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Karla Slocum has been appointed the new College of Arts & Sciences’ associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion

Glenn Hinson was awarded the coveted Chapman Family Teaching Award in January 2021.

Anna Agbe-Davies has been leading the IAAR-SLATE teaching initiative since 2021.

In 2020 Angela Stuesse published several op eds (Washington Post, USA Today, Anthropology News) about meat and poultry workers’ disproportionate risk of coronavirus infection and death. She spoke with dozens of news outlets to raise public awareness about how the industry’s treatment of workers during the pandemic follows from its much longer history of labor exploitation. Her efforts were featured on The Uncertain Hour (a podcast of NPR’s Marketplace), and she is now advising Congressman Joaquin Castro’s office in the drafting of legislation to protect people working on the meat and poultry processing lines.

Following the largest ever US immigration raid on six chicken processing plants featured in Angela Stuesse’s book, Scratching Out a Living, in 2019 Stuesse published op eds in the Washington Post, the Progressive, and the Daily Kos. Her work was featured in national and international news coverage on the raid, including this story by Eric Schlosser in The Atlantic and Tom Colicchio’s new podcast, Citizen Chef.

 

Undocumented Migration and Public Anthropology: A Conversation with new Faculty Member Angela Stuesse 

Professor Angela Stuesse discusses her book Scratching Out a Living: Latinos, Race, and Work in the Deep South and her future projects.

 

Professor Charles Price on Rastafarianism 

Charles Price talks with The Daily Tar Heel about his research on rastafarianism and how he wants to continue exploring Rastafari culture and identity in Jamaica.

 

courtesy of the NEA

 IAH Podcast | Glenn Hinson, Associate Professor, Folklore and Anthropology 

Glenn Hinson discusses the work of African American, working-class, Southern musician, Horace “Spoons” Williams.

 

Anna Agbe-Davies’ book on Tobacco, Pipes and Race

Anna Agbe-Davis published a book on production and use of tobacco pipes in colonial Virginia.

Intersection Health Equity in Brazil: An Interview with Kia Lilly Caldwell

Kia Caldwell about her new book on health equity and race in brazil.