Contact the Honors Program

Honors Program
211 Hood House
Durham, NH 03824
(603) 862-3928
honors.program@unh.edu

STAFF

The Honors Program staff is here to help you, and we will do our best to assist you with any questions you may have. You are expected to visit our office once a semester, even if you are not planning to register for any honors courses; this allows us to track your progress within the program. Feel free to stop by at any time to talk with us. Our office hours are 8 A.M. – 4:30 P.M. Monday – Friday. We are closed for lunch from 12 P.M. – 1 P.M.

University Honors Director

Professor Lisa MacFarlane is the Director of the University Honors Program. She has degrees from Princeton University and the University of Michigan, and has directed the American Studies program at UNH. She has taught a wide range of classes on mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century culture: on photography, women writers, interdisciplinary methods, and pedagogy. Publications include A Mighty Baptism: Race, Gender and the Creation of American Protestantism (Cornell, 1996); This World is Not Conclusion: The Spiritual Landscape of Nineteenth-Century New England Fiction (University Press of New England, 1998); an edition of Henry Adams' 1884 novel Esther (Penguin, 1999), and Trading Gazes: Anglo-American Women Photographers and Native North Americans 1880-1940 (Rutgers, 2003). She is presently at work on The Minister's New Clothes, on cultural authority in American fiction. She is a past president of the New England American Studies Association, and on the Board of Directors for the New Hampshire Humanities Council. A Fulbright scholar in the Netherlands, MacFarlane is especially interested in internationalizing American Studies curricula, and practices that whenever she can.

ADVISOR

Chris Sohl, Assistant Director for Advising and Outreach, will help you with everything from course selection and program planning to discussion of your career goals. Chris is available to assist you with program requirements ranging from general education courses to completion of the program in relation to your chosen field. You may call 862- 3928 to schedule an appointment with Chris, or stop by to speak with her during our office hours.

REPS

Honors Program student representatives are available to answer any questions you might have about the program or university life in general. They are in the office weekdays from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM and again from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM. Our representatives are majoring in many different areas so please call our office for more information at (603) 862-3928.

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