Three Center faculty celebrate the publication of their books. Ted Ownby’s “Hurtin Words: Debating Family Problems in the Twentieth-Century South,” Jessica Wilkerson’s “To Live Here You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice” and Katie McKee’s “Reading Reconstruction: Sherwood Bonner and the Literature of the Post-Civil War South,”  reflect the… Read More >

Mississippi Today is a news and media company with a forward-facing mission of civic engagement and public dialog through service journalism, live events, and digital outreach. Adam Ganucheau covers politics and state government for Mississippi Today. A native of Hazlehurst, Ganucheau has worked as a staff reporter for the Clarion-Ledger in Jackson and the Birmingham… Read More >

  Shennette M. Garrett-Scott is an Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi. Her work as a historian of gender, race, and business focuses on black women in the financial industry. Her talk will be on her forthcoming book Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal,… Read More >

Jaime Harker is a professor of English and the director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Mississippi, where she teaches American literature, LGBTQ literature, and gender studies. She has published essays on Japanese translation, popular women writers of the interwar period, Oprah’s book club, William Faulkner, Cold… Read More >

Joshua S. Haynes is an ethnohistorian who researches, publishes, and teaches early American and Native American history focusing on themes such as colonialism, violence, and state formation. His book, Patrolling the Border: Theft and Violence on the Creek-Georgia Border, 1770–1796, was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2018. The Brown Bag Lecture Series… Read More >

Charles McKinney is Neville Frierson Bryan Chair of Africana Studies and an associate professor of history. In addition to An Unseen Light, he is the author of Greater Freedom: The Evolution of the Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina. Aram Goudsouzian is chair of the Department of History at the University of Memphis. He… Read More >