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 …
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. …
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.
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 …
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 …
—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 …
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 …
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 …
One of the nation’s top scholars of slavery and gender will explore how much enslaved people in the South knew about the law and how that influenced their decisions to flee to the North in this year’s Gilder-Jordan Lecture in Southern Cultural History at the University of Mississippi. Thavolia Glymph, a professor at the Duke …
Are you a Southern Studies alum living in the Oxford area? Join us for happy hour Tuesday, October 15. RSVP at https://bit.ly/3Yaf8iN to learn the time and location!