About

The Center for the Study of Southern Culture, founded in 1977, is an educational institute at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi and the first regional studies center devoted to the U.S. South. The Center’s mission is to investigate, document, interpret, and teach about the American South through academic inquiry and publications, documentary studies of film, photography, and oral history, and public outreach programs.  The cross-disciplinary Southern Studies faculty and the undergraduate and graduate degree programs are the core of the Center’s work.

In August of 2019, the faculty and staff of the Center engaged in a two-day visioning session. Looking ahead to the year 2029, here is our Vision Statement.