September 27th The Community Histories Workshop—Presented by  Bobby Allen Faculty director Bobby Allen stops by to discuss the Community Histories Workshop, a program that collaborates with communities on public-facing digital humanities projects to tell the local histories of places like Rocky … Continued

Vos’s work with radio station WXDU is featured in Endeavors. Read the article here.

Jaycie Vos will present her paper, “Food, Empowerment, and Iowa: Exploring Mrs. Welch’s Cookbook” at the 17th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexuality at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York on June 1. This paper is … Continued

Megan Pallante is the 2017 recipient of the Peter C. Baxter Memorial Prize in American Studies. Established in 1972, this award honors the outstanding senior in the Department of American Studies. Presented in memory of Peter Baxter, a student of … Continued

Congratulations to AMST Ph.D. student Meredith McCoy, who was recently inducted into UNC’s Frank Porter Graham Graduate and Professional Student Honor Society. FPG GPS HS recognizes outstanding service provided to the University and community by graduate and professional students enrolled … Continued

On March 17, Professor Dan Cobb was interviewed by Peggy Berryhill (Muscogee) for her program “Peggy’s Place” on KGUA 88.3. Berryhill, considered the “First Lady of Native Radio” for her role as a trailblazer in Indigenous media, is leading a … Continued

Professor Dan Cobb has been awarded the Fulbright Bicentennial Chair in American Studies at the University of Helsinki in Finland. He will be spending the 2017-2018 academic year affiliated with the North American Studies Program within the Department of World Cultures. … Continued

Meredith McCoy has received a 2017 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. Her dissertation uses Critical Race Theory and oral history interviews to document the ways in which tribal governments, state education departments, and federal agencies are addressing recent shifts in federal … Continued

On February 25, 2017, twenty students from American Studies Professor Bobby Allen’s undergraduate and graduate digital humanities courses conducted a history harvest in the Warner Room of the Braswell Memorial Library in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Led by Melissa Dollman and Elijah Gaddis, … Continued

On February 6, 2017, UNC American Studies alumna Katy Clune (MA, Folklore, 2015) opened “Home in a New Place: Making Laos in Morganton, NC” in Morganton’s downtown City Hall. The exhibit is based on her MA thesis research and was organized … Continued