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Faculty Advisory Board






The Institute's leadership, staff, faculty, and advisory boards are dedicated to the IAH mission to support and develop Carolina faculty. Below is a listing of these teams as well as our current Faculty Fellows and Tyson Academic Leadership Program Fellows.


Kathleen DuVal

Kathleen DuVal

Faculty Fellowship Selection Committee

duval@unc.edu

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.


Samuel Gates

Samuel Gates

Faculty Fellowship Selection Committee

raysam@email.unc.edu

Samuel Ray Gates is an actor, comedian, and professor of acting at the University of North Carolina.


Mariska Leunissen

Mariska Leunissen

Faculty Fellowship Selection Committee

mleunissen@unc.edu

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


Eunice Sahle

Eunice Sahle

Faculty Fellowship Selection Committee

eunice@email.unc.edu

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


Sara Smith

Sara Smith

Faculty Fellowship Selection Committee

shsmith1@email.unc.edu

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.


Brendan Jamal Thornton

Brendan Jamal Thornton

Faculty Fellowship Selection Committee

Brendan_Thornton@unc.edu

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


Lee Weisert

Lee Weisert

Faculty Fellowship Selection Committee

weisert@unc.edu

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


Mark Crescenzi

Mark Crescenzi

Leadership Selection Committee

crescenzi@unc.edu

Mark Crescenzi is a professor of political science.


Kara Millonzi

Kara Millonzi

Leadership Selection Committee

millonzi@sog.unc.edu

Kara Millonzi is a professor in the School of Government.


Abigail Panter

Abigail Panter

Leadership Selection Committee

panter@unc.edu

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.


Michelle Robinson

Michelle Robinson

Leadership Selection Committee

m.michelle.robinson@unc.edu

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