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\par 
\par This sounds like a really interesting local project and, depending on the quality of the work, you might even be able to publish your findings in the Independent given the general interest that people have in this area.  I have a good friend, Gavin O
\rquote Hara, who was really involved with the music scene in the early 1990s and who is interested in the local music scene generally.  He has done some writing for the Independent and may have some really good ideas for you to focus your project.  I wou
ld suggest that you look at a specific time when the music scene here became really hot (the 1990s is one example, but I\rquote 
m sure there are others).  That may give you a needed focus and should make the overall task less daunting.  If possible, it might be re
ally informative to chat with some club owners/long-term employees to get their take on whatever slice of time (or other focus) you ultimately decide on.  If you want to get in touch with Gavin here is his email: }{\cs17\insrsid16331993 Gavin O'Hara }
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6c002e0063006f006d000000}}}{\fldrslt {\cs16\ul\cf2\insrsid16331993 thegav@hotmail.com}}}{\cs17\insrsid16331993 ,  He and his wife just had a baby, so he probably won\rquote t have too much time to chat, but I\rquote m sure that he\rquote 
ll have some good ideas to get you going.
\par 
\par Jayur Mehta
\par 
\par I can\rquote t really assess anything about your proposal since detail
s are lacking.  Overall, it sounds like an interesting idea, but the lack of clearly defined research questions, data sources, and analytical techniques is troublesome.  Please submit a full proposal based on the criteria that Dr. Crumley outlined in clas
s so that we can identify any potential problems that your research might face or additional resources that might benefit your project.
\par 
\par Kathleen MacGuire
\par 
\par I think that the tension you have identified between race as a non-existent biological category and race as an influential social category is an important one.  By contrasting the ways that the \'93academic community\'94
 views the biological validity of race with the beliefs that linger in the wider society you can get an interesting picture of the debate surrounding race (as a biological and/or social category) in both academic and mainstream discourse.  I\rquote 
m a little unclear as to how you will tie the history of Physical Anthropology and \'93race\'94 together with modern portrayals of race in teen-targeted magazines.
  Are you asserting that the magazines continue to portray images of the qualities inferred (or, more accurately, ascribed) to various \'93racial\'94
 groups through socially motivated physical anthropology practices?  How do you plan on disentangling the faulty biological assertions from the social biases that enabled their production?  I guess I\rquote 
m interested in the ways that you plan on linking the how magazines \'93communicate different ideas about race\'94 with the history of scientific racism embedded in some physical anthropology practices.  Ideas are tricky\emdash did physical anthropology 
\'93create\'94 ideas about race or did it simply provide \'93evidence\'94 to back up claims that already existed about the qualities inherent to different \'93races\'94 of human beings?  The roots of discrimination, based on perceived \'93racial\'94
 differences, extends back farther than the discipline of physical anthropology and some of the \'93ideas\'94 that your interested may not have sprung independently from this \'93science\'94.  It will be hard to work out these 
relationships, but I think that your overall idea is intriguing.  I would suggest that taking a look at The Mismeasure of Man (the physical anthropology section) by Stephen Jay Gould might be helpful in beginning to think through the connections among sci
ence, society, and ideas of race.
\par 
\par Amit Verma
\par 
\par This is a very valuable research topic and deserves in-depth study.  I think that using secondary sources to create a context for your family\rquote s understanding of these issues is a really good idea.  Since one of
 the key issues here is partition, it might be useful to tap the resources of the Map Collection at Wilson Library for any sociopolitical maps they may have for before and after partition of this area by the British government.  Bringing your analysis dow
n
 to the level of your own family will give you a means to reflect on your connections to a feelings about this conflict as you listen to the diverse opinions that exist within your own family.  If you have relatives living here and in India/Pakistan it wo
uld be very interesting to see how distance may play a role in creating feelings and anxieties about this conflict.  Pakistan\rquote s new relationship with the US as a partner in the \'93War on Terrorism\'94
 is also complex and potentially important to your project.  How has participation in this \'93war\'94 changed the status of Pakistan on the world stage and how does India feel about this new-found spotlight?  How do claims of \'93terrorism\'94 and \'93
terrorist activity\'94 get mobilized around the fight for Kashmir?  
