On November 9th, Professor Emerita Genna Rae McNeil will be the featured speaker at the 29th Annual Sonja Hayne Stone Memorial Lecture. The lecture will be delivered via Zoom. For more information and to register, please go to the Stone … Continued

Alexandra Odom won a Graduate School Impact award for her role in a documentary film focusing on the achievement gap between white and Black students in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. The Carolina Arts & Sciences Magazine wrote about Odom … Continued

Professor Jay Smith is one of six historians honored with the Education Law Association’s Steinhilber Award for the best legal brief of the year.  Dr. Smith, along with UNC alum Taylor Branch and others, collaborated in writing a Supreme Court amicus … Continued

Congratulations to five history graduate students on being awarded the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. Laura Cox, Arianne Ekinci, Cody Love, Emily Taylor, and Abigail Warchol will use their fellowships to travel to the areas they study and conduct research. You … Continued

Charles Sellers, UNC PhD (1950), passed away last week, aged 98. Sellers was the author of The Market Revolution. The New York Times published an obituary of Sellers over the weekend which celebrated him as “a historian whose work on early-19th-century … Continued

Professor Molly Worthen recently published a Opinion Guest Essay in the New York Times about the fight over the tenure system, its history, and how it could change. Read her piece, “The Fight Over Tenure is Not Really About Tenure” … Continued

Professor Lloyd Kramer recently received the University’s Thomas Jefferson Award. The award, according to the faculty governance website, “is presented annually to ‘that member of the academic community who through personal influence and performance of duty in teaching, writing, and … Continued

Professor Emeritus Don Raleigh received the 2021 recipient of the award for Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. The citation makes clear his impressive achievements. You can … Continued

In a recent interview with the Washington Independent Review of Books, Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History William R. Ferris talks civil rights, Black Lives Matter, and finding a one-of-a-kind photo for his new book. You can read the … Continued

Matt Andrews has recently launched his new podcast, “American Sport with Matt Andrews.” Each episode explores the sporting events that have defined our culture and changed the course of American history. It will go beyond the sports page telling of … Continued