People

Kevin W. Fogg is the Associate Director of the Carolina Asia Center at UNC-Chapel Hill. Working under the direction of the Director and the Advisory Committee, and alongside the fantastic CAC team, he leads the center’s work on events, outreach, and grant-funded projects. He also teaches occasionally in the UNC Department of History.

Dr. Fogg came to UNC from Oxford, where he taught for eight years in the Faculty of History, Brasenose College, and the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. He did his undergraduate degree at a well-known university in the Triangle that has a different shade of blue, and he completed his master’s and doctoral studies at Yale. He is a historian of Southeast Asia, specializing in Islamic societies and post-colonial Indonesia. In addition to a smattering of articles and book chapters, his first monograph, Indonesia’s Islamic Revolution, was published by Cambridge University Press, and he co-translated into English a collection of short stories by Indonesian author A.A. Navis that has been published by Lontar. More information about Dr. Fogg’s academic work is available on his website.

As part of his work with the Carolina Asia Center, Dr. Fogg has taken on leadership roles in the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies and on the Council of Conferences of the Association for Asian Studies. He also serves as the diversity liaison and FLAS coordinator for the Carolina Asia Center.

When not engaged in academic work or Carolina Asia Center business, Kevin watches college basketball and misses good Minangkabau food.

Dori Brady is the Program Director for the Phillips Ambassadors Program in the Carolina Asia Center at UNC. She oversees an annual scholarship cycle supporting 25-30 undergraduates and one graduate student for study abroad in Asia each year. She also directs the Phillips Passport Initiative which provides funding for new passports for first-year and new transfer students each fall.

Prior to working with the Phillips Ambassadors Program, Dori was the Study Abroad Advisor for Asia and domestic programs and social media coordinator in the UNC Study Abroad Office. She came to UNC after a career teaching in public elementary schools in Washington, DC, Northern Virginia and Wake County, North Carolina. Dori has an undergraduate degree in psychology from Denison University where she spent semesters abroad in England and Indonesia, and a Master’s degree in Education with a concentration in International Education, from George Mason University. Outside of work, she enjoys time with family and outdoor adventures.

Becky Butler is the Assistant Director for Southeast Asia Initiatives at the Carolina Asia Center. She supports the study of Southeast Asia at UNC by writing grants, coordinating Southeast Asia events, making connections among folks with an interest in the region, and facilitating opportunities for UNC’s Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian American students. In particular, Dr. Butler is supporting the CAC’s current grant, “Bringing Southeast Asia Home,” and working with our Vietnamese language program.

Dr. Butler is trained as a theoretical linguist, with a focus on the phonetics and phonology of mainland Southeast Asian languages. More recently, her research has focused on facilitating oral histories among North Carolina’s Southeast Asian diaspora communities. She holds degrees from Cornell University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Virginia.

Outside of her academic pursuits, she enjoys planting flowers and listening to Dolly Parton.

Eleanor Murray is the Program Associate for the Carolina Asia Center. As the overseer of digital communications, event planning, and outreach support, she is a reliable presence at most events the Center puts on.
Ms. Murray graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2022 with dual degrees in Global Studies and American Studies. Upon graduation, she was awarded the Anne Scaff Award for her dedication to increasing international awareness at Carolina and beyond. During her undergraduate career, she served as a Phillips Ambassador while studying abroad at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea.
Outside of work, Ms. Murray is a passionate volunteer with Refugee Community Partnership and plays pickleball.