About the Contributors

About the Contributors Doris BettS has been teaching at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1966 and is the author ofnine books of fiction, most recently Souls Raisedfrom the Dead and The Sharp Teeth ofl^ove. Gavin James Campbell is music editor for Southern Cultures and 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. Jane Turner Censer is associate professor of history at George Mason University. She has written extensively on southern women and families. In 1997 her article, "A Changing World ofWork: North Carolina Elite Women, 1 865 -i 89 5 ," published in the North Carolina HistoricalReview (1996), received the Taylor Prize as the best article in southern women's history. She is currendy working on a book project, The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 186J—189J. David Crosby teaches journalism and photography at Alcorn State University in Mississippi. He has been studying the oral history and folklore of Southwest Mississippi for more than twenty years and is currendy at work on a "participants" history ofthe Tenant Purchase Program as it operated in Claiborne County. He also is curating a traveling exhibit, CrossroadsQuitters, for the Southern Arts Federation and preparing a book on local quilting practices and traditions. Elizabeth Davey is a visiting assistant professor at Lyman Briggs School at Michigan State University. Her account of Längsten Hughes's 193 1—32 poetry reading tour through the South was published in Print Culture in a DiverseAmerica, and her current project is a study ofa landmark Louisiana environmental and civil rights case. 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 field-research photographer in folklore for the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies. Freeman received an honorary doctorate ofHumane Letters from Millsaps College inJackson, Mississippi, where in spring 1 997 he was the Eudora Welty Visiting Professor of Southern Studies. John SheKon Reed is William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of Sociology and the 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 his wife, Dale Volberg Reed. He is coeditor of Southern Cultures. Harry L. Watson is professor ofhistory at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His most recent publication is Liberty and Power: The Politics ofJacksonianAmerica. He is also coeditor of Southern Cultures. 119 ...