Mishio Yamanaka, a PhD candidate in UNC’s Department of History and the 2017-18 McColl Fellow, will show how Creoles of color in New Orleans achieved the partial desegregation of public schools during Reconstruction and resisted resegregation in 1877. In her … Read more

“Anti-Chinese Racism and the Making of the Mexican Mestizo” Jason Oliver Chang is Assistant Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. At UConn he is an affiliated faculty member with the Maritime Studies Institute … Read more

Applications for the Center’s 2018-19 Postdoctoral Fellowship are due on March 16th, and more information about CSAS funding opportunities is available here.

Health and the Humanities in Practice: Using a Liberal Arts Approach to Rural Health Challenges in North Carolina Lisa McKeithan, MS, CRC, is Director and HIV/AIDS Researcher at CommWell Health Clinics in Dunn, North Carolina, an award-winning not-for-profit Federally Qualified Health Center. … Read more

Since 1973, the Southern Oral History Program has worked to preserve the voices of the southern past. We have collected more than 5,000 interviews with people from all walks of life—from mill workers to civil rights leaders to future presidents … Read more