\par 
\par Jason Weathers
\par 
\par Public transportation is intimately related to class, race, and gender structures in any community and is particularly relevant to issues of job access through increased mobility.  One question you could ask is: Does Chapel Hill provide \'93
marginalized people\'94 (however you choose to define this) with sufficient employment opportunities and how does public transportation play into this?  Does mobility both open up employment opportunities elsewhere as it allows local communities to \'93
ship out\'94 those who it d
oes not create space to employ?  I saw a documentary a few years back, maybe a Frontline piece, where inner-city welfare mothers involved in the welfare-to-work program were being shipped out to suburban low-paying mall jobs (and the like) because employm
e
nt opportunities simply did not exist in their communities.  Apart from being inadequate income resources, these jobs forced welfare mothers to spend many extra hours away from their children and necessitated the expenditure of already meager resources on
 
child care (when family members were unavailable).  Instead of supporting local business and the growth of local communities, these women were being used as a source of cheap labor to support the consumption habits of while mall-rate suburban communities.
  I wonder if some of these same issues are present, but reversed, in \'93affluent\'94
 Chapel Hill.  Are marginalized people being shipped out to work in Durham, Raleigh, and Cary because the local economy refuses to cater to low-income needs?  How does public tr
ansportation become complicit in these practices?  Anyway, these are just some thoughts on public transportation in Chapel Hill.  It may also be worth looking at how/why public transportation (at least within the Chapel Hill/Carrboro area) came to be a 
\'93free\'94
 public service and how that articulates with the needs of low-income people.  More clarity on your specific research goals will help you narrow your subject matter and your temporal focus.  As you begin to research, hopefully your path will become more
 clear!
\par 
\par Abigail Davis
\par 
\par By articulating the wider \'93Dirty War\'94 with the specific experiences of your family, I think that you can create a powerful understanding of how national policies play out in the tragedies in and resilience of individual lives.  I th
ink that you will have your hands full with mapping indigenous cultures on Bolivian national space, moving the analysis down to a particular tribe/region, and then exploring the experiences of your family, as indigenous people, in this broader historical 
process.  Pictures will definitely add to the personal nature of your project and may spark individual and collective family memories of this painful past.  The two \'93side projects\'94
 that you name (that of Japanese ethnicity in your family and of your father\rquote s former life) are interesting in and of themselves and would be fantastic projects.  However, I don\rquote 
t think that these three themes mesh, at least in an obvious way, so I would recommend focusing on the Dirty War and how it played out in your family. 
\par 
\par Ertug Altinay
\par 
\par You have a really good handle on the directions you want to take your study and how it articulates to wider issues of ethnic imagination and the Native American experience here at UNC.  I also appreciate your attention to research ethics and c
onfidentiality.  This is such an important part of the research process and is often ignored.  I look forward to seeing your finished product!
\par 
\par Smith Gregg
\par 
\par This is a very interesting family history that speaks to the underestimated diversity of \'93Southern\'94
 views on the Civil War.  The questions you identify are highly relevant.  What distinguished the people involved this resistance from their Confederate neighbors?  What ideas moved people from your own family to act in exceptionally dangerous circumstanc
e
s and how did beliefs play into their continued resistance even after defeat and incarceration?  Using the lens of family history is a very effective means to see wider social tensions surrounding the Civil War and The South.  Sounds like a great project 
and I look forward to reading it!
\par 
\par Michael Pollock
\par 
\par Although your family research sounds interesting, it may be too time consuming for the purposes of this class and the connections to wider anthropological questions are not altogether clear.  For these rea
sons, I would suggest that doing a landscape history of one of the three identified \'93natural\'94
 areas might produce a better overall ethnohistory project for this class.  You can also draw on the expertise of Dr. Crumley to help you think through the complex
ities of landscape evolution and how it is articulated to issues of class and race in the settlement of the Piedmont.  I think that your strategy of doing some exploratory research on each of the three identified areas is particularly good and will help y
ou better assess which area has the best resources to answer the questions you pose.  Again, avail yourself of the opportunity to use Dr. Crumley\rquote s extensive knowledge on these issues and you can\rquote t go wrong!
\par 
\par Juliette Vogel
\par 
\par You have highlighted the ways that a chance interaction with a single photograph can help to spark broader ideas about how that picture relates to both the society that produced it and to our \'93modern\'94
 lives.  Your approach is very creative, interesting, and related to your own personal i
nterests and professional goals.  This alone should make the research process engaging.  I think that linking past and present dissection practices and the human experiences of those difficult practices is a very valuable pursuit.  I think that the source
s you can tap for information will become more clear as your research progresses since it seems that you don\rquote 
t really know what ethnohistorical materials exist to answer your questions yet.  Mr. Fletcher is a great place to start.  I would also see whether 
the anatomy department has any historical records that you could use to begin to answer some of your questions.  Interviewing current and emeritus faculty could give you a \'93professor\rquote s\'94
 view of how dissection practices and ideas about dissection have chang
ed over time.  I think that you are right to observe the human emotional aspect of dissection.  Having participated in such a course, I can say that the images stick with you long after you leave the dissecting room for the last time!  Student\rquote 
s perspectives and anxieties about taking these courses may give you another aspect of dissection and its practice here at UNC.  Good luck with tracking down relevant resources and feel free to bounce ideas off of me whenever the need arises.
