About the Contributors
Rent from DeepDyveRah Bickley is a writer and former reporter for the Raleigh News & Observer and holds a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. She is a North Carolina native and unc graduate, and her oral history about the groundbreaking North Carolina Fund came out this year.
Moira Crone is a writer living in New Orleans and the author of three collections of stories, most recently What Gets Into Us, set in North Carolina, and the novel A Period of Confinement.
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 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.
David Huddle grew up in Ivanhoe, Virginia, and has lived in Vermont since 1971. He is the author of fifteen books of poetry, fiction, and essays, including The Story of a Million Years, La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl, Summer Lake: New & Selected Poems, and Grayscale.
Berkley Hudson teaches at the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia. A Mississippi native, he worked for twenty-five years as a newspaper and magazine journalist. He received his Ph.D. in mass communication, with a minor in folklore, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Bruce Jackson is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Samuel Capen Professor of American Culture at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is a documentary filmmaker and the author or editor of twenty-five books, among them Wake Up Dead Man: Afro-American Worksongs from Texas Prisons, Killing Time: Life in the Arkansas Penitentiary, and, with Diane Christian, Death Row. In 2003, the French government appointed him chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His website is http://brucejackson.us.
Thomas Neff is a professor in the School of Art at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, where he has been teaching photography since 1982. His work focuses on people, place, and architecture in Italy, Ireland, China, Japan, Colorado, and Louisiana. His most recent book, a series of portraits and written narratives of people in New Orleans who did not evacuate when Hurricane Katrina struck, is forthcoming this fall.
Tom Rankin is director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, where he is also Associate Professor of the Practice of Art. A photographer, filmmaker, and folklorist, he is the author of Sacred Space: Photographs of the Mississippi Delta, Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre: Photographs of a River Life, and Faulkner's World: The Photographs of Martin J. Dain. His essay, "Careful Tending," concludes Perry Dilbeck's The Last Harvest: Truck Farmers in the Deep South.
