William Leake Andrews

Dr. William L. Andrews is E. Maynard Adams Professor of English in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences. Professor Andrews has authored or edited more than 40 books on a wide range of African American l … Continued

Todd BenDor

James Keith Brown

James Keith (“JK”) Brown is Head of Global Investor Relations for Och-Ziff and is a member of Och-Ziff’s Partner Management Committee. Prior to joining Och-Ziff in 2003, Mr. Brown spent more than four … Continued

Chad Bryant

Chad Bryant, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of History. Dr. Bryant’s interests include nationalism and the urban experience in modern Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular … Continued

Max C. Chapman, Jr.

Tom Chapman

Danielle Christmas

Danielle Christmas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, endowed as the Delta Delta Delta Fellow in the … Continued

Jocelyn Chua

Borden Fellow

Rebecca W. Darwin

Rebecca Darwin is co-founder & CEO of the media company that owns Garden & Gun Magazine. Darwin launched Garden & Gun in 2007, following a successful career in publishing in New York. She … Continued

Thad Domina

Mark Driscoll

Mark Driscoll is Associate Professor of East Asian and Global Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is an intellectual historian and cultural studies scholar of East Asia. He fi … Continued

John Gray Blount Ellison, Jr.

John Ellison is president and chief executive officer of the Ellison Company, Inc. He received a B.A. in History in 1969 and an M.B.A. in 1972, both degrees from the University of North Carolina at Ch … Continued

Oswaldo Estrada

Oswaldo Estrada’s research focuses on gender formation and transgression, historical memory, and the construction of dissident identities in contemporary Mexico and Peru.

Melanie Feinberg

School of Information and Library Science Fellow

Brian Fenty

Brian Fenty is the founder and executive chairman of TodayTix. Prior to co-founding TodayTix, he was a managing director at Hamilton Investment Partners. In 2008, Fenty received a B.A. in Journalism a … Continued

Michael A. Figueroa

Michael A. Figueroa (Assistant Professor) is an ethnomusicologist who specializes in music and politics in the modern Middle East and its diasporas. The first phase of his career has been rooted in et … Continued

Michael A. Figueroa

Pardue Fellow

Maggie Fritz-Morkin

Turner Fellow

Jennifer Gates-Foster

Jennifer Gates-Foster is an Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology. She received her B.A. in Anthropology and Archaeology from the University of Virginia, and her M.A. (Greek, Classical Archaeol … Continued

Julia Sprunt Grumbles

Julia Sprunt Grumbles is currently a member of the IAH Advisory Board and previously served as Chair of the board. She is the former corporate vice president of human resources, public relations, and … Continued

Michael Gutierrez

Michael Keenan Gutierrez, Ph.D. is the author of The Trench Angel (Leapfrog) and earned degrees from UCLA, the University of Massachusetts, and the University of New Hampshire. His work has been publi … Continued

Robert Hackney, Jr.

Philip Hollingsworth

Philip Hollingsworth joined the Institute for the Arts and Humanities in 2015, and serves as the Program Administrator for the Institute’s faculty programs. In this role, he coordinates and supports a … Continued

Philip Hollingsworth

Philip Hollingsworth is the IAH Program Administrator and also serves as Program Director for the Associate Professor Program. Before joining the IAH, Philip taught Spanish for ten years, instructing … Continued

Barbara R. Hyde

Barbara Hyde is Chair of the J.R. Hyde III Family Foundation. Previously, she served as the executive director of the Arts & Sciences Foundation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. … Continued

Ebony Johnson

Ebony R. Johnson currently serves as the Event Planner for the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. For more than 10 years, she has been responsible for pre-event planning, on-site execution, and po … Continued

Mark Katz

Mark Katz is the Ruel W. Tyson, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Humanities and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. Professor Katz’s teaching and scholarship focus on music and techno … Continued

William Keyes IV

Heidi Kim

Rob Kramer

Since 1998, Rob Kramer has provided executive coaching and, with a specialized focus in public and academic leadership and team development. He served as the director of Training & Organizational … Continued

