Ellen Saunders Duncan is one of several American Studies undergraduate students to receive a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) from the Office of Undergraduate Research for Summer 2015. Duncan’s project, “The Human Ecology of Honeybees” is focused on documenting the … Read more
Katy Clune (Folklore MA, 2015) is on a roll. Or maybe a sticky rice ball would be more accurate. Clune, now digital editor for the Southern Foodways Alliance, has a piece in Our State Magazine, a state-wide publication that “celebrates … Read more
The website for “Food for All,” UNC-Chapel Hill’s 2015-2017 Academic Theme serves up a full helping of food studies info, campus and community groups, and events. The site was designed by recent Folklore alumna, Katy Clune. Professor Marcie Cohen Ferris … Read more
Senior Karen Sieber has traveled over 7,500 miles (by car, that is) this summer to collect primary documents related to the Red Summer of 1919, an especially violent series of clashes between racial groups that resulted in “death and destruction … Read more
Katie Yelton, of Rutherford County, North Carolina, is one of several American Studies undergraduate students to receive a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) from the Office of Undergraduate Research for Summer 2015. Yelton chose to use her research grant to … Read more
American Studies 410: How to Study the South Today, taught by Elizabeth Engelhardt, the John Shelton Reed Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies, has been featured in the journal Southern Spaces. Taught in Spring 2015, AMST 410 engaged in an innovative … Read more
Katy Clune (Folklore MA, 2015) has her first web feature up on the Southern Foodways Alliance‘s (SFA) site. As the SFA’s new digital editor, Katy will be contributing to the SFA’s mission to use food as an entry point for … Read more
From Bit + Grain (co-founded by Folklore MA Sandra Davidson!), “Worth Saving” chronicles the efforts to preserve Gastonia’s historic Loray Mill, once a the largest textile mill in the South. A combination of exceptional persistence and, crucially, federal tax credits allowed … Read more
Cultural History and its Publics: A Symposium on the Occasion of the Retirement of John Kasson Saturday, October 3, 2015 Johnston Center, Graham Memorial, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sponsored by the Departments of History and American Studies, … Read more
Carolina shone a spotlight on Carolina Cooks, Carolina Eats today. This of course is Professors Sharon Holland and Marcie Cohen Ferris’s course (AMST 375) that combines experiential learning, expert instruction, and traditional academic practice into a course experience that engages … Read more
