Student Awards for Papers, Documentary Projects Announced at Graduation
Student Awards for Papers, Documentary Projects Announced at Graduation
Gray Prize for one of the two best papers by SST undergraduates:
Joel Hayes-Davis for “Local Southern Identity as Defined through Foodways”
Coterie Award for one of the two best papers by SST undergraduates:
Anna McCollum, “What is Today’s South?”
Peter Aschoff Award for the best paper in Southern Music:
Mary High, “Sterling Plumpp’s ‘Mississippi Griot’ and Blues Counter Memory.”
Ann Abadie Prize for the best documentary project in SST:
Lauren Veline, “The Rebirth of Water Valley.”
Sue Hart Award for the best project in Gender Studies in the South:
two winners this year.
Alicia Pilar Bacon’s undergraduate honors thesis in History, “This Clinic Stays Open: A Comprehensive History of Reproductive Rights in Mississippi, 1966-2015”
Jessie Hotakainen, “Trans Mississippi,” a documentary film
Lucille and Motee Daniels award for the best paper by a 1st year Southern Studies graduate student:
Josh Green, “Peace and the Unsealing of the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission Files”
Lucille and Motee Daniels award for the best MA thesis in Southern Studies:
Sarah Holder, “Sookie’s Place(s): New Roadways into the South of the Southern Vampire Mysteries.”