Congratulations to Kelly Kinder (Yurok), an 2017 graduate from UNC in AIIS, who was recently hired at UC Berkeley as the Program Coordinator of the Adobe Fellows Program. This pilot program connects faculty and students of the American Cultures department with … Read more

Sara Camp Milam (Folklore MA ’12) was recently honored by Southern Living magazine as one of many “Innovators Changing the South.” Milam, the managing editor for the Southern Foodways Alliance, was spotlighted for her work on the SFA’s quarterly, Gravy. … Read more

Emily Wallace (Folklore MA ’12) was recently named a finalist for the James Beard Foundation Award in Humor for her essay, “Ham to Ham Combat: The Tale of Two Smithfields,” published in the Southern Foodway Alliance’s Gravy quarterly, fall 2015. … Read more

The College of Arts and Sciences recently profiled Bit & Grain, a multimedia publication focused on stories from and about North Carolina. Bit & Grain was founded last year by Sandra Davidson (Folklore MA ’15) along with UNC alums Baxter … Read more

On February 5, the Center for the Study of the American South will open “Home in a New Place: Making Laos in Morganton, NC,” a series of photographs by Katy Clune, Folklore MA ’15. The photographs, which emerge in part from Clune’s … Read more

On February 5, 2016, Kiran Singh Sirah, President of the International Storytelling Center and Folklore MA ’13, will present “Cultivating Community Through Story,” a public lecture at the Charleston, SC Main Library. The lecture is part of a current series exploring race, identity and civic engagement … 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