Interview and Lecture by Gilder-Jordan Speaker Theda Perdue Available
GIlder-Jordan Lecture with Theda Perdue Recap
Dr. Theda Perdue presented the 2015 Gilder-Jordan Lecture in Southern Cultural History on September 9. Her talk, partially inspired by the religious studies scholarship of Charles Reagan Wilson, was titled “Indians and Christianity in the New South.”
On the morning of the lecture, Dr. Mikaëla M. Adams of the UM Department of History interviewed Dr. Perdue about her career as a scholar and the state of the field of study of American Indians. Watch that interview, which the Southern Documentary Project filmed, here:
Here is the full lecture by Dr. Perdue, with a welcome by Dr. Ted Ownby and an introduction by Dr. Mikaëla Adams.
Southern Studies graduate student Sophie Hay documented the lecture through photographs, too.
![Dr. Mikaela Adams interviewed Dr. Perdue the morning of the lecture.](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/11935594_1034251859948801_2902175950569011689_o-300x300.jpg)
![SouthDocs films.](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/12010656_1034244679949519_5665288109390220590_o-300x300.jpg)
![Grad student volunteers Molly Conway and Amanda Malloy. Photo by Sophie Hay.](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/IMG_1396-300x300.jpg)
![Along with Chris Colbeck. Photo by Sophie Hay.](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/IMG_1399-300x300.jpg)
![Ted welcomes. Photo by Sophie Hay.](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/IMG_1449-300x300.jpg)
![Mikaela Adams introduces. Photo by Sophie Hay.](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/IMG_1451-300x300.jpg)
![Photo by Sophie Hay.](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/IMG_1445-300x300.jpg)
![Photo by Sophie Hay.](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/IMG_1397-300x300.jpg)
![SST/History professor Jessie Wilkerson, Brian Sherry, friend.](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/IMG_1442-300x300.jpg)
![1st year SST students Abby Huggins and George McDaniel.](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/IMG_1439-300x300.jpg)
![Charles R. Wilson in the foreground, Jay Watson and Katie McKee behind.](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/IMG_1436-300x300.jpg)
![SST grad student Frank Kossen in the foreground.](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/IMG_1432-300x300.jpg)
![History grad students.](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/IMG_1429-300x300.jpg)
![Photo by Sophie Hay.](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/IMG_1420-300x300.jpg)
![Photo by Sophie Hay.](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/IMG_1417-300x300.jpg)
![Photo by Sophie Hay.](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/IMG_1408-300x300.jpg)
![Photo by Sophie Hay.](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/IMG_1407-300x300.jpg)
![History grad students Jillian McClure and Justin Rogers.](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/IMG_1404-300x300.jpg)
![Q&A](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/IMG_1462-300x300.jpg)
![Q&A](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/IMG_1456-300x300.jpg)