John Miles Lamont

Ava Lane

Ava serves as the Institute’s Administrative Assistant and as Executive Assistant to the IAH Director. She is responsible for facilities management, scheduling meetings and events, and providing admin … Continued

Lisa Lindsay

Kathryn Long

Kathryn holds a B.A. in Studio Art in 1977 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a native of Greensboro, NC where she lives with her husband, Bobby.  They have 2 children, Katie … Continued

Pamela Lothspeich

Dr. Pamela Lothspeich holds a Ph.D. in South Asian area studies and comparative literature from Columbia University. Her research centers on modern adaptations of the Hindu epics in Hindi literature a … Continued

Christian O. Lundberg

Dr. Christian Lundberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is also Co-Director of the University Program in Cultural Studies. Teaching and research inte … Continued

Tim Marr

Timothy Marr is a Distinguished Term Associate Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of American Studies. He holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of English and Comparative Literat … Continued

Catherine Marshall

Catherine Marshall, Ph.D. is a retired faculty member of the School of Education. Marshall, a long-time member of the Educational Leadership faculty, has written extensively on women’s issues in North … Continued

Lane Morris McDonald

Lane McDonald is the global head of the financials, education & business services vertical for the industry value creation team at Partners Group, a global private markets investor with over $57b … Continued

John McGowan

John McGowan served for eight years as the Director of UNC’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities. His work sits at the intersection of philosophy, political theory, and literary studies.  He is inte … Continued

Deborah Miller

James Moeser

James Moeser is Chancellor Emeritus and Professor of Music Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As chancellor from 2000 to 2008, he articulated the vision that UNC should be Am … Continued

James Moeser

James Moeser is Chancellor Emeritus and Professor of Music Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As chancellor from 2000 to 2008, he articulated the vision that UNC should be Am … Continued

Torin Monahan

Ellison Fellow

Lucrecia Moore

Lucrecia Moore is Senior Company Counsel at Wells Fargo. Previously, she was vice president and assistant general counsel for BB&T, and she served as a vice president of institutional retirement a … Continued

Barbara Moran

Barbara B. Moran recently retired as Louis Round Wilson Distinguished Professor at the School of Information and Library Science after 36 years as a faculty member and dean in SILS. Her teaching and r … Continued

Walker Morris

Allen Moseley

Peter Mucha

Peter J. Mucha is a Professor in Mathematics and Applied Physical Sciences. He has served as chair of the Mathematics Department and founding chair of the Applied Physical Sciences Department. His res … Continued

Mai Thi Nguyen

Mai Thi Nguyen, associate professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning and director of the Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program at UNC-Chapel Hill, has been named as director o … Continued

H. McKee Nunnally, II

Angela O’Neill

Angela O’Neill joined the Institute for the Arts and Humanities as the Director of Development in August 2018. Prior to coming to the IAH, Angela worked as an associate director of development for the … Continued

Todd Ramón Ochoa

Todd Ramón Ochoa is a cultural anthropologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Society of the Dead: … Continued

Will Overlock

Will Overlock is a vice president with SL Green Realty Corp.  As a real estate professional with over ten years’ experience, he has held other positions in the industry most recently at Cushman & … Continued

Abigail Panter

Dr. Abigail Panter (B.A., Wellesley College, 1985; Ph.D., New York University, 1989) is the Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education and a professor of psychology in the L. L. Thurstone Psych … Continued

Susan Pennybacker

Burress Fellow

Andrew Perrin

Dr. Andrew Perrin is a professor of sociology and has been a member of the Carolina faculty since 2001. An accomplished and interdisciplinary scholar, he has conducted research on the cultural sociolo … Continued

Roger Perry

Roger Perry is chairman of East West Partners Club Management. He is also President of East West Partners Management Company, Inc. Previously, he was a senior vice president of sale and marketing for … Continued

