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Southern Cultures 9.3 (2003) 111



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About the Contributors


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. Former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, he has made numerous documentary films and authored over 100 publications in the fields of folklore, history, literature, and photography.

Larry J. Griffin is a professor of sociology and history at Vanderbilt University and is also affiliated with the university's African American program and its American and Southern Studies program. He is beginning a study of southern whites' memories of the Jim Crow era, and is interested in its lingering effects of responsibility, shame, or guilt.

Barbara Hahn has an essay forthcoming in the Journal of Urban History and is a doctoral candidate in history at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is completing her dissertation on the technologies of tobacco production.

Burgin Mathews is a graduate student in folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He served as intern at the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture and has contributed to the All Music Guide. He also is the co-founder of Speak, a magazine of oral histories in western North Carolina.

Robert Morgan is Kappa Alpha Professor of English at Cornell University and the author of numerous volumes of poetry and fiction. He has received the James B. Hanes Poetry Prize and the North Carolina Award in Literature, as well as Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships for his work. Kirkus Reviews has called him the "poet laureate of Appalachia."

Elaine Neil Orr holds a Ph.D. in Literature and Theology from Emory University and teaches at North Carolina State University. She received a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship in creative non-fiction and her memoir, Gods of Noonday: A White Girl's African Life, was published by the University of Virginia Press.

John Shelton Reed 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.

Ashley B. Thompson is a graduate student in the department of sociology at Vanderbilt University. Her dissertation research deals with the use of photography in studying stigma and identity among the homeless.

Harry L. Watson is a 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, published by Hill & Wang. He also is coeditor of Southern Cultures.

 



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