Faculty News

Following the national controversy over her extended tenure bid at the Hussman School of Journalism and Media, she will not be teaching at Carolina after all. read more

Malinda Maynor Lowery ’02 (’05 PhD), director of UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South and a professor of history, is leaving Chapel Hill to become the Cahoon Family Professor in American history at Emory University this… read more

Law professor Eric Muller, who has served on the board for a decade, has not been reappointed for a third term. read more

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist was awarded tenure as the Knight Chair in race and investigative journalism at the Hussman School of Journalism and Media by the UNC Board of Trustees in a special session. read more

The possibility of Nikole Hannah-Jones ’03 (MA) receiving a tenured faculty position in UNC’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media is back on the table. read more

Pulitzer Prize winner Nikole Hannah-Jones ’03 (MA) has been granted a fixed five-year term as professor of the practice after the Board of Trustees took no action on the Hussman school’s bid for her to receive a tenured professorship. read more

Four UNC professors are among the most recent inductees into the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest distinctions for a scientist or engineer in the U.S. read more

Pulitzer Prize-winner and MacArthur Fellowship “genius grant” recipient Nikole Hannah-Jones ’03 (MA) will join UNC’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media in July as the Knight Chair in race and investigative journalism. read more

Patricia Parker has been named the next director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. Her four-year term will begin July 1. Parker, chair of the department of communication since 2015, has been a member of the Carolina faculty since… read more