Allen Tullos
Senior Editor
Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts
Emory University

Katie Rawson
Managing Editor
Robert W. Woodruff Library
Emory University 

Sarah Melton
Series Editor, Editorial Associate
Robert W. Woodruff Library
Emory University   

Alan Pike
Editorial Associate
Robert W. Woodruff Library
Emory University

Louis Fagnan
Editorial Associate
Robert W. Woodruff Library
Emory University

Jesse Karlsberg
Editorial Associate
Robert W. Woodruff Library
Emory University

Devin Brown
Research Assistant
Robert W. Woodruff Library
Emory University 

Stewart Varner
Library Strategist
Robert W. Woodruff Library
Emory University

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Editorial Board

Joseph Crespino
Associate Professor
Department of History
Emory University
221 Bowden Hall
561 South Kilgo Circle
Atlanta, GA 30322-3651
404 727 1955

Joseph Crespino is associate professor of history at Emory University. He is the author of In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Princeton University Press, 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. He is co-editor with Matthew D. Lassiter of The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism (Oxford University Press, 2009) and is currently writing a political biography of Strom Thurmond, which will be published by Hill and Wang in 2012. Crespino has contributed book chapters to several edited volumes and has published articles in journals such as Southern Cultures and the Journal of Political History, which awarded him the Ellis Hawley Prize in 2009.

Grace Hale
Associate Professor
Corcoran Department of History
University of Virginia
PO Box 400180
Charlottesville VA 22904-4180
434 924 6413

Grace Elizabeth Hale is professor of history and American Studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890–1940  (Vintage Press, 1998) and A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America (Oxford University Press, 2011). She has written for Southern Exposure, Southern Cultures, The Journal of Southern History, and the Journal of American History, among other journals. She has also published book chapters on twentieth-century cultural history, popular music, and southern culture. Hale’s current research project is Shooting in Harlan: Documentary Work, the Labor Reform Movement, and the New Left in Eastern Kentucky. 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.

Earl Lewis
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and African American Studies
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia 30322-2870
404 727 6055

Earl Lewis is provost and executive vice president for academic affairs and the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and African American Studies at Emory University. He is Emory's first African American provost and the highest ranking African American administrator in the university’s 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, where he was also the director of the Center for Afro-American and African Studies. From 1984 to 1989 he taught African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Lewis, who holds degrees in history and psychology, is author or coeditor of seven books, among them In Their Own Interests: Race, Class and Power in Twentieth-Century Norfolk, Virginia (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 co-edited the eleven-volume The Young Oxford History of African Americans. Lewis also co-edited The African American Urban Experience: Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present (Palgrave, 2004) and is co-author of Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White (Norton, 2001) and Defending Diversity: Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan (University of Michigan Press, 2004). Lewis 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.

Tom Rankin
Director, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Associate Professor of the Practice of Art and Documentary Studies
Duke University
1317 West Pettigrew Street
Durham, NC 27705
919 660 3663

Tom Rankin is director of the Center for Documentary Studies and associate professor of the Practice of Art and Documentary Studies at Duke University. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (University Press of Mississippi, 1993), which received the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Photography; 'Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre': Photographs of a River Life (University Press of Mississippi, 1995), Faulkner's World: The Photographs of Martin J. Dain (University Press of Mississippi, 1997), and Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (Norton, 2000). His photographs have been published and exhibited widely. A frequent writer on photography and the documentary tradition, he is completing a retrospective book on the Georgia photographer Paul Kwilecki.

Katherine Skinner
Executive Director
Educopia Institute
1230 Peachtree St, Suite 1900
Atlanta, GA 30309
404 783 2534

Katherine Skinner is executive director of the Educopia Institute, a not-for-profit educational organization founded in 2006 to act as a catalyst for collaborative approaches to digital scholarship. She is one of the founders and the former managing editor of Southern Spaces. Skinner received her Ph.D. from Emory University. Her research currently focuses on the implications of the shifting roles of the public and private sectors with regard to cultural memory materials in the digital environment, particularly in the production, dissemination, and preservation of these materials. Katherine is the author or co-author of several articles, including "'Must Be Born Again’: Resurrecting the Anthology of American Folk Music" (Popular Music), "The MetaArchive Cooperative: A Collaborative Approach to Distributed Digital Preservation" (Library Trends), and “Economics, Sustainability, and the Cooperative Model in Digital Preservation” (Library Hi Tech). She is also the co-editor of two books, Strategies for Sustaining Digital Libraries (Emory University Digital Library Publications, 2008) and A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation (Educopia Institute, 2010).

Barbara Ellen Smith
Director of Women’s and Gender Studies Program
Professor of Women's and Gender Studies
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Dept. of Sociology
McBryde Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061
540 231 8189

Barbara Ellen Smith is professor of women's and gender studies in the Department of Sociology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. For the past thirty years she has been an activist-scholar in Appalachia and in the U.S. South. She is the author of Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease (Temple University Press, 1987), editor of Neither Separate Nor Equal: Women, Race and Class in the South (Temple University Press, 1999), and co-editor of Communities in Economic Crisis: Appalachia and the South (Temple University Press, 1990). She has also published articles in such journals as Appalachian Studies, Appalachian Journal, American Literature, and the Journal of Economic Issues and is the author of several book chapters in edited volumes. Smith's current research focuses on Latino immigration to the U.S. South and the appeal of right-wing populism to working-class white women and men in the South.

