Jay Aikat

Renée Alexander Craft

Renée Alexander Craft is a professor and director of outreach and community engagement in the communication department.

Barbara Ambros

Taylor Fellow

Jan Bardsley

Jan Bardsley is Professor Emerita of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Jessica Boon

Borden Fellow

Lydia Boyd

Hyde Fellow

Brandi Brimmer

Johnson Fellow

Inger S. B. Brodey

Townsend Fellow

James Keith Brown, BA ’84.

JK is the Senior Managing Director at Coatue Management, LLC.

Chad Bryant

Chad Bryant, Ph.D., is an associate prof … Read more

Mara Buchbinder

Lee Burrows, ABJM ’82

Lee is the Vice Chairman of Investment Banking for Performance Trust Capital Partners and Chairman of the Board and co-founder of UB Bancorp.

Samba Camara

Pardue Fellow

Tom Chapman, BA ’92

Tom is a Principal at Teewinot Partners.

Philip Robin Charles-Pierre, BA ’95

Philip is the CEO and co-founder of Semsee. 

Kristen Chavez

Kristen manages the internal and external communications for the Institute. Her duties include overseeing the website, monthly newsletter and promoting public events.

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 Humanities.

Phillip L. Clay, BA ’68

Phil is Chancellor Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Brent Michael Comstock, BSBA ’17

Brent is the founder and CEO of BCom Solutions, a nationally recognized digital advertising agency focused on impact-driven campaigns, causes and corporate clients.

Ryan Connick

Laney Crawley

Laney is the Communications Assistant of … Read more

Mark Crescenzi

Mark Crescenzi is a professor of political science.

Sarah Dempsey

Turner Fellow

Ray Dooley

Ray Dooley is professor emeritus of acting in the dramatic art department and was member of the PlayMakers Repertory Company for over 30 years.

Kathleen DuVal

Kathleen DuVal’s research focuses on early America, particularly how various Native American, European, and African women and men interacted from the sixteenth through early nineteenth centuries.

Catherine T. Edwards, BA ’92

Catherine is a member of the Carolina Women’s Leadership Council.

Oswaldo Estrada

Oswaldo Estrada is a Peruvian-American writer, literary critic, and professor of Latin American Literature and Culture in the Department of Romance Studies.

Michael Figueroa

Mary Fieger Flanagan, BA ’67

Mary was the initial Director of Development for the IAH, serving in that role from 1995 through 2012.  

Tanya Garcia

Buck Goldstein, BA ’70, JD ’76

Buck was the founding Chair of the IAH. He is Professor of the Practice Emeritus in the Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Xiomara Gomez Rodriguez

Xiomara Gomez Rodriguez is one of the Of … Read more

Shannon Gonzalez

Legacy Fellow – Race, Memory, and Reckoning Initiative

Stephanie Elizondo Griest

Ellison Fellow

Julia S. Grumbles, BA ’75

Julia is a member of the Campaign for Carolina Steering Committee, co-chair of the Campaign for Carolina Women’s Campaign Cabinet and member of the UNC-CH Foundation Board. 

Harold P. Hope III, BA ’94

Harold is a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs.

Brian Hsu

Burress Fellow

Barbara Hyde, BA ’83

Barbara is Chair and CEO of the Hyde Family Foundation.

Youssef Jaison Carter

McGowan Fellow

Tania Jenkins

Dubose Fellow

Mark Katz

Mark Katz is the Ruel W. Tyson, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Humanities and former Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities.

William A. Keyes IV, ’75, PhD ’18

Bill is President of the Institute for Responsible Citizenship.

Neil V. King III, BA ’05

Neil is a Vice Chairman in CBRE’s Advisory and Transaction Services Group in New York, NY.

Rob Kramer

Since 1998, Rob Kramer has provided executive coaching with a specialized focus in public and academic leadership and team development.

John Miles Lamont, BA’02

Miles is the co-founder of AMCAP Royalty Funding.

Jacqueline E. Lawton

Jacqueline Lawton is an associate professor in the dramatic art department. Lawton is a playwright, dramaturg, producer, and advocate for access, equity, diversity, and inclusion in the American Theatre.

Mariska Leunissen

Mariska Leunissen works in ancient philosophy, with special interests in Aristotelian natural philosophy and philosophy of science and its intersections with early medicine.

Kathryn Scott Long, BA ’77

Kathryn and her husband, Bobby, live in Greensboro, NC.  They have been long-standing supporters of the arts and community at large. 

Pamela Lothspeich

Espy/Tyson Fellow

Justine Ludovico

Suzanne Lye

Bernstein Fellow

Nina Martin

Blackwell Fellow

Karol V. Mason, BA ’79

Karol is the President of John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Lane Morris McDonald, ABJM ’00

Lane is a Managing Director of OMERS Private Equity.

John McGowan

John McGowan served for eight years as the Director of UNC’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities.

Deborah Penley Miller, BA ’91

Deborah is a former attorney with the American Cancer Society and Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.

