Pogue Scholarship

Pogue Scholarship

 

The Joseph Ezekiel Pogue Scholarship was established in the late 1970’s with a bequest from the estate of Joseph and Grace Needham Pogue, a married couple who had no children and left the majority of their estate to UNC. Joseph, the son of a wealthy Raleigh family, earned his undergraduate and masters degrees from UNC in the early 1900’s. He later earned a PhD in Geology at Yale and worked at the Smithsonian in DC, where he met his wife, Grace. They married in 1919. Joseph also worked as a geologist in the petroleum industry and later as a banker, even serving as head of Chase Manhattan Bank in the 30’s and 40’s. You can see his papers in the Southern Historical Collection at Wilson Library. Since the 1970s part of the distribution from the endowment has been used to support scholarships for students on the basis of academic achievement and social and community engagement. Pogue Scholars are automatically invited to join the UNC Scholars Program.

Mentors

Martha Alexander

Teaching Associate Professor
Department of Romance Studies

Current Scholars: Class of 2027

 

Hometown: Raleigh, North Carolina

Research Areas: History of Spanish Architecture, Spanish Theater

Classes Taught: SPAN 203, SPAN 204, SPAN 340 (the section on Spanish Architecture)

Nicole Berland

Teaching Assistant Professor
English and Comparative Literature

Current Scholars: Class of 2028

 

Hometown: I grew up outside Birmingham, AL, but I have lived most of my adult life in Austin, TX, Chicago, IL, and Carrboro, NC.

Research Areas: television, film, media studies, narrative theory, speculative fiction, digital pedagogy, media literacy

Classes Taught: CMPL 280 (Film Genres), ENGL 142 (Film Analysis), ENGL 105 (Writing across the Disciplines), ENGL 105i (Writing in the Social Sciences)

Eric Hastie

Teaching Assistant Professor
Department of Biology

Current Scholars: Class of 2026

 

Hometown: Don’t have one, I’ve lived all over!

Research Areas: Biology Education Research and Undergraduate Lab Course development

Classes Taught: Introductory Biology

Elizabeth Havice

Professor, Bowman & Gordon Gray Term Professor, Associate Chair
Department of Geography and Environment

Current Scholars: Class of 2025

 

Hometown: I grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and love going there (in the summer). I also have lived all around the world and love having friends to visit across just about anywhere on the globe.

Research Areas: My research program focuses on the political economy and geopolitics of governance, with emphasis in the areas of marine spaces and resources, food systems and global value chain analysis.

Classes Taught: Geog 141 Geography for Future Leaders, Geog 130 Development and Inequality, Geog 435 Global Environmental Justice, Geog 460 Geographies of Economic Change

Sara Smith

Professor
Department of Women’s and Gender Studies

Current Scholars: Class of 2024