Oral Historian to Lecture on Gullah/Geechee Identities Feb. 19 2/10/2009 1:29:08 PM  E-Mail Folklorist and oral historian Michelle Lanier will lecture on "Seeking Place: Raising Questions about the Boundaries of Gullah/Geechee Identities," at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 19 in King Hall Auditorium (room 101). Lanier is curator of cultural history for the North Carolina Division of State Historic Sites. Her ethnographic research on contemporary Gullah burial traditions, completed through UNC-Chapel Hill's curriculum in folklore, paved the way for her to become one of North Carolina's liaisons to the federal Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor. Her lecture will explore the new perspectives that must be considered when documenting and preserving African diaspora communities in the region. Free and open to the public, this lecture is funded and presented by the Upperman African American Cultural Center at UNCW, Cape Fear Community College, UNCW Department of History and the History Teaching Alliance.