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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. Patricia Yaeger
Henry Simmons Frieze Collegiate Professor of English and Women's Studies
University of Michigan 734 763 2269 Department of English 3187 Angell Hall University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003 Patricia Yaeger is Henry Simmons Frieze Collegiate Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University. Her research interests include twentieth-century American literature and visual arts, southern fiction, feminist theory, literary theory, social geography, and trash in modern/postmodern ethnic American literature. Prof. Yaeger is the author of Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing: 1930-1990 (University of Chicago Press, 2000); editor of The Geography of Identity (University of Michigan Press, 1996); co-editor of Nationalisms & Sexualities (Routledge, 1991); and author of Honey-Mad Women: Emancipatory Strategies in Women's Writing (Columbia University Press,1988). Among her current projects is "Luminous Trash: America in an Age of Conspicuous Destruction." Katherine Skinner
Digital Projects Librarian, Robert W. Woodruff Library
Emory University 404 783 2534 fax 404 727 0827 Emory University Robert W. Woodruff Library 540 Asbury Circle Atlanta, GA 30322-2870 Katherine Skinner is the Digital Projects Librarian for the Emory University General Libraries. She is one of the founders and the former Managing Editor of the Southern Spaces internet journal and scholarly forum. She 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 forthcoming articles, "'Born Again:' Resurrecting the Anthology of American Folk Music" (Popular Music) 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).
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