Congratulations to Professor Dan Cobb, who has been awarded a Faculty Development Grant from the Summer School to design an online version of AMST/HIST 110: Introduction to the Histories and Cultures of Native North America. The five-week course will be … Read more
Congratulations to Professor John Kasson! His new book The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America was recently reviewed in The Atlantic. Read the review here. In addition to its review in The Atlantic, you … Read more
Congratulations to Professor Dan Cobb, who will have contributions to two edited volumes, Beyond Two Worlds (SUNY Press) and Native Diasporas (University of Nebraska Press), published this summer. The chapters are drawn from his ongoing research on the life and work of … Read more
American Studies-based Digital Innovation Lab began working with the Khayrallah Program for Lebanese-American Studies (http://lac.chass.ncsu.edu) two years ago to map the migration and settlement of hundreds of families in North Carolina cities a century ago from what is now Lebanon, … Read more
Posted on February 20, 2014 by Pamella Lach I am thrilled to announce that DH Press came in as Second Runner Up in the “Best DH Tool or Suite of Tools” category for the 2013 Digital Humanities Awards. 511 votes … Read more
Read the full story from the UNC homepage here. Link to Digital Innovation Lab story on the course. This tiny mention of a train trip to school was unseen for 131 years until UNC student Thomas Haire found it through … Read more
The faculty of the Department of American Studies convened to discuss the American Studies Association Resolution on the Academic Boycott of Israel. The spirit of our discussion was open and generous. At the conclusion of our conversation, we came together around … Read more
The American Studies Association honored Professor Joy Kasson with the prestigious Mary C. Turpie Award at its annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The Mary C. Turpie Prize, established in 1993, is given to the candidate who has demonstrated outstanding abilities … Read more
Folklore professor Bill Ferris’s book, Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues was released in its French edition.
Professor Philip Gura reminds his readers of the centrality of early American literary texts to founding national pronciples. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-faith/wp/2013/11/21/how-jonathan-edwards-talked-about-god/
