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Alexandra Sutton Lawrence
Pronoun: (She/Her)
Degrees obtained: 2017, PhD Environment, Duke University; 2009, M.S. Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, 2007, BS Biology, Howard University
Email: alexasl@ad.unc.edu
Keywords of Study: Afro-Indigenous, American Indian, Native American, Aframerindian, African American, Afro-Native, Black and Native Studies
Personal Website: https://about.me/lexasutton
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aesutton
Amy Grossmann
Pronoun: (–/–)
Degrees obtained: 1997, BA Music / Mathematics, SUNY Geneseo; 2005, MA Arts Management, American University
Email: agrossmann@unc.edu
Keywords of Study: public folklore, festivals
LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amygrossmann/
Anna Elliott
Pronoun: (She/her)
Degrees obtained: 2011 BFA Drama, NYU 2022 MFA Studio Art, UNCG
Email: anna.a.elliott@unc.edu
Keywords of Study: Food, foodways, historic sites, memory, labor, gender, performance studies
LinkedIn Profile: hhttps://www.annaabhau.com
Anna Hamilton
Pronoun: (She, Her, Hers )
Degrees obtained: BA Humanities, New College of Florida; MA Southern Studies, University of Mississippi
Email: anna.hamilton@unc.edu
Keywords of Study: Environmental Humanities, Climate Crisis, Hurricanes, Place-Making, Oral History, Foodways, American South
Ari Green
Pronoun: (She/Her) 2016, BA History, California State University, Sacramento; 2020, MA Public History, California State University, Sacramento;
Email: aagreen@unc.edu
Keywords of Study: African American Urban History, Race and Space, Displacement, Gentrification, Community-Based Research, Historic Preservation
Name: Benjamin Barber
Pronouns: (he/him)
Degrees obtained: 2018, BA History, Barton College; 2022, M.S. Social Policy, University of Pennsylvania
Email: a href=”mailto:benbe@unc.edu
Keywords of Study: democracy, land ownership, southern history, memory, oral history
Personal Website: www.facingsouth.org/author/benjamin-barber
LinkedIn: Benjamin Barber
Brittany Monique Marea Hutchinson
Pronoun: (She/Her/His )
Degrees obtained: 2009, BA Anthropology, Wayne State University; 2014, MA Museum Studies, Morgan State University
Email: Bhutchi@unc.edu
Keywords of Study: African American History, African American Cultural Expression, Museums, Late 20th Century Popular Culture, Material Culture, Historical Archaeology, Black Feminist Theory, Great Migration
Dana Mulligan
Pronouns: she/her
Degrees Obtained:  2020, B.S. Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech
Email Address: danajm@unc.edu
Keywords of Study: Appalachia, agriculture, food security, queer theory, climate change, folklore

Elizabeth Manekin ’04

Head of University Programs and Academic Projects

Email: elizabeth.manekin@unc.edu

Phone Number: 919-962-1347

Ellen (Ellie) Patronas
Pronouns: She/Her
Please list your degrees obtained. (EX: 2010, BA English, University of North Carolina) 2024, BA Business Administration, Law & Compliance, University of St. Thomas (MN)
Email Addressecpatr@unc.edu
Keywords of Study: Reproductive Justice, Graffiti and Street Art, Abolition Feminism, Race and Law
LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliepatronas/
Emily McDonnell (Citizen of the Navajo Nation)
Pronoun: (She/Her/Hers)
Degrees obtained: B.S. with minor in American Indian Studies (University of Arizona) M.P.A. (Arizona State University)
Email:emcdonnell@unc.edu
Keywords of Study: American Indian/Indigenous Studies (AIIS), Cultural and Political Geography, Collective Memory, Cultural Tourism, Heritage Sites, National Parks, Contemporary Indigenous Identity (U.S. and Central America)
Frankie Bauer
Pronoun: (He/Him/His)
Degrees obtained: 2015, BA History, Middle Georgia State University; 2018, MA Cherokee Studies/History, Western Carolina University
Email:hyphy18@live.unc.edu
Keywords of Study: American Indian & Indigenous Studies, Intertribal Diplomacy, Cherokee History, Early Nineteenth Century History
Isa Millikan

