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The IAH is proud to announce its 2026-27 Faculty Fellowship Program recipients. This spring, assistant professor of phil...
10/19/2026

The IAH is proud to announce its 2026-27 Faculty Fellowship Program recipients. This spring, assistant professor of philosophy Rosalind Chaplin will join the Fellows Table to work on her project “Beyond Self-Concern: Rethinking the Grounds of Partial Concern.”

Dr. Chaplin’s research focuses on philosopher Immanuel Kant, early modern philosophy, and contemporary ethics and moral psychology. She was an Edward H. Bersoff Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy at NYU and a visiting researcher at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her publications include the articles “Kant on Complete Explanation and Self-Grounding Things: From the Pre-Critical New Elucidation to the Critique of Pure Reason” for the British Journal for the History of Philosophy (2026) and “Being Ashamed of Others: Shame and Partial Concerns for Persons” for Philosophical Quarterly (2024), among others.

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

10/16/2026

"My parents are from Ecuador. They immigrated to the United States in the late ’50s and early ’60s to California, where I’m from. ... I wanted to study and research this topic as a way to say, people from Latin America have been here in the US literally since 1783 or even before. And I’m not talking about the Southwest either, because that’s obvious, through the 19th century, becoming a part of the United States, but I’m talking about Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, of course, Boston, and even in the South."

Professor David Garcia recently joined the Institute of Arts and Humanities’ podcast, The Institute, to share his research and his current project, Border Crossings: Latin U.S. History We Weren’t Taught. Listen to the full episode or read the transcript at: https://music.unc.edu/2026/10/14/the-institute-podcast-episode-153-david-garcia-and-the-latin-u-s-history-we-werent-taught/.

📸: Megan Mendenhall / UNC Office of Research Communications

On Oct. 20 at 5:30 p.m., public policy teaching professor Anna Krome-Lukens (FFP ’21, ALP ’25) will give an author talk ...
10/16/2026

On Oct. 20 at 5:30 p.m., public policy teaching professor Anna Krome-Lukens (FFP ’21, ALP ’25) will give an author talk on her book “Strong State, Weak Links: Eugenics and the Southern Politics of Welfare” with American studies associate professor Seth Kotch (FFP ’18, ’24; ALP ’23) at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill.

See more information about the event on the Flyleaf Books website: https://go.unc.edu/Yk7b4

The Institute for the Arts and Humanities is accepting applications for the 2027-28 IAH Tyson Academic Leadership Progra...
10/15/2026

The Institute for the Arts and Humanities is accepting applications for the 2027-28 IAH Tyson Academic Leadership Program, due Oct. 26.

The ALP helps prepare and support current and emerging academic leaders at UNC. Eight Fellows selected annually from units throughout the University engage in a series of activities to help them develop leadership skills, clarify their career commitments, build a leadership network within the campus, and extend their contacts to other leaders beyond the University.

The Tyson Academic Leadership Program is open to faculty across the University. For more information, including how to apply, see the Call for Applications on the IAH website: https://go.unc.edu/Xr36H

Next week, America250 at Carolina, a public-facing series of events, kicks off with a cross-campus collaboration that br...
10/14/2026

Next week, America250 at Carolina, a public-facing series of events, kicks off with a cross-campus collaboration that brings UNC-Chapel Hill’s world-class faculty in conversation with archivists, community historians, museum curators, state officials, K-12 educators, writers, musicians, actors and others who engage early American history through professional and creative work.

The Institute for the Arts and Humanities is a proud sponsor of the week’s events. In addition to hosting some events in Hyde Hall, the weeklong celebration features several IAH Fellows sharing their expertise to place this significant milestone into historical and social contexts.

For a list of IAH Fellows participating, as well as other ways Fellows have engaged with U.S. history, see the post on the IAH website: https://go.unc.edu/Zr24M

The Institute for the Arts and Humanities is excited to announce its 2026-27 Faculty Fellowship Program recipients. This...
10/14/2026

The Institute for the Arts and Humanities is excited to announce its 2026-27 Faculty Fellowship Program recipients. This spring, art and art history professor Maggie Cao joins the Fellows Table to work on her project “Arboreal America: The Temporalities of Natural and National History.

Dr. Cao’s research focuses on 18th- and 19th-century American art in a global context. Her research employs the history of globalization and art’s interaction with topics like technology, economics, and the natural sciences. Dr. Cao’s publications include Painting US Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies (2025) and The End of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century America (2018).

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

The IAH warmly welcomes its 2026-27 Faculty Fellowship cohorts to Hyde Hall. This spring, assistant professor of media a...
10/13/2026

The IAH warmly welcomes its 2026-27 Faculty Fellowship cohorts to Hyde Hall. This spring, assistant professor of media art in the department of communication Kelsey Brod will work on her project titled “The Computational Performance of Vision.”

Dr. Brod's research focuses on aesthetics of computational performance. Their work involves making open-world games and engaging with formulas of space, time, and light within the digital world from a lens of performance theory in the arts and gender studies. Dr. Brod’s projects include the exhibits Night Mode, an Iris’s Grammar of Light, and Infinity Fall. Read more on her website: https://go.unc.edu/d3QAj

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

Today, Oct. 12, English and comparative literature professor Florence Dore (FFP ’13, 22; ALP ’20) will perform in a 14-p...
10/12/2026

Today, Oct. 12, English and comparative literature professor Florence Dore (FFP ’13, 22; ALP ’20) will perform in a 14-person band with Provost Magnus Egerstedt to celebrate UNC-Chapel Hill’s University Day.

Dore, who is a musician as well as a professor, was the first member Egerstedt approached for Magnus and the Focus Capacities, which will headline University Day festivities. The celebration begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Bell Tower.

Read more in the Daily Tar Heel article: https://go.unc.edu/Df5t9

The deadline is approaching for Public Humanities Connectors applications, due Oct. 15, 2026. The Institute for the Arts...
10/12/2026

The deadline is approaching for Public Humanities Connectors applications, due Oct. 15, 2026.

The Institute for the Arts and Humanities and Carolina Public Humanities invite applications from former IAH Faculty Fellows to serve as Public Humanities Connectors. This program offers faculty the opportunity to hone their research communication skills by designing and running public programming that prioritizes engagement with communities beyond campus and outside academia.

Working with CPH, Connectors will bring their research into public-facing venues locally and statewide through three programs to be held in spring or fall 2027. Programs may include public talks, roundtables, curated dialogues, multisensory experiences, and collaboration with K-12 teachers.

For more information, see the Call for Applications (https://go.unc.edu/Ec82N) and read about the 2026 recipients on the IAH website (https://go.unc.edu/a6JCd).

On Oct. 30 at 12:10 p.m., join the IAH in Hyde Hall for a Fellows Forum event titled “It’s All Love? Beyoncé and Jay-Z a...
10/09/2026

On Oct. 30 at 12:10 p.m., join the IAH in Hyde Hall for a Fellows Forum event titled “It’s All Love? Beyoncé and Jay-Z and the Re-enchantment of Black Romance in the Age of the Manosphere” by American studies assistant professor Antonia Randolph (FFP ’22).

Randolph will analyze Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s post 2010 output, with emphasis on Everything is Love (The Carters 2018) and Renaissance (Beyoncé 2022), to show that their defense of romantic love converts their need to salvage their brand as hip-hop and R&Bs happily wed power couple into a story about saving the Black nation through heteronormative marriage.

All Fellows Forum events are open to the public. See more information about the event, including how to RSVP, on the IAH website: https://go.unc.edu/d5T6A

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