After a 21-year career in the U.S. Army, John Bechtold is now a PhD student in UNC’s Department of American Studies, using photography as a means to discuss American public memory and cultural perceptions of war.

November 17, 2020

American Studies Professor Von Diaz’s food politics article in the New York Times, a great piece about food as resistance and chefs who “make magic with whatever ingredients they have.”

November 17, 2020

A digital humanities project PhD candidate Melissa Dollman manages, Tribesourcing Southwest Film Project, honored with an Innovation Award by National Digital Stewardship Alliance/Digital Library Federation at this year’s Digital Preservation 2020 conference.

November 17, 2020

Artist, educator, and writer Marie T. Cochran will be the Lehman Brady Visiting Joint Chair Professor during the 2020–21 academic year.

November 17, 2020

American Studies PhD student Anna Hamilton received a Southern Futures Award to support her work about climate change along the Matanzas River.

November 17, 2020

Elijah Heyward, III, who received his American Studies PhD in May of 2018, now serves as the chief operating officer of the International African American Museum.

November 17, 2020

Benjamin Frey, professor in American Studies, interviewed on the Top of Mind with Julie Rose podcast about endangered Native American languages.

November 17, 2020

Annette Rodríguez, a professor in American Studies, shares her story about the Carolina Postdoctoral Fellowship for Faculty Diversity program.

November 17, 2020

Sharon P. Holland, chair of American Studies at UNC, spearheaded the COVID-19 QTIPOC Survival Fund

November 16, 2020

Department Response to the twin Pandemics

February 23, 2020

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease known as COVID19, ripped the frayed band-aid off of an America that we have refused to collectively recognize. In the wake of our early and wholly inadequate federal response to the virus, and … Read more