News & Events
Meet FOCIF Steering Chair Suzanne Lye
“My aim is to create a place where people can feel accepted for who they are in their whole beings, not just in relation to what they’re teaching or what they research,” said Suzanne Lye on her term as the Steering Committee Chair for the Faculty of Color and Indigenous Faculty Group. The FOCIF Group provides support, community, and professional development for faculty of color and Indigenous faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill. Lye identified the group as “an important place for people to discuss shared interests and to ask questions both about how to interact with other colleagues who come from different cultural settings and how to interact with the university more broadly, … Read more
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Meet FOCIF Steering Chair Suzanne Lye
“My aim is to create a place where people can feel accepted for who they are in their whole beings, not just in relation to what they’re teaching or what they research,” said Suzanne Lye on her term as the … Read more
Meet Michelle Robinson, Interim Director for the Faculty Fellowship Program
This year, American Studies professor Michelle Robinson serves as the interim director for the Faculty Fellowship Program. An alumna of the Faculty Fellowship Program (’18) and the Academic Leadership Program (’21), Robinson appreciates the scholarly community built by IAH fellowships. … Read more
Call for Applications: Summer International Collaborative Research Grant
The Summer International Collaborative Research Grant provides $20,000 of ongoing funding for up to five years for international projects beginning in summer 2025.
Meet Emily Baragwanath, Associate Professor Program Director
Shortly after her promotion in 2013, Emily Baragwanath joined the Institute for the Arts and Humanities’ Associate Professor Program, finding community with fellow faculty. Hailing from the classics department, Baragwanath was glad to meet other faculty at the same rank … Read more
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Faculty Fellowship Program Proposal Workshop
Tuesday 2:00 pm
NHC Fellowship Proposal Workshop
Tuesday 1:00 pm
Associate Professor Program: Orientation Session
Tuesday 2:30 pm
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LECTURES AT THE INSTITUTE
Reckford Lecture
The Institute hosts the annual Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies, established in 1990 by UNC Classics Professor Kenneth J. Reckford to honor his wife, Mary Stevens Reckford (February 25, 1934 – November 12, 1987). The lecture is designed to appeal to the public, rather than specialists. Speakers are asked to provide “pleasure, instruction, an interdisciplinary approach and a sense of shared humanity.” Because Mary Reckford’s birthday is Feb. 25, the Institute hosts the lecture within the month of February.
Learn more about Reckford LectureWeil Lecture
The Institute for the Arts and Humanities has hosted UNC’s Weil Lecture on American Citizenship since 2000. Brothers Henry and Solomon Weil established the lecture in 1915 to widen discussion of the concept in the United States. Presidents Taft and Carter, Eleanor Roosevelt, Senators J. William Fulbright and Nancy Kassebaum and Professor Lester Thurow are among the many distinguished Weil lecturers. Other recent speakers have been members of Congress, diplomats, political commentators and renowned scholars.
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