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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Marcie Cohen Ferris Sound Recordings #5177, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Marcie Cohen Ferris of Chapel Hill, N.C., in October 2005 (Acc. 100236).

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• Ferris, Marcie Cohen.
• Jews--Southern States.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Carolina Center for Jewish Studies.

Marcie Cohen Ferris (1957- ) was born in Blytheville, Ark., to Jerome and Hudda Cohen. Ferris received her B.A. from Brown University in 1981, her M.A. from the College of William and Mary in 1985, and her Ph.D. from George Washington University in 2003. In 2004, she joined the American Studies faculty at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where she regularly teaches seminars exploring the history of the Jewish experience in the American South, American Jewish women, and the meaning of food in American culture. She also serves as the associate director of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies. Before moving to Chapel Hill, Ferris worked in the field of museums, public history, and oral history for over twenty years in Maine, Virginia, Massachusetts, and Mississippi.

The collection consists of sound recordings of guest speakers from a fundraising event hosted by the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies (CCJS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and from interviews conducted and classes taught by Marcie Cohen Ferris, an American Studies faculty member and associate director of the CCJS. The recordings discuss the CCJS, the history of Jews in the South, and the practice of Jewish history research.

• Audio cassettes (C-5177/1-8)