Congratulations to Dr. William Sturkey for receiving the Carolina Center for Public Service’s Robert E. Bryan Award for Public Service on April 12, 2022. Dr. Sturkey is recognized for his scholarship on race and the U.S. South, as well as … Continued

The college of arts and sciences website recently featured a spotlight on Fitz Brundage’s long-term project to produce a digital collection of North Carolina’s monuments, shrines and commemorative public art. Commemorative Landscape, an interdisciplinary collaboration, “contains information on roughly 1000 historical … Continued

Emerita Professor Genna Rae McNeil is co-winner of this year’s Charles Hamilton Houston Medallion of Merit, conferred by the Washington DC Bar Association. In 1925, the Association was co-founded by Charles Hamilton Houston, whose prize-winning biography, Groundwork, was written by … Continued

Read about Dr. Turk’s spring 2020 HIST 179H, and their virtual walking tour exploring women’s history on UNC’s campus, in The Well.

Congratulations to department graduate student Cristian Walk on receiving a Tanner Award for Graduate Teaching Assistants. Read more about Cristian and his philosophy on teaching here.

Earlier this year, Dr. William Sturkey earned a 2022 Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Created in 1952, the Tanner Award celebrates inspirational teaching of undergraduates, especially first- and second-year students. Read about Dr. Sturkey’s accomplishment and reflections on … Continued

Earlier this year, Bradley Sadowsky ’24, a math and comparative literature major, won a SEC-AAS award for their paper “Post-War Japanese Society and Mishima Yukio’s The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea.” Sadowsky originally wrote the paper through … Continued

On February 25 in Richmond, Virginia, the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies recognized Professor Emeritus Donald J. Raleigh with its Lifetime Achievement Award. Join us in congratulating Dr. Raleigh!

Last week, the Daily Tar Heel featured an article about the History department’s William Sturkey. The article, entitled “UNC history professor William Sturkey aims to empower students to talk about race,” discusses Dr. Sturkey’s teaching and his public facing work … Continued

The Society for Military History’s Distinguished Book Awards Committee selected  The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600  (Oxford University Press, 2020), edited by Karen Hagemann, Stefan Dudink and Sonya Rose, as the winner of the … Continued