First year MA candidate Jaycie Vos recently published an essay about her work on New Roots in Oral History in the Digital Age, a product of an Institute of Museum and Library Services. New Roots is an oral history project … Read more
Three members of the department presented at the American Studies Association conference in Toronto. Professor Tim Marr presented “The Battle of Bayang: Jihad and American Imperialism in the Muslim Philippines,” Professor Michelle Robinson presented “A Politics of Divestiture: Resisting Kenneth … Read more
Trista Reis Porter is interested in a variety of topics falling under the scope of American Art and Material Culture. She received her M.A. in the History of Art from Indiana University in 2014, where her thesis focused on the … Read more
The University’s College of Arts and Sciences has featured a video about the work of the Digital Innovation Lab on Digital Loray. Watch out for cameos from Post-doctoral Scholar and Historian In Residence at the Loray Mill, Julie Davis, Professor … Read more
Why did you decide to come to UNC’s American Studies department for your degree? I came here from the University of Mississippi’s MA program in Southern Studies, and you can mount a pretty convincing argument that the formal study of … Read more
Four graduate students in the Masters in Folklore program presented their work completed last spring in the first iteration of Carolina Cooks, Carolina Eats, taught by Dr. Sharon P. Holland and Dr. Marcie Cohen Ferris. Their presentations combined their own historical research … Read more
Folklore masters student, Victoria Bouloubasis, has an article in Indy Week. The Secret of The Parlour’s Labneh Ice Cream is part of the Indy’s ‘Eat This’ column series, of which Victoria is a frequent contributor. Great work, Victoria!
In January 2015, Rachel Gelfand presented in New York City at the American Historical Association as part of the Promiscuous Interdisciplinarity Track. This conference within a conference was organized by the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History (CLGBTH). … Read more
