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Sharing the South
May 2012
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Greetings!
The Center is pleased to announce that Professor Jocelyn Neal has been selected as the new Director of the Center for the Study of the American South effective July 1, 2012.
Jocelyn Neal is Associate Professor of Music and Adjunct Associate Professor of American Studies. Her primary areas of research are commercial country music and American popular music. She is the author of The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers (Indiana University Press, 2009), which won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. Since 2009, Professor Neal has also served as co-editor of Southern Cultures. She has been a Fellow at the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory and has served as chair of the Popular Music Group for the Society of Music Theory.
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Southern Oral History Program
Celebration of Undergraduate Oral History Engagement and Research
The Southern Oral History Program welcomed students, faculty and staff to our first annual Celebration of Undergraduate Oral History Engagement and Research. The presentations by Gwen Barlow, Elizabeth McCain, Sarah Ransohoff, and Laurel Ashton showcased the talent and commitment of these young scholars and the central role that oral history played in their development as researchers and activists. Farewells
The SOHP bids a fond farewell to two of our graduate student field scholars, Jessie Wilkerson and Elizabeth Lundeen, both Ph.D. candidates in the history department. Their work has been central to the ongoing success of our core research project, The Long Women's Movement, and to the smooth operation of the SOHP over the last year. They will be sorely missed. We are delighted that Sarah McNamara and Joey Fink, also PhD candidates in History, will return, and be joined by Daphne Fruchtman and Rob Shapard. Presentations Field scholars Joey Fink, Jessie Wilkerson, and SOHP Associate Director Rachel Seidman presented at the combined conference of the Organization of American History and the National Council of Public History in Milwaukee last month. Fink and Wilkerson shared the Long Women's Movement in the South project through their presentation on "Building an Archive: Working-Class Women's Stories of Activism in the 1970s and 80s." Seidman discussed her oral histories with anti-poverty activists in a roundtable on "Poverty Pedagogy: Enlisting the History of Poverty to Change the Public Conversation." Closer to home, Seth Kotch gave presentations on digital oral history to the Duke University and Durham Technical Community College communities.
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