Blues scholar promotes ‘Beloved Community’ in new memoir

Adam, Shaun and Sherrie Gussow

Book signing set for Wednesday, Feb. 26 at Off Square Books OXFORD, Miss. – The chapters of Adam Gussow’s life include teaching blues literature to inmates at Mississippi’s maximum-security prison and getting crowds grooving as a street blues harmonica player in Harlem. The University of Mississippi professor of English and Southern studies weaves several of

SouthDocs Film Guide for Spring

Southern Documentary Project spring films

Check out upcoming showtimes and locations for films produced by Southern Studies students, alumni, faculty, and staff for this spring. SouthDocs Film Guide Spring 2025 Country Punk Black – Oxford Film Festival Director: Christopher C. Fisher, & Producer: NEEN Country Punk Black chronicles the musical journey of Twurt Chamberlain, a genre-bending singer-songwriter from Lexington, Mississippi,

Steve Holland film to screen as part of UM SouthTalks series

Steve Holland

Former Mississippi Rep. Steve Holland gained notoriety as a colorful character during his 36-year career in the Mississippi Legislature, and he recently returned to the spotlight as one of the central characters in the Netflix series “The Kings of Tupelo.” But Holland’s first brush with cinematic immortality actually came in 2023 with the release of

Spring SouthTalks continue with theme of Southern environments

Coulter Fussell gives the first SouthTalk of the spring semester

The SouthTalks series at the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture continues its theme of Southern environments this spring. SouthTalks is a series of events exploring the interdisciplinary nature of Southern studies. All events are free to the public and take place in the Barnard Observatory Tupelo Room, unless otherwise noted.

Virtual Open House set for Jan. 24

Virtual Open House Jan. 24

Are you interested in a graduate degree in Southern Studies? Would you like to ask some questions about the program? We are hosting a virtual open house at 1 p.m. Jan. 24.  Zoom registration link is below. Here is the link for the Jan. 24  open house at 1 p.m. CST.  

Race and Ethnicity Forum set for Feb. 24

Join the Coalition for the Study of Race & Racism (CSRR) for the fourth annual faculty and graduate student forum on Race and Ethnicity Date: Monday, Feb. 24, 2025 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Triplett Alumni Center-Butler Auditorium  The CSRR invites University of Mississippi faculty as well as graduate students to take part in

Delta Connections Garner Award for Ralph Eubanks

Ralph Eubanks stands in a field of cotton

  Writing has been a lifelong pursuit for Ralph Eubanks, one that has led him through the publishing world, academia and the Library of Congress. The University of Mississippi alumnus recently received two honors that reflect this success in practicing and supporting the craft of writing. Eubanks, faculty fellow and writer-in-residence at the UM Center

Announcing the 2025 Study the South Research Fellowship

Study the South

—CALL FOR PROPOSALS— Announcing the 2025 Study the South Research Fellowship Scholars researching the South have an opportunity for funded research in the collections of the Department of Archives and Special Collections at the J. D. Williams Library at the University of Mississippi. The Study the SouthResearch Fellowship, sponsored by the Center for the Study

Two virtual open houses set for Dec. 11 and Jan. 24

Southern Studies open houses Dec. 11 and Jan. 24

Are you interested in a graduate degree in Southern Studies? Would you like to ask some questions about the program? There are two opportunities for a virtual open house at 3 p.m. Dec. 11 and at 1 p.m. Jan. 24. See below for the Zoom registration links. Here is the link for the Dec. 11

Endowment to help train next generation of storytellers

Berkley Hudson

Alumnus Berkley Hudson provides resources for visiting documentarians Using documentary studies to train the next generation of storytellers holds such importance to Berkley Hudson that he has gifted the University of Mississippi an endowment to bring visiting documentarians to campus. Hudson, an Ole Miss alumnus and associate professor emeritus of the University of Missouri School