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.

2008 Southern Studies Student Award Winners



GRAY AWARD
Elizabeth Oliphant for her honor's thesis paper "The Construction of Womanhood and Race in Caroline Lee Hentz's The Planter's Northern Bride and Eoline and Augusta Jane Evans's Beulah and Macaria"

COTERIE AWARD
Andrew Mullins for his Southern Studies 401 paper "The Southern Horror Film and the American Subconscious"

LUCILLE AND MOTEE DANIELS AWARD
Becca Walton for her master's thesis paper "Imagining the Unimaginable: Witnessing Trauma in the Post-Segregation South"

PETER ASCHOFF PRIZE
Jake Fussell for his Southern Studies 401 paper "'A Great Musician with a High Position': Black and White Interchange in Traditional Southern Music"