Pronoun: (She/Her)
Degrees obtained: 2023, BA Cultural Anthropology, the Environment, and Foodways; Western Washington University.
Email:iadelmil@unc.edu
Keywords of Study: Foodways, Folklore, Ethnobotany, Feminism, Labor, Latinx studies

Kimber Heinz
Pronoun: (She/Her and They/Them)
Degrees obtained: MA, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and MA, History/Museum Studies, UNC Greensboro
Email: kjheinz@email.unc.edu
Keywords of Study: Carceral studies, public history, US social movements, feminism, Southern violence, antimilitarism, Critical Ethnic Studies, nonviolence
Personal Website: https://scaffoldexhibits.com/about-us LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimber-heinz-081931125/
Lauren Rekhelman
Pronouns: she/her
Degrees Obtained: 2017, BA Theater, Whitman College
Email Address: rekhellm@unc.eduKeywords of Study: Memory Studies, Jewish Folklore, Oral History, Performance
Logan Jacobs
Pronouns: she/her
Degrees Obtained: 2016, BA in Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; 2018, MA in Politics, New York University
Email Address: rekhellm@unc.eduKeywords of Study: American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Native American Studies, Film Studies, Political Science, Identity, Media Representation, Horror, Indigeneity
Melody Hunter-Pillion
Pronoun: (She/Her and Hers)
Degrees obtained: M.A. Liberal Studies, Duke University; B.A. Communication, North Carolina State University
Email: melody@unc.edu
Keywords of Study: Oral history, African American Cultural Traditions, Atlantic World Slavery, Climate Change
Linkin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melody-hunter-pillion-976aa09/
Miquell Shaw
Pronoun: (He/Him/His)
Degrees obtained: BA Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Richmond
Email: miqtshaw@unc.edu
Keywords of Study: Black Philosophical Thought, Existentialist Literature/Thought, Anti-Blackness, Coloniality
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Rachel Greiner
Pronouns: She/Her
Degrees Obtained: 2018, BA Politics and Government, University of Puget Sound; 2021, MA American Studies, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Email Address: pmcclure@unc.edu
Keywords of Study: Queer Jewish Life, Jewish Food, Material Culture, Food and Performance
Rebecca Bernstein
Pronouns: She/Her
Degrees Obtained: 2009, BA Dramatic Art, (Minors: Creative Writing, Folklore), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Email: rbernst@unc.edu
Keywords of Study: Environmental folklore, narrative, archives
Riya Parshad
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Degrees Obtained: 2023, BA History, University of Cambridge
Email: rbernst@unc.edu
Keywords of Study: Environmental History, Apocalypses, Anthropogenic Narratives, Zombies & Apocalyptic Video Games
Sarah Torgeson
Pronoun: (She/Her)
Degrees obtained: 2014, BA History, Yale University; 2020, MA American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Email: sarah.torgeson@unc.edu
Keywords of Study: Critical disaster studies, U.S. Gulf South environmental history, oral history, hurricanes, memorial landscapes
Shannon Wheeler
Pronoun: she/her
Degrees obtained: 2021, MA in American Studies, University of Alabama; 2021, Certificate Museum Studies, University of Alabama; 2019, BA Public Relations, University of Alabama
Email: swheels@unc.edu
Keywords of Study: death studies, animal studies, object ethnography
Simiyha Garrison
Pronoun: (She/Her )
Degrees obtained: BA Africana Studies, Winston-Salem State University. BA, History Winston-Salem State University. Masters of Heritage Studies & Public History
Email: sgarrisgarri@unc.edu
Keywords of Study: Foodways, Space, & Race
Tony Royle
Pronoun: (he/him)
Degrees obtained: 2015 BA History, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; 2015 BA Romance Languages- Italian, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; 2017 MA American Studies, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.
Email: tony_royle@unc.edu
Keywords of Study: Popular Culture, Film and Media, Italian Culture, Afro-Italia, Transnationalism, Diasporic Blackness, Black Geographies, Citizenship, Literary Studies, Visual Culture
Zachary Faircloth
Pronoun: (He/Him)
Degrees obtained: 2018, BA Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University; 2020, MA Religious Studies, University of Florida
Email: zhf@unc.edu
Keywords of Study: race; place; culture; material; vernacular; South