Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Charles C. Bolton is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of William F. Winter and the New Mississippi: A Biography (UP of Mississippi, 2013) and The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870–1980 (UP of Mississippi, 2005), and coeditor of With All Deliberate Speed: Implementing Brown v. Board of Education (U of Arkansas P, 2008).
Amanda Lyons earned her BA in history from Belhaven College. In 2009 she joined the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and now serves as assistant to the director. Lyons has worked on special exhibits, publications, and documentaries, and she works as part of the project team for the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, opening in December 2017 as the centerpiece of the state’s bicentennial celebration.
Jake McGraw is the public policy coordinator for the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation and editor of Rethink Mississippi, an online outlet for state-level policy analysis and commentary. His job includes the perk of accompanying Governor Winter on his still-frequent trips around Mississippi.
JoAnne Prichard Morris edited and compiled the journals of Elise Varner Winter for her book, Once in a Lifetime: Reflections of a Mississippi First Lady (UP of Mississippi, 2015). For many years she was executive editor of the University Press of Mississippi, and she also coauthored Unita Blackwell’s memoir, Barefootin’: Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom (Crown, 2006).
Otis W. Pickett is an assistant professor of history and political science at Mississippi College. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Mississippi. His research focuses on nineteenth-century missionaries to enslaved peoples in South Carolina and to the Choctaw and Chickasaw in Mississippi. He is also interested in the history of education, racial reconciliation, and incarceration in the US South.
Erica Van Schaik graduated with a BA in English (2014) from The University of Southern Mississippi, where she is currently pursuing a master’s in English with an emphasis in literature. Since the fall of 2015, she has served as editorial assistant to USM’s journal of arts and letters, The Southern Quarterly.
Carolyn Vance Smith is the retired founder of the Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration (NLCC) in Natchez, Mississippi. She holds degrees from Mississippi University for Women and Vanderbilt University and taught English at Copiah-Lincoln Community College in Natchez for many years. Author/co-author of Natchez: An Illustrated History (Plantation, 1995), Natchez by Design (Plantation, 1992), The Goat Castle Murder (Plantation, 1985), Secrets of Natchez (Plantation, 1984), and several other non-fiction books, Mrs. Smith’s work has also been published in The Southern Quarterly, Mississippi Magazine, The Clarion-Ledger, Antiques Magazine, and The Natchez Democrat. She now serves as advisor to the Carolyn Vance Smith Natchez Literary Research Center at the Willie Mae Dunn Library, Copiah-Lincoln Community College, Natchez.
James G. Thomas, Jr. is associate director for publications at the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture. He is an editor of the twenty-four-volume [End Page 178] New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (U of North Carolina P, 2006–2013) and forthcoming Mississippi Encyclopedia, editor of Conversations with Barry Hannah (UP of Mississippi, 2015), and co-editor, with Jay Watson, of the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series, published by the University Press of Mississippi. His work has appeared in Ethnic Heritage in Mississippi: The Twentieth Century, Southern Cultures, The Southern Quarterly, Delta Magazine, and Living Blues.
Kathleen W. Wickham is a professor of journalism at the University of Mississippi, has published three books and numerous academic articles, and judged the National Headliner Journalism Awards since 2010. Her fourth book, We Believed We Were Immortal, is due out in 2017. Her research area focuses on media coverage of civil rights.
Charles Reagan Wilson, of Oxford, Mississippi, recently retired as the Kelly Gene Cook Chair of History and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi and is the author...
