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Size | 37.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 25,000 items) |
Abstract | Marcie Cohen Ferris is a white retired professor of American Studies and associate director of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies (CCJS) at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. The collection consists of sound recordings of guest speakers from a fundraising event hosted by the CCJS and from interviews conducted and classes taught by Marcie Cohen Ferris. The recordings discuss the CCJS, the history of Jews in the South, and the practice of Jewish history research. Additions to the collection consist of personal and professional papers that document her youth and family, her academic training, and her career researching, teaching, and publishing about foodways and the Jewish experience in the South. |
Creator | Ferris, Marcie Cohen. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Nancy Kaiser, February 2006
Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, February 2006
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Marcie Cohen Ferris (1957- ) was born in Blytheville, Ark., to Jerome and Hudda Cohen. Ferris received her B.A. from Brown University in 1981, her M.A. from the College of William and Mary in 1985, and her Ph.D. from George Washington University in 2003. In 2004, she joined the American Studies faculty at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where she regularly taught seminars exploring the history of the Jewish experience in the American South, American Jewish women, and the meaning of food in American culture. She also served as the associate director of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies. Before moving to Chapel Hill, Ferris worked in the field of museums, public history, and oral history for over twenty years in Maine, Virginia, Massachusetts, and Mississippi. She is married to William (Bill) R. Ferris.
Back to TopThe collection consists of sound recordings of guest speakers from a fundraising event hosted by the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies (CCJS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and from interviews conducted and classes taught by Marcie Cohen Ferris, a now retired American Studies faculty member and associate director of the CCJS. The recordings discuss the CCJS, the history of Jews in the South, and the practice of Jewish history research.
Additions to the collection consist of Marcie Cohen Ferris's professional and personal papers that document her dissertation and later research for scholarly publications, teaching, and museum exhibit work; academic training; lectures on campus; and board and committee work for the Center for Jewish Studies, the Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina, and the Southern Jewish Historical Society. Personal papers document her youth and school years, the Cohen family in Blythville, Ark., and her marriage to William (Bill) R. Ferris.
Materials include research files on foodways and the Jewish experience in the South, with copies of recipes, interview transcripts, copies of archival and published sources among handwritten notes, journals, and photographs of Jewish sites in South; professional and personal correspondence, photographs, and scrapbooks; yearbooks from Blytheville public schools; and ephemera, such as pamphlets, posters, and programs from events at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, museums at which Ferris worked, and relating to her books, Shalom Y'all and Matzoh Ball Gumbo.
Back to TopAcquisitions Information: Accession 100236
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Sound recordings of guest speakers from a fundraising event hosted by the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies (CCJS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and from interviews conducted and classes taught by Marcie Cohen Ferris, a now retired American Studies faculty member and associate director of the CCJS. The recordings discuss the CCJS, the history of Jews in the South, and the practice of Jewish history research.
Audiocassette C-05177/1 |
Cone fundraiser, 21 September 2004 |
Audiocassette C-05177/2 |
Evans, Eli, 8 November 2004 |
Audiocassette C-05177/3 |
Kittner, Harry and Sarah Kittner, and Ben Cone, 20 November 2003 |
Audiocassette C-05177/4 |
Nislick, Steve, 10 September 2004 |
Audiocassette C-05177/5 |
Rogoff, Leonard, 1 November 2004 |
Audiocassette C-05177/6 |
Savna, John, 4 October 2004 |
Audiocassette C-05177/7 |
Schochet, Jan, 3 November 2004 |
Audiocassette C-05177/8 |
Stollman, Jennifer, 29 September 2004 |
Acquisitions Information: Accession 100659, 100907, 102261
Professional and personal papers that document dissertation and later research for scholarly publications, teaching, and museum exhibit work; board and committee work for the Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina and the Southern Jewish Historical Society; school and family experiences in Blytheville, Ark.; and her marriage to William (Bill) R. Ferris. Materials include research files on foodways and the Jewish experience in the South, with copies of recipes, interview transcripts, and copies of archival and published sources among handwritten notes; professional and personal correspondence, photographs, and scrapbooks; yearbooks from Blytheville public schools; and ephemera, such as pamphlets, posters, and programs from events at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, museums at which Ferris worked, and relating to her books, Shalom Y'all and Matzoh Ball Gumbo.
Box 1 |
Research filesPhotocopies of secondary works and archival materials; oral histories and related materials from Museum of Southern Jewish Experience, College of Charleston, American Jewish Archives, and Breman Museum. |
Box 2 |
Research files |
Box 3 |
Research files |
Box 4 |
Research files |
Box 5 |
Research filesPhotocopies recipes from cookbooks and notes. |
Box 6 |
Oral historiesSurvey data from/for oral histories; book release forms. |
Box 7 |
Oral histories |
Box 8 |
Oral histories |
Box 9 |
Museum of Southern Jewish ExperienceBinders with administrative information. |
Circa |
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Box 10 |
Board and committee workBinders relating to the Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina and Southern Jewish Historical Society. |
American StudiesAcademic program description. |
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Tenure portfolio |
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Box 11 |
Tenure portfolio |
Box 12 |
Subject filesChiefly about foodways. |
Box 13 |
Professional filesRelating to talks given, publishing, etc. |
Box 14 |
Professional files |
Box 15 |
ScrapbookPrinted materials and publicity relating to professional work. |
Box 16 |
Loose papersChiefly printed material relating to exhibits, lectures, and other cultural programming. |
Box 17 |
Personal papersGreeting cards, school materials, personal documents, wedding mementos, first job and early work experiences, menus, recipes. |
Box 18 |
Personal papers |
Box 19 |
YearbooksBlytheville West Junior High School, Blytheville High School, The Lausanne School |
Scrapbooks |
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Box 20 |
Photograph albums |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-05177/1 |
Posters |
Acquisitions Information: Accession 103413
Materials document University of North Carolina Center for Jewish Studies board work; lectures by various speakers on campus; comprehensive exam notebooks on social history, Jewish history, foodways, and material culture; photographs relating to work at the Museum of Southern Jewish Experience; journals of meeting and research notes; greeting cards; printed ephemera for events at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and posters for events related to foodways, Shalom Y'all, Matzoh Ball Gumbo, and the wedding of Marcie Cohen and Bill Ferris.
Box 21 |
Center for Jewish Studies |
Lectures on campus |
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Museum of Southern Jewish Experience |
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Box 22-24
Box 22Box 23Box 24 |
Comprehensive exam materialsReadings on social history, Jewish history, foodways, material culture. |
Box 25 |
Journals, 2015 |
Loose papersGreeting cards and printed ephemera. |
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Oversize Paper Folder OPF-05177/2 |
Posters |
Oversize Box OB-05177/1 |
Posters on foam board |
Oversize Image Folder OP-PF-05177/1 |
Tablesetting with a window view to a cotton field |
Acquisitions Information: Accession 102261
Arrangement: Subject
The collection chiefly consists of research images, including black-and-white and color negatives, black-and-white and color prints, black-and-white and color 35mm (mounted) slides, pertaining to her research related to her research into the history of Jews in the South. Also included are a large amount of family photographs depicting events and travel.
Titles in quotation marks came from original notes on boxes. Slides previously stored in 3-ring binders have been placed in folders and have been numbered to preserve original order/groupings.
Image Box IB-05771/1 |
Photographs: "Marcie Cohen Slides," circa 1980s-1990sColor 35mm Slides, Black-and-White 35mm Slides Approximately 1000 images Materials originally stored in binders (groupings maintained). |
Image Box IB-05771/2 |
Photographs: "Marcie Cohen Slides," (Presentations) circa 1980s-1990sColor 35mm Slides, Black-and-White 35mm Slides Approximately 1500 images Materials for presentations, some materials removed from slide carousels (groupings maintained) |
Image Box IB-05771/3 |
Photographs: "Washington, D.C., 1998-1999," circa 1998-1999Black-and-White Photographic Prints and Color Photographic Prints Approximately 1000 images |
Image Box IB-05771/4 |
Photographs: "Washington, D.C., 1999," "National Endowment for the Humanities activities," circa 1999Black-and-White Photographic Prints and Color Photographic Prints Approximately 1000 images Inludes many activites she attended with her husband William Ferris. |
Image Box IB-05771/5-6
IB-05771/5IB-05771/6 |
Photographs: "Family Photographs," circa 1950s-2000sBlack-and-White Photographic Prints and Color Photographic Prints Approximately 6000 images |
Acquisitions Information: Accession 103561
Photograph of Marcie Cohen Ferris, William R. Ferris, and President William Jefferson Clinton at a formal event.
Image Box IB-05771/6 |
Marcie Cohen Ferris, William R. Ferris, and President William Jefferson ClintonColor Photographic Print 1 image |