Ansley L. Quiros is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Alabama, specializing in US history, African American history, the history of immigration, and the history of race and religion. She is a native of Atlanta, and a graduate of Furman University in South Carolina and Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. Quiros will …
With his long-term project Sin and Salvation in Baptist Town Matt Eich has documented life in Baptist Town, one of Greenwood, Mississippi’s oldest African American neighborhoods, where the legacies of racism continue to impact the people economically and culturally. Sin and Salvation is the culmination of seven years of photographic work and engagement with the …
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 …
Joshua S. Haynes is an ethnohistorian at the University of Southern Mississippi 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, focuses on a late eighteenth-century conflict between Creek Indians …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The students of the MFA in Documentary Expression program will showcase their work at the Powerhouse. Food and drink will be provided. Come out to see what they’ve been working on this semester.
A documentary film by Hao Wu about live-streaming culture in China will take place at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13 in the Tupelo Room of Barnard Observatory. The event is free and open to the public, and Wu will be in attendance for a question and answer period following the film. As an entire generation …
Jeff Washburn is a PhD candidate and graduate instructor in the Arch Dalrymple III Department of History at the University of Mississippi. His talk will be “Whose Civilization Plan Was It? Chickasaw Manipulation of Federal Agents in the Early Nineteenth Century.” Washburn’s talk will challenge the role of federal Indian agents in implementing new economic …