Jacqueline Solis
Librarian for American Studies
jsolis@email.unc.edu
919.962.1151

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Dr. Bill Ferris

Southern Studies Courses

HIST 560: Southern Literature and Oral Tradition course web page

HIST 571: Southern Music course web page

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His new book: Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues

Dr. Minrose Gwin

Southern Studies Courses

ENGL 374: Southern Women Writers

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Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
Speaking at Emory University on February 19, 2008, Dr. Gwin considers how attention to historical location and to locally-embodied experiences raises questions about justice, aesthetics, and memory. She examines the 1963 assassination of Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi, through writings by James Baldwin, Anne Moody, Eudora Welty, and Margaret Walker.

Bernie Herman

George B. Tindall Professor of American Studies, UNC Chapel Hill

Bernie Herman, George B. Tindall Professor of American Studies, joined the American Studies, Folklore, and Art faculty in 2009 after a distinguished career at the University of Delaware where he taught in Art History, History, Urban Affairs and Public Policy, and Material Culture Studies and co-founded two interdisciplinary research centers on material culture and historic preservation and architectural documentation.

His current research projects include Quilt Spaces, an oral history based exploration of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, quilts and quiltmakers. He is also working on a history of first-period (1675-1740) Delaware Valley houses from the falls at Trenton to the Capes of Delaware and a collection of essays, In the Borderlands that explores themes in contemporary self-taught and outsider arts and craft.

Juan Logan

Professor, Art Department, UNC Chapel Hill

Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Juan Logan now lives and works in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Logan’s artworks address subjects relevant to the American experience as a whole. At once abstract and representational, his paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, and videos address the interconnections of race, place, and power. They make visible how hierarchical relations and social stereotypes shape individuals, institutions, and the material and mental landscapes of contemporary life. For instance, the silhouette of a head, which appears in many of his works, confronts the viewer to implicate him/her in the politics of social space, even in galleries and museums. He has shown extensively nationally and internationally, has had numerous solo exhibitions, and executed many private and public commissions. Logan received an M.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art.

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Juan Logan’s blog

Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery

Southern Studies Courses

HIST 231: Native American History: The East

HIST 234: Native American Tribal Studies: Lumbee History

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Her book: Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation

Susan Harbage Page

Instructor, Art Department, UNC Chapel Hill

Susan Harbage Page has exhibited nationally and internationally including Bulgaria, France, Italy, Israel, and China. Her work can be found in many public and private collections, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Israel Museum. Concurrently, her exploration of communities includes temporary public interventions and several municipal public art commissions that link place, history and community together including Crossing Over: A Floating Bridge, Brownsville, Texas and Matamoros, Mexico and Handmade a municipal project for the Charlotte Area Transit System’s Light Rail Station.

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Susan Harbage Page’s blog

Holly Smith

Holly Smith is the Overholser Archival Fellow for African-American Studies at the Southern Historical Collection in Wilson Library at UNC Chapel Hill. She works with African American-related materials, which includes updating current online guides, curating exhibitions, and collaborating with neighboring academic and community organizations for programming. A native of Hampton, VA, Ms. Smith holds a B.A. in History and Black Studies from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, an M.A. in History from Yale University, and an M.S. in Library Science from Simmons College.

Jacqueline Solis

Jacqueline Solis is the Librarian for American Studies. Her office is in Davis Library and she is available all semester for questions about research projects for this class.

Dr. Vin Steponaitis

Southern Studies Courses

ANTH 121: Ancient Cities of the Americas

ANTH 350: Archaeology of North American Indians

Charlie Thompson

Director, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University

Charles Thompson, director of the undergraduate program at CDS, holds the faculty position of Lecturer in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke, and is an adjunct professor in the Department of Religion. He holds a Ph.D. in religion and culture from UNC Chapel Hill, with concentrations in cultural studies and Latin American studies. His particular interests in documentary work include oral history, ethnography, filmmaking, and community activism. A former farmer, he remains immersed in agricultural issues and works on issues affecting laborers within our food system. He has written about farmworkers, and he is an advisory board member of Student Action with Farmworkers. He is the author or editor of five books; his latest is Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World. He is also editor, with Melinda Wiggins, of The Human Cost of Food: Farmworker Lives, Labor, and Advocacy. Thompson is also the producer/director of three documentary films, including his latest Brother Towns/Pueblos Hermanos, as well as The Guestworker and We Shall Not Be Moved.

Dr. Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote

Southern Studies Courses

AMST 235: Native America in the Twentieth Century

Laura Clark Brown

Laura is the coordinator of the Digital Southern Historical Collection and a research and instructional services librarian in the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has worked with the Southern Historical Collection since 2001, and between 2007 and 2009, she served as director for Extending the Reach of Southern Sources: Proceeding to Large-Scale Digitization of Manuscript Collections, a grant project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Laura holds masters' degrees in history and library and information science. She has published several essays including "Opening Archives on the Recent American Past: A Reconciliation of the Ethics of Access and Privacy" (co-authored with Nancy Kaiser) in Doing Recent History: On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back (University of Georgia Press, Spring 2012).

Steve Weiss

Steve Weiss is the director of the Southern Folklife Collection at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds a BS in Audio Technology from American University and MILS from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining UNC's library staff, Steve worked for the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Branch of National Archives and Records Administration and CNN's Washington, DC bureau.