Staff Directory: Faculty Advisory Board
![Samuel Gates](https://iah.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1150/2022/08/Samuel-Ray-Gates-web-300x300.jpg)
Samuel Gates
Faculty Fellowship Selection Committeeraysam@email.unc.edu
Samuel Ray Gates is an actor, comedian, and professor of acting at the University of North Carolina.
![Lee Weisert](https://iah.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1150/2019/08/LeeWeisert_toned-290x300.jpg)
Lee Weisert
Faculty Fellowship Selection Committeeweisert@unc.edu
Lee Weisert, associate professor of music, is a composer of instrumental and electronic music and a multimedia sound artist.
![Mariska Leunissen](https://iah.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1150/2017/03/Leunissen_Mariska-iah-300x300.jpg)
Mariska Leunissen
Faculty Fellowship Selection Committeemleunissen@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.
![Michelle Robinson](https://iah.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1150/2018/07/MRobinson2-e1541098571332-289x300.jpg)
Michelle Robinson
Leadership Selection Committeem.michelle.robinson@unc.edu
Michelle Robinson is an associate professor and associate chair of the American Studies Department.
![Mark Crescenzi](https://iah.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1150/2018/05/iah-toned_markcrescenzi-e1550521168748-300x277.jpg)
Mark Crescenzi
Leadership Selection Committeecrescenzi@unc.edu
Mark Crescenzi is a professor of political science.
![Kara Millonzi](https://iah.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1150/2022/08/Kara-Millonzi-300x300.jpg)
Kara Millonzi
Leadership Selection Committeemillonzi@sog.unc.edu
Kara Millonzi is a professor in the School of Government.
![Sara Smith](https://iah.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1150/2022/08/Sara-Smith-300x300.jpg)
Sara Smith
Faculty Fellowship Selection Committeeshsmith1@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](https://iah.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1150/2022/08/Brendan-Thornton-web-300x300.jpg)
Brendan Jamal Thornton
Faculty Fellowship Selection CommitteeBrendan_Thornton@unc.edu
Brendan Jamal Thornton is a cultural anthropologist and specialist on religion and culture in the Caribbean.
![Eunice Sahle](https://iah.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1150/2020/10/Sahle_Eunice-300x300.jpg)
Eunice Sahle
Faculty Fellowship Selection Committeeeunice@email.unc.edu
Eunice Sahle is an Associate Professor in the Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies.
![Kathleen DuVal](https://iah.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1150/2021/07/DuVal_Kathleen-edit-300x300.jpg)
Kathleen DuVal
Faculty Fellowship Selection Committeeduval@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.
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