ACADEMIC YEAR 2023-2024
Brett Ashley Kaplan
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
https://www.brettashleykaplan.com/
Kaplan, who is Professor and Conrad Humanities Scholar in the Department of Comparative and World Literature at Illinois, is the author of “Critical Memory Studies: New Approaches,” “Unwanted Beauty: Aesthetic Pleasure in Holocaust Representation,” “Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory” and “Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth,” as well as a novel, “Rare Stuff.”
Kaplan publishes in Haaretz, The Conversation, Salon.com, As It Ought to Be Magazine, AJS Perspectives, Contemporary Literature, Edge Effects and The Jewish Review of Books. She has been interviewed on NPR, the AJS Podcast and The 21st.
Currently, Kaplan is working on an edited collection about contemporary Black-Jewish voices and writing a second novel.
ACADEMIC YEAR 2022-2023
Pawan Dhingra
Amherst College Associate Provost and Associate Dean of the Faculty
Dhingra, the Aliki Perroti and Seth Frank ’55 Professor of U.S. Immigration Studies at Amherst College, is a renowned scholar of Asian American studies, inequality, immigration, race, identity and culture.
The current president of the Association for Asian American Studies, Dhingra has authored several books on the Asian American experience, including “Hyper Education: Why Good Schools, Good Grades, and Good Behavior Are Not Enough,” “Life Behind the Lobby: Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream,” and “Managing Multicultural Lives: Asian American Professionals and the Challenge of Multiple Identities.”
Dhingra also co-curated the Smithsonian Institution’s exhibition “Beyond Bollywood: Asian Indian Americans Shape the Nation.”
ACADEMIC YEAR 2020-21
David Rueda
Professor of Comparative Politics, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~polf0050/
Professor Rueda is a leader in the field of comparative political economy and European politics, areas in which both UNC and Duke have well respected faculty. There will be opportunities for collaboration with these faculty members and with his colleagues at Oxford. He will work with faculty and students both independently and through cross-disciplinary conferences.
ACADEMIC YEARS 2019-20 and 2020-21
Visiting professors are to be selected from participants in the Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Conference
Keohane funding had previously been provided to these collaborators who now want to continue building on the partnership they have developed. Funding will support two half-semester visiting professors for academic years 2019-20 and 2020-21 and will be used to continue an ongoing project in ethics and entrepreneurship. The two professors will be selected from participants in the Frontiers of Entrepreneurship conference. By working together, these individuals will increase research in the field of entrepreneurship.
ACADEMIC YEAR 2019-20
Paavo Honkakoski
Professor of Biopharmacy, University of Eastern Finland
https://www.uef.fi/en/web/farmasia-vierasainemetabolia/paavo-honkakoski
Professor Honkakoski’s visit will catalyze existing research and education collaborations in clinical pharmacology, and stimulate new research collaboration between labs at Duke and UNC. His engagement will contribute to the research programs in liver biology, liver disease, and precision medicine therapies and the clinical pharmacology training programs at both institutions.
FALL 2019
Sherry Magill
Former President and Executive Director, Jessie Ball DuPont Fund
https://www.dupontfund.org/jessie-ball-dupont-fund-president-sherry-magill-step/
Dr. Magill will be the lead participant in an innovative, collaborative conversation between major philanthropic organization leaders and academic partners at UNC-CH and Duke who work in and with communities in the US South. Dr. Magill and her collaborators and UNC and Duke will create an opportunity for academics, policy leaders, cultural/arts organizations, governments, businesses, and foundations to work together to address inequality.
FALL 2016 - SPRING 2018
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Organizers are Kip Frey, Professor of the Practice of Public Policy and Law and Interim Director, Duke Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative, Duke University; and Ted Zoller, T.W. Lewis Clinical Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Director, Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, UNC
Keohane Visiting Professors are expanding educational opportunities in entrepreneurship and innovation by advancing the two universities’ collaborative work in design and systems thinking, entrepreneurial pedagogy (Rebecca White, University of Tampa), entrepreneurial leadership (Jim Clifton, Gallup), and regional entrepreneurial ecosystems and technology commercialization (Tom Byers, Stanford University).
