Initiatives
The Center for the Study of the American South at UNC-Chapel Hill is home to transformative initiatives that illuminate the complexities of the region and foster collaboration across communities.
Our Southern Oral History Program amplifies voices through an extensive collection of interviews documenting Southern life and history. Southern Cultures, our peer-reviewed journal, showcases scholarship and creative works that explore the South’s past, present, and future. As a network Southern Futures brings together students, scholars, artists, and community leaders to imagine what might be possible. Together, these initiatives advance our mission to engage, understand, and reimagine the American South.
Southern Cultures
Where scholarship meets storytelling. Our award-winning peer-reviewed quarterly, published by UNC Press, explores the diverse history and cultures of the US South through scholarly articles, memoir, interviews, poetry, and art.
Southern Oral History Program
Conducting field research that preserves and amplifies the voices that shape the history and culture of the U.S. South.
Southern Futures
Collaborative network for the students, scholars, creators, and community leaders doing extraordinary research to reimagine the American South.
Southern Cultures
Where scholarship meets storytelling. Our award-winning peer-reviewed quarterly, published by UNC Press, explores the diverse history and cultures of the US South through scholarly articles, memoir, interviews, poetry, and art.
The Southern Oral History Program (SOHP)
conducting field research that preserves and amplifies the voices that shape the history and culture of the U.S. South.
Southern Futures
collaborative network for the students, scholars, creators, and community leaders doing extraordinary research to reimagine the American South.
Faculty Initiatives
Critical Ethnic Studies Collective
In the spring of 2019, colleagues across the College of Arts and Sciences called for an intellectual initiative at UNC resulting in the Critical Ethnic Studies Collective at Carolina, a faculty initiative with funding for speakers, informal gatherings, and activities for graduate students. CES at Carolina envisions a different kind of South where students and faculty can engage the study of reparation and sovereignty, (im)migration and labor, gender difference and inclusion as categories with overlapping strands, rather than competing ideologies.