Ellen Griffith Spears
Assistant Professor
New College and
Department of American Studies
University of Alabama
208 Lloyd Hall
Box 870229
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0229
205 348 8410

Ellen Griffith Spears is assistant professor in the interdisciplinary New College program and the Department of American Studies at the University of Alabama. She teaches Southern civil rights and environmental history, and is affiliated faculty in UA’s Department of Gender and Race Studies. Dr. Spears has also taught at Agnes Scott College and Emory University in Atlanta. She has authored numerous articles and book chapters, including contributions in The American South in a Global World (University of North Carolina Press), Emerging Illness and Society: Negotiating the Public Health Agenda (Johns Hopkins University Press), and Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent (New South Books). She collaborated with photographer Michael Schwarz on the oral history documentary project, The Newtown Story: One Community’s Fight for Environmental Justice, which recounts the civil rights and environmental activism of a group of African American women in Gainesville, Georgia, the Newtown Florist Club. She is the former associate director of the Southern Regional Council and former managing editor of the SRC’s quarterly journal, Southern Changes.

William G. Thomas III
John and Catherine Angle Professor in the Humanities
Department of History
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
615 Oldfather Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588
402 472 8318

Will Thomas is chair of the Department of History at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He formerly served as the director of the Virginia Center for Digital History and associate professor of history at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the New South (Louisiana State University Press, 1999) and the forthcoming Blood and Iron: The Civil War and the Making of Modern America (Yale University Press). He is the co-author and assistant producer of a public television series on the history of Virginia 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. He is co-author with Edward L. Ayers of “The Differences Slavery Made: A Close Analysis of Two American Communities” in the American Historical Review (December 2003). 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.

Natasha Trethewey
Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry
Professor of English
Department of English
Emory University
N302 Callaway Center
537 Kilgo Circle
Atlanta, GA 30322-2870
404 727 4683

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey is professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at Emory University. She is the author of Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (University of Georgia Press, 2010), and three volumes of poetry: Domestic Work (Graywolf, 2000), which won the inaugural 1999 Cave Canem poetry prize; Bellocq's Ophelia (Graywolf, 2002), which won the 2003 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize; and Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin, 2006), for which Trethewey was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. 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 several volumes of The Best American Poetry series.

Allen Tullos
Senior Editor, Southern Spaces
Associate Professor of American Studies
Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts
Emory University
S407 Callaway Center
537 Kilgo Circle
Atlanta, GA 30322-2870
404 727 6965

Allen Tullos is associate professor of American Studies at Emory University and co-director of the university’s Graduate Certificate Program in Digital Scholarship and Media Studies. His most recent book is Alabama Getaway: The Political Imaginary and the Heart of Dixie (University of Georgia Press, 2011), and his book Habits of Industry (University of North Carolina Press, 1989) won the Charles S. Sydnor Award of the Southern Historical Association. From 1982 until 2004 he was editor of the journal Southern Changes, and he has published dozens of articles and numerous book chapters on U.S. popular music, southern visual culture, the politics of space, and contemporary southern politics. Tullos was co-producer and sound recordist on the award-winning documentary films Born for Hard Luck: Peg Leg Sam Jackson (1976), Being a Joines: A Life in the Brushy Mountains (1981), and A Singing Stream: A Black Family Chronicle (1986) in the American Traditional Culture Series, and he is producer of the documentary Tommie Bass. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and Yale University. He has served on the national advisory board of the American Routes radio project since 2001, and he sits on the editorial advisory boards of two book series, New Directions in Southern Studies (University of North Carolina Press) and Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South (University of Georgia Press).

Charles Reagan Wilson
Kelly Gene Cook, Sr. Chair of History
Professor of Southern Studies
University of Mississippi
Barnard Observatory
PO Box 1848
Oxford, MS 38677
662 915 5993

Charles Reagan Wilson is the Kelly Gene Cook, Sr. Chair of History at the University of Mississippi, where he has taught since 1981. He is the co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (University of North Carolina Press) and author of Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis (University of Georgia Press, 1995, 2007) and Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920 (University of Georgia Press, 1980). He is also editor of The New Regionalism (University Press of Mississippi, 1997) and Religion in the South (University Press of Mississippi, 1985), as well as co-editor of The South and the Caribbean (University Press of Mississippi, 2001). His most recent book is Flashes of a Southern Spirit: Meanings of Spirit in the South (University of Georgia Press, 2011). He is also general editor of the book series New Directions in Southern Studies (University of North Carolina Press). Wilson, who throughout his career has worked toward defining the interdisciplinary field of Southern studies, has directed six symposia on topics ranging from the Caribbean and the South to Religion and the American Civil War.

Jake Adam York
Associate Professor
Department of English
University of Colorado Denver
Campus Box 175
P O Box 173364
Denver CO 80217-3364

Jake Adam York is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Colorado Denver. He is the author of three books of poems—Murder Ballads (Elixir, 2005), A Murmuration of Starlings (Southern Illinois University Press, 2008), winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry and the 2008 Colorado Book Award, and Persons Unknown (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010)—and a work of literary history, The Architecture of Address: The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry (Routledge, 2005). His poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, The Oxford American, Poetry Daily, The Southern Review, and Third Coast. York edits Copper Nickel, with his students and colleagues, at the University of Colorado Denver. In 2011, York will be the Richard L. Thomas Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College.

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