Contributors
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Brooks Blevins is the Noel Boyd Professor of Ozarks Studies at Missouri State University. He is the author of several books on the history of the Ozarks and the South, including Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South (2012).
James C. Cobb has written widely on the interaction between economy, society and culture in the American South. A former president of the Southern Historical Association, his books include The Selling of The South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936–1990 (1993), The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity (1992), Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity (2005), and The South and America Since World War II (2010). cobbloviate.com.
William R. Ferris is the Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Senior Associate Director of its Center for the Study of the American South. The former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Ferris has conducted thousands of interviews with musicians, directed 15 documentary films, and written or edited 10 books, including the massive Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (1989), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Les Voix du Mississippi (2013), the French translation of his book Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues (2009), received the “Coup de Coeur de l’Académie Charles Cros Musiques du Monde” prize in the world music category. His most recent book is The South in Color: A Visual Journal (2016).
Hannah E. Gill directs the Latino Migration Project, a collaborative initiative of the Institute for the Study of the Americas and the Center for Global Initiatives at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is an anthropologist with a specialization in Latin American/Caribbean migration studies.
Jennifer Ho is a Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her book Racial Ambiguity in Asian Culture (Rutgers, 2015) won the 2016 SAMLA Monograph Book Award. Her next research project will be a family autobiography focusing on the global South.
Matthew Huynh is an artist based in New York City. His comics and drawings are informed by sumi-e ink painting and shodo calligraphy. His clients include the New York Times, The Smithsonian, and Sony Music. His work appears in the Museum of Modern Art’s collection, and his comics have been presented on the Sydney Opera House stage. matthuynh.com.
Leslie Gale Parr is the A. Louis Read Distinguished Professor of Communication at Loyola University New Orleans, where she teaches photography and the history of journalism. She is the author of A Will of Her Own: Sarah Towles Reed and the Pursuit of Democracy in Southern Public Education and Ozark Elders: A Photo- Documentary.
Maria Silvia Ramirez was born in Caracas, Venezuela and immigrated to the United States in 1997. This transition instilled in her a deep fascination for languages and different cultures, which led her to earn a BA in German from the University of Florida and to study abroad in Europe. Ramirez currently works as the Bilingual Documentation Archivist for the Latino Migration Project and is earning an MLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
A graduate of UNC in 1963 and a lecturer in creative writing there from 1971–81, James Reston Jr. is the author of seventeen books, including The Innocence of Joan Little: A Southern Mystery, whose film rights have recently been acquired for a television miniseries. His latest is Luther’s Fortress: Martin Luther and His Reformation Under Siege (2015). He is now a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and a fellow at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. The tapes and transcripts of his 1976 interviews with Jim Clark and Laurie Pritchett, as well as with L. A. Rainey, the sheriff of Neshoba County, Mississippi, are housed in the Southern [End Page 165] Oral History Program Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina.
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