Center for the Study of Southern Culture http://southernstudies.olemiss.edu Wed, 15 May 2013 21:05:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 2013 Southern Studies Student Award Winners http://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/2013/05/14/2013-sst-student-award-winners/ http://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/2013/05/14/2013-sst-student-award-winners/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 15:26:30 +0000 lspittma http://southernstudies.blog0.olemiss.edu/?p=2880 2013 Award Winners

Lucille and Motee Daniels Award for the best thesis in Southern Studies
Katie Radishofski, “Last (Un)Fair Deal Goin’ Down:  A Case Study of the Racial Perspectives and Projects of Blues Tourism Superintendents in Clarksdale, Mississippi”

Joey Thompson, “I won’t be reconstructed”:  Good Old Rebels, Civil War Memory, and Popular Song”

Lucille and Motee Daniels award for the best first-year paper
Meghan Holmes, “The Land of Cotton: Using ‘Dixie’ and Cotton to Imagine the South”

Peter Aschoff Award for the best paper on southern music
Mary Elizabeth (Mel) Lasseter, “Chasing That Ghost on Stage:  The Haunted Continent and Andrew Bird’s Apocrypha”

Ann Abadie Award for the best work in Documentary Media
Chelsea Wright, for the photography exhibit, “Down Friendship: A Journey Home”

Gray Award for one of the best undergraduate papers
Caroline Gillespie, “Parallels in Plight: Finding Commonalities in African American and Latino Experiences in Post-Katrina New Orleans”

Coterie Award for one of the best undergraduate papers
Kate Kenwright, “Memphis Carnival Traditions: Maintaining Identity in Changing Society”

]]> http://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/2013/05/14/2013-sst-student-award-winners/feed/ 0 SST 101 – Now Offered During First Summer Session http://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/2013/04/26/s-st-101-now-offered-for-first-summer-session/ http://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/2013/04/26/s-st-101-now-offered-for-first-summer-session/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:19:34 +0000 lspittma http://southernstudies.blog0.olemiss.edu/?p=2862 Southern Studies 101 is now being offered during the 2013 first summer session beginning May 28. SST 101 will be taught by Professor Michele Coffey, Monday-Friday from 10:00-11:50 am in Barnard Observatory room 105. Sign up today!

To see a complete list of our 2013 Summer and Fall courses, click here.

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]]> http://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/2013/04/11/graduate-documentary-students-at-aikei-pros-record-shop-in-holly-springs-ms/feed/ 0 The SFA Oral History initiative has documented over 700 stories from Southerners who grow, create, serve, and consume food and drink. Here, Hallie Streater of Streater Farm in Black Hawk, MS at the Downtown Greenwood Farmers’ Market. http://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/2013/04/11/the-sfa-oral-history-initiative-has-documented-over-700-stories-from-southerners-who-grow-create-serve-and-consume-food-and-drink-here-hallie-streater-of-streater-farm-in-black-hawk-ms-at-the-d/ http://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/2013/04/11/the-sfa-oral-history-initiative-has-documented-over-700-stories-from-southerners-who-grow-create-serve-and-consume-food-and-drink-here-hallie-streater-of-streater-farm-in-black-hawk-ms-at-the-d/#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:00:03 +0000 lspittma http://southernstudies.blog0.olemiss.edu/?p=2826 Hallie Streater

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To see a list of our 2013 Summer and Fall courses, click here.

 

]]> http://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/2013/03/18/summer-fall-2013-courses/feed/ 0 David Wharton talks about new book, Small Town South, in Virginia. http://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/2013/02/15/david-wharton-talks-about-new-book-small-town-south-in-virginia/ http://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/2013/02/15/david-wharton-talks-about-new-book-small-town-south-in-virginia/#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:17:40 +0000 lspittma http://southernstudies.blog0.olemiss.edu/?p=2676 David Wharton, Assistant Professor of Southern Studies and Director of the Center’s Documentary Studies program, will give talks about his new book, Small Town South, in late February in Virginia.  View the below posters for more details about the talks.

 

 

Since 1983 David Wharton has photographed the twelve states that define the American South, focusing his attention on rural and small town culture, vernacular architecture and landscape, the role of religion in Southern life, and the relationship between Southerners, their natural surroundings, and the communities they have built. Small Town South is the result of Wharton’s extensive travels throughout the region. 

