Contributors
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William D. Bryan is an environmental historian, and he teaches at Georgia State University. He is completing his first book, The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South (forthcoming, University of Georgia Press), which explores how nature conservation shaped the American South after the Civil War.
Michael Chitwood's new book, Search & Rescue, will be published by LSU Press in Spring 2018. His work has appeared in Threepenny Review, The Atlantic, New Republic, Poetry, Field, and numerous other journals. He teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Brian Graves earned his PhD in Communication Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is currently Assistant Professor of Media and Technology in the School of Communication at Florida State University. His interests include media writing and production, public memory, and critical race studies.
Nina Flagler Hall is Lead Science Editor at UNC Asheville's National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center (NEMAC). She earned her Masters of Liberal Arts and Sciences degree at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, focusing on local food systems and sustainability.
Though a transplant to South Dakota, Brenda K. Johnson has deep roots in North Carolina, where she grew up. She enjoys the outdoors and tries to capture that essence in her stories and poems. Her view of her grandmother's world inspires her essay.
Daniel Judt is an undergraduate at Yale University studying American intellectual history. His work has been featured in The Nation, the New York Times, and The Yale Historical Review, among other publications. He is currently working on his senior thesis, "The Forgotten Strand: Socialism in the Southern Conservative Tradition, 1850–1950."
Michael McFee has taught in the Creative Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1990. He is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently We Were Once Here (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2017). His sixteenth book and second collection of prose, Appointed Rounds, which contains two essays first published in Southern Cultures ("My Inner Hillbilly" and "Just As I Am Not"), is forthcoming from Mercer University Press.
Seth C. McKee is Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas Tech University. He is the author of Republican Ascendancy in Southern U.S. House Elections (Westview Press, 2010), the editor of Jigsaw Puzzle Politics in the Sunshine State (University Press of Florida, 2015), and the author of the forthcoming textbook, The Dynamics of Southern Politics: Causes and Consequences (CQ Press).
Michaela O'Brien is a documentary artist and multimedia producer currently based in Durham, North Carolina. She holds an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University. Her work includes independent documentaries for broadcast, award- winning audiovisual installations, client- based archival research, and interactive videos for a variety of acclaimed museums. Her moving image and photographic works have been featured in film festivals and galleries worldwide. She is currently teaching in the department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University.
Charles D. Thompson Jr. is Professor of the Practice of Cultural Anthropology and Documentary Studies at Duke University. His latest book is Border Odyssey: Travels Along the U.S./Mexico Divide (University of Texas, 2015). "Faces of Time" and the Bracero photographs can be found at borderodyssey.com. WUNC Radio interviewed Professor Robles and Don Modesto Zurita in 2015, and the program can be found at wunc.org. [End Page 171]
