About the Contributors
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John W. Coffey, a native of Raleigh, is Deputy Director for Art and Curator of American and Modern Art at the North Carolina Museum of Art. He received a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1976) and an MA from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art (1978). He previously worked as a curator at museums in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and Brunswick, Maine.
Pepper Capps Hill is a Museum Educator at Cape Fear Museum of History and Science in Wilmington, North Carolina. She is a graduate of UNC-Wilmington and the tobacco fields of northern Wayne County. In addition to teaching, Pepper loves cooking with her daughter Grace and riding motorcycles with her husband Jerry.
Philip C. Kolin is the Distinguished Professor in the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Southern Mississippi. He has published more than forty books on Tennessee Williams, contemporary African American playwrights, Shakespeare, and other writers. The 10th edition of his Successful Writing at Work has been published recently by Cengage/ Wadsworth. Kolin is also the editor of the Southern Quarterly.
Carolyn Osborn is a former newspaper reporter, radio writer, and English teacher at the University of Texas in Austin. She has published two short story collections and two novels, Uncertain Ground and Contrary People. Osborn has served as president of the Texas Institute of Letters and is one of the founders of the Texas Book Festival, an idea she took home after appearing at Nashville's Southern Festival of Books.
Charles Perrow is the author of several books in the areas of organizational theory and disasters, including Complex Organizations, a Critical Essay; Normal Accidents; and The Next Catastrophe. He has had teaching appointments at Yale, Stony Brook, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pittsburg, the London Business School, and the Imperial College, London.
Patricia Silver is a research associate at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College. She earned a PhD in cultural anthropology from American University in 2004. Her previous publications appear in American Ethnologist (2007); Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (2010); CENTRO:Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (2010); and Op. Cit.: Revista del Centro de Investigaciones Históricas (2011-2012).
James G. Thomas Jr. is the Associate Director for Publications at the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture. He was the managing editor of the recently completed 24-volume New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, for which he was also coeditor of the Science and Medicine volume. His research explores a variety of topics, including ethnicity in the Mississippi Delta and southern self-taught art. [End Page 112]
