About the Contributors
Rent from DeepDyveLacy K. Ford Jr. is a professor of history at the University of South Carolina and twice a National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellow. He writes about nineteenth- and twentieth-century southern political and economic history, including the history of economic development in the region.
Gyoung-Youl Jeong is a Korean photojournalist who spent a year taking pictures in North Carolina as a Visiting Scholar at unc's Center for the Study of the American South. Since receiving his B.A. in photography in 1992, he has been with the Chosun Ilbo, the largest daily newspaper in Korea. He also is the author of Telling About Photography, published in 2004. He would like to thank the SK Fellowship and the Korean Journalist Association for their financial support.
Tanya Olson lives in Durham and teaches at Vance-Granville Community College. She holds an M.A. in Anglo-Irish Literature from University College, Dublin, and a Ph.D. in twentieth-century British Literature from unc-Greensboro. Her work has been published in the Cairn, Bad Subjects, Main Street Rag, the Raleigh News and Observer, Elysian Fields, and the Independent Weekly, among others. She coordinates the durham3 reading series, is a member of the Black Socks poetry group, and serves on the board of Carolina Wren Press.
John Shelton Reed is founding editor of Southern Cultures and William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His most recent book is Minding the South, published by the University of Missouri Press.
Anne Firor Scott is a historian of women and taught at Duke University for forty years, as well as making many forays to other institutions, here and abroad. Her essay, "Leaves From a Journal," was in the sold-out Spring 2004 issue of Southern Cultures. She says she met many role models in research collections and some of them, including Gertrude Weil, also in person.
Bland Simpson, longtime pianist for the Tony Award-winning Red Clay Ramblers, is Bowman and Gordon Gray Associate Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he directs the creative writing program. His books include Into the Sound Country, Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals, and The Inner Islands, and his musicals include Diamond Studs, Kudzu, and King Mackerel & The Blues Are Running. In 2005 he received the North Carolina Award in Fine Arts, the state's highest civilian honor.
R. Phillip Stone is archivist at Wofford College. He completed his Ph.D. in history at the University of South Carolina and is currently preparing a book on the politics of economic development in modern South Carolina.
Karen Yochim raises free-range chickens on an old Acadian farm on Bayou Teche, collects old-time country remedies, and raises medicinal weeds and herbs for this purpose. She is working on a Cajun murder mystery, "A Makeshift Bayou Grave."
