Restrictions to Access

This collection contains additional materials that are not available for immediate or same day access. Please contact Research and Instructional Service staff at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu to discuss options for consulting these materials.

Use of audio or moving image materials may require production of listening or viewing copies.

Restrictions to Use

No usage restrictions.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Katherine R. Roberts Collection #20419, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Katherine R. Roberts in May 2007 (Acc. 100636), December 2009 (Acc. 101233), July 2012 (Acc. 101626), and January 2013 (Acc. 101728), and December 2016 (Acc. 103000).

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: Carrie Stubblefield, 2008; Nancy Kaiser, 2016

Encoded by: Carrie Stubblefield, 2008

Updated by: Jodi Berkowitz, February 2019

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Cookery--North Carolina.
• Glass painting and staining.
• Handicraft--North Carolina.
• Landscape design--North Carolina.
• Material culture--Study and teaching--United States.
• North Carolina--History.
• North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Oral histories.
• Quilting--North Carolina.
• Roberts, Katherine R.
• Sewing.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty--History--21st century.
• Vernacular architecture--North Carolina.
• Wine and wine making--North Carolina.

Katherine R. Roberts, Ph.D., has held a joint appointment in the Curriculum in American Studies and the Curriculum in Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 2006. Her research interests center on material culture, with a particular emphasis on landscapes and the social use and meaning of the built environment. Before her appointment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she taught writing and literature in the English and Modern Languages departments at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette and was a Fulbright Lecturer at Hassan II University in Mohammedia, Morocco.

The collection consists of audio recordings of oral history interviews, tape logs, student papers, a cookbook, and a course syllabus relating to Katherine R. Roberts's folklore and American Studies classes on material culture and the American landscape. Interviews were conducted by Roberts's students with North Carolina residents engaged in cooking, sewing and quilting, house building, wine making, and other types of craftwork. Recordings are on audiocassette and compact disc (cd).

• Audiocassettes (FS-9607-9621)
• Compact Discs (CD-6031-6032)