April 13th and 14th, respectively, the Center hosts Tammy Ingram and Peter Rutkoff.
Tell About the South with Tammy Ingram, Center for the Study of the American South’s Post Doctoral Fellow – Progressives and Politics on the Dixie Highway
Wednesday, April 13th | 12 p.m. | The Center for the Study of the American South
Lunch provided but RSVP requested
Tammy will be talking generally about her new book project on the efforts of farmers, automakers, civic boosters, and local government officials to simultaneously build the nation’s first interstate highway system and the modern highway bureaucracy between about 1915 and 1930, and specifically about the chapter on chain gangs which explores one of the instances in which the diverse political priorities and economic motives of these groups came into conflict.
Dr. Tammy Ingram received her Ph.D. from Yale University and has spent the past three years as the James T. and Ella Rather Kirk Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Agnes Scott College.
Historian, Fulbright Scholar, and NEH Fellow Peter Rutkoff, Professor of American Studies at Kenyon College and founder of the program, will be the guest of honor at a luncheon seminar on the links between West African culture, the West Indies, and the American North and South.
Thursday, April 14th | 12 p.m. | The Center for the Study of the American South
Lunch provided but RSVP requested
Peter Rutkoff is the author, with William Scott, of New York Modern: The Arts and the City (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999) and The New School: A History of the New School for Social Research (Free Press, 1986), among other books, including Fly Away: The Great African American Migration (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010). Prof. Rutkoff has also published two works of fiction: Shadow Ball: A Novel of Chicago (McFarland, 2000), and Cooperstown Chronicles: Love and Other Water Sports (Birch Brook Press, 2001), a collection of stories. His soon-to-be published account of his Fulbright research in Cyprus in 2005 is tentatively entitled Across the Green Line: Cyprus, 2005.
Please RSVP to 962-5665 or ddimaio@email.unc.edu