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Department of American Studies

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

204 Greenlaw Hall CB#3520
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520

Tel: 919-962-5481
Fax: 919-962-3520

Sharon Holland

Chair

pasharon@email.unc.edu

Patricia Sawin

Associate Chair

sawin@unc.edu

Seth Kotch

Director of Graduate Studies

amstdgs@unc.edu

Gabrielle Berlinger

Director of Undergraduate Studies

amstdus@unc.edu

Our Mission: Creative and ethical leadership for the 21st-century.

Our Values: Respect, Courage, ᎦᏚᎩ (Gadugi, a Cherokee word meaning “working together for everyone’s mutual benefit”).

Our Curriculum: Contemporary, innovative, inclusive, and global. An extraordinary range of courses informed by cutting-edge theoretical perspectives, teaching and research methods, and vehicles for reporting and representing knowledge. And we do so in search of the myriad answers to a question that is perennial in its timeliness:  What is America?