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Two professors in the College of Arts and Sciences were appointed to endowed
professorships beginning July 1. They are:
* John F. Kasson, history and American studies, Bank of America Honors
Professorship, through June 30, 2004; and
* Donald T. Lysle, psychology, Gillian T. Cell Distinguished Professorship for
Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, though June 30, 2006.
Kasson
Kasson is the first to be named to this chair. Half of his teaching during its
term will be devoted to honors courses, including an interdisciplinary
investigation of American life and culture from European contact through the
Civil War and "Young America: Art and Culture in the New Republic" that will
build on an exhibit at the Ackland Art Museum.
American cultural history in the 19th and early 20th centuries has been the
focus of Kasson's research. This year he published Houdini, Tarzan, and the
Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America,
a topic that is part of an undergraduate research seminar he leads.
Since joining the faculty in 1971, Kasson has received a Bowman and Gordon Gray
Professorship, has been elected to the Society of American Historians and has
received numerous fellowships.
Kasson earned a Ph.D. in American studies at Yale University. An avid swimmer,
he also enjoys local performance art. His web
page link is at http://www.unc.edu/depts/history/faculty/faculty.html
The Bank of America Professorship is meant to promote innovative teaching, to
raise the profile of the Honors Program both on campus and beyond and to link
the honors curriculum more effectively to the main currents of undergraduate
education by extending students' learning beyond the classroom and opening the
recipient's teaching to a broad interdisciplinary audience.
Lysle
Lysle teaches a course on the fundamentals of learning theory and one on human
and animal behavior based on evolutionary theory and theoretical biology, as
well as graduate courses on experimental psychology. He is director of the
Biological Psychology Program in the Department of Psychology.
In his research he explores the complex relationships between drugs of abuse,
immunity and disease, specifically opioid-induced immune alterations. His
publications reflect this interest, for example the 1999 article "Endogenous
opioids regulate the expression of inducible nitric oxide sythase by
splenocytes" in the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental
Therapeutics.
He is currently the principal investigator in two studies funded by the
National Institute on Drug Abuse Research and has received a Research Scientist
Award from the institute.
In addition to serving on the University Teaching Awards Committee, Lysle
serves on the editorial boards of Brain, Behavior, and Immunity and
Behavioral Neuroscience.
The Gillian T. Cell Professorship for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching was
renamed in 1993 by the Arts and Sciences Foundation to honor Cell, former dean
of the College of Arts and Sciences. Originally it was called the Arts and
Sciences Foundation Professorship. A native of England, Cell received a Ph.D.
in history in 1964 from the University of Liverpool, after which she joined the
Carolina faculty. Her teaching career here was accompanied by a continuing
increase in administrative responsibilities. She resigned in 1991 to become
provost of Pennsylvania's Lafayette College and later provost of The College of
William & Mary.
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