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Allen Tullos
Senior Editor, Southern Spaces
Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts
Emory University
404 727 6965
fax 404 727 2370

S-407 Callaway Center
Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia 30322-2870

Allen Tullos is Associate Professor of American Studies at Emory University. From 1982 until 2004 he was editor of the journal Southern Changes. He has worked as co-producer and sound recordist on the award-winning documentary films "Born for Hard Luck," "Being A Joines: A Life in the Brushy Mountains" and "A Singing Stream: A Black Family Chronicle" in the "American Traditional Culture Series;" and is producer of the documentary "Tommie Bass." He is editor of "Long Journey Home: Folklife in the South," and his book Habits of Industry, was winner of the Sydnor Award of the Southern Historical Association. Tullos has published numerous articles and book chapters on American popular music, southern film and visual culture, the politics of space, and contemporary southern politics. He is website coordinator for americanroutes.com


Charles Reagan Wilson
Kelly Gene Cook, Sr. Chair of History and Professor of Southern Studies
University of Mississippi
662 915 5993
fax 662 915 5814

Center for the Study of Southern Culture
Barnard Observatory
University of Mississippi
PO Box 1848

Charles Reagan Wilson is Kelly Gene Cook, Sr. Chair of History and Professor of Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi, where he has taught since 1981. He is the coeditor of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture and author of Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis (1995) and Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920 (1980). He has directed six symposia on topics ranging from the Caribbean and the South to Religion and the American Civil War. Earning his doctorate in history at the University of Texas at Austin (1977), he has worked toward defining the interdisciplinary field of Southern Studies and is general editor of a new book series, "New Directions in Southern Studies", published by the University of North Carolina Press.


Earl Lewis
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and African American Studies
Emory University
404 727 6055
fax 404 727 1090

Office of The Provost
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia 30322-2870

Earl Lewis is Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and African American Studies. He is Emory University's first African American provost and the highest ranking African American administrator in university history. Before joining the Emory faculty in July 2004, Lewis served as dean of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies and vice provost for academic affairs/graduate studies at the University of Michigan. He was director of the Center for Afro-American and African Studies and also the Elsa Barkley Brown and Robin D.G. Kelley Collegiate Professor of History and African American and African Studies. From 1984 to 1989 he was on the faculty in the department of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Lewis, who holds degrees in history and psychology, is author and coeditor of seven books, among them In Their Own Interests: Race, Class and Power in 20th Century Norfolk (University of California Press, 1993) and the award-winning To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans (Oxford University Press, 2000). Between 1997 and 2000 he coedited the eleven-volume The Young Oxford History of African Americans. Lewis coauthored Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White, published in 2001 by WW Norton. His most recent books are The African American Urban Experience: Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present, coedited and published with Palgrave (2004), and the cowritten Defending Diversity: Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan, published by the University of Michigan Press (2004). Lewis has also written essays, articles, and reviews on different aspects of American and African American history that have appeared in many academic journals. He is a current or past member of a number of editorial boards and boards of directors, including the Graduate Record Exam and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is the past chair of the board of directors of The Council of Graduate Schools and is National Chair of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation's Responsive Ph.D. Project. Lewis's research and projects have been funded by the Rockefeller, Ford, Mellon, and National Science foundations. In 1999, Lewis was a recipient of Michigan's Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award.


Natasha Trethewey
Associate Professor, English Department
Emory University
404 727 6484

N314 Callaway Center
Creative Writing Program
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia 30322-2870

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University. She is the author of Domestic Work (Graywolf, 2000), Bellocq's Ophelia (Graywolf, 2002), and Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin, 2006). She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study Center, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. Her poems have appeared in such journals and anthologies as American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, New England Review, Gettysburg Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Best American Poetry 2000 and 2003. She received a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for her volume of poetry Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin, 2006).


William G. Thomas III
John and Catherine Angle Professor in the Humanities, Department of History
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
402 472 8318

Department of History
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
615 Oldfather Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588

Will Thomas is the John and Catherine Angle Professor in the Humanities for the Department of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He formerly served as the Director of the Virginia Center for Digital History and Associate Professor of History in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the New South, published in 1999 by Louisiana State University Press. He is the co-author and assistant producer of a history of Virginia series for public television, called "The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Virginia's History Since the Civil War." Episode Three, "Massive Resistance," was an Emmy Nominee for 2000 from the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Recently, he co-authored with Edward L. Ayers a fully electronic scholarly article for publication in the American Historical Review (December 2003), titled "The Differences Slavery Made: A Close Analysis of Two American Communities." The article is based on their research in the "Valley of the Shadow" project. Ayers, Thomas, and Anne S. Rubin shared the Lincoln Prize in 2001 from the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College for the "Valley of the Shadow" project, and the James Harvey Robinson Prize from the American Historical Association in recognition of the project as an outstanding contribution to the teaching of history. Thomas is a graduate of Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia, and Trinity College (Ct.). He earned his Masters and Ph.D. in History from the University of Virginia. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, with his wife Heather with their three children--Sarah, Guy, and Jane.


