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The
Center for the Study of Southern Culture at
the University of Mississippi has gained an
international reputation for innovative education
and scholarship on the American South. The Center
administers B.A. and M.A. programs in Southern
Studies, sponsors research and documentary projects
on all aspects of Southern culture, and encourages
understanding of the South through publications,
media productions, lectures, performances, and
exhibitions. This year the Center celebrates
25 years of excellence. By contributing annually
to Friends of the Center, you ensure that this
valuable work will continue to grow.
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Leadership
in Southern Studies
• Developed the nation’s first degree program in
Southern Studies, beginning with a Bachelor of Arts
degree in 1979
• Added an M.A. program in Southern Studies in 1986
• Sponsored the three-year (1986-89) Ford Foundation
Project, aimed at broadening the study of the South,
especially encouraging the redefinition of Southern
culture to incorporate the experiences of blacks,
ethnic
groups, and women
Publications
• Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
• Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood
and Youth
• The South: A Treasury of Art and Literature
• The Blues: A Bibliographic Guide
• A Gracious Plenty: Recipes and Recollections
from the American South
• Faulkner’s World: The Photographs of Martin J.
Dain
• Lower Pearl River’s Piney Woods: Its Land and
People
• Mississippi Folklife: The Magazine of the
Mississipppi Folklore Society
• Living Blues®: The Magazine of the African
American
Blues Tradition (bimonthly)
• New projects include the Mississippi Encyclopedia
and a new edition of the Encyclopedia of Southern
Culture
Conferences,
Symposia, and Lectures
• Twenty-Ninth Faulkner Conference,
July 21-26, 2002
• Fourth Southern Foodways Symposium,
October 17-20, 2002
• Tenth Oxford Conference for the Book,
April, 10-13, 2003
• Weekly Brown Bag lecture series on Southern
topics during the academic year
• Symposia on The Media and the Civil Rights
Movement, 1987, Civil Rights and the Law,
1989, and Southern Landscapes: Past,
Present, Future, 1996
Documentary
and Media Projects
• A cultural inventory of Vicksburg and Warren County,
Mississippi
• A cultural and historical documentary project
at Ichauway, a 28,000-acre plantation in Georgia
• An oral history of the Mississippi timber industry,
concentrating on Pearl River County
• First Monday, a photographic and oral history
of North Mississippi’s oldest ongoing trade day
• Old Ways: Church and Family, an ongoing
project using photographs and oral histories to
document two rural churches in North Mississippi
• Ongoing studies of Lafayette County
• Photography Exhibitions in the Center’s
Lynn and Stewart Gammill Gallery
• Mississippi Portrait: The Farm Security
Administration Photographs, 1935-1940, a CD-Rom
distributed to libraries and schools throughout
the state
• One Hundred Years at Perthshire, online multimedia
project: www.olemiss.edu/depts/south/100
• Voices from Perthshire, video
• Red Tops: A Recording Commemorating the Rosedale
Courthouse Red Tops Dances, Songs of Faith: African
American Shape Note Singing from the Deep South,
and
other CDs
Educational
Outreach Programs
• Summer institutes in Southern Studies for teachers
• Community photography project for children
in Tutwiler, Mississippi
• Sponsorship of the Southern Media Archive
• Partnerships with the Rowan Oak Society and the
Charles Overby Center for Southern Politics at the
University of Mississippi and with the Southern
Cultural
Heritage Complex in Vicksburg, Mississippi
• Web site at www.olemiss.edu/depts/south details
upcoming events and offers photographs, online exhibits,
and links to Southern culture
Your
annual donation through our Friends program helps
the Center develop and expand the excellent programming
listed above. Thank you for your yearly gift to
the Friends of the Center for the Study of Southern
Culture!
