Want to learn more about the faculty, students, and staff that make up the Department of American Studies? Follow along with our new AMST/FOLK Coffee Chat series where we ask our community about new research, old hobbies, and everything in … Read more
The Community Histories Workshop, recently founded within the Digital Innovation Lab by Bobby Allen, Seth Kotch, and Elijah Gaddis, received a $30,000 grant from Capitol Broadcasting Corporation this summer to explore how community-based memories and stories, multi-media archival materials, architectural space, … Read more
Five students earning their MA in Folklore or American Studies will present their thesis and capstone research on Monday, April 25, from 2:30 to 3:20 in Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw Hall. See flyer below.
Students in Dr. Michelle Robinson’s AMST 201: Literary Approaches to American Studies course have put together a website showcasing a multi-pronged creative research project inspired by Octavia Butler’s novel Parable of the Sower. A survivalist “tradeshow” invited students in UNC-Chapel Hill’s course … Read more
Sara Camp Milam (Folklore MA ’12) was recently honored by Southern Living magazine as one of many “Innovators Changing the South.” Milam, the managing editor for the Southern Foodways Alliance, was spotlighted for her work on the SFA’s quarterly, Gravy. … Read more
This weekly digest is curated by the teaching team (Dr. Marcie Cohen Ferris and TAs Victoria Bouloubasis and Shyra Peyton) of AMST 375: Food in American Culture (“Cooking Up a Storm”), and is circulated among students every Friday. Per Bouloubasis, … Read more
On February 5, the Center for the Study of the American South will open “Home in a New Place: Making Laos in Morganton, NC,” a series of photographs by Katy Clune, Folklore MA ’15. The photographs, which emerge in part from Clune’s … Read more
Inspired by the community of crankie makers that has emerged around the work of folk duo Anna and Elizabeth, Folklore MA first years Zoe van Buren and Anna Keneda have made a crankie of their own for Bill Ferris’s Southern … Read more
Second-year Ph.D. Student, Kimber Thomas, was recently awarded the second annual Luther Brown Prize for her paper and presentation, “Black Characterization in the Southern Soul-Blues,” at the International Conference on the Blues hosted by Delta State University in October. The … Read more
Dan Cobb, Associate Professor of American Studies, will be reading from his latest publication, SAY WE ARE NATIONS: DOCUMENTS OF POLITICS AND PROTEST IN INDIGENOUS AMERICA SINCE 1887 at two upcoming events. The first will take place on Thursday, November … Read more
