CAROLINA WOMEN IN THE NEWS
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall elected to American Academy of Arts & SciencesSallie Schuping Russell ’77, two others receive distinguished service medals from GAA
Jan Boxill elected faculty chair
Jessica Breland ’11 receives Honda Inspiration Award
Jill Fitzgerald ends Hall of Fame career
Lynn Buchheit Janney ’70 writes, publishes book about knitting
PlayMakers’ Hannah Grannemann elected to national post
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Hall is a pioneering scholar in Southern women’s history and founding director of the Southern Oral History Program in UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South. In her 37 years at the helm, the program has recorded approximately 4,300 first-hand accounts of history by the people who lived it.
Hall is among 212 new academy fellows announced in April. They include individuals that the academy calls some of the world’s most accomplished leaders in academia, art, business, the humanities, philanthropy and science. The class will be inducted Oct. 1 at academy headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.
With Hall, UNC has 34 faculty members in the academy, an independent policy research center founded in 1780 to undertake studies of complex and emerging problems. The academy’s diverse membership of scholars and practitioners from many disciplines and professions gives it the capacity to conduct a wide range of interdisciplinary research.
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Sallie Schuping-Russell ’77, two others receive distinguished service medals from GAA
Sallie Shuping-Russell
Recipients of the 2011 Distinguished Service Medals are Erskine B. Bowles, who recently retired as president of the UNC system; John. P. “Jack” Evans, former dean of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School; and Sallie Shuping-Russell, a member of the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees. The association has awarded the medals since 1978.
Shuping-Russell, of Chapel Hill, graduated from UNC in 1977, having majored in English and political science. Now managing director of the BlackRock investment firm, she has been on the Board of Trustees since 2007. She also has served on the University Board of Visitors, the advisory board of the Gillings School of Global Public Health and the board of directors of UNC Health Care. She is a trustee of the University’s Endowment Fund and a director of both the UNC Foundation and Carolina’s Foundation Investment Fund Inc. Shuping-Russell established the Margaret R. Shuping Distinguished Professorship in creative writing at UNC in 2008 to honor her mother.
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Jan Boxill elected faculty chair
Jan Boxill
Boxill, who has been at UNC since 1985, is an award-winning faculty member whose writing and teaching focuses on ethics, social and political philosophy, feminist theory and ethics in sports. She has received the Tanner Award for Undergraduate Teaching, an Institute for the Arts and Humanities Parr Ethics Fellowship, the Mary Turner Lane Award, the Women’s Advocacy Award and the Excellence in Advising Award.
Boxill is editor of “Sports Ethics: An Anthology" and "Issues in Race and Gender” and is past president of the International Association for Philosophy in Sport. She chairs both the 2011 NCAA Scholarly Colloquium and the Education Outreach Program for the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.
At Carolina, she has coordinated the IAH Ethics Fellowship Program, chaired the University Teaching Awards Committee and served on the Faculty Council and its Agenda Committee, the Fixed-Term Faculty Committee, the Committee on the Status of Women, the faculty Nominating Committee and the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee.
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Jessica Breland ’11 receives Honda Inspiration Award
Jessica Breland
This award is given each year to a female college athlete who has overcome adversity to excel in her sport.
Breland was a standout in her first three years for the UNC Tar Heels. As a sophomore, she was named the ACC Sixth Player of the Year. In her junior year she played in all 35 games and started 27. She averaged 14 points, 8.5 rebounds and an ACC-best 3.1 blocks to rank seventh nationally.
In May 2009, after a history of ailments including asthma and severe allergies, Jessica visited a doctor for a sore throat that wouldn’t seem to go away. Hours of tests led to a biopsy the next day, and ultimately a diagnosis of Hodgkin's lymphoma was confirmed. Within days, doctors installed a port in Breland’s chest to administer chemotherapy treatments. Side effects ranged from severe chills and aches to hair loss, constant nausea and fatigue so debilitating there were times she could hardly move.
Forced to redshirt the 2009-10 season, she courageously returned to the court for the 2010-11 season. While it took some time for her to regain her full strength and capabilities, her game continued to improve steadily to where she averaged 19.5 points and 6.8 rebounds at the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, helping UNC make it to the finals.
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Jill Fitzgerald ends Hall of Fame career
Jill Fitzgerald
The honor, given at the International Reading Association annual conference recently, recognizes her extraordinary contributions to theory and research in the study of literacy.
“She’s a fearless researcher,” said Dixie Lee Spiegel, one of Fitzgerald’s longtime collaborators and the person who chaired the search committee that brought Fitzgerald to UNC in 1979. “She doesn’t shy away from controversial topics. She doesn’t pump out 60 articles in a year, but the one or two that she does write become instant classics.”
Two particularly influential theories that Fitzgerald advanced dealt with English language literacy for non-native speakers and improving reading comprehension. “When people say, ‘What is it that you study?’ I say, ‘It’s how people think as they read and write. I study young children's emergent literacy processes," Fitzgerald said.
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Lynn Buchheit Janney ’70 writes, publishes book about knitting
A “purl” of wisdom
Janney, who has been involved in designing and producing knitted items for 30 years, writes in the book’s introduction that “Yes, please,” “Wait your turn” and others “are the character-building phrases that we heard when we were growing up, and they are the social courtesies all parents want to teach their children today.”
For more information about “Purls of Wisdom,” visit the book’s website, www.purls-of-wisdom.com.
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PlayMakers’ Hannah Grannemann elected to national post
Hannah Grannemann, managing director of PlayMakers Repertory Company, has been elected secretary of the League of Resident Theatres.
Hannah Grannemann
The league is the largest professional theater association of its kind, with more than 70 member theaters across the United States. The organization is a forum for sharing information about all aspects of theater, particularly management issues in the areas of development, marketing, public relations, education and technology.
The league also administers collective bargaining agreements with the Actors’ Equity Association, The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and United Scenic Artists, among other major entertainment industry labor unions. Its member theaters issue more equity contracts to actors than Broadway and commercial tours combined.
Grannemann will serve with representatives of prestigious theaters – from New York City’s Roundabout Theatre Company and the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, N.J., to Actors Theatre of Louisville, Ky., and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park – to promote the welfare and growth of the nation’s professional theater scene.
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