About the Contributors
Rent from DeepDyveMichael T. Bertrand is an assistant professor of history at Tennessee State University and the author of Race, Rock, and Elvis, which recently was published in a second edition. His research focuses on the relationship between popular culture and social change in southern history. He also is the moderator of H-Southern-Music.
Mark K. Dolan is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Mississippi. In addition to his teaching and ongoing research on the cultural history of the black press, he has worked for several newspapers and has interviewed authors including Toni Morrison, Reynolds Price, James Dickey, and Salman Rushdie.
William R. Ferris is the Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History, senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South, and adjunct professor of folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, he has made numerous documentary films and has authored over 100 publications in the fields of folklore, history, literature, and photography.
Joshua Guthman is the music editor of Southern Cultures. He is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is writing a dissertation about Primitive Baptists and the evangelical self in antebellum America.
Elizabeth Hadaway's work has appeared in Poetry and Shenandoah and is forthcoming in Cave Wall. Her first book, Fire Baton, was published in 2006. She lives near Baltimore and is a 2007 Walter E. Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers' Conference.
Michael K. Honey is professor of ethnic, gender, and labor studies and American history at the University of Washington at Tacoma. A former southern civil liberties organizer, he is the author most recently of Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign, as well as two prize-winning books and numerous articles on labor and civil rights history.
R. A. Lawson is assistant professor of history at Dean College in Franklin, Massachusetts, and teaches in the graduate program in American Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He is currently completing Jim Crow's Counterculture: The Blues and African Americans, 1890–1945, a study on the intersection of musical and political consciousness in the segregation era.
Sara Le Menestrel is a cultural anthropologist at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris. She is the author of a book on cultural tourism and Cajun identity and is coeditor, with Jacques Henry, of Working the Field: Accounts from French Louisiana. She is currently investigating social boundaries within French Louisiana music and collaborating on a study of the social consequences of the 2005 hurricanes.
Randy Rudder is an associate professor of English at Nashville State Community College, an arts and entertainment freelance writer, and the editor of Country Music Reader 2007 (www.countrymusicreader.com). He has published articles in the Washington Post, Bluegrass Unlimited, The Nashville Scene, and the academic journals Southern Crossroads and The Pinch.
