The Nannerl Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professorship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University
DESCRIPTION: The Keohane Professorship recognizes the remarkable contributions of Dr. Nannerl Keohane during her term as President of Duke University, and the unprecedented level of collaboration she and UNC Chancellor James Moeser created between these two great institutions. The award was created in 2004 by Chancellor Moeser and is funded by Carolina graduate Julian Robertson and his wife, Josie, of New York (parents of Spencer Robertson '98) and the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust. A press release announcing the Professorship is available at: http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/030404/depgaz4.html. The Professorship brings outstanding scholars, artists, or practitioners to the UNC and Duke campuses who will promote existing and encourage new collaborations between the two schools.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PROFESSORSHIP:
Responsibilities include:
1. Working to promote inter-institutional collaboration and the enhancement of intellectual life at both universities by strengthening established or encouraging new collaborations;
2. Making a contribution to the teaching missions of both UNC and Duke, and in particular to the undergraduate curriculum, through a self-standing course or the co-teaching of one or more courses, or through a carefully planned series of guest appearances in a number of courses;
3. Delivering at least one major public lecture or performance.
The recipient is entitled to a stipend. Past recipients have typically spent a semester in the program, although the schedule can be flexible according to the recipient's schedule and available funding. Past recipients have catalyzed cross-campus undergraduate programs, conducted joint projects with Carolina and Duke research centers, taught joint Carolina and Duke courses, and delivered major public addresses.
APPLICATION PROCESS: The next call for nominations should be released in fall, 2009.
RECIPIENTS OF THE PROFESSORSHIP:
2010 (spring)
Klaus Armingeon, Director, Institute of Political Science, University of Berne (Switzerland)
http://www.ipw.unibe.ch/content/team/klaus_armingeon/index_ger.html
An expert on European politics and political economy, Professor Armingeon has published extensively on the comparative politics of Europe. He will be teaching a conference course, giving a lecture, and will have additional interactions with faculty and students.
2009 (spring)
Patricia Uberoi, Honorary Director, Institute of Chinese Studies, Centre for the Study of
Developing Societies (Delhi, India)
Biographical Information (PDF)
As Keohane Professor for the Spring term of 2009, affiliated with the Anthropology Department of the University of North Carolina, Professor Uberoi is co-teaching a course on “Gender and Sexuality in India” with Professor Sumathi Ramaswamy of the Department of History, Duke University. The interdisciplinary course, which is video-conferenced across the two campuses, seeks to introduce students to issues of gender and sexuality in India as these are reflected, in particular, through visual media. In addition to this teaching responsibility, Professor Uberoi will be delivering the Nannerl O. Keohane lecture on “Chicks, kids and couples: Icons of Indian modernity” on February 27, 2009, and presenting papers at two international conferences to be held at Duke University in this semester: the conference on “India, Sexuality and the Archive”, hosted by the Women’s Studies program on February 13, and the conference on “M.F. Husain: Barefoot across the Nation”, hosted by the History Department in April. She is also seeking to use the opportunity provided by the Keohane Professorship to compile materials for a Reader on Intimacy in Asia. Additional details can be found on the NC Center for South Asia Studies website http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/csas/index.php.
2008 (spring)
Peter Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister, Harvard University
http://www.memorialchurch.harvard.edu/preachers/pjg.shtml
Dr. Peter Gomes, who delivered the 2005 commencement address at Carolina , has been Plummer professor of Christian morals and Pusey minister in the Memorial Church of Harvard University since 1974. Dr. Gomes will teach an undergraduate course that will be open to students from both Duke and Carolina , and a course in the Duke Divinity School .
2007 (fall)
J. Lawrence Aber, Professor of Applied Psychology and Public Policy, New York University
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/J._Lawrence_Aber
Dr. J. Lawrence Aber, is a child development specialist. His research examines the influence of violence and poverty in families and communities as it relates to child development. He is currently teaching a joint undergraduate course for Carolina and Duke students, and conducting research with the Duke Center for Child and Family Policy and the UNC Center for Developmental Science.
2006
Gerd Jürgens, Developmental Genetics, University of Tubingen ( Germany )
Dr. Gerd Jürgens is the founding director and research group leader for the Center for Plant Molecular Biology and a professor of developmental genetics at the University of Tübingen . A respected authority on the developmental biology of plants and animals, Jürgens taught one undergraduate and one graduate course open to students from both Carolina and Duke, and delivered a major address in April of 2006 at UNC as part of the Distinguished Seminar in Molecular Biology.
2005
Dr. Geoffrey Brennan, Philosophy Program, The Australian National University
http://philrsss.anu.edu.au/people-defaults/brennan/index.php3
Geoffrey Brennan is a professor in the Social and Political Theory group in the Research School of Social Science at Australian National University in Canberra . Noted for his work in public choice theory, welfare economics, public finance and political philosophy, Brennan split the spring 2005 semester between Carolina and Duke, where he taught two undergraduate classes and worked with faculty on both campuses to develop a cross-campus undergraduate Program in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.