Snapshots from the Semester – Grad Student Guest Post
Here, an end of the semester photo wrap-up with second year Southern Studies grad student Sophie Hay, who documents Center events and life as part of her assistantship. Follow the Center on Instagram for more photos by Sophie and others.
Snapshots from the Semester
Fall semester has been a busy one in Barnard Observatory; the Center welcomed new students and staff, played host to a plethora of visiting scholars, and held yet another successful Southern Foodways Symposium. From taking snaps in classes to capturing Brown Bag lectures, documenting Southern Studies happenings continues to be an entertaining, educational, and enjoyable task for me. With the semester at its end, here’s a recap in pictures of the past four months.
![Dr. Ownby opens the 2015 Gilder Jordan Lecture](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/1-300x300.jpg)
![Dr. Theda Perdue answers questions from her audience](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/2-300x300.jpg)
![Southern Studies first year students Abby Huggins and George McDaniel attend the Gilder Jordan lecture](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/3-300x300.jpg)
![Southern Studies 101 Honors students explore a cotton field to accompany their reading of High Cotton: Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/4-300x300.jpg)
![Students pick and examine some cotton](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/5-300x300.jpg)
![Students head inside an old cotton gin, followed by Dr. McKee and Rebecca Cleary](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/6-300x300.jpg)
![Dr. McKee reads an excerpt from High Cotton](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/7-300x300.jpg)
![Brown Bag Lecture by Charles L. Hughes: “Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South”](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/8-300x300.jpg)
![Brown Bag Lecture by Maarten Zwiers: “Southern Popular Culture and Politics in the 1970s”](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/9-300x300.jpg)
![Brown Bag Lecture by Cynthia Joyce: “Please Forward: How Blogging Reconnected New Orleans After Katrina”](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/10-300x300.jpg)
![Dr. Jessie Wilkerson and her Southern Studies 601 students](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/11-300x300.jpg)
![Dr. Ownby teaches his new Special Topics class, “Peace and Southern Culture”](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/12-300x300.jpg)
![Southern Studies 101 with Dr. Darren Grem](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/13-300x300.jpg)
![Rebecca Cleary and Katie Gill strike a pose in Dr. Passidomo’s graduate “Southern Foodways” seminar](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/14-300x300.jpg)
![Dr. Simone Delerme teaches her Southern Studies 101 class](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/15-300x300.jpg)
![Margaret Gaffney and Abby Huggins prepare suitcase-inspired lunch boxes for the SFA symposium](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/16-300x300.jpg)
![SST grad students Abby Huggins and Kate Wiggins arrange flower displays for the SFA symposium](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/17-e1449505109396-300x300.jpg)
![Dinner table ready for the SFA’s guests to arrive](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/18-e1449505131526-300x300.jpg)
![SFA director, John T. Edge, addresses the symposium dinner guests alongside head chef, Robert Newton](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/19-300x300.jpg)
![End of semester Barnard Observatory](https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/20-300x300.jpg)