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

Professor Dan Cobb will be speaking at an event celebrating the life and work of Makah documentary filmmaker Sandy Osawa at the University of Washington-Tacoma on Wednesday, October 28. On October 30, he will be giving a lecture based on … Read more

Allison Kinney (Folklore MA, 2015) has an article in the Folklore and Education Journal, in the special issue on Youth in Community. The article is based on her thesis, “‘I Am Karen: Community Engaged Research As Education, A Model of … Read more

Dr. Elizabeth Engelhardt, the John Shelton Reed Professor of Southern Studies, has been featured in the New York Times Sunday Review! To find out with Dr. Engelhardt is reading, listening to, watching, following, and repairing (We mean that last one), … Read more

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

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

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

  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