Katy Clune (Folklore MA, 2015) is on a roll. Or maybe a sticky rice ball would be more accurate. Clune, now digital editor for the Southern Foodways Alliance, has a piece in Our State Magazine, a state-wide publication that “celebrates … Read more
The website for “Food for All,” UNC-Chapel Hill’s 2015-2017 Academic Theme serves up a full helping of food studies info, campus and community groups, and events. The site was designed by recent Folklore alumna, Katy Clune. Professor Marcie Cohen Ferris … Read more
Senior Karen Sieber has traveled over 7,500 miles (by car, that is) this summer to collect primary documents related to the Red Summer of 1919, an especially violent series of clashes between racial groups that resulted in “death and destruction … Read more
Katie Yelton, of Rutherford County, North Carolina, is one of several American Studies undergraduate students to receive a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) from the Office of Undergraduate Research for Summer 2015. Yelton chose to use her research grant to … Read more
American Studies 410: How to Study the South Today, taught by Elizabeth Engelhardt, the John Shelton Reed Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies, has been featured in the journal Southern Spaces. Taught in Spring 2015, AMST 410 engaged in an innovative … Read more
Katy Clune (Folklore MA, 2015) has her first web feature up on the Southern Foodways Alliance‘s (SFA) site. As the SFA’s new digital editor, Katy will be contributing to the SFA’s mission to use food as an entry point for … Read more
From Bit + Grain (co-founded by Folklore MA Sandra Davidson!), “Worth Saving” chronicles the efforts to preserve Gastonia’s historic Loray Mill, once a the largest textile mill in the South. A combination of exceptional persistence and, crucially, federal tax credits allowed … Read more
From the Southern Foodways Alliance (text by Tina Antolini): When Robin Amer visited her Mississippi grandparents as a little girl, her most memorable experiences revolved around food. They would go to Sunday lunch at Stanton Hall, a historic plantation mansion with … Read more
State of the Plate, the ninth meeting of the Navigating the Global American South conference and the first to examine foodways, convened in late March to examine southern foodways, histories, economies, and more. Speakers engaged the role of Lumbee Indians … Read more
Hearty congratulations to Sara Camp Arnold Milam, who in a few short years has transformed the Southern Foodways Alliance’s Gravy from a black-and-white, twelve-page print journal to a colorful, rich, and filling sixty-page quarterly publication and biweekly podcast … and who … Read more