Tom Rankin
Director, Center for Documentary Studies
Duke University
919 660 3613
fax 919 681 7600

Center for Documentary Studies
Duke University
Lyndhurst House
1317 W. Pettigrew Street
Durham, NC 2770

Mailing address:
Box 90802
Durham, NC 27708-0802

Tom Rankin is Director of the Center for Documentary Studies and Associate Professor of the Practice of Art and Documentary Studies at Duke University. A photographer, filmmaker, and folklorist, Tom Rankin has been documenting and interpreting American culture for nearly twenty years. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (1993), which received the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Photography, 'Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre': Photographs of a River Life (1995), Faulkner's World: The Photographs of Martin J. Dain (1997), and Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (2000).


Barbara Ellen Smith
Director of Women's Studies
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
540 231 7322

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Dept. of Interdisciplinary Studies
256 Lane Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061

Dr. Barbara Ellen Smith is Director of Women's Studies and professor of interdisciplinary studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. For the past thirty years, she has been an activist-scholar in Appalachia and the U.S. South. She is the author or editor of three books and numerous articles, including Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease (1987) and Neither Separate Nor Equal: Women, Race and Class in the South (1999). Smith has recently completed a community-based research and education project, carried out in collaboration with the Highlander Research and Education Center and the Southern Regional Council, on Latino immigration to the U.S. South. Additional research projects include an analysis of the interplay between flexible labor practices and globalization in the Memphis logistics sector.


Grace Hale
Associate Professor of History and American Studies
University of Virginia
434 924 6413

The Corcoran Department of History
PO Box 400180
Department of History
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4180

Grace Elizabeth Hale is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Virginia and the author of Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 (Vintage, 1998) and Finding the Real: How White Middle-Class Americans Fell in Love with Outsiders and Changed Postwar Culture and Politics (forthcoming in 2009).  She has written for Southern Exposure, Southern Cultures, The Journal of Southern History, the Journal of American History, and other publications as well as published book chapters on twentieth century cultural history, popular music, and southern culture.  At the University of Virginia, she is a co-founder of the American Studies Program, the director of the history department's Southern Seminar, and the director of the American Studies Distinguished Majors Program.   Her current research project is Shooting in Harlan: Documentary Art and New Left Politics, which uses the story of the making of the documentary Harlan County U. S. A. as a point of departure for narrating the alliance of three postwar histories: the union reform movements sweeping through organized labor's big unions, from the United Auto Workers to the United Mine Workers (UMW); the surge of young white middle-class activists into the union movement after calls for black separatism closed off much white civil rights activism; and the explosion of documentary filmmaking in the sixties and seventies that sent many would-be filmmakers into the rural U.S. South.  She is also working on a collaborative project on the post-1945 history of documentary expression with Franny Nudleman, Associate Professor of English at Carlton University.


Joseph Crespino
Associate Professor, Department of History
Emory University
404 727 1955 fax 404 727 4959

Emory University Department of History
221 Bowden Hall
561 South Kilgo Circle
Atlanta, GA 30322-3651

Joseph Crespino is Associate Professor of History at Emory University. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2002. He is the author of In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Princeton, 2007), which was awarded the Lillian Smith Book Award, the McLemore Prize by the Mississippi Historical Society, and the nonfiction award given by the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. Crespino is currently working on a political biography of Strom Thurmond, one that uses Thurmond's life and career as a lens through which to analyze the role of white southerners in modern conservative politics.


Katherine Skinner
Executive Director, Educopia Institute
404 783 2534

Educopia Institute
1230 Peachtree St, Suite 1900
Atlanta, GA 30309

Katherine Skinner is the Executive Director of the Educopia Institute, a not-for-profit educational organization founded in 2006 to act as a catalyst for collaborative approaches to the production and preservation of scholarship. She is one of the founders and the former Managing Editor of the Southern Spaces internet journal and scholarly forum. Skinner received her Ph.D. from Emory University. Her research interests include music and social change movements in the U.S. context, particularly regarding the emergence and institutionalization of new fields. Her current scholarship converges with her digital library work, where she both researches and participates in the growing open source and open access movements. Katherine is the author of several articles, including "'Born Again:' Resurrecting the Anthology of American Folk Music" (Popular Music), "The MetaArchive Cooperative: A Collaborative Approach to Distributed Digital Preservation" (Library Trends). and "The Safety of this Journey Depends on Unity:' The Emergence of the Field of Women's Music" (The International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, forthcoming) and editor of two books, Strategies for Sustaining Digital Libraries (Emory University: 2008) and The Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation (forthcoming 2009).


