Fine Arts & Humanities
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Bookmark This
Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College faculty and alumni. The December featured book is “The Lives of Jewish Things: Collecting and Curating Material Culture,” edited by Gabrielle Anna Berlinger and Ruth von Bernuth.
Mary Floyd-Wilson Receives Johnson Prize for Distinguished Achievement
Mary Floyd-Wilson, professor of English and a nationally recognized scholar of early modern English literature, has been named the 2024-2025 recipient of the George H. Johnson Prize for Distinguished Achievement by an IAH Fellow.
Ex Machina’s Interdisciplinary Triumph: Bridging Technology and the Humanities
Associate professor of music Clara Yang’s Ex Machina started as a series of questions about machines and music and has evolved into a groundbreaking multimedia performance.
Filling a major gap in oral history
The Southern Mix project began in 2017 after a group of UNC-Chapel Hill students saw a need for the University archives to reflect stories of Asian and Asian Americans in North Carolina.
A love of writing for stage and screen
Tony and Emmy-nominated writer, producer and performer Anthony King ’97 received the New York Carolina Club’s John L. Haber Award for outstanding contributions to the arts.
A tool for healing
Senior Violeta Gonzalez Toro was inspired by a transformative literature class to research how veterans might use reading as a path for healing after military experiences.
Unmasking Ugliness
Al Duncan has spent the last 15 years exploring why humans are drawn to the unpleasant and uncomfortable aspects of life.