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Southern Cultures 10.2 (2004) 112


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About the Contributors

Edward D. C. Campbell Jr. is Director of Collection Management Services at the Library of Virginia and author of The Celluloid South: Hollywood and the Southern Myth.
James C. Cobb is B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Georgia. He is (he swears!) putting the finishing touches on a history of southern identity for Oxford University Press.
John Douglas lives in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, where he is editor of The Morgan Messenger. His journalism has appeared in The Washington Post, Blues Access, and numerous other publications. Douglas is also author of three mystery novels set in the Allegheny Mountains: Shawnee Alley Fire, Blind Spring Rambler, and Haunts.
William R. Ferris is the Joel R. Williamson Distinguished 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 chairman 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.
Benjamin Filene is an exhibit developer at the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul. He is the author of Romancing the Folk: Public Memory and American Roots Music, which won several prizes and was named a notable book of the year by the New York Times Book Review.
Malinda Maynor is pursuing a Ph.D. in Native American and southern history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also coordinates the Lumbee River Fund at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, a project dedicated to preserving the history and culture of Robeson County's Indian communities. Find out more at http://www.uncp.edu/lumbeeriverfund.
Lynn Powell is a native of east Tennessee and now lives in Oberlin, Ohio, with her husband and two children. She is the author of two books of poetry, Old & New Testaments, which won the 1995 Birmingham Prize in Poetry and the 1996 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, and The Zones of Paradise.
John Shelton Reed is coeditor of Southern Cultures and William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He spent January 2004 as Humana Visiting Professor at Centre College and currently is visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. His latest book is Minding the South.
Linda Wagner-Martin is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards. She has published widely on American literature, including biographies of Sylvia Plath, Gertrude Stein, Ellen Glasgow, and (forthcoming) Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. She is currently writing Ernest Hemingway, A Literary Life.
Harry L. Watson is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of UNC's Center for the Study of the American South. His publications include Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America. He also is coeditor of Southern Cultures.


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