Karen Auerbach

Johnson 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 professor in the Department of History.

Amarjit S. Budhiraja

Amarjit S. Budhiraja is a professor of Statistics and Operations Research in the College of Arts and Sciences. He served as the chair of the STOR department from 2014-2019.

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.

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.

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

Mauri Connors

Mauri Connors provides development related administrative support to the Institute. Her responsibilities include donor and board communications, solicitation crafting and planning, gift processing, and serving as a key liaison between the Institute and the Arts and Sciences Foundation.

Laney Crawley

Laney is the Communications Assistant of … Continued

Rebecca Wesson Darwin, BA ’75

Rebecca is the co-founder and CEO of Garden & Gun Magazine.

Florence Dore

Turner Fellow

Janet Downie

Burress Fellow

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.

Mary Fieger Flanagan, BA ’67

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

Megan Flowers

Megan is an Office and Front Desk Studen … Continued

Samuel Gates

Legacy Fellow — Race, Memory, and Recko … Continued

Buck Goldstein, BA ’70, JD ’76

Buck was the founding Chair of the IAH. He is the University Entrepreneur in Residence and a Professor of the Practice in the School of Education at UNC.

Xiomara Gomez Rodriguez

Xiomara Gomez Rodriguez is one of the Of … Continued

Taliyah Graham

Taliyah is an Office and Front Desk Stud … Continued

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. 

Michael Gutierrez

Michael Keenan Gutierrez, Ph.D., is a Teaching Associate Professor in the English and Comparative Literature Department.

Robert H. Hackney, Jr., BA ’75, JD ’79, MBA ’79

Robert is a former Senior Advisor at First Eagle Investment Management, LLC.

Elizabeth Havice

Harold P. Hope III, BA ’94

Harold is a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs.

Shakirah Hudani

Pardue Fellow

Barbara Hyde, BA ’83

Barbara is Chair and CEO of the Hyde Family Foundation.

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.

Heidi Kim

Arts & Humanities Fellow — Race, Memory, and Reckoning Initiative

Seth Kotch

Rob Kramer

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

David Lambert

Schwab Fellow

John Miles Lamont, BA’02

Miles is the co-founder of AMCAP Royalty Funding.

Jacqueline E. Lawton

Jacqueline Lawton is an associate profes … Continued

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

Pamela Lothspeich holds a Ph.D. in South … Continued

Christian O. Lundberg

Dr. Christian Lundberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at UNC-Chapel Hill and Co-Director of the University Program in Cultural Studies.

Suzanne Maman

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 served as interim director for the Institute for the Arts in Humanities from 2016-2017, and has an office located in Hyde Hall.

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.

Alicia Monroe

Cramer Fellow

Lucrecia Renea Moore, BA ’92 

Lucrecia Moore is Senior Company Counsel at Wells Fargo.

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.

Chérie Rivers Ndaliko

Hyde 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.

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.

Peter Ornstein

Peter Ornstein is professor emeritus in the Psychology and Neuroscience Department.

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.

Mary-Rose Papandrea

Patricia Parker

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

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.

Petal Samuel

Blackwell Fellow

Antonia Randolph

McGowan Fellow

Courtney Rivard

Eliza Rose

Townsend Fellow

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.

Kumi Silva

Sherwood Smith, BA ’56, JD ’60

Sherwood is Chairman Emeritus, Carolina Power & Light Company.

Sara Smith

Sara Smith is an associate professor in … Continued

John Curtis Staton, BA ’89

John Staton is the President of Concepts Sport.

Vincas Steponaitis

Whitton Fellow

Brian Grover Strong, ABJM ’00

Brian is the Head of Global Communications at Bloomberg Media.

Angela Stuesse

John Sweet

IAH Legacy Fellow – Race, Memory, and Re … Continued

J. Michael Terry

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

Amanda Thompson

Brendan Jamal Thornton

Blackwell Fellow

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.

Lynne Vernon-Feagans

Lynne Vernon-Feagans is the William C. Friday Distinguished Professor Emerita at UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Education. She has focused her research on young children and families from diverse low wealth rural communities.

Ana Maria Vinea

Bernstein Fellow

Vanessa Walcott

Vanessa is an Office and Front Desk Stud … Continued

Benjamin Waterhouse

Wickham Fellow

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.

Jonathan Weiler

Brett Whalen

Borden Fellow

John F. White III

John White is the president of JFW Prope … Continued

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.

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.

Claudia Yaghoobi

Claudia Yaghoobi is the Roshan Institute Associate Professor in Persian Studies and director of the Persian program in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

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.

Aishat Yusuf

Aishat Yusuf is the Administrative Suppo … Continued

Waleed Ziad

Hyde Fellow