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2024 Fall CSAS Book Talks

Thursdays, 4:30-5:30 p.m. at Love House

Flyer for Rae Garringer Book Talk at CSAS

Our next CSAS Book Talk features Rae Garringer, writer, oral historian and audio producer who wrote, Country Queers: A Love Letter. Garringer will be in conversation with Carter Sickels, Assistant Professor of English & Creative Writing in the MFA Program at North Carolina State University. Join us at 4:30 p.m., Thursday, October 10.

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Thinking South:

Brown Bag Lunch Gatherings

2nd Wednesday of each month, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. at Love House
On the porch at Love House

We’ve launched a new initiative called Thinking South: Brown Bag Lunch Gatherings. During Fall 2024 and Spring 2025, we will gather for informal, engaging lunchtime conversations. These recurring sessions are a generative space for faculty, students, and community members to share ideas, papers, reflections, and discussions centered on topics related to the South. Our next gathering is October 9 with Chaitra Powell on Community-Driven Archives.

LEARN MORE HERE 


3050: A Weekend of Celebrating

Our Past, Present, and Future

The Key to Opening Unvisited Rooms – HIST 593

Students look at archive materials in Wison Library

Using Oral History and Public History, Ph.D. candidate Hooper Schultz teaches undergraduate students how to unravel and share history. Learn about the work they are doing and the digital exhibit they are curating to explore the history of CSAS, Southern Cultures, and SOHP. Details here.

History’s Nuances:

A Student Shares Her SOHP Experience

Undergraduate student Christina Huang holding flowers at 3050 Gala Dinner

“I have been relearning how to interpret and interact with history by reverting to the roots of storytelling,” wrote Christina Huang in a recent LinkedIn post. Here’s a look at Christina’s memorable Spring 2024 semester in the HIST 593 SOHP Internship Course.

Events & Stories

CSAS Mission

Students and scholarship are at our core. Learn about our students, faculty, community, mission, and history.

 

Apply Now for Graduate & Undergraduate Funding

Deadline April 1, 2024

Southern Futures Students in archives

The Center for the Study of the American South offers several competitive grant and fellowship awards for current undergraduate and graduate students attending UNC Chapel Hill who are pursuing research or fieldwork. Students in any discipline studying the US and Global South welcome to apply. Learn more and apply here by April 1, 2024.

Writers Discussion Series – Black Folk

Blair L.M. Kelley in Conversation with LaRhonda Manigault-Bryant

Dr. Blair Kelley signs book for student

Thank you for joining this vibrant, Nov. 2, 2023 discussion between Blair LM Kelley and LaRhonda Manigault-Bryant, exploring Kelley’s new book, Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class. Kelley is the Joel R. Williamson Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies at UNC and director of The Center for the Study of the American South. LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant is Director of UNC’s Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History.

Did you miss this standing room-only event? Learn more about the talk and Kelley’s book, Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class.

 

 

New at the Center

Blair LM Kelley, a noted scholar of Black history and the African American experience, has joined CSAS as its new director. At UNC-Chapel Hill, Kelley is the Joel R. Williamson Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies in the American Studies Department. Look for Dr. Kelley’s latest book, Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class (W.W. Norton).

 

Southern Cultures Issues

Cover of Southern Cultures journal, "Black Geographies" issue 

Summer 23 Black Geographies, Aug. 23, Love House Launch Party (Guest Editor, Danielle Purifoy, UNC)

Fall 23 Snapshot: Climate, Sept. 7, Love House Exhibit Opening (Introductory Essay, Angel Hsu, UNC),

Winter 23 Gothic South (Guest Editor, Kinitra Brooks, Michigan State)

Spring 24 The Vote (Guest Editor, Errin Haines, The 19th)

Summer 24 Sojourning (Guest Editor, Michelle Lanier, UNC; with Johnica Rivers and Alexis Pauline Gumbs)

 

 

 

See our latest issue here

 

 

What We Do

OUR MISSION

Students, faculty, and community drive our mission. Learn more about our work and the people who bring their passion and scholarship to our Center in this video.

 

OUR HISTORY

The Center’s work connects to more than a century of studying the South at UNC. Watch this short video and learn more about our history during our 3050 Anniversary Exhibit, opening April 5, 2024.

 

2022-23 Year in Review

Enjoy learning more about some of our projects in this CSAS Year In Review video.



Blair LM Kelley and Melissa Harris Perry discuss Kelley's new book, Black Folk Students install exhibit at Love House Students playing guitars on porch at Love House

The Center for the Study of the American South is a hub for interdisciplinary research, scholarship, and teaching about Carolina’s complex home region. We are committed to honest reckoning with the past and deep engagement with an evolving South. CSAS connects campus and community through public programs, an award-winning publication, regional outreach, oral history, grants, and fellowships. Our work is driven by innovation and inquiry. We thrive on creativity and collaboration.

Building upon a century of scholarship, the Center for the Study of the American South fosters southern vision and leadership to advance a better future for all. 

 

We connect communities to the most important conversations, resources, and movements across the South.

 

 

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