Joy Kasson, professor and former chair of the American studies department at Carolina, is the 2012 recipient of the prestigious Thomas Jefferson Award. Read More…

2011 Folklore graduate Emily Hilliard debuts on NPR, rhapsodizing over late summer pies. Read More…

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York has awarded a five-year, $800,000 grant to Carolina Performing Arts for the creation of Arts@TheCore, a multifaceted program to strengthen the bonds between academics and the performing arts at the University of … Read more

2010 Best First Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies Malinda Maynor Lowery. Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Read More…