With Mellon grant, launches ‘Humanities for the Public Good’
A four-year, $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will significantly advance Carolina’s efforts in humanities education, research and teaching at UNC-Chapel Hill.
A four-year, $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will significantly advance Carolina’s efforts in humanities education, research and teaching at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Grab your headphones and tune in to new podcasts from UNC-Chapel Hill, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities and the Southern Oral History Program.
Last year, student interns at the Southern Oral History Program interviewed 16 of the “Black Pioneers,” African-Americans who attended UNC-Chapel Hill from 1952 to 1972 and were the first students to desegregate the University.
Historian Malinda Maynor Lowery co-produces the Peabody Award-winning show, ‘A Chef’s Life,’ playing a critical role in the show’s outreach strategy.
Historian Malinda Maynor Lowery was named the new director of the Southern Oral History Program in July 2013.