Caldwell family gift will encourage collaboration between American studies, Ackland Art Museum
When the Caldwell family decided they wanted to give back to UNC-Chapel Hill — a place that left a lasting…
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Dynamic Duo
Faculty couple Bill Ferris and Marcie Cohen Ferris are retiring, but their collective contributions to Southern studies and support for…
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Water Over the Bridge
A professor of American studies is helping port communities worldwide understand how rising sea levels and other impacts of climate…
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Mapping a Culinary Mashup: Laos and a Local Community
Katy Clune (M.A. American studies/folklore) documented an example of global foodways in the rural American South through her project on…
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‘A Good Butcher’: Vittles Films Digs Deep into Food and Southern Culture
Graduate student Victoria Bouloubasis and her partners at Vittles Films have captured the bilingual cacophony of Cliff’s Meat Market in…
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‘Food is a Story about Class, Race and Gender’
Elizabeth Engelhardt started writing about food by beginning with leftovers. Not the remains of a meal; the remains of her…
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(Online exclusive) Creating an Archive of Civil Rights Voices
Assistant professor Seth Kotch hopes to provide a glimpse into the experiences of everyday people and activists from the civil…
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The Henry Owl Scholarship and a class in ‘Gumption’
Andrew Vail ’99 established the Henry Owl Scholarship Fund for Undergraduate Students, honoring the mettle of Henry Owl ’29, a…
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Lives discovered
Details from the lives of black artisans in North Carolina, unseen for more than 100 years, are being discovered by…
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