Initiatives
The UNC Center for the Study of the American South is home to transformative initiatives that illuminate the complexities of the region through interdisciplinary research, publication, teaching, and collection. Together, they advance our mission to deepen understanding of, and engagement with, the US South.
Southern Cultures
Where scholarship meets storytelling. Our award-winning peer-reviewed quarterly, published by UNC Press, explores the history, society, and arts of the US South through scholarly articles, memoir, interviews, poetry, and art.
Southern Oral History Program
For fifty years, SOHP has conducted field research, trained the next generation of scholars, and preserved and amplified the voices that shape southern history and society.
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.
Thinking South: Brown Bag Lunch Gatherings
Love House
410 E Franklin St., Chapel Hill, NC
2nd Wednesdays 
11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
This series is a space for generating ideas and thinking out loud. The brown bag lunch idea came from History, Race, and a Way Forward meetings with Jim Leloudis (co-chair), Professor of History and Patricia Parker (co-chair), Professor of Communication plus other active Commission Members. These lunchtime gatherings are a generative and flexible space where people can share ideas, artwork, campus reflections, projects, and anything related to the South.