- About the Contributors
Steve Estes is an Associate Professor of History at Sonoma State University in Northern California. His books include: I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement (2005) and Ask & Tell: Gay & Lesbian Veterans Speak Out (2007). He is currently working on a book about the history of Charleston, South Carolina, since the Civil Rights Movement. Charleston is his hometown.
William W. Falk is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland. His primary research focuses on the American South, especially return migration and social change. Recent examples of published work on this include Rooted in Place: Family and Belonging in a Southern Black Community (2004) and articles in the Du Bois Review, Rural Sociology, and Social Forces.
James Fowler teaches literature at the University of Central Arkansas, where he edits the poetry journal Slant. His literary essays have appeared in Children's Literature, The Classical Outlook, Spectacle, and POMPA; his personal essays in Cadillac Cicatrix, Under the Sun, and Full Circle; his short stories in the Southern Review, Willow Review, The Rambler, and Zone 3; and his poems in such journals as Amoskeag, Blueline, The Connecticut Review, and Karamu.
Bernard L. Herman is the George B. Tindall Professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His books include Town House: Architecture and Material Life in the Early American City, 1780–1830 (2005) and The Stolen House (1992). He has published essays, lectured, and offered courses on visual and material culture, architectural history, self-taught and vernacular art, foodways, and seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century material life.
Harvey H. ("Hardy") Jackson III is Eminent Scholar in History at Jacksonville State University. He is currently working on a history of the northern Gulf Coast since World War II, titled "The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera," which will be published by the University of Georgia Press.
Susan Harbage Page teaches studio art and women's studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her art addresses such concerns as the performance of race and gender, identity politics, and immigration. Amongst Page's numerous awards are fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council, the Camargo Foundation, and the Fulbright Program.
Rachel Richardson's first book, Copperhead, comes out next year. Her poems have appeared in the Southern Review, New England Review, Slate, Literary Imagination, and elsewhere. She is a recent Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and now lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Bland Simpson, Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a long-time member of the Tony Award-winning Red Clay Ramblers. He has received the North Carolina Award in Fine Arts, collaborated on such musicals as Diamond Studs, King Mackerel, and Kudzu, and authored Into the Sound Country and The Inner Islands, with photography by his wife, Ann Cary Simpson.
Susan Webb is Professor of Sociology at Coastal Carolina University. Both sides of her family settled in Georgia (Plains, Brockton) in the mid-1700s. Webb's research focuses on rural African Americans employed in tourism and on the changing South. [End Page 106]