Events, Lectures and Interviews
On April 25th, faculty gathered at So-and-So Books in Raleigh to celebrate their colleagues’ scholarship, tenure and promotions (Profs. Katherine Charron, Ebony Jones, Julie Mell, and Brent Sirota), and retirements (Profs. Keith Luria, Steven Vincent, and David Zonderman). Congratulations to all!
Dr. Traci Brynne Voyles delivered the keynote address, “How We Got Here: Historicizing a Crisis in Reproductive Health,” at the 2025 Graduate Student History Conference at NC State University.
On April 8, The Department of History held its second annual Jonathan Ocko Memorial Lecture which featured Martha S. Jones, the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor at Johns Hopkins University, who delivered the talk, “The Trouble of Color: Making Marriage and Family Along North Carolina’s Jagged Color Line.”
On April 9, Dr. Alexis Clark presented the lecture, “Morning Again in Impressionism Studies?” at the University of Montreal.
On April 4, Dr. Ajamu Dillahunt-Holloway delivered the keynote for the Honors Convocation at North Carolina Central University.
Dr. Mi Kim gave the plenary talk, “The Enlightened Chemistry of Air and Fire,” for the symposium on 18C Chemistry, organized by the History division of the American Chemical Society (March 24, 2025), American Chemical Society biannual meeting, San Diego.
On March 28, Dr. Chris Laws presented the talk, “Paltry Finances, Changing Demographics, and Contested Memory: Analyzing Early Confederate Commemoration in North Carolina, 1866-1898,” at the North Carolina Association of Historians Conference, held at the College of The Albemarle in Manteo.
Dr. Tate Paulette was featured on the Gastropod podcast episode, “Do We Really have Beer to Thank for the First Writing and Cities?”
Class Projects & Tours
Dr. Tate Paulette, Dr. Jordan Rogers and Dr. Kate Grossman from the Sociology and Anthropology as well as Levent Atici from the Provost’s office hosted a group of alums and community members to tour the archeology lab.
On April 23, Dr. Megan Cherry’s Queer Public History seminar presented their class projects on the oral histories, digital story maps, and historical walking tours they made chronicling local queer histories.
Notable Mentions
The Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies received a generous gift from Jimmy Nassour and Dina Tebcherany, M.D. to endow the center’s archive and rename it in honor of Nassour’s late parents. Read the full story.
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