Student Awards
The Gray and Coterie Awards honor the best undergraduate papers in Southern Studies classes. Faculty teaching Southern Studies classes nominate papers for the awards, and a faculty committee selects the winners. The awards include an honorarium.
The Lucille and Motee Daniel Award honors the best papers by Southern Studies graduate students. Faculty nominate and submit papers to the program chair, who appoints a faculty committee to evaluate the papers. The award includes an honorarium.
The Peter Aschoff Prize honors the best papers on music of the American South, especially the blues, by an undergraduate or graduate student at the University of Mississippi. Faculty nominate papers and a committee of faculty members makes the award, which includes an honorarium.
2010 Southern Studies Student Award Winners
GRAY AWARD
Emily Haadsma, for her paper “Should I Stay or Should I Go: The Centrifugal Force of Home-Place in the Lives of 20th Century Country Musicians”
COTERIE AWARD
Katherine Watson, for her paper “’Where I Keep All My Yesterdays’: Montgomery Gentry’s My Town and Recollections of a Childhood”
LUCILLE AND MOTEE DANIELS AWARD
Alan Pike, for his thesis, “Natural Born World Shakers: Southern Prisoners in Popular Film,” defended Spring 2010
Ross Brand, for his paper “’Not with Hands’: Tradition and Change in the B. F. White Sacred Harp, Revised Cooper Edition"
PETER ASCHOFF PRIZE
Ross Brand, for his paper “’Not with Hands’: Tradition and Change in the B. F. White Sacred Harp, Revised Cooper Edition"