The Arts
Organizers are Emil Kang, Executive Director for the Arts, UNC; and Scott Lindroth, Professor of Music and Vice Provost for the Arts, Duke University
To advance existing social engagement and innovation programs at the two campuses and inspire students and faculty to consider how their work can improve the community, the professorship is supporting artists whose work explores various aspects of social activism: Jace Clayton and Nina Chanel Abney. The resulting activities will encourage new and different approaches to using art to effect social change and will foster further opportunities for collaborations within and between Duke and UNC.
SPRING 2017
Adam Summers
Professor, Department of Biology and School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences, College of the Environment, University of Washington
http://faculty.washington.edu/fishguy/
Dr. Summers’ current research interests include the evolution and mechanical properties of cartilage and tendon, swimming mechanics of sharks, respiratory patterns of sharks and rays and solid-solid interactions in aquatic organisms. As a Keohane Professor, he worked with undergraduates, graduate students, post-docs, and professors at both universities, in addition to interacting with the public. He gave lectures at UNC and Duke as well as Virginia Tech, North Carolina State University, Ohio University, the University of North Florida, the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Ocean Institute. Dr. Summers instigated several new research projects while a Keohane Professor, including making physical models and establishing new imaging methods for a project on trap jaw ants. He also gathered data for a three dimensional exploration of fish movement in collaboration with local scientists. He applied for and received grants and collaborated on an invited paper for Current Biology.
Hau-Tieng Wu
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Toronto University
https://sites.google.com/site/hautiengwu/
Dr. Wu has an MD with a specialization in radiology, and a Ph.D. in mathematics. He has published in journals of medicine, pure and applied mathematics, and statistics. Dr. Wu’s visit will further enhance the already existing collaboration between Duke’s Department of Mathematics and UNC’s Medical School. His background in pure and applied mathematics, statistics, and medicine enables him to bridge these disciplines, and bring sophisticated mathematical methods to bear on important applications in new ways. Dr. Wu will teach a seminar for graduate students and advanced undergraduates at both institutions.
FALL 2016
Ariel Knafo
Professor, Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Knafo’s research focuses on the development of pro-social behavior and empathy in the context of genetics and the family environment, and on the development of values in the contexts of culture and the family. His work will be used to develop joint projects across campuses involved in the Carolina Consortium on Human Development. At UNC and Duke, he will present his cutting-edge work on the development of prosocial behavior in colloquia and offer an advanced research seminar on the topic of prosocial behavior and empathy.
SPRING 2016
Torsten Fransson (cancelled)
Educational Director, Knowledge Innovation Center, InnoEnergy
Susan Lederer
Chair, Department of Medical History & Bioethics and Robert Turell Professor of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
http://www.medhist.wisc.edu/faculty/lederer/index.shtml
Professor Lederer’s visit contributed to interdisciplinary curricular initiatives in medical humanities and social studies of science on both campuses and reinvigorated longstanding inter-campus conversations around history of science and medicine. She co-taught an undergraduate honors seminar, conducted faculty seminars, and served as a guest lecturer in several classes.
SPRING 2015
Don Fullerton
Gutgsell Professor of Finance, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
http://www.economics.illinois.edu/people/dfullerton/
Professor Fullerton’s nomination was supported by a number of intellectual units at both schools who used his presence as a catalyst for a national conference and generated a jointly written and edited collection of published research. He participated in graduate and undergraduate courses to help students learn tools for analyzing policy questions. He also gave a public address to the Duke-UNC communities on the economics of climate change.
FALL 2014
Mohsen Kadivar
Visiting Research Professor, Department of Religion, Duke University
http://today.duke.edu/2014/08/kadivar
Professor Kadivar’s appointment to the Nannerl Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professorship added to the collaboration between UNC and Duke University in the field of Islamic studies. The two universities have complementary strength in this field, and a long history of good relations and collaboration over the past two decades. Professor Kadivar’s appointment enabled students on both campuses to study with one of the most important intellectual figures in the Islamic world and permitted the formation of new initiatives, such as conferences and publications aimed at rethinking the resources offered by the Islamic tradition for facing the critical issues of the contemporary world.
