In The Spotlight
Congratulations to Professor Eric Zolov, who recently received a Wayne Shirley Fellowship from the Society of American Music, for research at the Library of Congress. Zolov will explore the personal papers of Brazilian-American jazz and bossa music artist, Laurindo Almeida, as part of a larger research project, "The Bossa Nova Moment: Harmonizing Pan-Americanism in the Era of the Cuba Revolution."
News and Announcements
Please join the department's Spring 2026 Colloquium featuring History PhD students Nicolás Barrientos and Megan Knighton on Wednesday, April 15 from 12:30-1:50PM in SBS N-318.
In The Media
Professor Robert Chase was interviewed for the North Carolina digital magazine The Assembly for an aritcle on the history of Black women's prison labor, abuse, and prisoner uprisings. The article takes an in-depth look at the death of Eleanor Rush in 1954 in a North Carolina prison. Her death spurred a series of uprisings by women prisoners against the abusive treatment many Black women faced while incarcerated in Southern prison plantations. Read the article.