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The Southern Research Circle

Current Participants
Past Participants

Current Participants

  • Angela Calcaterra, English             
    “Jumbleing of two Sorts of Flesh together": William Byrd II, American Indians, and Literary Representation

  • David P. Cline, History             
    The Prophets of Albany: The Southwest Georgia Project as Interracial Ministry

  • Catherine Conner, History             
    From Blue to White: Remaking Civic Identity Through Urban Renewal in Birmingham, Alabama, 1966–1990

  • Joshua Davis, History             
    Soul Transactions: African American Consumption, Business, and Rhythm and Blues in Georgia and the Carolinas

  • Katherine Doss, Folklore            
    Louisiana Romp: Examining the Performance of Traditional Cajun Music Within a Contemporary Setting

  • Jessica Fifield, Commnication Studies  
    Exprésate: Ahora, Mañana, y Siempre. A Case Study ~ Latina/Latino Youth in Durham, North Carolina

  • Brendan Greaves, Folklore            
    “A Paper Wedding”: Consalvos, Cigars, Collage, and the Cuban Immigrant Experience in Florida

  • Elizabeth Gritter, History             
    Local Black Electoral Mobilization and the Black Freedom Struggle in Memphis and the Urban South, 1889–1974

  • Hilary Green, History             
    Educational Reconstruction: African-American Education in the Urban South, 1865–1890

  • Melissa Piper, Public Health    
    Other People's Children: Assessing the Social Origins of Racial Inequality in Infant Health in Alamance County, N.C.

  • Deborah Royals, Comm Studies  
    Exprésate: Ahora, Mañana, y Siempre. A Case Study ~ Latina/Latino Youth in Durham, North Carolina

  • Aaron Shackelford, English             
    Romance & Mechanization: The Paradox of the Horse in the Civil War

  • Nancy Schoonmaker, History             
    Where Do We Go from Here?: Spiritualism and Eternity in 1850s Nashville

  • Elizabeth Smith, History             
    “Having Their Tales Told”: Political Power and Female Deviance in the Urban South, 1865–1876

  • Erin Stevens, Archaeology     
    The Making of a Monument: Investigating an Ancient Mound in the Mississippi Delta

  • Christy Violin, Biology            
    Rehabilitating Southeastern Urban Streams: The Importance of Colonist Availability to Insect Community Recovery  

  • Dwana Waugh, History             
    From Forgotten to Remembered: Black Education and the Long Process of School Desegregation

  • Timothy Williams, History             
    Becoming Men of Letters: The Education of Male Youth in the South, 1795–1861

  • Andrea Winkler, Social Work      
    Southern Organizational Development Initiative


Participants 2006-2007

Sarah Clere, English
Women are Workers Too: An Analysis of Three 1930s Strike Novels

Timothy Galow, English
Ambivalence and Ambiguity in North Carolina's Speaker Ban Law

William Gibbons, Music
The Musical Audubon: Ornithology in the Symphonies of Anthony Philip Heinrich

Brian Graves, Communication
The Life and Music of Top Notch the Villain (a.k.a. Jerome Williams)
Featuring the artist himself, Top Notch the Villain

Jessica Hardie, Sociology
High Hopes?: Community and Family in Shaping Educational Expectations in the Post-Deseg South

Carie Hersh, Anthropology
Transnational Parachurches and the Intersection of Religion and Politics in Virginia Beach, Virginia

John Hubbell, Folklore
Patch My Heart: Memphis' Soul Survives 1968

Lee Ann Jacobs, Biology
A study of mechanisms affecting biodiversity in southeastern temperate forests

Mary Alice Kirkpatrick, English
Roving Visionaries: Re-Imagining the Southern Landscape

Seth Kotch, History
From Progressivism to Barbarism: Capital Punishment in the Mind of the South

Kelly Morrow, History
Sex in the South: The Sexual Revolution at UNC, 1969-73

Ali Neff, Folklore
Let the World Listen Right: Function and Folklore in the Rural Roots of Southern Hip-Hop

Katie Otis, History
I'll Picket the Commission: Political Activism Among Florida Retirees, 1960-1980

