Alumni Bookshelf

Southern Comfort: Rooted in a Florida Place

by Sudye Cauthen
MA 1993
Sudye Cauthen, a fifth-generation Floridian, is director of the North Florida Center for Documentary Studies and author of Southern Comforts: Rooted in a Florida Place, recently published by the University of Georgia Press for the Center for American Places. The book grew out of her master’s thesis in Southern Studies, which she completed in 1993. Part self-reflection, part meditation, and part social analysis, Cauthen’s work threads through the stories of blacks, whites, and Native Americans—men and women—including her own family members. Through their words and hers, Cauthen explores northern Florida’s unique history, culture, and geography while she seeks a greater understanding of herself and her surroundings.

Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of the Delta Blues

by Steve Cheseborough
MA 1999
Steve Cheseborough is a blues performer, lecturer, tour guide, photographer, and writer. His work has appeared in Living Blues, Blues Access, Mississippi, Acoustic Guitar, and other magazines. Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues, his indispensable guidebook to the blues birthplaces, juke joints, and crossroads of Mississippi, Memphis, and Helena, was recently published in an updated and expanded second edition.

Southern Belly: The Ultimate Food Lover's Companion to the South

John T. Edge
BA 1995, MA 2001
John T. Edge is the author or editor of 10 books, including Southern Belly: The Ultimate Food Lover’s Companion to the South. Recently, along with fellow alum Georgeanna Milam Chapman (MA 2007), he wrote a forward to the University of Georgia Press’s rerelease of Craig Claiborne’s Southern Cooking. He also edited, along with Charles Wilson and Jimmy Thomas, the foodways volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.

Every Other Sunday

by Chris Fullerton
MA 1994
The late Chris Fullerton passed away in April 1997, while directing the Friends of Rickwood, a group devoted to the restoration of Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama. Every Other Sunday is the completion of his Southern Studies master’s thesis, “Striking Out Jim Crow: The Birmingham Black Barons,” which examined the role Birmingham’s Negro League team played in resisting discrimination in that city. A memorial scholarship for graduate students studying African American history and culture has been endowed in his memory.

 

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