The first book length work of Asian American and southern studies, Asian Americans in Dixie: Race and Migration in the South  (University of Illinois Press, 2013) brings together scholars working in a variety of disciplines, all of whom are invested … Read more

Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, will deliver her address, “Making a Way out of No Way: Black Women in the Old South,” in the Kresge Foundation Room in Graham Memorial Hall. This lecture is co-sponsored … Read more

Named for James A. Hutchins Jr. (1917–2002), a distinguished Carolina alumnus who spent most of his life fighting world hunger, the Hutchins Lecture Series has been generously funded by the Hutchins Family Foundation since the 2010–11 season. Speakers are selected with attention … Read more

Joey Fink, a PhD candidate in History and current McColl Fellow at CSAS, will present findings from her dissertation research titled “In Good Faith: How Millhands, Feminists, Preachers, and Nuns Built a Workers’ Rights Coalition in the 1970s South.” Lunch … Read more

Taking its name from a passage in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!, the Center’s lunchtime presentations of works-in-progress by faculty and senior graduate students provide a scholarly and collegial forum for comments and suggestions by an audience of academic peers. This Spring, our … Read more