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Southern Cultures 9.2 (2003) 106



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About the Contributors


David Carlton is associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University, specializing in the history of the American South. He has been singing Sacred Harp for nine years and serves as chair of the annual Harpeth Valley-Priestley Miller Memorial Sacred Harp Singing in Nashville.

Michael Chitwood is a freelance writer, visiting lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, commentator for WUNC-FM, and poetry editor of Southern Cultures. He has published four books of poetry and one collection of essays, as well as poetry, essays, and reviews in a variety of newspapers and periodicals.

Bryan Giemza, a native of Raleigh, North Carolina, is an itinerant pedant, a sometimes-pettifogger, and a Booker Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Most recently, he taught environmental law and policy in Manteo, North Carolina, for the Carolina Environmental Program. He enjoys writing fiction and promoting his outmoded weltanschauung.

A. Everette James is an honors graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke Medical School, and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He taught at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, University College London, and Vanderbilt, and has published over 500 articles and 20 books including: American Art: Thoughts of a Collector, Essays in Folk Art,Tales of the Dismal Swamp, and North Carolina Art Pottery 1900-1960.

Ralph E. Luker is the author of The Social Gospel in Black and White: American Racial Reform, 1885-1912 and editor of the memoirs of Mary White Ovington and the Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement. His work on Volumes I and II of The Papers of Martin Luther King was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He currently is at work on "The Man Who Started Freedom": The Essays, Sermons, and Speeches of Vernon Johns.

John Shelton Reed, recently retired, was the William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of Sociology and the director of the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Among his recent books is 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About the South, written with his wife, Dale Volberg Reed. He is coeditor of Southern Cultures.

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.

Amy E. Weldon is managing editor of The Carolina Quarterly and a Ph.D. candidate in nineteenth-century British and southern literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A native of Alabama, Weldon has works of fiction and creative nonfiction forthcoming in StoryQuarterly, The South Carolina Review, and The North Carolina Literary Review.

 



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