Petal Samuel

Blackwell Fellow

Aleksandra Prica

Woodbury Fellow

Rohit Ramaswamy

Sophia Ramos

Before joining the Institute’s staff in 2018, Sophia’s experience in marketing spanned from national multifamily housing developments to higher education. Most recently, she worked in marketing for th … Continued

Julnar Rizk

Currently a manager on Facebook’s global learning and development team, Julnar leads a team of client partners who provide leader, team, and manager development for Facebook’s Family of Apps and AR/VR … Continued

Michelle Robinson

Victoria Rovine

Townsend Fellow

Joyce Rudinsky

Joyce Rudinsky is a visual artist working with electronic and interactive media to investigate lived experience in an information-based society. Her most recent work investigates the impact of informa … Continued

Rebecka Rutledge Fisher

Johnson Fellow

Eunice Sahle

Leadership Selection Committee:  Eunice N. Sahle is a graduate of University of Toronto (BA and MA) and Queen’s University (PhD) in Canada. She is a political scientist and Associate Professor with a … Continued

Viji Sathy

Geoff Sayre-McCord

The Associate Professor Program, led by IAH Fellow and philosophy scholar Geoff Sayre-McCord, seeks to provide newly tenured and promoted associate professors with mentoring and support at this key mi … Continued

Kumarini Silva

Dr. Silva’s research is at the intersections of feminism, identity and Identification, post-colonial studies, and popular culture. She is the author of Brown Threat: Identification in the Security Sta … Continued

John Staton III

John Staton is the President of Concepts Sport the leading sports licensed loungewear company in the country. Mr. Staton earned a B.A. in Communications from the University of North Carolina at Chapel … Continued

John Sweet

IAH Legacy Fellow – Race, Memory, and Reckoning Initiative

Beverly Taylor

Beverly Taylor is a Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature.  A former Chair of that Department, she earned her graduate degrees in English from Duke University in 1977, when … Continued

J. Michael Terry

J. Michael Terry is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Amanda Thompson

John Townsend III

John Townsend served as a senior advisor with Tiger Management Corp until his retirement in November of 2015. Mr. Townsend joined Tiger Management in July 2010 and served as its Chief Operating Office … Continued

Lien Truong

Lien Truong’s paintings examine social, cultural and political history, exploring the influences that form contemporary identity, heritage and belief systems in a transcultural context. Truong’s work … Continued

Ruel Tyson

Ruel Willoughby Tyson Jr. founded the Institute for the Arts and Humanities and guided its development as director for 20 years, until 2006. He lived a life dedicated to scholarship and service until … Continued

Gabriela Valdivia

Gabriela Valdivia, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography. Dr. Valdivia examines the political ecology of natural resource governance: how states, firms, and civil society appr … Continued

Barbara Wasik

Barbara H. Wasik is a William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor Emerita. She served as a professor in School Psychology in the School of Education and a researcher at the FPG Child Development Ins … Continued

Tommie Watson

Tommie Watson is the Executive Director for the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. He provides leadership and strategy for the Institute while managing the day-to-day operations. Tommie supports a … Continued

John F. White III

John White is the president of JFW Properties, based in Raleigh, N.C. He obtained his B.A. in Political Science from the University of Chapel Hill in 1989.

John Wickham

Rebecca Williams

Rebecca Williams manages the administration and finances of the Institute’s programs and initiatives, including events and grants support. She has more than nine years of project management experience … Continued

Caroline Williamson

Caroline Williamson is the President, Treasurer, and a Director of the B. Robert Williamson, Jr. Foundation. Williamson created the B. Robert Williamson Jr. Foundation in 2012 in memory of her late hu … Continued

Molly Worthen

Molly Worthen is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She earned her PhD from Yale University in 2011 and has been teaching at UNC since 2012. Her most r … Continued

Nadia Yaqub

Nadia Yaqub is Professor and Chair in the Department of Asian Studies, while also serving as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of English & Comparative Literature. Dr. Yaqub’s resea … Continued

Michael Yelverton