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Kelly Alexander

Contact Information

Greenlaw Hall 410, CB #3520
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520
kelly.alexander@unc.edu

Education

PhD, Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, 2020
M.A., Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, 2017
B.S.J., Journalism, Northwestern University, 1995

Books

Hometown Appetites: The Story of Clementine Paddleford (Gotham, 2008)
Peaches: A Savor the South Cookbook (UNC Press, 2013)

Selected articles

Woke Up, Pilgrim: http://www.southerncultures.org/article/woke-up-pilgrim/
Gastronomica Volume 18 Issue 4 – Still Life, With Lobster
Don’t Blame Michelle Obama: https://newrepublic.com/article/119797/whats-missing-school-lunch-debate-response-nick-confessore

Courses Taught

AMS276: Food & American Culture: What We Eat and Who We Are

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

Our Values: Respect, Courage, Collaboration for 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?

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