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Rupert B. Vance joined the sociology faculty of the University of North Carolina and Howard W. Odum's Institute for Research in Social Science in Chapel Hill in 1928, became a Kenan Professor in 1945, and sat on the board of governors of the UNC Press. He wrote Human Geography of the South (1932).
Source: NCpedia: Vance, Rupert Bayless
1899–1975 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Selected papers of Rupert B. Vance, the sociologist who spent his career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, gathered under the theme of regionalism and published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1982. The papers examine social conditions in the Southern states. xxii and 353 pages with illustrations.
Eight University of North Carolina faculty members each spoke for four minutes on how they taught communism in their courses, at the thirty-eighth annual North Carolina Press Institute in Chapel Hill on January 17, 1964. Pete Ivey moderated, and the speakers included E. Maynard Adams, Rupert B. Vance, Olin T. Mouzon and Samuel S. Hill. Printed by Colonial Press in Chapel Hill.
Records of the Institute for Research in Social Science at Chapel Hill, 1924 to 1987 and concentrated in the years to 1969, 13,900 items in 55.5 linear feet including 186 audiocassette tapes, in the University Archives at UNC as collection 40075. Subjects include Howard W. Odum and Rupert B. Vance, Rockefeller Foundation support, southern regionalism, and lectures given in Chapel Hill.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Vance, Rupert B., 1899-1975.
Publishing records of the University of North Carolina Press from 1922 to 2015, approximately 121,400 items in 158.5 linear feet, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40073. Subjects include the editor William T. Couch and figures connected with the press, among them Paul Green, Bernice Kelly Harris, Howard W. Odum, Rupert B. Vance and Josephus Daniels, along with the journal 'Social forces' and the Federal Writers' Project in North Carolina.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Vance, Rupert B., 1899-1975.
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