21), Robinson appreciates the scholarly community built by IAH fellowships. “I was meeting people from across campus whose offices and disciplines are distant from my own.   I may have never encountered them … Read more



Call for Applications: Summer International Collaborative Research Grant

The Institute for the Arts and Humanities Summer International Collaborative Research Grant. The SICR Grant provides funding to faculty to travel abroad and establish new collaborative research projects or continue existing ones. Deadline: Feb. 12, 2024

The Summer International Collaborative Research Grant provides $20,000 of ongoing funding for up to five years for international projects beginning in summer 2025.



Meet Emily Baragwanath, Associate Professor Program Director

Emily Baragwanath, Associate Professor Program Director

Shortly after her promotion in 2013, Emily Baragwanath joined the Institute for the Arts and Humanities’ Associate Professor Program, finding community with fellow faculty. Hailing from the classics department, Baragwanath was glad to meet other faculty at the same rank from across the College of Arts and Sciences. “When you’re in a smaller department, you might be the only person recently promoted,” she noted. “I fo … Read more



Oswaldo Estrada (FFP ’11, ’16, ’21) receives Fulbright Scholar Award

Featured Fellow Oswaldo Estrada (FFP '11, '17, '21)

Romance studies professor Oswaldo Estrada (FFP ’11, ’16, ’21) is one of three Carolina faculty members to receive awards from the U.S. Department of State to teach or conduct research abroad during the 2024-25 academic year.   As a Fulbright Scholar in fall 2024, Estrada will do archival research in Spain, while joining an established research group at the Spanish National Research Council called “Literature, Image, … Read more



Leadership Library Opens in Hyde Hall

Books on a shelf in the Leadership Library, with a small blue owl figurine.

Beginning in fall 2024, the Leadership Library will be available for reservation by IAH Fellows and faculty in the arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences.



[Now Closed] Call for Faculty Mentors: Zietlow Civic Engagement Project

Zietlow Civic Engagement Fellowship 2024-2025

Advance the public humanities through research and mentorship with Zietlow Civic Engagement Fellows The Institute for the Arts and Humanities and Carolina Public Humanities are excited to invite applications for faculty mentors to work with a Zietlow Civic Engagement Fellow. Zietlow Fellows are talented undergraduate students who seek to make a difference in communities through the public humanities. Faculty mentors  … Read more



Faculty Workshops

Faculty Workshops for Faculty Fellowship Program & National Humanities Center Fellowship. go.unc.edu/ffp-nhc-24

IAH Faculty Fellows Proposal Workshop September 10, 2024; 2:00pm-4:00pm, Hyde Hall This workshop is intended for faculty members who are interested in applying to the Faculty Fellowship Program. This program provides on-campus, semester-long leave for faculty members from the College of Arts and Sciences to pursue research and creative work that leads to publication, exhibition, composition, and performance. Interest … Read more



[Now Closed] Call for Nomination Applications: National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend. Accepting applications for nominations. Due September 2, 2024.

The Institute for the Arts and Humanities is accepting applications for nomination for the NEH Summer Stipend program, due September 2, 2024.



Milada Vachudova (FFP ’05, ’15) Named IAH Faculty Director for Strategic Initiatives

Milada Vachudova, Faculty Director for Strategic Initiatives

Milada Vachudova has been named the inaugural Faculty Director for Strategic Initiatives at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. In consultation with the Director and staff support, Vachudova will coordinate all aspects of the IAH strategic priorities implementation plan.



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