About

Throughout higher education and across disciplines, newly tenured and promoted professors face unique professional and personal challenges. The Associate Professor Program is designed to support them as they enter this transitional period.

Program Director: Emily Baragwanath, ebaragwanath@unc.edu

Emily Baragwanath received her B.A. (1999) in Ancient History and English and M.A. (2001) in Ancient History from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, before taking up a Rhodes Scholarship to Magdalen College, University of Oxford, U.K. She gained her doctorate in Classics from Oxford (2005) and then continued work as a postdoctoral fellow at Christ Church, Oxford, before her arrival in Chapel Hill in summer 2007. She has since pursued her research at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington D.C. (2009-2010) and as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the University of Heidelberg in Germany (2013-14). In 2020-21 she was a Fellow at the National Humanities Center. She is currently serving as Director of the Associate Professor Program at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities (a three-year term, 2024-2027).

Programming

This cohort-based program is for newly tenured and promoted associate professors or those within the first two years since promotion at Carolina. Programming consist of monthly meetings/workshops on focused topics such as: career advancement, building community, restorative practices and others. The hope of this program is is to create a collegial space for faculty to discuss critical issues that will benefit their teaching, research, service and general sense of wellbeing in their advancing career.

Topics explored in APP programming include sustaining work-life balance at mid-career, managing increased expectations and opportunities for university service, developing leadership and negotiating skills, preparing for promotion to full professor, and positioning oneself in the academy as an established scholar.

Fall 2024 Events

Registration is required for all events.

Sept. 24: The Associate Professor Program Orientation Sessions. Interested associate professors are welcome to attend and preview the academic year’s programming, goals, and aspirations.

Eligibility

All College faculty are invited to participate in the program in the first three years following their promotion to associate professor.

Contact

For more information, contact:

Zyon Perkins
Event Planner
919-962-0918
zyon@unc.edu

Emily Baragwanath
Program Director, APP
Professor, Classics
ebaragwanath@unc.edu