Greetings and Welcome to Carolina!

American Indian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill features a dynamic multidisciplinary community of faculty, students, and staff, and is housed in the Department of American Studies. Some of our faculty hold appointments in American Studies, others in the sister departments of Anthropology, English, History, Linguistics, and Romance Languages and Literature.

Our research, teaching, and service focus on the histories, contemporary experiences, expressive cultures, and political status of indigenous peoples in and beyond North America.  Many of us are devoted to collaborative research, and we value engaged scholarship that is relevant to Native American and indigenous communities.

Begun as a “program” in 1998, AIS established a minor in 2003, and inaugurated a major concentration with the Department of American Studies in 2008.

Outstanding graduate programs in American Studies, Anthropology, Art, English, Folklore, History, Linguistics, and Romance Languages and Literatures complement our excellence at the undergraduate level.

AIS collaborates with the UNC American Indian Center on a variety of activities and programs--including the Elder-In-Residence Program, annual Michael D. Green Lecture, and Carolina Seminar in American Indian Studies--and is supportive of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology at UNC.

In addition, our membership in the Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies connects faculty and graduate students at UNC and universities across the United States and Canada.

We invite you to explore our website to learn more about our vibrant American Indian Studies program!

You can also find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/aisunc and follow us on Twitter @UNCIndigenous!

Pictured Above: "Croatoan" by Kimowan Metchewais on view at LIGHT Art+Design