Our Faculty

TED OWNBY

Director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture

Professor of History and Southern Studies

Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday 2:30-4:00 or
by appointment
Barnard 209
662-915-5993
hsownby@olemiss.edu

Ted Ownby has a joint appointment in History and Southern Studies. He is the author of American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture, 1830-1998 (1999) and Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920 (1990) and editor of Black and White: Cultural Interaction in the Antebellum South (1993). He is the coeditor of the Mississippi Encyclopedia and writes and teaches classes on the social and cultural history of the American South.