Want to learn more about the faculty, students, and staff that make up the Department of American Studies? Follow along with our new AMST/FOLK Coffee Chat series where we ask our community about new research, old hobbies, and everything in … Continued

  From the UNC College of Arts and Sciences: “Elizabeth Engelhardt, current chair of American Studies, has been named interim senior associate dean for fine arts and humanities in the College of Arts & Sciences, effective March 18. She replaces … Continued

On November 11 – 13, join curators, art historians, folklorists, anthropologists, religious scholars, philosophers, cultural critics, private collectors, and community leaders for “Wandering Objects: Collecting and Interpreting Jewish Things,” an international symposium probing the changing meanings of Jewish ritual objects … Continued

  The 2018 Southern Foodways Alliance Craig Claiborne Lifetime Achievement Award has been awarded to recently retired American Studies professor, Dr. Marcie Cohen Ferris. Marcie Cohen Ferris, a native of Blytheville, Arkansas, who has done transformative work at the Museum of … Continued

Guest post by Karen Sieber The Digital Innovation Lab at UNC is holding an open house at the repurposed Loray Mill in Gastonia on April 17. Once the largest textile mill under one roof in the South, it is now the … Continued

Dr. Glenn Hinson was recently featured on the UNC Institute for Arts and Humanities podcast. Hinson speaks about African American vernacular poetics and the life and poetry of Horace Williams, recalling a transformative moment in which Williams recites a poem on his witnessing … Continued

“The analogy Mr. Dial constructed around his life, both as an artist and as an inheritor of the unfinished business of civil rights and the fight for human dignity in the United States and the world, was part of a … Continued