Difficult Dialogues

Project Leadership

Principal Investigators

  • Co-principal Investigator: William L. Andrews, Senior Associate Dean, Humanities and Fine Arts, College of Arts and Sciences and E. Maynard Adams Professor of English
  • Co-principal Investigator: Judith Welch Wegner, Professor of Law

Steering Committee
The Steering Committee is comprised of UNC-Chapel Hill faculty and staff representing key components of the University. In addition to Co-Principal Investigators William Andrews and Judith Welch Wegner, other members of the Steering Committee are:

  • Julia Wood: Associate Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, representing faculty continuing education;
  • Jay Smith: Associate Dean for Undergraduate Curricula and Professor of History in the College of Arts and Sciences,
    representing curricular renovation;
  • Virginia Carson: Director of the Campus Y, representing extra-curricular student life; and
  • Ed Neal: Director, Faculty Development Program at the Center for Teaching and Learning, representing faculty development and program evaluation.

Project Staff

  • Randall Styers, rstyers@unc.edu: Program Director & Associate Professor, Religious Studies:

 

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What faculty and students are saying about Difficult Dialogues




"I’m excited that support for these discussions is available and that we, institutionally, are not shying away from these issues.”