About

Launched in 2013, the IAH New Faculty Program is designed to facilitate interdisciplinary and mentoring networks for faculty at the assistant professor rank who are in their first three years at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Program Director: Mike Figueroa, mfigueroa@unc.edu

Michael A. Figueroa (Associate Professor; he/him/his) specializes in music and politics in the SWANA region and its diasporas (South West Asia and North Africa, aka the “Middle East”). The early phase of his career focused on music in the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, culminating in his first book, City of Song: Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem (Oxford University Press, 2022). In the book, he develops a genealogical approach to the study of musical discourse, arguing that popular song has been an essential discursive site for the production of spatial knowledge about Jerusalem, the main contested territory within the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. One of the several publications stemming from this project, “‘Behind the Sounds’: Matti Caspi, Shlomo Gronich, and the Politics of Genre in Israel” (Journal of Musicology), was awarded the American Musicological Society Jewish Studies and Music Study Group Publication Award in 2022.

Programming

The program engages faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences who are new to campus through professional development, networking, and social events throughout the year. The program helps to connect faculty better to resources, opportunities, and the campus. Events that are typically hosted include a welcome-to-campus social, campus tours, publication and writing workshops, and promotion and tenure panels.

Fall 2024 Events

Registration is required for all events.

Sept. 26: Fall Community Building Social. Join fellow New Faculty Program members for drinks and conversation social at The Crunkleton on Thursday, September 26 from 4:30pm-6:30pm. This will be an opportunity to pickup on conversations at the NFP Opening Breakfast, start new ones, make new connections and continue building our community on campus.

Eligibility

The New Faculty Program is open to full-time faculty who hold the rank of assistant professor or teaching assistant professor and who are within their first three years of appointment in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Contact

For more information, contact:

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

Mike Figueroa
Program Director, NFP
Associate Professor, Music
mfigueroa@unc.edu