Blair L.M. Kelley, a noted scholar of Black history and the African American experience, will be the next director of the Center for the Study of the American South and co-director of the Southern Futures Initiative.
"GRAMMY and MacArthur Award-winning musician—and longtime CPA collaborator Rhiannon Giddens will begin a three-year research residency as part of the initiative."
“The Catawba Vale Collaborative is a groundbreaking partnership whose mission is to comprehensively redefine rural economic development in Appalachian communities”