\par 
\par }{\insrsid16331993 Yolonda Long
\par 
\par I really l
ike your African-American women in film topic but I feel that the thesis is somewhat underdeveloped.  This is to be expected as your research has not really gotten off the ground yet, but it would be valuable for you to think through the links between rac
e
 and film, as embodied in the experience of Esther Jeeter, and how these relationships articulated with wider social notions of race in American society.  How and why did race constrain the ability of these women to have their talents used effectively in 
openly acknowledged ways?  How did might the economic constraints of the American film industry have played a role in this \'93invisibility\'94
 of black female talent (i.e. who were movies being produced for and what messages were being sent through the medium of
 film)?  Watching the films that these women appeared in, if not physically then at least vocally, might give you a better idea about questions like this and it will be important for you to contextualize your findings within the social discourse of the ti
me rather than critiquing these practices from a modern perspective (understanding vs. judgment).
\par 
\par Susan Simms
\par 
\par It sounds like you have many resources that you can tap to answer questions about the economic relationships that existed between the Catawba and
 European settlers around the time of the Revolutionary War.  You should probably begin your research by meeting with relevant faculty and with the two graduate students who are pursuing research in this area.  This will give you a solid foundation for yo
ur own research and will avoid unnecessary repetition of research.  After having these discussions, you should have a more focused research agenda.  Feel free to discuss your evolving research topic with me at any time.
\par 
\par Katie Anglin
\par 
\par The evolution of mental health care through time is a fascinating research area that deserves more explicit attention.  I like the fact that you have \'93insider\'94
 knowledge about the practices of one company, RSI, and the group-home philosophy that it espouses.  I think that traci
ng the history of group homes within the mental health industry more generally and in your company in particular will make for a really interesting project.  Interviewing employees and managers of the company as well as managers and employees from the ins
t
itutions that feed into the group home will be a necessary element of your project.  I would nix the national and international scope since I think that this would become overwhelming.  Additionally, I would strongly suggest that you avoid interviewing an
y
 people with mental health problems since this will raise many, many ethical red flags and would require Institutional Review Board approval.  People with diminished mental capacity (for any reason) are very projected as research subjects and it is diffic
u
lt to work through the ethical responsibilities of doing that sort of research and would be especially so within the context of this class.  I know that this may sound counterintuitive in that you would want to get the perspective of mental health patient
s
 on the group home vs. institutional contexts of living, but these are the constraints of doing research in a university environment.  Indirect evidence may be employed, but we would have to really think about the ethical implications of those inclusions 
before you integrated them into your analysis.  
\par 
\par Caitlin Smith
\par 
\par I think that narrowing your topic to include one of your three \'93marginalized\'94 groups would help you focus your research.  Within those three groups, I also think that pursuing research on Afri
can-American men or on women would be much easier for you than tackling the issue of homosexuality (gay and lesbian) in the military.  The issue of homosexuality in the military has always been more obscured and has recently been wrapped in the impervious
 cloak of the \'93don\rquote t ask don\rquote t tell\'94
 policy.  I think that you could make some really interesting connections between military experience and changing social and economic conditions for either African-American men or women (although this would have to be se
nsitive to racial issues as well).  I know that there has been a lot of research in this regard for the post-WWII period and the WWII poster collection in the rare books room may be of interest to you.  I wonder whether they might have any pamphlets, book
s
, etc from this time that deal with these issues in a more local context.  I also wonder if developments like Odom Village (a housing development just south of the hospital) and Glenn Lennox are linked to the return of veterans and the post-WWII boom.  If
 so, you could potentially look at your question in a very local context by asking how military service was interconnected with changing socioeconomic trends and experiences right here in Chapel Hill.  Was there racial/gender discrimination in \'93veteran
\'94 hou
sing?  How did the experience of war change expectations for life back home?  It might be possible to interview folks who used to live in those developments or who were more generally involved in these post-WWII processes to get at the human element of th
ese changes.  As you begin your research, you should be able to get a better handle on where you want to go with your project.  
