[Now Closed] Call for Faculty Mentors: Zietlow Civic Engagement Project
July 31, 2024 | Kristen Chavez
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 will enhance the intellectual rigor of the students’ projects by guiding them to resources and offering feedback as they hone their topics and implement research strategies.
About the Zietlow Civic Engagement Fellowship
CPH’s Zietlow Civic Engagement Fellowship supports six undergraduate students in the research and development of a public humanities project of their choosing. Their projects explore contemporary social and political issues that affect North Carolinians. Fellows engage with resources on campus to practice humanistic research methodologies and civic skills such as community engagement, dialogue, and critical media literacy.
The list of 2024-2025 Zietlow Civic Engagement Fellows and their research topics are below. Note that faculty expertise need not precisely reflect student research topics; productive mentorship may address broad elements of research methodology as well as specific topics.
Faculty Mentors’ Compensation: $1,000 ($500 per semester).
Faculty Mentor Expectations:
- Meet with advisee 1-2 times per month and at least 4 times per semester
- Provide pointed research guidance that fit into fellows’ 5-hour per week work limit
- Participate in workshops with peer faculty mentors 2-3 times during the academic year
- Attend an end of year celebration in spring 2025
What was the experience like for previous faculty mentors?
“Every conversation with [my mentee] has been positive and enjoyable. I look forward to our next one.”
“[My mentee] is awesome and I enjoy the time we are spending together reading and thinking though material. So that vision of the fellowship is absolutely realized.”
“I have truly enjoyed working with [my mentee] as he explored his project topic and considered how best to share his work with the larger UNC and Chapel Hill community… He is a thoughtful, curious, committed student and researcher.”
Become a Zietlow Faculty Mentor
If you would like to join this important initiative as an IAH/CPH Zietlow Faculty Mentor or know someone who might be, please briefly summarize your interests or the public-facing interests of a colleague in an email message by Friday, August 9 to Dr. Kylie Seltzer at CPH, kseltz@unc.edu. Thank you for considering how you might contribute to the expansion of civic engagement in the work of UNC students and faculty!
2024-2025 Zietlow Civic Engagement Fellows
Allyson Horst
- Major: Public Policy and Geography (Education minor)
- Expected graduation year: 2027
- Research Topic: K-12 teacher retention
Hailie Davidson
- Major: Art History and Philosophy
- Expected graduation year: 2025
- Research Topic: Restorative justice in practice
Julia Greene
- Major: Psychology (BA)
- Expected graduation year: 2026
- Research Topic: Sex education in public schools
Landon Knox
- Major: Environmental Studies (Sustainability Track) and Philosophy
- Expected graduation year: 2027
- Research Topic: Critical media literacy about climate change
Micah Mangot
- Major: Political Science, Economics (BA)
- Expected graduation year: 2027
- Research Topic: Public transportation
Ruth Uzochukwu
- Major: Global Studies: African Global Health
- Expected graduation year: 2027
- Research Topic: Maternal healthcare deserts in rural NC
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