After a 21-year career in the U.S. Army, John Bechtold is now a PhD student in UNC’s Department of American Studies, using photography as a means to discuss American public memory and cultural perceptions of war.
American Studies Professor Von Diaz’s food politics article in the New York Times, a great piece about food as resistance and chefs who “make magic with whatever ingredients they have.”
A digital humanities project PhD candidate Melissa Dollman manages, Tribesourcing Southwest Film Project, honored with an Innovation Award by National Digital Stewardship Alliance/Digital Library Federation at this year’s Digital Preservation 2020 conference.
Elijah Heyward, III, who received his American Studies PhD in May of 2018, now serves as the chief operating officer of the International African American Museum.