Southern Studies
Faculty
The heart and soul of any great university is its faculty, and
Carolina now has over sixty experts, from a wide range of disciplines,
in the study of the American South.
African American
Studies
Barbara
Shaw Anderson
Women and criminal justice in the South, educational consulting
in African American history
Reginald
F. Hildebrand
Afro-American Studies, southern history
Gerald
Horne
African and Afro-American history
Kenneth
R. Janken
African American intellectuals, Civil Rights movement, Harlem Renaissance
Timothy
J. McMillan
U.S. slavery, black witches, critical race theory
Robert
S. Porter
The black experience, Civil Rights movement, Reconstruction
American Studies
Bob
Cantwell
Folklore theory, southern music, folk revival studies.
Michael
D. Green
Native American history
Philip F. Gura
Banjo in the nineteenth century
Michael
Lienesch
American religious right of the 1920s, early fundamentalism, the
antievolution movement, and the Scopes "Monkey" trial
Laurie
Maffly-Kip
Memory and race, African American religion and communal narratives
Timothy
W. Marr
Civil War and cultural memory; African American literature and history,
religion and "race" in nineteenth-century America
Thomas
Tweed
Historical and ethnographic research n Roman Catholicism and Asian
religions, Cubans in south Florida
Rachel
Willis
American economy with emphasis on southern manufacturer workers
Anthropology
Dale
L. Hutchinson
Bioarchaeology, human osteology, forensic anthropology, paleopathology,
health and nutrition, agricultural origins and consequences, southeastern
and mid-Atlantic United States, South America
Glenn
D. Hinson
African American expressive culture, health and belief systems,
public folklore, ethnographic practice. Current research: African
American oral poetry, dream and vision songs among sanctified Christians,
historiography of the Nat Turner uprising
Valerie
L. Lambert
American Indians, United States, ethnography, political and legal
anthropology, identity, race and racism, elites
James
L. Peacock
Symbolic anthropology, Southeast Asia, religious cultures, comparative
studies of the American South
C.
Margaret Scarry
Paleoethnobotany, archaeological theory and method, development
and operation of chiefdoms, archaeology of contact period in southeastern
United States, eastern United States
John
F. Scarry
Archaeological theory, cultural ecology, development and operation
of hierarchical societies, prehistory, quantitative methods, Spanish
colonial period archaeology; eastern United States
Vincas
P. Steponaitis
Archaeology, culture, and history of Moundville and the Lower Mississippi
Valley between AD 1000 and the arrival of Europeans
Patricia
Sawin
Narrative, discourse, and ethnography of speaking, festival, gender,
politics of culture; Appalachia, French Louisiana, Guatemala. Current
research: racial division and negotiation in small town mardi gras;
cultural and linguistic preservation and tourism in Guatemala
Archaeology
R. P. Stephen
Davis, Jr.
Archaeology, quantitative methods, computer applications, ceramic
analysis, settlement systems, contact period, southeastern United
States
Brett H. Riggs
Archaeology, ethnohistory, Cherokee culture history; southeastern
United States
Vincas
P. Steponaitis
Archaeology, culture, and history of Moundville and the Lower Mississippi
Valley between AD 1000 and the arrival of Europeans
Creative Writing
Daphne Athas
Creative writing
Doris Betts,
emeritus
Creative writing
Pam Durban
Creative writing
Marianne
Gingher
Creative writing, contemporary novel and short story
Michael McFee
Creative writing, poetry, contemporary North Carolina literature
James Seay
Creative writing, poetry
Bland Simpson
Creative writing, poetry
English
William
L. Andrews
African American literature before 1930, American autobiography
studies, southern literature
Daphne Athas
Creative writing
Laurence Avery
Modern drama, American drama, southern literature
Doris Betts,
emeritus
Novelist; reviews and essays on contemporary American literature
James Coleman
African American literature
Pam Durban
Creative writing
Joseph M.
Flora
Southern literature
Marianne
Gingher
Creative writing, contemporary novel and short story
J. Lee Greene
African American literature
Philip F. Gura
Roots music, banjo in the nineteenth century
William Harmon
Poetry, barbecue
Trudier Harris-Lopez
African American literature and folklore
Mae G.
