Come work with us! We are now hiring for a Public Communications Specialist. Position description and application information at the link below. Applications accepted through February 18, 2013. https://itsapps.unc.edu/RAMS4/details.do?reqId=1301200&type=S We hope to have you here soon!

Professor Jocelyn Neal is the new Director of the Center for the Study of the American South effective July 1, 2012. Jocelyn Neal is Associate Professor of Music and Adjunct Associate Professor of American Studies. Her primary areas of research are commercial … Read more

Lantern Restaurant is generously hosting a dinner on October 26th at 6:30pm in honor of Nathalie Dupree’s Charleston Lecture. All of the proceeds will benefit the programming at The Center for the Study of the American South.

The Center would like to invite you to a very special event on April 6th. Please join us for an evening of bbq and conversation with this year’s Charleston Lecturer, Southern Foodways Alliance director and New York Times columnist John T. Edge.  John T. … Read more

Isabel Wilkerson, former national correspondent and bureau chief at The New York Times and the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for journalism, will discuss her new book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great … Read more