Kara Millonzi

Kara Millonzi is a professor in the School of Government.

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 America’s leading public university.

Walker Morris, BA ’74

Walker is President of Muirfield Broadcasting and a former Chief Executive Officer at the Clinton Development Initiative.

Allen Moseley, BA ’91

Allen is the Managing General Partner at Noro-Moseley Partners.

Gina Moser

Gina Moser is the Development Coordinator for the Institute.

Daniel Muñoz

Schwab Fellow

John O’Hara, MBA ’79

John is a retired investment manager, most recently as Managing Director and Senior Advisor at Rockefeller and Company. 

Angela O’Neill

Angela leads the IAH’s efforts to secure external funding from individual donors and foundations for its programs in support of faculty.

Caela O’Connell

Cramer/Belk Fellow

Todd Ramón Ochoa

Todd Ramón Ochoa is a cultural anthropologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies.

Willard Joseph Overlock III, BA ’02

Will is the Vice-President of Leasing at Reckson, a division of the Cappelli Organization. 

Abigail Panter

Abigail Panter is the Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education and a professor of psychology in the L. L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Patricia Parker

Patricia Parker is the Ruel W. Tyson Distinguished Professor of Humanities and has been a member of the Carolina faculty since 1998.

Trinity Patterson

Trinity Patterson is one of the Office a … Read more

Zyon Perkins

Zyon Perkins serves as the Event Planner and administers the New Faculty Program, Associate Professors Program, and the Retired Faculty Program.

Andrew Perrin

Andrew Perrin is a professor of sociology and director emeritus of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities.

Roger Perry, BA ’71

Roger is Chairman of East West Partners Club Management. He is also President of East West Partners Management Company, Inc.

Michelle Robinson

Michelle Robinson is an associate professor and associate chair of the American Studies Department.

Eunice Sahle

Eunice Sahle is an Associate Professor in the Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies.

Robin Sansing

Viji Sathy

Viji Sathy (UNC ’96, ’03) is the Associate Dean for Evaluation and Assessment and Director of the Townsend Program for Education Research, and a Professor of the Practice in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience

Nelson Schwab III, BA ’67

Nelson is a Co-Founder and Senior Advisor at Carousel Capital.

Erika Serrato

Friend of the Institute Fellow – Race, Memory, and Reckoning Initiative

Sherwood Smith, BA ’56, JD ’60

Sherwood is Chairman Emeritus, Carolina Power & Light Company.

Sara Smith

Sara Smith is an associate professor in the geography department. She is a feminist political geographer interested in the relationship between territory, bodies, and the everyday.

Brian Grover Strong, ABJM ’00

Brian is the Head of Global Communications at Bloomberg Media.

Patricia Sullivan

J. Michael Terry

Brendan Jamal Thornton

Brendan Jamal Thornton is a cultural anthropologist and specialist on religion and culture in the Caribbean.

Ruel Tyson

Ruel Tyson founded the Institute for the Arts and Humanities and guided its development as director for 20 years. He remained dedicated to scholarship and service until his passing in 2019.

Adam Versényi

Adam Versényi is Professor of Dramaturgy in Dramatic Art and Dramaturg for PlayMakers Repertory Company. He was chair of the department from 2014-2022.

Reyna S. Walters-Morgan, BA ’99

Reyna is the Director of Civic Engagement and Voter Protection with the Democratic National Committee. 

Benjamin Waterhouse

Amanda Giannini Watlington, PhD ’72

Amanda is the Chief Executive Officer at City Square Consulting.

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.

Silas Webb

Silas Webb serves as the Program Administrator at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. In this role, he coordinates and supports all faculty programs offered through the IAH.

Lee Weisert

Lee Weisert, associate professor of music, is a composer of instrumental and electronic music and a multimedia sound artist.

John F. White III

John White is the president of JFW Prope … Read more

John R. Wickham, BA ’84

John is the co-founder and a partner at Collwick Capital, LLC.

Rebecca Williams

Rebecca Williams manages the administration and finances of the Institute’s programs and initiatives, including events and grants support.

Margaret Williams, BA’82

Margaret has been a member of the UNC Board of Visitors and is a current member of the Carolina Women’s Leadership Council.

Caroline C. Williamson, BSBA ’83

Caroline is the President, Treasurer, and a Director of the B. Robert Williamson, Jr. Foundation.

Sandra Fay Wilson, BA ’80

Sandra is a retired Colonel, US Air Force and a retired Senior Executive, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA).

Thomas M. Woodbury, BA ’73, JD ’77

Tom is a former President, Global Distribution at HBO.

Victoria Yang

Victoria Yang is one of the Office and Front Desk Student Assistants at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities.

Nadia Yaqub

Nadia Yaqub is professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and coordinator of the department’s Arabic program, while also serving as an adjunct associate professor in the Department of English & Comparative Literature.

Michael F. Yelverton, BA ’98 

Mike is Principal and Managing Director at Tiedemann Advisors.