Editorial Reviewers

Rob Amberg, Photographer
Andy Ambrose, Tubman Museum
Eric Gary Anderson, George Mason University
Mary K. Anglin, University of Kentucky
Jack Bass, The College of Charleston
Margaret Bauer, East Carolina University
Patricia D. Beaver, Appalachian State University
E. M. Beck, Jr., University of Georgia
Matthew Bernstein, Emory University
Dwight Billings, University of Kentucky
Charles Bolton, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Steve Bransford, Independent Scholar
Peggy Bulger, Director, American Folklife Center
Ron Butters, Duke University
Keith Byerman, Indiana State University
Richard Campanella, Tulane University
Robert Cantwell, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Dan T. Carter, University of South Carolina
Robin Conner, Georgia State University
Tim Crimmins, Georgia State University
Jane Dailey, Johns Hopkins University
William F. Danaher, The College of Charleston
Leroy Davis, Emory University
Susan V. Donaldson, The College of William and Mary
Allison Dorsey, Swarthmore College
Wilma A. Dunaway, Virginia Tech
Connie Eble, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Rebecca Edwards, Vassar College
David Estes, Loyola University-New Orleans
William Falk, University of Maryland
Ted Friedman, Georgia State University
Fred C. Fussell, Director, Chattahoochee Folklife Project
Paul Gilmore, California State University, Long Beach
Rebecca L. Godwin, Barton College
Elliott Gorn, Brown University
Jennifer Greeson, Princeton University
Anna Grimshaw, Emory University
Larry J. Griffin, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Adam Gussow, University of Mississippi
Peggy Hargis, Georgia Southern University
Tom Hatley, Western Carolina University
Iris Tillman Hill, Editor, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University
John Howard, Kings College, University of London
John Inscoe, University of Georgia
Harvey Jackson, Jacksonville State University
Lu Ann Jones, University of South Florida
Suzanne Jones, University of Richmond
Peter Kastor, Washington University in St. Louis
Lovalerie King, Pennsylvania State University
Tom Klingler, Tulane University
John T. Kneebone, Virgina Commonwealth University
Adam Krims, University of Nottingham
Kevin Kruse, Princeton University
Clifford M. Kuhn, Georgia State University
Barbara Ladd, Emory University
Theresa Lloyd, East Tennessee State University
Valerie Loichot, Emory University
Caroline Maun, Wayne State University
Pearl McHaney, Georgia State University
Mark McKnight, University of North Texas
Gregg Michel, University of Texas, San Antonio
Joseph Millichap, Western Kentucky University
Michael Moon, Emory University
Gary Mormino, University of South Florida
Amy Feely Morsman, Middlebury College
Robert J. Norrell, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Mary Odem, Emory University
Lee Pederson, Emory University
Barbara Presnell, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
Anita M. Puckett, Virginia Tech
Eithne Quinn, University of Manchester, UK
John Raeburn, University of Iowa
Benjamin Reiss, Emory University
Gary N. Richards, University of New Orleans
James L. Roark, Emory University
Scott Romine, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Vincent J. Roscigno, Ohio State University
Jacqueline Rouse, Georgia State University
Anne Sarah Rubin, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
Wanda Rushing, University of Memphis
Emily Satterwhite, Virginia Tech
Rebecca Sharpless, Texas Christian University
Doug Smith, Occidental College
Jon Smith, Simon Fraser University
Nick Spitzer, University of New Orleans
Mart Stewart, Western Washington University
Amy Murrell Taylor, State University of New York-Albany
Timothy Tyson, Duke University
Candace Waid, University of California-Santa Barbara
Jason Morgan Ward, Mississippi State University
Anne B. Warner, Spelman College
James H. Watkins, Berry College
Mary Weaks-Baxter, Rockford College
David Wharton, University of Mississippi
Amy Wood, Illinois State University
Peter Wood, Duke University
Emily Wright, Methodist College
Robert H. Zieger, University of Florida

Former Editorial Board Members

Patricia Yaeger (2006-2008)
Lucinda MacKethan (2004-2005)
Carole Merritt (2004-2005)