Embracing critical conversations and creative expressions for a diverse and changing South
Rachel Seidman's students have been investigating stories about Race, Gender, and Entrepreneurship, exploring themes such as motivations for entrepreneurship, training and education, attitudes toward debt and credit, the role of families, and connections to wider communities and social movements. They … Read more
In our first Hutchins Lecture of the semester, “The Beekeeper: Collecting Oral Histories of Black Southern Queer Women,” E. Patrick Johnson will discuss the methodological challenges he faced while conducting research about women as a man. He'll also perform excerpts … Read more
Back Ways and "Good Roads" Southern Oral History Program field scholars Darius Scott and Rachel Cotterman explore recent findings from Back Ways, an SOHP project that examines the relationship between infrastructure development and experiences of racial segregation in the rural American … Read more
Join us at the Center as we launch our Fall 2017 art exhibit, featuring story quilts based on the deployed experiences of Native American military veterans. Inspired by oral history interviews with veterans from each of North Carolina's eight state- … Read more
"'Besides being water of good quality, it is very good water': Redefining Public Health Metrics of Water Quality" Professor Javier Arce Nazario is an Associate Professor in the Geography Department at UNC-Chapel Hill. His research program has focused on the … Read more