Southern Cultures

Editors

Harry Watson

Marcie Cohen Ferris

Executive Editor

Ayse Erginer

Deputy Editor & Art Director

Emily Wallace

Associate Editor

Emma Calabrese

Poetry Editor

Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Music Editor

Aaron Smithers

Multimedia Editor

Ashley Melzer

Scholarly Outreach

Kathy Roberts

Editorial Assistants

Marina Greenfeld

Mitra Norowzi

Editorial Fellow

Katharine Henry

Founding Editor

John Shelton Reed

Director of Center for the Study of the American South

Malinda Maynor Lowery

Editorial Board

Edward L. Ayers, President Emeritus, University of Richmond

E. M. Beck, Sociology, Emeritus, University of Georgia

Catherine W. Bishir, North Carolina State University Libraries

Merle Black, Political Science, Emory University

James C. Cobb, History, University of Georgia

Peter A. Coclanis, History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Thadious Davis, English, University of Pennsylvania

Pam Durban, English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

William R. Ferris, History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Wayne Flynt, History, Emeritus, Auburn University

Thavolia Glymph, History, Duke University

Rayna Green, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Larry J. Griffin, Sociology and History, Emeritus, Georgia Southern University

Ferrel Guillory, The Program on Public Life, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, History, Emerita, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Peggy Hargis, Sociology, Emerita, Georgia Southern University

Trudier Harris, English, Emerita, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Fred Hobson, English, Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Lisa Howorth, Square Books, Oxford, Mississippi

Patrick J. Huber, History, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Anne Goodwyn Jones, English, University of Florida

Michael Kreyling, English, Vanderbilt University

Louis Kyriakoudes, History, University of Southern Mississippi

Malinda Maynor Lowery, History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Ted M. Ownby, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi

James L. Peacock, Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Theda Perdue, History, Emerita, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

C. David Perry, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, University of North Carolina Press

Tom Rankin, MFAEDA, Duke University

John Shelton Reed, Sociology, Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Anne Firor Scott, History, Emerita, Duke University

Bland Simpson, English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Vincas P. Steponaitis, Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Steven Stowe, History, Indiana University

John M. Vlach, American Studies, George Washington University

David Wilkins, American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota

Charles R. Wilson, History, University of Mississippi