From the Southern Foodways Alliance (text by Tina Antolini): When Robin Amer visited her Mississippi grandparents as a little girl, her most memorable experiences revolved around food. They would go to Sunday lunch at Stanton Hall, a historic plantation mansion with … Read more
The challenge for first-year American Studies PHD student and DIL graduate associate Charlotte Fryar: build a prototype interface in DH Press for interacting with historical film footage that could be used online and on touchscreen tablets. Oh, and can you … Read more
Folklore Master’s student Victoria Bouloubasis collaborated with fellow journalist (and current UNC JOMC grad student) Andrea Patiño Contreras on a digital piece about the North Carolina activism surrounding the “forced disappearance” of students in Ayotzinapa, Mexico last fall. Bouloubasis and Patiño Contreras … Read more
On Tuesday, May 5, the Department of American Studies honored the distinguished career of Professor Joy Kasson with a celebration at Crook’s Corner. The event was co-sponsored by the Department of American Studies and the Department of English and Comparative … Read more
State of the Plate, the ninth meeting of the Navigating the Global American South conference and the first to examine foodways, convened in late March to examine southern foodways, histories, economies, and more. Speakers engaged the role of Lumbee Indians … Read more
Hearty congratulations to Sara Camp Arnold Milam, who in a few short years has transformed the Southern Foodways Alliance’s Gravy from a black-and-white, twelve-page print journal to a colorful, rich, and filling sixty-page quarterly publication and biweekly podcast … and who … Read more
Folklore alumna Emily Wallace (MA, 2010) has built on her degree work on southern foodways to become the region’s expert on that essential condiment, mayonnaise. And the New York Times has come calling. Take a look at their recent pieces on mayo and on building sandwiches, both … Read more
Second year Folklore Masters student Sandra Davidson was just featured in the Columbia Journalism Review for her magazine, Bit + Grain. Check out the article.
Two of our American Studies faculty, Bill Ferris, Associate Director of UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South and Marcie Cohen Farris, Associate Professor of American Studies invited mayors from five black towns to inaugurate a collaborative venture intended … Read more
The decades-long struggle to restore and repurpose the iconic 113-year-old Loray/Firestone Mill in Gastonia, NC, was celebrated at a grand “re-opening” on March 26. The more than 400 business, civic, and non-profit leaders attending – including Gov. Pat McCrory and … Read more