SPRING 2014
David Pizarro
Associate Professor of Psychology, Cornell University
Professor Pizarro is a moral psychologist whose groundbreaking research on disgust, its influence on moral judgments, and its importance for political controversies is of particular interest to his sponsors at Duke and UNC. He taught a course on moral psychology at UNC with students from both institutions. He participated regularly in MAD Lab (Duke’s research laboratory on moral attitudes and decisions) as well as activities in the Center for Advanced Hindsight. He gave many talks in labs and classes at each institution as well as a very well-received Keohane lecture on “How Emotions Shape Our Beliefs”. Building upon both universities’ expertise in moral psychology, Professor Pizarro helped to bring together researchers at both institutions. Other long-term impacts of his visit included invigorating on-going research, helping with a successful grant application to fund an annual training program in Neuroscience and Philosophy, and stimulating a new research group on disgust.
Jeffrey McDonnell
Professor of Hydrology, Global Institute for Water Security, National Hydrology Research Centre, University of Saskatchewan
Duke and UNC have both recognized the centrality of water as a research, education and outreach focus and have been building steadily in these areas. As a well recognized leader in the fields of watershed hydrology and ecohydrology, Professor McDonnell enhanced these efforts by contributing to a shared graduate seminar on watershed hydrology and environmental water availability as well as other events that included guest lectures in undergraduate classes, research and public talks, and strategic planning and collaboration with faculty.
FALL 2011
Elaine Lawless
Alumni Distinguished Professor of English and Women’s Studies, University of Missouri
Professor Lawless is a leading scholar in the fields of Folklore, Religious Studies, and Women’s Studies. As an innovative documentary methodologist, her work has focused on veterans of historic and recent conflicts. Students from both UNC and Duke were involved in her veterans documentation project, which links to the Veterans Oral History Project, housed at the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress.
SPRING 2011
Christine Bachrach
Chief, Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch, Center for Population Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
https://www.popcenter.umd.edu/mprc-associates/chrisbachrach
Professor Bachrach enhanced collaboration between social science and health scholars at the Duke Population Research Institute and UNC’s Carolina Population Center – as well as more broadly – by teaching an advanced undergraduate course in population health. She also participated in a seminar series that brought in external speakers who integrated the social, behavioral, and health sciences. In addition, Professor Bachrach gave a lecture in honor of J. Richard Udry, UNC Kenan Professor Emeritus.
Carlos Peres
Professor of Tropical Conservation Ecology, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
https://www.uea.ac.uk/environmental-sciences/people/profile/c-peres
Professor Peres was to give a course on tropical ecology and global change and participate in a workshop involving faculty from other local institutions.
SPRING 2010
Klaus Armingeon
Director, Institute of Political Science, University of Berne (Switzerland)
An expert on European politics and political economy, Professor Armingeon has published extensively on the comparative politics of Europe. He taught a course for advanced undergraduate students, wrote a paper on the political economy of Switzerland and the responses of national governments to the crisis of 2008/2009 (the latter of which was presented in April, 2010 at the Conference of Europeanists), and worked on an exchange program between UNC and the University of Bern.
SPRING 2009
Patricia Uberoi
Honorary Director, Institute of Chinese Studies, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (Delhi, India)
As Keohane Professor for the Spring term of 2009, affiliated with the Anthropology Department of the University of North Carolina, Professor Uberoi co-taught a course on “Gender and Sexuality in India” with Professor Sumathi Ramaswamy of the Department of History, Duke University. The interdisciplinary course, which was video-conferenced across the two campuses, introduced students to issues of gender and sexuality in India reflected, in particular, through visual media. Professor Uberoi delivered the Nannerl O. Keohane lecture on “Chicks, kids and couples: Icons of Indian modernity” and presented papers at two international conferences held at Duke University: the conference on “India, Sexuality and the Archive”, hosted by the Women’s Studies program and the conference on “M.F. Husain: Barefoot across the Nation”, hosted by the History Department. She also used the opportunity provided by the Keohane Professorship to compile materials for a Reader on Intimacy in Asia.
SPRING 2008
Peter Gomes
Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister, Harvard University
The late Dr. Peter Gomes, who delivered the 2005 commencement address at Carolina, was the Plummer professor of Christian morals and Pusey minister in the Memorial Church of Harvard University since 1974. Dr. Gomes taught an undergraduate course that was open to students from both Duke and Carolina, and a course in the Duke Divinity School.
FALL 2007
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 taught a joint undergraduate course for Carolina and Duke students, and conducted 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
Geoffrey Brennan
Philosophy Program, The Australian National University
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.