Lucas Kelley
@lukelleyp
Assistant Professor @ValpoU. Research interests include Cherokees, Chickasaws, US South, #VastEarlyAmerica. @centrec, @virginia_tech, and @UNChistory alum
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https://history.unc.edu/graduate-student/lucas-kelley/ 10-01-2015 21:08:58
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My talk on Black Civil War POWs will be airing on C-SPAN tomorrow, October 17th at 6pm: c-span.org/video/?476702-… It will also be available on the C-SPAN website afterwards. Thank you to Dr. Paul Quigley and VaTech Civil War for this wonderful opportunity!
Exciting News! Beginning in a few weeks, my colleagues and I in UNC College of Arts and Sciences will be exploring mobility, placemaking, and boundaries as part of Travel Work, a graduate working group hosted by UNC Center for Study of the American South. Website here: tarheels.live/travelwork/
Excited about this with my friends and colleagues Dr jreedmo & Brooks Bauer! #vastearlyamerica #shakerace
Tomorrow, March 18, 10am(ET) AIIS at UNC will host its "Carolina Seminar in American Indian and Indigenous Studies," featuring the work of PhD student in History, Patricia Dawson! unc.zoom.us/j/96597493919 For add'l info email [email protected] UNC History Photo: Daily Tar Heel
Excited for Thursday's presentation by Dr. Mimi Sheller of @mCenterDrexel as part of the Travel Work graduate working group. The talk is hosted by UNC Center for Study of the American South . Registration is free and open to the public. See link in the attached flyer for details.
1/ One year ago, High Country News published #LandGrabU - a two-year investigation that revealed how expropriated Indigenous land was turned into seed money for Land Grant Universities. hcne.ws/3bF1GZ9
Loved being able to connect my expertise on Appalachian history to current events. Give The Lens a listen if you have a chance. Lots of great content on the public-facing work going on UNC History.
Not much of a self-promoter, but I'm excited to announce that I successfully defended my dissertation this morning. Thanks especially to my dissertation committee (Harry Watson, Kathleen DuVal Malinda Maynor Lowery William Barney, and Laura Edwards) and UNC History
We're hiring for curator of the Southern Historical Collection, UNC Chapel Hill. Learn more about this opportunity, the Southern Historical Collection, and Wilson Library here: go.unc.edu/SHCCurator
As I've just now submitted my final grades for UNC History, I feel like this is as good of a time as any to announce that I'll be joining the history department Valparaiso University in the fall as an assistant professor of 19th c. US history. I'm thrilled for the opportunity!
Congratulations to Malinda Maynor Lowery, who has recently been elected to the Society of American Historians and the American Council of Learned Societies Board!
Alert to historians of slavery and the American Civil War! VaTech Civil War is sponsoring “The Great Strike: Slavery During the American Civil War,” at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, April 21-23, 2022. We are accepting proposals by June 15! Spread the word civilwar.vt.edu/conference-sla…
On the state of affairs UNC-Chapel Hill for NC Policy Watch ncpolicywatch.com/2021/06/14/tol…
Congrats to my Valparaiso University colleague on the publication of his book The Myth of Colorblind Christians! Now y'all need to go get a copy yourself.
