UNC Chapel Hill offers a rich environment for American Indian scholarship. Campus resources include distinguished faculty, a dynamic American Indian Center, graduate student dissertation fellowships and other financial support, a Cherokee language immersion fellowship, and financial support for student organizations and seminars.

Sandra Hoeflich, Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Education, Fellowships, and Communication, The Graduate School

The AIS community has a remarkable sense of collective mission that is unlike anything I've encountered in my graduate career.

Jonathan Hancock, Doctoral Candidate in History

The experience and diversity of the UNC AIS faculty means that I am able to discuss any and every aspect of my own scholarship with at least one, and often many, of my colleagues.

Dr. Keith Richotte, Postdoctoral Fellow, American Studies

At UNC you learn the skills necessary to become successful in the academic world, but you also make lasting friendships and form deep connections with the faculty and students around you.

Mikaela Adams, Doctoral Candidate in History

Whatever the particular discipline, a graduate student working on American Indian topics at UNC will find support that is unequaled anywhere else.

Dr. Kathleen Duval Statement, History

UNC offers a wonderful American Indian Studies community. Students develop long-lasting friendships with their colleagues and members of the faculty.

Brooke Bauer, Doctoral Candidate in History

Graduate students at the University of North Carolina benefit from our membership in the Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies, headquartered at the Newberry Library’s D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies.