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John Shelton Reed directed UNC's Odum Institute for Research in Social Science from 1988 to 2000 and helped found the university's Center for the Study of the American South and its quarterly journal Southern Cultures. He retired from UNC in 2000 as William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of sociology.
Source: UNC College of Arts and Sciences: A Father for Social Science
1942– · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Papers of the sociologist John Shelton Reed, spanning the 1940s through the 2000s, 17,500 items in 30.5 linear feet, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4538. Topics include the study of southern popular culture and regionalism, southern intellectual life, families in the South, and barbecuing in North Carolina, along with Reed's work in the Chapel Hill sociology department.
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