Henderson
African American literature, literary theory
Fred Hobson
Southern literature and intellectual history, autobiography
Kimball King
Contemporary drama, southern literature, nineteenth-century American
literature
Michael McFee
Creative writing, poetry, contemporary North Carolina literature
Margaret
O’Connor
American literature, women writers
Daniel Patterson, emeritus
Folksong, folklore documentaries, Southern folklore. Current research:
ballads and narratives of Frankie Silver; gravestones and Presbyterian
Scots-Irish culture
Julius R.
Raper III
Southern literature, especially twentieth-century fiction
Louis Rubin Jr., emeritus
Southern literature, especially twentieth century
James Seay
Creative writing, poetry
Bland Simpson
Creative writing, poetry
Linda
Wagner-Martin
American modernism, including Ellen Glasgow, William Faulkner; women
writers
Charles Zug,
emeritus
Folk art, southern material culture, narrative. Current projects:
building the North Carolina Pottery Center; contemporary folk art
in North Carolina
Folklore
Bob
Cantwell
Folklore theory, southern music, folk revival studies.
Jacquelyn
Hall
Oral history, women’s history, southern social history.
Trudier Harris-Lopez
African American literature and folklore
Glenn
D. Hinson
African American expressive culture, health and belief systems,
public folklore, ethnographic practice. Current research: African
American oral poetry, dream and vision songs among sanctified Christians,
historiography of the Nat Turner uprising
Jocelyn
Neal
Country music, twentieth-century music theory and popular music,
country dance and music relationships.
Daniel Patterson, emeritus
Folksong, folklore documentaries, southern folklore. Current research:
ballads and narratives of Frankie Silver; gravestones and Presbyterian
Scots-Irish culture
James
L. Peacock
Symbolic anthropology, Southeast Asia, religious cultures, comparative
studies of the American South
Patricia
Sawin
Narrative, discourse, and ethnography of speaking, festival, gender,
politics of culture; Appalachia, French Louisiana, Guatemala. Current
research: racial division and negotiation in small town mardi gras;
cultural and linguistic preservation and tourism in Guatemala
Charles Zug
Folk art, southern material culture, narrative. Current projects:
building the North Carolina Pottery Center; contemporary folk art
in North Carolina
Geography
Stephen
S. Birdsall
Regional landscapes, tobacco farming and culture
John
W. Florin
Cultural and historical geography of the South
History
William
L. Barney
Social and political history of nineteenth-century America, with
emphasis on Civil War era
W.
Fitzhugh Brundage
U.S. South since the Civil War, New South
Peter
A. Coclanis
U.S. economic and business history, colonial history
William
R. Ferris
All manifestations of southern culture from Faulkner to moon pies
Michael
D. Green
Native American history
Jacquelyn
Hall
Oral history, women’s history, southern social history.
Reginald
F. Hildebrand
Afro-American Studies, southern history
Gerald
Horne
African and Afro-American history
James
L. Leloudis
North Carolina history, U.S. South, education history
Donald
G. Mathews
Antebellum U.S.; American religious history; American social history
Theda
Perdue
Native American history
Harry
L. Watson
Antebellum history, Jacksonian America, and North Carolina history,
coeditor of Southern Cultures
Heather
Williams
African Americans in the 18th and 19th Centuries, particularly in
the American South
Joel
R. Williamson
History of the South, race relations, twentieth-century southern
popular culture including Elvis Presley, Margaret Mitchell, and
Tennessee Williams
Journalism and Mass
Communication
Donald
L. Shaw
Music
John
Covach
The emergence of rock and roll from the American South in the mid-50s,
the influence of folk and country music on popular music since 1945
Jocelyn
Neal
Country music, twentieth-century music theory and popular music,
country dance and music relationships.
Thomas
Warburton
Musical culture and the fiction of southern writers, especially
Lee Smith, Clyde Edgerton, and Dubose Heyward
Political Science
Thad
Beyle
State government, North Carolina politics and policy
Michael
Lienesch
American religious right of the 1920s, early fundamentalism, the
antievolution movement, and the Scopes "Monkey" trial
Religious Studies
Laurie
Maffly-Kip
Memory and race, African American religion and communal narratives
Thomas
Tweed
Historical and ethnographic research n Roman Catholicism and Asian
religions, Cubans in south Florida
Ruel
Tyson
Symbol and allegory in the ritual practices of the Blue Ridge Primitive
Baptists; the epistemology and rhetoric of ethnographic practices
Sociology
Larry
Griffin
Social inequality, race and race relations, politics, U.S. South,
coeditor of Southern Cultures
John Shelton Reed, emeritus
All things southern, founding director of CSAS and founding editor
of Southern Cultures
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