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SOHP Spring 2025 Internship
Apply Now – Noon, Nov. 15 Deadline
The Southern Oral History Program (SOHP) is currently accepting applications for our spring 2025 undergraduate internship. The SOHP’s internship program provides experiential education in the intellectual, practical, and curatorial work of oral history. Students must apply for the program; upon acceptance, they will be enrolled in HIST593 for three credit hours. Students will work as researchers, collaborators, and curators with the Southern Oral History Program (SOHP). They will learn about oral history as both a method and a tradition. Throughout the semester, students will create and use in-depth oral history interviews as well as survey scholarship that effectively uses oral history research.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE INTERNSHIP & HOW TO APPLY. DEADLINE – NOON, FRIDAY, NOV. 15, 2024
2024 Fall CSAS Book Talks
Thursdays, 4:30-5:30 p.m. at Love House
Our next CSAS Book Talk features with Crystal R. Sanders, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and author of “A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs” in conversation with Candis Watts Smith, Professor of Political Science and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Duke University. Join us at 4:30 p.m., Thursday, October 24.
Thinking South:
Brown Bag Lunch Gatherings
2nd Wednesday of each month, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. at Love House
We’ve launched a new initiative called Thinking South: Brown Bag Lunch Gatherings. During Fall 2024 and Spring 2025, we will gather for informal, engaging lunchtime conversations. These recurring sessions are a generative space for faculty, students, and community members to share ideas, papers, reflections, and discussions centered on topics related to the South. Our next gathering is November 13th with Simon Fisher on “Intersections in Motion: Historicizing Pauli Murray in and through Trans Studies”.
3050: A Weekend of Celebrating
Our Past, Present, and Future
The Key to Opening Unvisited Rooms – HIST 593
Using Oral History and Public History, Ph.D. candidate Hooper Schultz teaches undergraduate students how to unravel and share history. Learn about the work they are doing and the digital exhibit they are curating to explore the history of CSAS, Southern Cultures, and SOHP. Details here.
History’s Nuances:
A Student Shares Her SOHP Experience
“I have been relearning how to interpret and interact with history by reverting to the roots of storytelling,” wrote Christina Huang in a recent LinkedIn post. Here’s a look at Christina’s memorable Spring 2024 semester in the HIST 593 SOHP Internship Course.
Events & Stories
CSAS Mission
Students and scholarship are at our core. Learn about our students, faculty, community, mission, and history.
Apply Now for Graduate & Undergraduate Funding
Deadline April 1, 2024
The Center for the Study of the American South offers several competitive grant and fellowship awards for current undergraduate and graduate students attending UNC Chapel Hill who are pursuing research or fieldwork. Students in any discipline studying the US and Global South welcome to apply. Learn more and apply here by April 1, 2024.
Writers Discussion Series – Black Folk
Blair L.M. Kelley in Conversation with LaRhonda Manigault-Bryant
Thank you for joining this vibrant, Nov. 2, 2023 discussion between Blair LM Kelley and LaRhonda Manigault-Bryant, exploring Kelley’s new book, Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class. Kelley is the Joel R. Williamson Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies at UNC and director of The Center for the Study of the American South. LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant is Director of UNC’s Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History.
Did you miss this standing room-only event? Learn more about the talk and Kelley’s book, Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class.
New at the Center
Blair LM Kelley, a noted scholar of Black history and the African American experience, has joined CSAS as its new director. At UNC-Chapel Hill, Kelley is the Joel R. Williamson Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies in the American Studies Department. Look for Dr. Kelley’s latest book, Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class (W.W. Norton).
Southern Cultures Issues
Summer 23 Black Geographies, Aug. 23, Love House Launch Party (Guest Editor, Danielle Purifoy, UNC)
Fall 23 Snapshot: Climate, Sept. 7, Love House Exhibit Opening (Introductory Essay, Angel Hsu, UNC),
Winter 23 Gothic South (Guest Editor, Kinitra Brooks, Michigan State)
Spring 24 The Vote (Guest Editor, Errin Haines, The 19th)
Summer 24 Sojourning (Guest Editor, Michelle Lanier, UNC; with Johnica Rivers and Alexis Pauline Gumbs)
See our latest issue here
What We Do
2022-23 Year in Review
Enjoy learning more about some of our projects in this CSAS Year In Review video.
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The Center for the Study of the American South is a hub for interdisciplinary research, scholarship, and teaching about Carolina’s complex home region. We are committed to honest reckoning with the past and deep engagement with an evolving South. CSAS connects campus and community through public programs, an award-winning publication, regional outreach, oral history, grants, and fellowships. Our work is driven by innovation and inquiry. We thrive on creativity and collaboration.
Building upon a century of scholarship, the Center for the Study of the American South fosters southern vision and leadership to advance a better future for all.
We connect communities to the most important conversations, resources, and movements across the South.
