Alumni

 

 

Mary Beth Lasseter
MA, 2002

Mary Beth Lasseter is a South Georgia native who found her way to Southern Studies by way of a degree from the University of Notre Dame and a year of AmeriCorps service in Tuskegee, Alabama. She wrote her master's thesis on Elvis Presley, and how he changed ideas about white Southern womanhood. Post-Elvis study has been less entertaining--crunching numbers for an Ole Miss MBA was no fun--but now she lives happily in Vicksburg, Mississippi, with her engineer husband, Ned Mitchell. Mary Beth is currently the associate director for the Southern Foodways Alliance. Favorite foods include fried pimiento cheese, Moon Pies, and anything that comes from a pig.