Kelly Quinn, Epidemiology
Predictors of Change in the Black-White Health Gap in the U.S. South: 1960-2000

Chad Seales, Religious Studies
Patriotic Bodies: Sacrament and Sacrifice in Siler City Fourth of July Parades, 1901-1932

Cindy Spurlock, Communication
Sprawling Carolina

Matthew Thompson, Anthropology
Staging "the Drama": The Continuing Importance of Cultural Tourism in the Gaming Era

 

Participants 2002-2006

Anthropology

Edmond Boudreaux,Pottery and Foodways: Exploring Social Differences

Danny DeVries, Place and Crisis: Social Memory in Eastern North Carolina Flood Plains

Jon Marcoux, TVA Archaeological Research Project
Mintcy Maxham, Native American Communities in the Twelfth Century

Art

Lindsey Twa, The Ambivalence of the Real: William Meade Prince's Illustrations for Roark Bradford's Dialect Stories

Communications

Rachel Hall, Missing Dolly, Mourning Slavery

Ecology

Jessica Kaplan, Fire, Species Richness, and Presence of Wiregrass in Longleaf Pine

Kristin Taverna, Forests of Continuity of the North Carolina Piedmont

Economics

Timothy Diette
Getways to Minority Education in North Carolina Public Schools

Serban Ranca
Sources of Economic Growth in the Southeast

English

Andy Crank
Let Us Now Praise Forgotten Men: James Agee's Radical-Racial South

David A. Davis
Obey Thy Master: Religion and Slavery in W. W. Brown’s Clotel

Kimberly Gibbs
The Discarded Novel: Examing the Role of Mandy Oxendine in the Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt

Andrew Leiter
The Harlem Renaissance and the Shaping of William Faulkner's Joe Christmas

Elizabeth Armistead Lemon
A Considerarion of Female Characters and the Space They Inhabit in the Ficton of Ernest Gaines

Burgin Mathews
Talking Country: Oral Histories in Classic Country Music

Tara Powell
Walker Percy's science of the Spirt: Reinventing Intellectual Life in Twentieth Century Southern Literature

Bryan Sinche
Autobiographical Writing in Johnson’s Island Prison

Folklore

Michael Spinks, The Dispossessed of Onslow County

Geography

Jesse Cleary, Characterizing Southern Sprawl: Ecological Patch Dynamics and the Development History of Wake County, North Carolina

G. Rebecca Dobbs, The Indian Trading Path through the Piedmont: What route, what role?

Gerarddo Gurza-Lavalle, Prosalvery Ideology and poplar Political Culture in Antebellum South, 1830-1860

Jonathan Lepofsky, Place-Making in Chattanooga, Tennessee

Health

Chandra Ford, Neighborhood Factors,Percieved Racism and Human Immundeficiency Virus (HIV) Test Taking Among Blacks Attending A Public Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Clinic
Molly Loomis, Initiative

History

S. Willoughby Anderson, Against the Peace and Dignity of the State of Alabama: The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing Trail and the Remaking of Birrmingham

Amy Beth Crow, The Goldsboro Rifles’ Monument at Bentonville, 1894-1895

Amos Esty, Reinventing South Conservatism: The North Carolina Republican Party and the Ideology of the Reactionary Progress, 1963-1968

Barbara Hahn, The Social and Natural World of Bright Tobacco Culture

Paul Quigley, Disordered Nation: The Evolution of Southern Nationalism, 1848-1865

Nancy Schoonmaker, Remembering Antebellum Louisiana

Rose Stremlau, Cherokee Families in the Era of Allotment

Cypriane Williams, Mardi Gras Indians: Ideologies of Race, Class, and Resistance on the Periphery of New Orleans Carnival

Journalism

Christopher Sims, Recruit: Joining and Serving in Today’s Military

Political Science

Andrea McAtee, Republican and Democratic Party Oranizations in the South: Responses to ncreasing Competition

Gregory Pettis, The Voter, Voter Turnout and the Context of Local Racial Composition

Public Policy

Suho Bae, Sectoral and Regional Differences in Productivity Growth in Southern States

 

 

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