 | May 2025: IAH Faculty Newsletter |
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| The Holberg Prize is awarded annually to a scholar who has made outstanding contributions to research in the humanities, social science, law, or theology, either in one of these fields or through interdisciplinary work. Scholars holding positions at universities and other research institutions, including academies, are entitled to nominate candidates to the prize. Nomination Deadline: June 15, 2025 Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholars The Russell Sage Foundation’s Visiting Scholars Program provides a unique opportunity for select scholars in the social, economic, political, and behavioral sciences to pursue their data analysis and writing while in residence at the foundation’s headquarters in New York City. The foundation annually awards 15 to 17 Visiting Scholar fellowships. Applicants must be at least two years beyond the Ph.D. when applying, and if selected, typically work on projects related to the foundation’s core programs (Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context; Future of Work; Race, Ethnicity and Immigration; Social, Political and Economic Inequality) and special initiatives. Deadline: June 25, 2025 NEH Public Scholars Applications for the 2026 Public Scholars Competition will open on June 3. Proposals should focus on topics in American history, culture, and government in any period from the colonial era to the present that increase public knowledge of the 250th anniversary of American independence and American exceptionalism. Projects might explore the origins of the world’s oldest constitutional democracy, or how its founding ideals have been met over time, or examine significant individuals, events, books or documents, artworks, objects, music, places, traditions, or ideas that have shaped America, its role in the world, or the experiences of its people. Deadline: August 6, 2025 IAH Arts and Humanities Research Grant |
The Institute for the Arts and Humanities invites applications for the Arts and Humanities Research Grant. The grant provides support to scholarly, creative, or artistic pursuits and research projects led by individuals or teams. The program supports Carolina’s research enterprise, furthering the University’s pre-eminence as a national and world-renowned leader in foundational research, creative practice, and the translation of research into social settings. Awards will range from $2,500 to $7,500. Deadline: August 21, 2025 |
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| Karla Slocum on leadership |
Karla Slocum (FFP ’03, ’20; ALP ’18) is the current senior associate dean for faculty and staff development and professor of anthropology. In this Q&A, Slocum answers questions on what leadership means, what her time as an ALP Fellow was like in 2018, and how her scholarly research connects to her leadership positions on campus. |
IAH research initiative continues impact |
The Faculty Fellowship Program embraces the weaving of humanistic disciplines to advance scholarship on topics in the arts, humanities, and qualitative social sciences. Read our story on how the Race, Memory, and Reckoning Initiative allows faculty to pursue impactful research, including on how race relates to personal, intergenerational, and systemic memory. |
Tania Jenkins on Episode 143 of The Institute |
Sociologist Tania Jenkins (FFP ’24) studies the social impacts within medicine and health care, from status hierarchies to physician burnout. As a DuBose Fellow in the IAH's Faculty Fellowship, Jenkins explored the structural underpinnings of satisfaction and well-being in medicine. In Episode 143 of The Institute, she describes her research journey and interest in medical sociology and her current research. |
We’d like to extend our congratulations to these Fellows for their recent work and accomplishments: - Kathleen DuVal (FFP ’13, ’22) was awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Native Nations: A Millennium in North America (Penguin Random House). The book also won the 2024 Cundill History Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Mark Lynton History Prize.
- The University of Chicago Press released Daniel Sherman’s (FFP ’17) Sensations: French Archaeology between Science and Spectacle, 1890-1940 this May. Sensations also received a 2023-24 Publication Support Grant from the IAH.
- On May 4, Gabrielle Berlinger (FFP ’25) participated in the presentation of The Lives of Jewish Things (Wayne State University Press) at the North Carolina Museum of Art. Berlinger co-edited The Lives of Jewish Things and was awarded a 2024-25 Publication Support Grant from the IAH for the project.
- In a Q&A with the College, FOCIF Steering Committee Chair Suzanne Lye (FFP ’24) answers how her book Life / Afterlife: Revolution and Reflection in the Ancient Greek Underworld from Homer to Lucian (Oxford University Press) examines modern views about life and death, literary genres, and more.
- The College’s Bookmark This and WCHL interviewed Daniel Wallace (FFP ’18) for his new short story collection, Beneath the Moon and Long Dead Stars (Bull City Press), which will be released later this May.
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Have any news to share? Former Fellows, we’d like to highlight recent news about your publications, accomplishments, and service in the newsletter! Please email the Institute’s programmatic communicator, Ruby Wang, with details about your updates. |
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| Reserving space at Hyde Hall |
Hyde Hall rooms can be reserved and used for faculty development programs and activities related to our central mission. Events include, but are not limited to, academic workshops, panels, lectures, conferences, and retreats. Starting May 12, the IAH will operate on reduced hours and will only accept applications for events that take place Tuesday-Thursday. Learn more about how to reserve space in Hyde Hall. |
Graduate Research Consultant Program |
The Office for Undergraduate Research leads a Graduate Research Consultant Program to help faculty integrate a research project/assignment into an undergraduate course by providing support for an advanced graduate student who guides students through their research projects from beginning to end. To request funding for a graduate research consultant for fall courses, please submit an online proposal by July 1. |
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