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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.


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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.  


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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.


A bulletin board of sticky notes responds to the question written on the board: "What does the South mean to you?"

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.


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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.


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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.


Portrait of Al Duncan holding up a peculiar mask

Unmasking Ugliness

Al Duncan has spent the last 15 years exploring why humans are drawn to the unpleasant and uncomfortable aspects of life.


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