Teah Hairston Is Advocating Locally and Making a Difference

In the Courtyard: Alumni Spotlight on Teah Hairston Southern Studies graduates go on to do a wide variety of things, and Teah Hairston is no exception. Hairston’s primary role is as a research data specialist at the Board of State and Community Corrections in Sacramento, California, but that is just the beginning of her involvement

Spreading Love, One Bite at a Time

In the Courtyard: Alumni Spotlight on Natoria Kennell-Foster Southern Studies Carries over into a Passion for Baking Natoria Kennell-Foster first starting baking about fifteen years ago, when her pastor’s wife taught her to make a red velvet cake and a German chocolate cake. She was immediately hooked and embraced the knowledge being passed on to

Tastes Like Home: Alumnus Co-authors Book on South Carolina Food

Man standing holding okra in his hands.

Chef Kevin Mitchell hasn’t felt this kind of excitement since he held his finished master’s thesis at the University of Mississippi. After months of research, writing and editing – much of it during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic – Mitchell finally got to see a finished copy of “Taste the State: South Carolina’s Signature Foods, Recipes,

UM, Ecru Partners Working to Tell Story of M.B. Mayfield

Archival partnership helps shine light on one of university’s first Black students, acclaimed folk artist Tucked away in a broom closet within a University of Mississippi classroom, M.B. Mayfield earned a fine arts education in the 1950s the only way he could at the time. A folk artist, the Ecru native was not able to

Former Center Director Receives Fulbright Award

Former Center Director Receives Fulbright Award Ted Ownby plans to teach and conduct research at the University of Southern Denmark After Ted Ownby stepped down as the director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi in 2019, he wanted to do something different, so he decided to apply

Southern Register: MIAL awards

  Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Announces Winners This year the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters (MIAL) honored several artists, musicians, and writers with connections to the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, including Ann Abadie, Jimmy Cajoleas, Will Jacks, and Susan Bauer Lee. Abadie won the 2020 Noel Polk Lifetime Achievement Award.

Southern Register: SouthDocs Filmmaker Releases Documentary About Hurricane Camille

SouthDocs Filmmaker Releases Documentary about Hurricane camille Rex Jones, who has been a documentary filmmaker with the Southern Documentary Project since 2011, produced his most recent film, Camille: The Original Monster Storm, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Hurricane Camille and its impact on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Jones, a native of Hickory, Mississippi, with

Southern Register: Study the South Publishes New Essay

Study the South Publishes New Essay on the Economic South In this essay, “More Pricks Than Kicks: The Southern Economy in the Long Twentieth Century,” Peter A. Coclanis traces the evolution of the southern economy over the “long twentieth century,” which in his view began around 1865 and is not yet over. During this lengthy