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

Join us for a lunchtime lecture by Rachel Willis, Professor of American Studies, discussing “Why the Panama Canal Expansion Matters to the Southern U.S.” Construction on the Panama Canal’s “Third Set of Locks,” which began in 2008 and is projected … Read more

Join us for lunch at the Center on Tuesday, November 5, when Anton Hieke will share his research on “Jews in Reconstruction Georgia and the Carolinas.” Anton Hieke is a native of Wolfen, Germany. He earned his PhD in American … Read more

Join us on Monday, October 28 for a lunchtime discussion with Christopher B. Teuton, Coordinator of American Indian and Indigenous Studies at UNC. The talk will focus on “Writing and Editing in a Cherokee Cultural Context: a Backstory of Cherokee … Read more