Trista Reis Porter is interested in a variety of topics falling under the scope of American Art and Material Culture. She received her M.A. in the History of Art from Indiana University in 2014, where her thesis focused on the … Read more
The project that rose out of AMST 89: Introduction to Digital Humanities is now live. Locating Lynching is inspired by the Equal Justice Initiative’s recent report on lynchings in the American South, and seeks to locate and document lynchings in … Read more
The University’s College of Arts and Sciences has featured a video about the work of the Digital Innovation Lab on Digital Loray. Watch out for cameos from Post-doctoral Scholar and Historian In Residence at the Loray Mill, Julie Davis, Professor … Read more
Why did you decide to come to UNC’s American Studies department for your degree? I came here from the University of Mississippi’s MA program in Southern Studies, and you can mount a pretty convincing argument that the formal study of … Read more
Allison Kinney (Folklore MA, 2015) has an article in the Folklore and Education Journal, in the special issue on Youth in Community. The article is based on her thesis, “‘I Am Karen: Community Engaged Research As Education, A Model of … Read more
Four graduate students in the Masters in Folklore program presented their work completed last spring in the first iteration of Carolina Cooks, Carolina Eats, taught by Dr. Sharon P. Holland and Dr. Marcie Cohen Ferris. Their presentations combined their own historical research … Read more
Folklore masters student, Victoria Bouloubasis, has an article in Indy Week. The Secret of The Parlour’s Labneh Ice Cream is part of the Indy’s ‘Eat This’ column series, of which Victoria is a frequent contributor. Great work, Victoria!
In January 2015, Rachel Gelfand presented in New York City at the American Historical Association as part of the Promiscuous Interdisciplinarity Track. This conference within a conference was organized by the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History (CLGBTH). … Read more
Dr. Elizabeth Engelhardt, the John Shelton Reed Professor of Southern Studies, has been featured in the New York Times Sunday Review! To find out with Dr. Engelhardt is reading, listening to, watching, following, and repairing (We mean that last one), … Read more
The online journal “Southern Things” has just released Issue 3: Summer 2015. It features eight undergraduate essays written in Bernard L. Herman’s Spring 2015 course “Introduction to the American South: A Cultural Journey.” The essays were edited by graduate students … Read more