No other photographer has devoted so much time and attention to recording this distinctive American place. The author’s 116 duotone photographs, combined with his insightful text, convey an overall sense of what the small Southern town looks like at the turn of the twenty-first century. Wharton organizes his study into thematic portfolios that visually address themes such as decline and renewal on Main Street, the intersection of tradition and modernity, local commemorations of the past, the omnipresence of the church in town life, the difficulties of making a living in the New World economy, the display of public murals and memorials, and the iconographic unfolding of community values.

To read more about Small Town South, click here.

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Winter 2013

]]> http://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/2013/01/28/the-southern-register-summer-2012-issue/feed/ 0 Eudora Welty Award Winners http://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/2013/01/08/eudora-welty-award-winners/ http://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/2013/01/08/eudora-welty-award-winners/#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:52:04 +0000 lspittma http://southernstudies.blog0.olemiss.edu/?p=2425 Each year the Center for the Study of Southern Culture gives the Eudora Welty Award for Creative Writing to two Mississippi high school students for short stories or poetry written during the previous year. Here’s a list of past winners.

2012 

1st Place: Emma Liston, St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, Ridgeland

2nd Place: Emma Thompson, Mississippi School for Math and Science, Columbus

2011

1st Place: Kate Thompson, Mississippi School for Math and Science, Columbus 

2nd Place: Anna Adorno, Mississippi School for the Arts, Brookhaven

2010

1st Place: Alexandra Franklin, Jackson Preparatory School, Jackson

2nd Place: Zack Grossenbacher, Madison Central High School, Madison

2009

1st Place: Tiffany Croft, Mississippi School for Math and Science, Columbus

2nd Place: Elizabeth Seratt, Mississippi School for Math and Science

2008

1st Place: Stella Nickerson, Mississippi School for Math and Science, Columbus

2nd Place: Stacy Parker, Cathedral High School, Natchez

2007

1st Place: Lauren Klaskala, Mississippi School for Math and Science, Columbus

2nd Place: Jonathan Hughes, Madison Central High School, Madison

2006

1st Place: Roxann Jackson, St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, Jackson

2nd Place: Christi Positan, Clinton High School, Clinton

2005

1st Place: Julie Armstrong, St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, Jackson

2nd Place: Andrew Thomas, Jackson Preparatory School, Jackson

2004

1st Place: Nyssa Perryman, Mississippi School for Math and Science, Columbus

2nd Place: Joseph Noel, Lee Academy, Clarksdale

2003

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2002

1st Place: Kilby Allen, Mississippi School for Math and Science, Columbus

2nd Place: Leann Peterson, Jackson Preparatory School, Jackson

2001

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2000

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1999

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1998

1st Place: Matt Hedges, Corinth High School, Corinth

2nd Place: Robert Moore, Hattiesburg High School, Hattiesburg

1997

1st Place: Olivia Foshee, Oxford High School, Oxford

2nd Place: Charles Johnson, West Point High School, West Point

1996

1st Place: Will Renick, Marshall Academy, Holly Springs

2nd Place: Jessica Mitchell, Cleveland High School, Cleveland

1995

1st Place: Natalie Tropp, Oxford High School, Oxford

2nd Place: Casey Crosthwait, Jackson Academy, Jackson

1994

1st Place: Matthew Gill, Hattiesburg High School, Hattiesburg

2nd Place: Paige Porter, Jackson Academy, Jackson

]]> http://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/2013/01/08/eudora-welty-award-winners/feed/ 0 Eudora Welty Awards http://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/2013/01/08/eudora-welty-awards/ http://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/2013/01/08/eudora-welty-awards/#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:33:33 +0000 lspittma http://southernstudies.blog0.olemiss.edu/?p=2409 Each year the Center for the Study of Southern Culture gives the Eudora Welty Award for Creative Writing to two Mississippi high school students for short stories or poetry written during the previous year. First place carries an award of $500, and second place an award of $250.

Schools may submit one entry in each category. Faculty from the University of Mississippi English Department judge the entries and select the winners. The awards are presented during the University’s Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference in July. Winners are notified at least a month prior to the conference. To see a list of past winners, click here. To download a copy of the submission form, click here.

Please send entries and completed submission forms to:

Eudora Welty Awards for Creative Writing
Center for the Study of Southern Culture
University of Mississippi
P.O. Box 1848
University, MS 38677

Or fax/email them to: 662-915-5814 (Attn: LaTonya Pittman); email: lspittma@olemiss.edu 

Each entry should be accompanied by the entry form and received or postmarked by April 15, 2013.

For more information, please contact LaTonya Pittman at 662-915-3369 or e-mail lspittma@olemiss.edu.

 

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