Faculty
| Name | Title | Research Interests | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Allen, Robert | Distinguished Professor | • digital humanities • American cultural history • family history | rallen@email.unc.edu |
 | Alexander, Kelly | Instructor | • food studies • ethnographic methods • documentary studies • feminisms | kelly.alexander@unc.edu |
 | Berlinger, Gabrielle | Assistant Professor | • material culture • ritual • Jewish folklore and ethnology • ethnography • public folklore • museum anthropology | gberling@unc.edu |
 | Cobb, Daniel | Full Professor | • American Indian and Indigenous Studies • American Indian history • politics and activism • ethnohistorical methods • biography and memory • global indigenous rights | dcobb@unc.edu |
 | Engelhardt, Elizabeth | Distinguished Professor | • Southern cultures • food • Appalachia • feminism • literature • region and place | e.engelhardt@unc.edu |
 | Frey, Benjamin E. | Assistant Professor | • sociolinguistics • language shift • Cherokee language | benfrey@live.unc.edu |
 | Gelfand, Rachel | Post doctoral Scholar | • Queer Studies • Oral History • Memory Studies • Visual Culture • Holocaust and Genocide Studies • Documentary Arts • Feminist Theory • Jewish Studies • U.S. Popular Culture | gelfand@live.unc.edu |
 | Herman, Bernard | Distinguished Professor | • material and visual culture • folklore and folk life • cultures of the American South • vernacular art | blherman@email.unc.edu |
 | Hinson, Glenn | Associate Professor | • public folklore • ethnography • African American expressive culture • American South | ghinson@unc.edu |
 | Holland, Sharon | Distinguished Professor | • critical race theory • feminist theory • queer theory • sexuality studies • animal studies | pasharon@email.unc.edu |
 | Kotch, Seth | Associate Professor | • digital humanities • modern south • oral history • criminal and social justice | sethkotch@unc.edu |
 | Marr, Timothy | Associate Professor | • Nineteenth-Century American literary and cultural history • Transnational American Studies • religion in American culture • Islam in/and America • Herman Melville | marr@unc.edu |
 | Richotte, Jr., Keith | Assistant Professor | • American Indian law and policy • legal history • constitutionalism | richotte@email.unc.edu |
 | Robinson, Michelle | Associate Professor | • 19th and 20th century U.S. religious history • 19th and 20th century American literature • U.S. cinema | mmrobins@unc.edu |
 | Rodriguez, Annette | Assistant Professor | • Anti-colonial Theory • Feminisms • Histories of land tenure • 19th and 20th century U.S. popular culture • Performance • Ritual violence • Visual Culture • Borderlands • (Im)migration | arodrig@email.unc.edu |
 | Sawin, Patricia | Associate Professor | • narrative • discourse • festival • culture of adoption | sawin@unc.edu |
 | Tone-Pah-Hote, Jenny | Associate Professor | • American Indian and Indigenous Studies • American Indian history • expressive and material culture | tonepahh@email.unc.edu |
 | van den Berk, Jorrit | Visiting Professor | • US Foreign Relations • Public Diplomacy • Transatlantic Relations • War and Liberation • Race in international contexts | j.vandenberk@let.ru.nl |
 | Willis, Rachel | Full Professor | • global American Studies • transportation planning • labor economics • service-learning, experiential and higher education | Rachel.Willis@unc.edu |
Adjunct/Affiliated:
Daniel Anderson, English & Comparative Literature
William L. Andrews, English & Comparative Literature
Sarah Boyd, English & Comparative Literature
Fitzhugh Brundage, History
Maggie Cao, Art & Art History
Claude Clegg, African American & Diaspora Studies, and History
Tyree Daye, English & Comparative Literature
Maria DeGuzman, English & Comparative Literature
Kathleen DuVal, History
Tiber Falzett, English and Comparative Literature
Lawrence Grossberg, Communication Studies
Philip F. Gura, English & Comparative Literature
Amy Hertel, American Indian Center
Wes Hogan, Center for Documentary Studies-Duke
Malinda Maynor Lowery, History
Jocelyn Neal, Music and Folklore
Michael Palm, Communication Studies
Della Pollock, Communication Studies
Eliza Richards, English & Comparative Literature
Katherine Roberts, Center for the Study of the American South
Robyn Schroeder, Humanities for the Public Good
Rachel F. Seidman, Center for the Study of the American South
William Sturkey, History
Jane Thrailkill, English & Comparative Literature
Tim Tyson, Center for Documentary Studies-Duke
Harry Watson, History
Anne Whisnant, History
Emeritus Professors
Marcie Ferris
William R. Ferris
Peter Filene
Jacquelyn Hall
John Kasson
Joy Kasson
Townsend Ludington
Daniel Patterson
Theda Perdue
Charles Zug