Visiting fellows at the Wilson Special Collections Library will make informal presentations about their research topics throughout the summer and fall as part of the Wilson Library Research Forum. The following list will be updated as additional talks are scheduled. See the University Libraries’ online calendar for more information about each talk. Presentations will take place in Wilson Library, Room 901 (fourth floor), unless otherwise noted.
Past
JUNE
June 13
2 – 3 p.m.
The Alabama Music Reader: An Anthology
Burgin Mathews
June 25
2 – 3 p.m.
Research Triangle Park: A Window into Work and Life at Midcentury
Casey Eilbert
June 27
2 – 3 p.m.
The Rifles of the Riled: Firearms and White Manhood in the Civil War-Era South
Tracy L. Barnett
and
The Currency of Freedom: Formerly Enslaved Women in Union-occupied North Carolina
Abena Boakyewa-Ansa
JULY
July 9
2 – 3 p.m.
The Necropolitics of Transatlantic Sense and Sensibility in the Enlightenment Era
Michael Feinberg
July 11
2 – 3 p.m.
Navigating Worthiness in North Carolina: Pension Attorneys, Black Civil War Pensioners, and Federal Examiners, 1873-1910
Atlas Tian Xu
and
Eyes West: Nicholas Trist, the Jefferson-Jackson Cohort, and American Expansion
Chase Tomlin
July 25
2 – 3 p.m.
Hearing the First Great Migration: The Sound and Place of Black Music in North Carolina and the American South
Jonathan Gomez
and
Gone Country: White, Urban, and Affluent America’s Performance of Southern Rural Identity
Amanda Martinez
AUGUST
August 8
2 – 3 p.m.
Pottery by Any Means Necessary: Resistance in the Art of David Drake
Michael Bramwell
August 12
2 – 3 p.m.
The Aged South: Old Age and Aging in Southern Music
Simon Buck
and
A History of Access: Disability Education in the U.S. South during the Long Nineteenth Century
Amanda Stuckey
August 13
2 – 3 p.m.
At Best, We’re Merely Borrowers: Archival Research and the Creative Process
Rose Lambert-Sluder
and
Looking Outward: New South Perspectives from Plantation Diaries
Derek Wood
August 21
2 – 3 p.m.
Atlantic Litigants and International Border-Crossing in the Southern Courthouse: Slave Trade Regulation Lawsuits in the Antebellum U.S.
Jessica Fletcher
August 23
2 – 3 p.m.
Dan River Mills: Textiles and the Fabric of Jim Crow
Ina Dixon
and
Burlington Industries and the Synthetics Revolution in American Fabrics
Regina Lee Blaszczyk
August 28
2 – 3 p.m.
‘Make America Truly Musical:’ Annabel Morris Buchanan’s White Nationalist Folk Fantasy
Aldona Dye
and
Warfare and the Southern Environment
Camden Elliott
SEPTEMBER
September 26
2 – 3 p.m.
“A new kind of money:” Enslaved and Free Women’s Economies of Flora and Fauna in the Antebellum South
Nicole Viglini
and
UNC’s Department of City and Regional Planning: Planning Missionaries of the South
Lizabeth Wardzinski
OCTOBER
October 4
2 – 3 p.m.
Recipients of the Romance Studies Department’s Debbie Schenker Archival Fellowship Discuss Research Experience in Wilson Library
Megan Fenrich and Michele Cammelli
October 17
2 – 3 p.m.
Servants not Soldiers: Slavery in the U.S. Regular Army
Yoav Hamdini
and
Diagnosing the South: Pellagra, Public Health, and the Political Economy of the Cotton South
Dana Landress
DECEMBER
December 12
2 – 3 p.m.
Women Wanted: Landed Women and the Proprietary Vision for Carolina
Emily Sackett
