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Filling a major gap in oral history

November 26, 2024

The Southern Mix project began in 2017 after a group of UNC-Chapel Hill students saw a need for the University archives to reflect stories of Asian and Asian Americans in North Carolina.

Kim selected for humanities summer residency

June 20, 2024

Heidi Kim, professor of English and comparative literature and director of UNC’s Asian American Center, has been selected for a Summer Residency at the National Humanities Center to begin work on a book about Asian American literature.

New Asian American Center opens

August 30, 2021

The center, led by Heidi Kim of the department of English and comparative literature, gives students, faculty and staff of Asian descent a place to call their own.

Celebration, community, curiosity

April 14, 2021

Heidi Kim, director of Carolina’s new Asian American Center, discusses how the center’s first few months went during the pandemic, the rise in anti-Asian racism and violence nationally and locally, and a resulting “silver lining” for the center.