About the Contributors & Editors

About the Contributors & Editors Qavin James Campbell is a doctoral student in history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His dissertation topic is Adanta's musical life in the early twentieth century. David L. Carlton is associate professor ofhistory at Vanderbilt University. He is the author oíMill and Town in South Carolina and various articles mainly on the social, economic , and business history of the postCivil War South. David S. Cecelski is a historian and writer from eastern North Carolina. He currendy directs an oral history project on the World War II home front at the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author oíAlongFreedom Road: Hyde County, North Carolina and the Fate ofBlack Schools in the South. Cecelski is a regular contributor to Southern Exposure magazine and also writes a bimonthly essay on environmental history for Coastwatch magazine. Peter A. Coclanis is George and Alice Welsh Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of The Shadow ofa Dream: Economic Ufe and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670—1920 and numerous articles on economic and social history. Based in Washington, D.C., Roland L. Freeman is a freelance photographer whose work has been published widely and exhibited throughout the United States, Europe, and Africa. Since 1972 he has served as a fieldresearch photographer in folklore for the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies. Freeman received an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, where in spring 1997 he was the Eudora Welty Visiting Professor of Southern Studies. Carl "DOC" Klrby's varied career includes distinguish service in die U.S. Army during World War II, farming in the Mississippi Delta and Ecuador, and forming with two partners the KBH Corp., for which he designed and patented an implement for injecting liquid fertilizer . He is the author oíLatitud Cero, a novel about the adventures and misadventures of a gringo in Ecuador. James L LeloildiS is associate professor ofhistory at the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill. Leloudis is coauthor of Uke a Family: The Making ofa Southern Cotton Mill World and author of Schooling the New South: Pedagogy, Self, and Society in North Carolina, 1880—1920. He is coeditor for reviews for Southern Cultures. Jerry Leath Mills served from 196; until his retirement in 1997 on the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was professor of English, editor of Studies in Philology, and an associate editor of The Southern UteraryJournal. He is currendy visiting professor ofEnglish at East Carolina University and coeditor for reviews for Southern Cultures. John Shelton Reed is William Rand KenanJr. Professor ofSociology and director of the Institute for Research in Social Science at the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill. Among his recent books is 1001 Things Everyone ShouldKnowAbout the South, written with Dale Volberg Reed. He is coeditor of Southern Cultures. Harry L· Watson is professor of history at the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill. His most recent publication is Uberty and Power: The Politics ofJacksonianAmerica. He is also coeditor of Southern Cultures. 125 ...