\par 
\par Amanda Bennett
\par 
\par I think that the links between your family story and broader social science issues can be made effectively.  Be
sides issues of race, class, and the treatment of returning WWI vets, you could also look at how notions of masculinity, honor, and the military intersect.  By claiming that your great-grandfather was too short to have earned such honors, that cadet was c
hallenging his masculinity (a social category well defined and cultivated through certain military practices) while your great-grandfather\rquote s punching of this cadet enacted ideas about defending one\rquote 
s personal honor (in this case by violence, another socially molded category played up in the military) and collective honor (disgraced by your great-grandfather\rquote s punching of a comrade-in-arms that was NOT his equal in either age or experience
\emdash i.e. your great-grandfather should have known better and exercised mor
e control).  How these elements played out in his dishonorable discharge speak to wider social issues and provide an interesting place to view family history in its social context.  If you find that you can\rquote 
t get enough information about this even through 
interview or documentary evidence, you will need to formulate a back-up plan and let us know about your shift of topic.  However, based on what you included in your proposal, I think that you can find enough information (primary and secondary) to get a go
od handle on these issues.
\par 
\par Keyvan Tavakoli
\par 
\par This sounds like an outstanding research project and I\rquote m impressed with how developed your ideas are at this stage of the research process.  You have identified relevant resources and have thought through the bia
ses of these resources and your information-gathering strategies.  I look forward to reading your paper!
\par 
\par Carissa Barnes
\par 
\par Since you already know that gold was first discovered in the areas surrounding Charlotte, would it be possible to take this area as yo
ur focus while still contextualizing this local experience with the wider experience of gold mining in NC?  I like your idea to use maps as a means to see the links between town establishment/development and this industry.  Overall, I think that you have 
a
 good idea of where you want your research to head, but you now need to find what resources exist to answer your questions.  I think that there is a small exhibit on gold mining in NC at the museum in Wilson Library.  This might be a good place to begin y
our research.
\par 
\par Matt Meacham
\par 
\par It sounds like you have a great research background to tackle this project and that you have thought through some of the connections between this convention and wider social experiences of religious life and aesthetics in the So
uth.  Even though he deals with gospel singing in the African-American community, I think that chatting with Glen Hinson might be a good idea in that he may have additional resources in mind that might help you with this project.  Also, I wonder if any re
cordings from participants/performers at the convention exist.  Listening to changes in the style and content of the songs over time might help you link broader socioeconomic trends in the South with changes in this expressive cultural form.
\par 
\par Juliana Hoyle
\par 
\par }{\insrsid16331993 I\rquote 
m glad to see that you narrowed down your focus from the first time that we exchanged ideas about your project.  I particularly like the idea that you have to look at how the physical structure of the facility itself has changed over time and how this m
ight relate to changing ideas about mental health and criminality.  Identifying the specific resources that you will use to complete this project is your next step!  Don\rquote 
t hesitate to run ideas by me or ask further questions as your research progresses.
\par 
\par Guy Scronce
\par 
\par I think that your general interest in how food use and preparation has changed over time could provide a useful window on how our culture\rquote s connection to time has changed over the past 100 years and how the value of certain \'93women\rquote 
s activities\'94
 are related to this shift.  How has the time consuming art of cooking with fresh home-grown ingredients been altered in the face of modern conveniences and our fast-food culture?  Has the range of foods cooked and consumed expanded or contracted over tim
e and how is \'93seasonality\'94
 experienced now versus in past times.  I think that you have identified an interesting trend in the way that people relate to food use and preparation, but you have to connect those changes to wider social issues in order for your
 project to have ethnohistorical relevance.  Changes in gender roles may be important here as increasing participation in the labor force necessarily constrains the amount of time women can devote to cooking and may result in new divisions of cooking labo
r where men participate more actively in food preparation.  These are just a few ideas of where your research could take you, but do be sure to connect your analysis with broader social issues.
