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WHEN: Wednesday, April 19,  6:00-7:30 p.m. WHERE: Join us in person at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History VIRTUAL OPTION: Register at https://go.unc.edu/n3DYk The Center for the Study of the American South is honored to host a conversation with Michael Twitty and Marcie Cohen Ferris. Twitty, the…

The Southern Oral History Program at the Center for the Study of the American South invites you to a Celebration of the Story of Us Premiere for Arts Everywhere Day 2023   What: “Please join us on the porch of the Love House for snacks and refreshments as we invite…

On April 13th at 7pm in Hyde Hall, CSAS will co-sponsor the Chandler Lecture Series with UNC’s Asian American Center Samip Mallick, Executive Director of the South Asian American Digital Archive, will give a talk titled, “The Missing Stories: South Asian American History from the 1700s to Today” In “The…

Marcie Cohen Ferris is interim director of CSAS.  Professor Emeritus in UNC’s American Studies Department, Ferris joined the CSAS team in July 2022 and will work with CSAS until the end of June 2023. In her Southern Studies teaching and scholarship, Ferris has worked closely with CSAS for over twenty…

Current and former staff members of the Institute for Southern Studies will be joined by activists and scholars on a two-part panel discussion exploring the history and legacy of Southern Exposure magazine, a groundbreaking investigative reporting project. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of the first issue…

Researchers and work from SOHP highlighted in The Daily Tarheel.

Through community radio and podcasts, College of Arts and Sciences’ Postdoctoral Research Associate Maria Gutierrez strives to preserve her ancestral language and identity — that of an indigenous people from Michoacán, Mexico, called the P’urhépecha.

There are members of the Chapel Hill community who know the story of James Cates, a 22-year-old man who was murdered on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. The James Cates Remembrance Coalition, a collective that includes Cates’s family members, community leaders, scholars, activists, and students are commemorating James Cates’s life and…