Congratulations to Ted Ownby for his promotion to the rank of professor of History and Southern Studies, effective July 1, 2001. A native of Tennessee, he received a B.A. from Vanderbilt and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Johns Hopkins University and taught at Western Washington University in 1986-87 and Central Michigan University in 1987-88. Ownby joined the faculty at the University of Mississippi as an assistant professor in the fall of 1988 and spent the spring semester of 1992 in Italy, where he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Genoa. Ownby is undergraduate adviser to the Southern Studies Program. Among his publications are Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920 and American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture, 1830-1998.

Photograph: Ted Ownby by David Wharton