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UNC historian tapped for National Humanities Center fellowship
Professor of History John Wood Sweet was among 31 scholars awarded National Humanities Center fellowships for the 2024-2025 academic year. Sweet was the only researcher from UNC-Chapel Hill to receive a fellowship.
Austin Vo’s graduate research has taken him around the world
The sociology Ph.D. student spent time in France to study “indigenous responses to French colonialism,” he shared, and is continuing his research in Vietnam and Senegal this year.
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Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College faculty and alumni. The April featured book is “Respect and Loathing in American Democracy: Polarization, Moralization and the Undermining of Equality” by Jeff Spinner-Halev and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse.
IAH announces 2024 Schwab Academic Excellence Awards winners
The Institute for the Arts and Humanities has announced the 2024 Schwab Academic Excellence Awards, which have been granted to one faculty member from each College department in the arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences.
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Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College of Arts and Sciences faculty and alumni. This month’s featured book is “The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization that Transformed America,” by Katherine Turk, associate professor of history.
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Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College faculty and alumni. The March featured book is “Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda” by Shakirah Hudani, assistant professor in the department of African, African American and diaspora studies.
UNC’s Diplomacy Initiative hosts live recording of prominent podcast
Co-hosts from the “Brussels Sprouts” podcast discussed the upcoming Russian presidential election in a live event at UNC-Chapel Hill. They interviewed UNC political science professor Graeme Robertson and King’s College London professor Samuel Greene.