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• 1 media/image54.jpg 2021-08-26T13:15:39-07:00 2008 - The Department of American Studies Formed 3 The Curriculum in Folklore and the Curriculum in American Studies are merged to form the Department of American Studies. Professor Joy Kasson (1944- ) becomes the department’s first chair. The Department offers undergraduate majors and minors in five areas of study—American Studies, American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Folklore Studies, Southern Studies, and Global American Studies—together with graduate degrees. plain 2021-09-02T08:35:57-07:00 01/01/2008 The Curriculum in Folklore and the Curriculum in American Studies are merged to form the Department of American Studies. Professor Joy Kasson (1944- ) becomes the Department’s first chair. The department offers undergraduate majors and minors in five areas of study—American Studies, American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Folklore Studies, Southern Studies, and Global American Studies--as well as graduate degrees. 
  
  
  
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  “Department of American Studies.” Website. 2021.  https://americanstudies.unc.edu/. 
  
  “Department of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1973-2004” [finding aid]. Collection no. 40294, University Archives, The Wilson Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/40294/.