\par 
\par Kathryn Blau
\par 
\par }{\insrsid16331993 Another interesting aspect of the Grateful Dead subculture is that it was formed in a particular social context (the 1960s) but retains relevance in our \'93modern\'94
 context both through continued participation by loyal early converts and by the conversion of new younger members whose social context is radi
cally different (or is it?) from that experienced in the 1960s.  Intergeneration relationships may be important here as the \'93message\'94
 may be interpreted differently depending on where your own experiences lie in relation to this historical development.  Pe
rhaps you could use the passing of Jerry Garcia and the outpouring of emotion that it sparked as a means to get at your bigger questions.  What did his death mean to the following and how was it experienced by different members of the congregation.  How i
s the act of following The Dead related to wider resistances of mainstream culture and how has this resistance played out in both positive and negative ways in individual lives.  It will be important for you to look critically at all aspects of \'93
deadhead life\'94 and to avoid overly glorifying the deadhead experience as one of transcendence and religiosity.  Like any \'93religion\'94
 it will require in-depth critical analysis that may be difficult to do if you are too close to the subject.  I think that you will be able to navigate this difficult terrain and I look forward to seeing your results!
\par 
\par Patricia Fesperman
\par 
\par This sounds like a fascinating and personally relevant project.  There has been a lot of archaeological excavation at Occaneechi Town in Hillsborough don
e by the RLA here at UNC.  I think that some of the folks who actively developed and participated in this research may be very helpful to you as you begin your research process.  Dr. Steve Davis comes to mind as someone who could be a valuable resource.  
The success of your project ultimately depends on the quality of the resources that you are able to find and I can\rquote t really make any specific comments about feasibility based on what you\rquote 
ve told me in your proposal.  Also, to really understand the migration
 processes of interest, I think that you would have to link these migrations and new settlements to the interactions between native peoples and European settlers.  What was the nature of these relationships and how did they constrain the territories of th
e Blackfoot and lead to their displacement from tribal lands?
\par 
\par Laura Flinchum
\par 
\par I think that this sounds like an excellent project and I particularly like the way that you have articulated family, local, regional and national histories through the lens of th
is cemetery.  Uncovering the diversity of opinions related to slavery and the Civil War in the south is an important element in understanding the complexity of these historical processes and the role that they continue to play in today\rquote 
s society.  I appreciate the diversity of materials that you plan to use to complete this project and I look forward to reading your results!
\par 
\par Will Kiser
\par If you do plan to go forward with your family\rquote s historical connection to Bessemer City, you would have to think of a way t
o connect these family experiences to larger historical processes.  Why was land granted to your family by The Crown?  What kinds of people were given that honor and how is that history reflected in the current structure of the Unites States (race, class,
 etc.).  How was that land used over time and how has land use changed with wider social, historical, political, economic, and cultural processes?  How has your family\rquote 
s identity been shaped through their relationship to the land and how might their experiences be reflected in the experience of other people\rquote 
s connection to the land, perhaps in particular, the relationship that Native Americans may have had to this same territory?  How is your family\rquote s history implicated in processes of privilege and poverty 
in the US and how has the transformation of our society from its agrarian roots into industrialism and then to our modern communications/service based economy affected people\rquote 
s relationships to the land?  These are just some of the questions you might want to pose, but be sure that you connect your research to broader social questions relevant to ethnohistory.
\par 
\par Johann Furbacher
\par 
\par It sounds like you have a good idea of where you want to go with your project and you have successfully connected the experiences 
of this local farm to wider social and economic processes, in particular, to urbanization.  By mobilizing multiple sources, you should be able to develop an in-depth understanding about the relationship that this farm had to surrounding territories and ab
out the circumstances surrounding its ultimate demise.  I look forward to reading your paper!
\par 
\par Meg Midyette
\par 
\par I think that understanding the \'93myths\'94 surrounding Blackbeard and the ways in which those myths are deployed in the service of tourist-related capit
alistic endeavors is really interesting.  How do locals package the idea of Blackbeard for financial benefit and do they, at the same time, resent the stereotypical representation of \'93pirates\'94
 and their connection to this place?  It seems that there may be
 many tensions surrounding the use of Blackbeard imagery and it would be really interesting to get a handle on the diversity of perspectives that exist in your community.  Tying these local findings to broader discourses about the commodification of cultu
re in the tourist industry (Ireland is a great example of this) would link your local project to broader ethnohistorical and anthropological themes.  
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\par Your project is very interesting and very complex.  I remember talking through some of these issues during one of our \'93brainstorming\'94 sessions while Dr. Crumley was away, so I think that I have a pretty good idea of where you\rquote 
re going with this research.  I\rquote m particularly interested in the way that you plan to weave together your personal history of negotiating the black/white divide with your community\rquote 
s own struggle with these issues (as seen through your own experience with your father\rquote s BBQ restaurant and the changing meanings that that space had for the local community).  In this way you c
an effectively connect personal history with the wider sociopolitical processes that are of key importance in ethnohistorical research.  
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