Next week I'm giving a talk on my book project. Please join us if you're at UNC or in the Triangle! UNC Dept. of American Studies and Folklore
Please join us on 2/6 from 6-7pm in NW 219 for our honors thesis info session with UNC Dept. of American Studies and Folklore!
Presented a new guest lecture today for Dr. Sharon Holland’s UNC Dept. of American Studies and Folklore course, Food & American Culture, about reporting on power with worker voices at the forefront. One of the most engaged classrooms I’ve visited in a while! (And a crappy photo, sorry!)
MONDAY on Zoom Feb 20, 5:30p:
Emerging Scholars Lecture
'A Galician Wedding: Yiddish Popular Culture and Regionalism in American Jewish Immigrant Life' with UNC grad student Oskar Czendze.
Co-sponsors: UNC History
UNC Dept. of American Studies and Folklore
Reservations required:
galicianwedding.eventbrite.com
Congratulations to alumna Gabrielle Berlinger (PhD '13) on receiving the 2024 Schwab Academic Excellence Award from the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill! IAH at UNC UNC-Chapel Hill UNC Dept. of American Studies and Folklore
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Join Us on Zoom Feb 20th:
Emerging Scholars Lecture
'A Galician Wedding: Yiddish Popular Culture and Regionalism in American Jewish Immigrant Life' with UNC grad student Oskar Czendze.
Co-sponsors: UNC History UNC Dept. of American Studies and Folklore
Reservations required:
galicianwedding.eventbrite.com
Folklorist, writer, and media producer at Berea College, Hilliard is a 2011 graduate of @amst_unc . Don’t miss her book discussion at Love House!
@southerncultures Chapel Hill Native @sohporalhistory UNC College of Arts and Sciences Marcie Cohen Ferris Blair LM Kelley, PhD uncpress
'To do the work of a folklorist is inherently to believe in the future.' Folklorist, writer, @amst_unc alumna, and frequent Southern Cultures contributor Emily Hilliard will be discussing her new book at UNC Center for Study of the American South tomorrow, 9/27 at 4:30 PM. southerncultures.org/article/were-f…
Today is the launch day of the audiobook of Blair LM Kelley, PhD new book BLACK FOLK: THE ROOTS OF THE BLACK WORKING CLASS, read by Anika Noni Rose
@amst_unc @southerncultures Chapel Hill Native @sohporalhistory UNC College of Arts and Sciences Marcie Cohen Ferris
Spoke to UNC Dept. of American Studies and Folklore with Justine / תמר 🪞 yesterday about being independent scholars and our forthcoming AGD anthology. Made Justine take a bathroom selfie and also said hello to my fav bench on campus.
TODAY: Emerging Scholars Lecture
'A Galician Wedding: Yiddish Popular Culture and Regionalism in American Jewish Immigrant Life' with UNC grad student Oskar Czendze.
Co-sponsors: UNC History
UNC Dept. of American Studies and Folklore
Zoom, Feb 20, 5:30p, Sign up before 5:00p:
galicianwedding.eventbrite.com
Today is the launch day of the audiobook of Blair LM Kelley, PhD new book BLACK FOLK: THE ROOTS OF THE BLACK WORKING CLASS, read by Anika Noni Rose
@amst_unc @southerncultures Chapel Hill Native @sohporalhistory UNC College of Arts and Sciences Marcie Cohen Ferris
Heading to NC this week for 2 book events + UNC Dept. of American Studies and Folklore class visits, friend reunion & maybe even a WXYC DJ shift?!
🔹 Wednesday at 4:30pm I’ll be reading and in conversation with brilliant folklorist Jordan Lovejoy at UNC Center for Study of the American South's Love House in Chapel Hill
Folklorist, writer, and media producer at Berea College, Hilliard is a 2011 graduate of @amst_unc . Don’t miss her book discussion at Love House!
@southerncultures Chapel Hill Native @sohporalhistory UNC College of Arts and Sciences Marcie Cohen Ferris Blair LM Kelley, PhD uncpress
“Climatopia” is a fabric-based board game that educates players about how to be more resilient in the face of climate change that was born out of Rachel Willis’ (FFP ’00, ’14) course in UNC Dept. of American Studies and Folklore. UNC Research go.unc.edu/Bn57Z
🎉 Congratulations to the 2023-2025 Carolina Postdoctoral Program for Faculty Diversity Fellows, including College fellows Kaneesha Johnson (political science), Sarah Parijs (UNC English & Comparative Literature) and Amanda Martínez (@AMST_UNC).
Learn more: research.unc.edu/2023/10/02/mee…
🎉 Congratulations to Rachel Willis, professor in the American studies department, for receiving a Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
UNC Dept. of American Studies and Folklore
