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.
2007 Southern Studies Student Award Winners
GRAY AWARD
Jennifer Gunter "African Americans in Lafayette County, Mississippi"
COTERIE AWARD
Dent May "Images of the Plantation South in Blaxploitation Cinema of the 1970s"
LUCILLE AND MOTEE DANIEL AWARD
Maarten Zwiers "Redneck Republicans and Neobourbons: The U.S. Senate Campaigns in Mississippi, 1966 and 1972."
PETER ASCHOFF PRIZE
Nicholas Gorrell "Son House: Bluesman, Preacher, Folk Intellectual"