John T. Edge, director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, writes about Southern food and travel. He is the author of A Gracious Goodness: Recipes and Recollections from the American South, recently published by Putnam.

Anne Evans is a second-year graduate student in Southern Studies. After receiving her B.A. from Notre Dame, she lived in California for three years. Her primary interests are literature and writing.

Michael Harrelson is a writer for the public relations and marketing department at the University of Mississippi.

Jamie Kornegay is a bookseller at Square Books, editor of the store's Dear Reader newsletter, and a freelance writer. He lives in Water Valley, Mississippi.

Ted Ownby holds a joint appointment in Southern Studies and History. He is the author of Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920 and American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture, 1830-1998.

John Pilkington is distinguished professor emeritus of English. Among his publications are a two-volume edition of the works of Stark Young and a book on William Faulkner.

Phoenix Savage is a second-year graduate student in medical anthropology. Her primary area of interest is African magico-medical systems in Mississippi.

Charles Reagan Wilson is director of the Center and professor of History and Southern Studies. Among his publications are Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause and Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis.