Lauren Jarvis is an Associate Professor of History. She grew up in Chapel Hill and earned her BA in History at that school down the road (rhymes with “fluke”). She then received her PhD in History at Stanford. Jarvis’s research focuses on 19th and 20th century South Africa. At UNC, she teaches classes in South African, African, Global, and (most recently) Digital History. She is currently the Faculty Director of The LAUNCH, or The Lab at UNC History, a digital history and storytelling hub.