About the Contributors
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Daniel Coston has spent the last fifteen years photographing artists and musicians from all over the world. His list of credits includes work with the Avett Brothers, Johnny Cash, and many others. His first book, coauthoring the history of the Charlotte, North Carolina, music venue Double Door Inn, was published last year. He lives in Charlotte.
Joshua Clark Davis earned his PhD in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2010. He is currently a Fellow in the History of Consumption at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C., where he is researching the globalization of African American music and consumer culture.
Marcie Cohen Ferris is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author most recently of Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South (University of North Carolina Press, 2005), which was nominated for the James Beard Foundation Award and recognized by the International Association of Culinary Professionals with their Jane Grigson Award. She is currently writing “The Edible South: Food and History in an American Region.”
William R. Ferris is the Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History, Senior Associate Director of the Center for the Study of the American South, and Adjunct Professor of Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A former chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, he has made numerous documentary films and has authored over 100 publications in the fields of folklore, history, literature, and photography. Give My Poor Heart Ease, his book of interviews with Delta blues greats, was published by UNC Press in 2009.
Michael Fitzgerald lives in Jacksonville, Florida, and is a communications instructor at College of Coastal Georgia. He has a master’s degree in mass communication from the University of Florida and is completing his PhD in the Department of Film, Theatre, and Television at the University of Reading (United Kingdom), under the direction of Jonathan Bignell.
Jeremy Hill received his PhD in American Studies from The George Washington University and his MA in American Studies from California State University, Fullerton. He researches and teaches U.S. cultural, urban, and southern history of the twentieth-century.
Nadine Hubbs teaches Women’s Studies and Music at the University of Michigan and is author of The Queer Composition of America’s Sound (California, 2004) on the Copland-Thomson circle of gay U.S. musical modernists. She is completing a book called Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music, which contemplates provincial, working class, and queer intersections by listening to country songs.
Aaron Smithers is a folklorist living in Carrboro, North Carolina. He works as the assistant to the curator in the Southern Folklife Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as an instructor of continuing studies at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and as programs coordinator for the International Accordion Festival in San Antonio, Texas.
Travis Smith graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is now a John Grisham Fellow in the MFA program at Ole Miss. His poems appear in Wag’s Revue, storySouth, and elsewhere, and are forthcoming in Another and Another: An Anthology from the Poem-a-Day Grind from Bull City Press.
Eugenia Dettelbach Wicker was born in 1942 and received her education in Atlanta at The Westminster Schools and the University of Georgia. She is a former Spanish teacher and the mother of two beautiful daughters. Living now in Italy, France, and the United States, her most recent accomplishment is hiking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela—over 1,000 miles from France to Spain. [End Page 122]
