Congratulations to Professor William Ferris on being honored with the Cora Norman Award from the Mississippi Humanities Council. The award recognizes Ferris’ “distinguished career as a scholar and national leader in the humanities.” Read more about the award on the … Read more
The Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Naming University Facilities and Units has decided to rename the Student Affairs building on campus in honor of Henry Owl. Owl was a Cherokee historian and the first American Indian student to enroll at the … Read more
Kimathi Muiruri ’21, who majored in history and environmental studies, was a Morehead-Cain Scholar, a member of Phi Beta Kappa and is an Honors Carolina laureate. He is the third Tar Heel to be named a Rhodes Scholar this fall. … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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” … Read more
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 … Read more
