Dear Friends, Alumni, and Fellow Historians,
Greetings from the UNC History Department! I am delighted to share with you some updates about the activities of our faculty, graduate students, alumni, and off-campus colleagues. As these indicate, the teaching, scholarship, and outreach of our department has returned to (just about) pre-pandemic levels—to the benefit of our academic and wider community. For more news of the History Department, please do see our website, history.unc.edu, which is ably maintained by graduate students and Digital History Lab coordinators, Madeleine McGrady and Sarah Miles.
It is no small feat to produce biannual editions of The Department Historian while engaged in teaching, scholarship, and extensive service; yet Prof. Eren Tasar (who is also the department’s Director of Graduate Studies) does so with aplomb. I sincerely thank him, as well as the graduate student contributors to this edition: Burak Bulkan, Tess Megginson, Donald Santacaterina, and Mark Thomas-Patterson.
We remain deeply grateful for the generous backing of our friends and alumni. Private contributions enable us to fund research opportunities for undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty; participate in and coordinate national and international conferences; and maintain our connections to the general public. Crucially, they allow the our department to enhance the minimum stipend that UNC pays to graduate students, which makes our program more attractive to the best future historians, who in turn help to stimulate faculty research and enrich undergraduate education. Thank you, truly, for your continued interest and support.
I hope you will consider making a gift today to help us continue our tradition of excellence in History at UNC. And please stay in touch—we’d love to hear from you.
Sincerely,
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