Associate Professor William Sturkey was featured in WUNC’s most recent episode of “Tested,” detailing faculty efforts to change the name of what we currently know as Hamilton Hall. Description of the episode below: J.G. de Roulhac Hamilton’s name has marked … Read more

Congratulations to Sam Dolbee, who wrote his undergraduate thesis with Professor Sarah Sheilds in 2008. Dolbee completed his PhD in 2017 at New York University’s joint program in History and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies. He just won the best … Read more

Donny Santacatarina, a 5th year PhD candidate, has been awarded the Maynard Adams Fellowship for the Public Humanities. In his cohort, he’ll conduct public humanities work through the comparison of Chinese and American news systems. Congratulations, Donny, we can’t wait … Read more

Jessica Wilkerson, who earned her Ph.D. from the history department in 2014, has won the Southern Historical Associations H.L. Mitchell Award for her book To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice.  The award recognizes … Read more

Miguel La Serna recently co-authored a “Perspective” piece for the Washington Post with Kia Caldwell, professor of African, African American and Diaspora Studies, about the lack of diverse leadership at UNC and its role in exacerbating the COVID-19 pandemic. They argue … Read more

Bret Devereaux, PhD ’18 and research affiliate, writes on the challenges facing public higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic. He writes “Calling a halt to on-campus operations and going totally online, thereby waiving on-campus fees, was the right, moral choice. … Read more