The Center’s David Wharton has a new book out called The Power of Belief: Spiritual Landscapes from the Rural South, with an introduction by Charles Reagan Wilson. Dr. Wharton will sign his book on Thursday, December 8 at 5pm at Off Square Books on the Oxford Courthouse Square. About the book, from the GFT Publishing …
The 2017 Oxford Conference for the Book will take place Wednesday, March 29 – Friday, March 31. For more details, visit oxfordconferenceforthebook.com.
Simone Delerme, McMullan Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Southern Studies, will present a lecture in the UM Department of Sociology and Anthropology Fall Lecture Series on Friday, September 23 at noon in Lamar Hall 555. “Spanglish Reflections and Nuyorican Dreams: Latinos in the US South” One of the most notable migratory shifts in recent decades …
Steve Cheseborough, a Southern Studies alum from Portland, Oregon, presents “Blues Traveling” about 1920s-1930s blues. *This is a special Monday Brown Bag.
This Brown Bag will introduce documentary media at the Center by faculty and staff from the Southern Documentary Project and Southern Foodways Alliance. Brown Bags happen select Wednesdays during the school year at noon in Barnard Observatory.
Chris Colbeck Southern Studies MA Graduate Brown Bags happen select Wednesdays during the school year at noon in Barnard Observatory.
Tuesday, November 1 at noon Brown Bag: “Corazon de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910” Barnard Observatory Julie Weise is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oregon. She’ll talk about her 2015 book, Corazon de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South Since 1910. When Latino migration to the U.S. South became …
Teresa Nicholas is the author of Buryin’ Daddy: Putting My Lebanese, Catholic, Southern Baptist Childhood to Rest, published in 2011 by the University Press of Mississippi. Her most recent book is a biography of the writer Willie Morris, published March 2016. Nicholas has written for Delta, Mississippi, NPR’s Opinion Page, Sol Literary Magazine, and South Writ Large, and …
In 2014, Southern Studies alum and former Southern Foodways Alliance (SFA) oral historian Amy C. Evans returned to her hometown of Houston, Texas, and reignited one of her passions: art education. She quickly aligned herself with Literacy Through Photography, a 25-year-old non-profit that places working artists in classrooms around the city to implement the organization’s …
Kenneth Janken is Director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to the history of the Wilmington Ten, he is the author of two biographies: Rayford W. Logan and the Dilemma of the African-American Intellectual (1993); and Walter White: Mr. NAACP (2003). He …