Center for the Study of the American South

Grants & Fellowships

The Center supports faculty and student research on innovative topics related to the southern United States with travel grants, summer research stipends, postdoctoral fellowships, and course development awards.  Applicants from all academic disciplines are encouraged to apply.

Graduate Support

McColl Dissertation Year Fellowship in Southern Studies - The McColl Dissertation Year Fellowship provides a year’s funding for a UNC graduate student to complete a doctoral dissertation on a topic related to the southern United States. 

Summer Research Grants  - The Summer Research grants provides financial support for summer research by select UNC graduate students.

Graduate Student Travel Grants - The Center offers UNC-CH graduate students grant support for travel expenses to scholarly conferences.

Post Graduate Support

Due to budget constraints, The Center is unable to accept applications for the 2012-13 Postdoctoral Fellowship. Please check back with us again in October 2012.

Postdoctoral Fellowships in Southern Studies - The Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southern Studies on the history, culture, or society of the American South, broadly construed to include the states of the former Confederacy and adjoining areas.  Please contact Harry Watson, 962-0523, or Marcie Cohen Ferris, 843-9881.

Undergraduate Support

Frances Ferris Hall Fund for Undergraduate Research - The Center for the Center for the Study of the American South announces the establishment of the Frances Hall Ferris Fund to support research by UNC-CH undergraduates on women in the American South. Up to two awards of $500 will be made each spring for use in following year.

Sounds of the South Award for Undergraduate Research - The Center for the Center for the Study of the American South announces the establishment of the Sounds of the South Award.  This award will help support a UNC-CH undergraduate student wishing to record and work with musicians within any genre of Southern music during the summer. One award, in the amount of $1000 will be made each spring for use the summer of the award year.

Faculty

Faculty Course Development Awards - Course development grants for summer 2012 will be allocated to the American Studies Department for the development of the Southern Studies undergraduate major. Core Southern Studies faculty are invited to submit proposals for the new gateway and exit courses for the major. For more information, contact one of the following faculty members:  Harry Watson, 962-0523,  Joy Kasson, 962-4063 or Marcie Cohen Ferris, 843-9881

Visiting Scholars - Individuals who hold appointments at other academic or research institution and are visiting to work with a particular faculty member or principal investigator on a research project but do not receive a paid appointment at UNC-Chapel Hill.