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The IAH is proud to announce its 2026-27 Faculty Fellowship Program recipients. This fall, assistant professor of art an...
09/02/2026

The IAH is proud to announce its 2026-27 Faculty Fellowship Program recipients. This fall, assistant professor of art and art history Sherrill Roland will join the Fellows Table to work on his project “Personal Effects: Archive of the Weathered.”

Roland is an award-winning artist who teaches sculpture and expanded media at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is the creator of The Jumpsuit Project, a performance-arts based project that aims to deconstruct audience perceptions about incarceration. He’s held solo exhibitions at institutions around the country, including the Ackland Art Museum and Brooklyn’s Central Public Library, and is the recipient of numerous fellowships and accolades, including a 2025 USA Fellowship Award.

See the upcoming Faculty Fellows and their project titles on the IAH website: https://go.unc.edu/Dr6m5

The IAH is thrilled to welcome its 2026-27 Faculty Fellowship recipients to Hyde Hall. This fall, assistant professor of...
08/31/2026

The IAH is thrilled to welcome its 2026-27 Faculty Fellowship recipients to Hyde Hall. This fall, assistant professor of anthropology Dafna Rachok will work on her project “Therapeutic Connections: Community Activism, State, and Global Health in Wartime Ukraine.”

Dr. Rachok specializes in medical and sociocultural anthropology, and her research interests include global health, affect theory, gender and sexuality studies, and Ukranian studies. Her publications include several journal articles and book chapters, including the article “Searching for therapeutic connections: Ukrainian refugee women with HIV in the EU” in Medical Anthropology Quarterly.

See the upcoming Faculty Fellows and their project titles on the IAH website: https://go.unc.edu/Dr6m5

The IAH is excited to announce its 2026-27 Faculty Fellows. This fall, teaching professor in the curriculum of global st...
08/27/2026

The IAH is excited to announce its 2026-27 Faculty Fellows. This fall, teaching professor in the curriculum of global studies Michal Osterweil joins the Fellows Table to work on her project “Transformative Pedagogies in Times of Crisis.”

Dr. Osterweil’s research centers contemporary social movements and knowledge production within them. She is involved with UNC’s Social Movement Working Group, the Carrboro Greenspace, an Inter-University Consortium on the Americas in Comparative and Transnational Perspective, as well as numerous other projects at the University and in her community. Dr. Osterweil is a founding member and editor of the Turbulence: Ideas for Movement journal/newspaper.

See the upcoming Faculty Fellows and their project titles on the IAH website: https://go.unc.edu/Dr6m5

The Institute for the Arts and Humanities is accepting applications for the 2027-28 Faculty Fellowship Program, due Sept...
08/26/2026

The Institute for the Arts and Humanities is accepting applications for the 2027-28 Faculty Fellowship Program, due Sept. 21, 2026.

The IAH Faculty Fellowship Program offers faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences a unique opportunity: a semester-long, residential fellowship to work on projects for publication, exhibition, composition, or performance.

For more information, see the call for proposals on the IAH website: https://go.unc.edu/Pa74C

The IAH warmly welcomes its 2026-27 Faculty Fellows to Hyde Hall. This fall, associate professor of geography Christian ...
08/25/2026

The IAH warmly welcomes its 2026-27 Faculty Fellows to Hyde Hall. This fall, associate professor of geography Christian Lentz joins the Fellows table to work on his project “Decolonizing Southeast Asia: Biography of a Region.”

Dr. Lentz’s research focuses on politics, environments, and societies in Southeast Asia. He is the author of an award-winning book Contested Territory: Dien Bien Phu and the Making of Northwest Vietnam (2019) and Principal Investigator on “Bringing Southeast Asia Home,” a five-year initiative intended to grow the profile of Southeast Asian studies at UNC-Chapel Hill.

See the upcoming Faculty Fellows and their project titles on the IAH website: https://go.unc.edu/Dr6m5

The IAH is excited to welcome its 2026-27 Faculty Fellows to Hyde Hall. This fall, associate professor of communication ...
08/25/2026

The IAH is excited to welcome its 2026-27 Faculty Fellows to Hyde Hall. This fall, associate professor of communication Julia Haslett will work on her project “Hope Grows Here.”

Haslett is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work explores empathy, attention, and bearing witness. Her filmography includes An Encounter with Simone Weil (2010), Pushed Up the Mountain (2020), and Hold Your Breath (2005). She also directed and produced the Worlds Apart short film series about the United States healthcare system. Read more about Haslett in this throwback UNC profile from 2021: https://go.unc.edu/z4F5M

See the upcoming Faculty Fellows and their project titles on the IAH website: https://go.unc.edu/Dr6m5

On Aug. 20, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities welcomed faculty and friends of the IAH to Hyde Hall for its annua...
08/24/2026

On Aug. 20, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities welcomed faculty and friends of the IAH to Hyde Hall for its annual Welcome Celebration. The Welcome Celebration is the Institute’s fall kickoff event, where guests gather for an evening of community, camaraderie, and celebration of UNC-Chapel Hill’s incredible arts and humanities faculty.

08/24/2026

What are The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Faculty Fellows exploring?

The IAH Fellows Forum brings Carolina scholars back to Hyde Hall to share the research supported by the UNC Institute for the Arts and Humanities’ Faculty Fellowship Program. Each public lecture offers the community a closer look at their current and ongoing work.

Explore the Fellows Forum and register for an upcoming lecture
https://go.unc.edu/p2A5T

The IAH is excited to announce its 2026-27 Faculty Fellowship Program recipients. This fall, assistant professor of Medi...
08/20/2026

The IAH is excited to announce its 2026-27 Faculty Fellowship Program recipients. This fall, assistant professor of Medieval/Early Modern Jewish history Jennifer Grayson joins the Fellows table to work on her project “At the King’s Gate: The Jews of Abbasid Baghdad.”

Dr. Grayson is the Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat Fellow in Jewish History at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the social and political history of Arabic-speaking Jewish communities in the medieval Islamic world. Her project explores the relationship between Jewish communities and the Muslim government in Iraq from 750-1258.

See the upcoming Faculty Fellows and their project titles on the IAH website: https://go.unc.edu/Dr6m5

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