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alt=""DR. PAMELA LOTHSPEICH

Director of the Carolina Asia Center
Professor in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

ploth@email.unc.edu
919.843.0130
FedEx Global Education Center, Rm. 3105

 


alt=""DR. KEVIN W. FOGG

Associate Director of the Carolina Asia Center

kfogg@email.unc.edu
919.843.9065
FedEx Global Education Center, Rm. 3107

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.


alt=""KATHRYN ULRICH

Business Manager for the Carolina Asia Center and Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies

kathryn.ulrich@unc.edu
919.843.0129
FedEx Global Education Center, Rm. 3106

 


alt=""DORI BRADY

Program Director, Phillips Ambassadors Program

dori.brady@unc.edu
919.843.7522
FedEx Global Education Center, Rm. 3116

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.


alt=""DR. BECKY BUTLER

Assistant Director for Southeast Asia Initiatives

becky.butler@unc.edu
919.445.1271
FedEx Global Education Center, Rm. 4119

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.


alt=""ELEANOR MURRAY

Program Associate for the Carolina Asia Center

elemurr@live.unc.edu
919.843.9203
FedEx Global Education Center, Rm. 3112

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.

alt=""GABRIELLE NEAL

Visiting Scholars Assistant for the Carolina Asia Center and Program on Chinese Cities

glneal@unc.edu

 

 


Advisory Committee

The advisory committee is made up of faculty and senior leadership from across UNC who provide advice and guidance on the Carolina Asia Center’s programs. Appointments are for renewable three year terms.

Pamela Lothspeich, Professor, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and Director, Carolina Asia Center (ex officio)

Currently appointed through June 2025:
Chris Nelson, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Morgan Pitelka, Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies
Afroz Taj, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies
Michael Tsin, Associate Professor, Department of History
Robin Visser, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies

Currently appointed through June 2026:
Angel Hsu, Associate Professor, Public Policy
Jason Kinnear, Dean, Study Abroad Office
Christian Lentz, Associate Professor, Department of Geography
Yan Song, Professor and Chair, Department of City and Regional Planning and Director, Program on Chinese Cities
Claudia Yaghoobi, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Director, Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies

Currently appointed through June 2027:
Barbara Ambros, Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Michelle T. King, Associate Professor, Department of History
Julia Kruse, Director of STAR, Global Business Center, Kenan-Flagler Business School
Sean Y. Sylvia, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Meenu Tewari, Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning


Associated Faculty