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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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. … Read more
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 … Read more
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, … Read more
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 … Read more
Jaycie Vos, Folklore MA student, along with colleagues Maria Silvia Ramirez, Laura Villa-Torres, and Hannah E. Gill, from the Latino Migration Project at UNC-Chapel Hill published a piece highlighting oral histories from New Roots/Nuevas Raíces in the recent winter issue … Read more
Charlotte Fryar, a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies has published a longform piece for Talking Points Memo about North Carolina’s crucial role as a swing state in 2016, which specifically focuses on Frank Porter Graham, a former president of UNC … Read more
Congrats to Professor Dan Cobb, whose “Native Peoples of North America” Great Courses, developed in partnership with the Teaching Company and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, released this month! http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/native-peoples-of-north-america.html
