AMST student, Melissa Dollman was elected to Association of Moving Image Archivists Board of Directors.

Jaycie Vos will present at the roundtable panel “New Roots/Nuevas Raíces: Building a Digital Bilingual Archive of Latino Oral Histories” at the Oral History Association Annual Meeting on October 14, 2016 in Long Beach, California. New Roots is a research … Read more

On Tuesday, September 20, 2017, the UNC community gathered to celebrate the life of Faith Danielle Hedgepeth and to recognize AIIS major Cheyenne Bullard as the recipient of the inaugural Faith Danielle Hedgepeth Award. A high honor, indeed!

Congratulations to American Studies doctoral candidate Meredith McCoy, who has been elected as a recipient of a “Maynard Adams Fellowship for the Public Humanities” in the 2016-17 academic year. These fellowships honor the intellectual commitments of UNC philosopher Maynard Adams … Read more

After taking Seth Koch’s Digital Humanities class last spring, Meredith became interested in Digital Native American and Indigenous Studies (DNAIS). Over the summer,  she attended one of the NEH-funded DNAIS workshops where she planned her own DNAIS project.  The 90%: Stories of Diaspora in … Read more

Read Rachel Garringer’s article, A Love Letter to West Virginia Two Months After the Flood, on Scalawag Magazine’s website.

This summer, UNC Folklore Program graduate student Zoe van Buren spent two months documenting Summers County, WV resident Jim Costa’s collection of 18th & 19th century farm tools and household objects. She writes about the experience in her blog post for the West Virginia … Read more

“I’ve got a lot of people that I’m carrying across that stage on my shoulders.” The Friday Center Student Stories has produced a video profile of American Studies major (BA ’16) Mary Williams. In the interview, she talks about her work outside of … Read more

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