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Major And Minor Flyer, University Of Mississippi. College Of Liberal Arts

Liberal Arts Publications

A pamphlet listing the 35 majors and 52 minors available through the College of Liberal Arts.

Southern Register. 2022.1 (Winter 2022), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture

Southern Register

No abstract provided.

"How It Was Made", Bethany Fitts

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This is a meta-autoethnography describing the researcher’s unfocused, rhizomatic research process throughout the COVID19 pandemic. Themes explored are the COVID19 pandemic, family, death, climate change, queer love, represenation, academia, genre, and religion. The study shows how multiple scales of grief arise during the research process. I locate this method within postcolonial theory of autoethnography that seeks to diversify structures within the academic genre.

Linguistic Expressions Of Pidgin In Nigerian Stand-Up Comedy, Jimoh Junior Braimoh

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation is a study of the comics’ lexical choices and how they achieve their goals with words. The comics’ choice of words is far from being incidental, superficial, or supplementary. Performers’ choices of words show how their ideas are embodied in language. That is to say, the effect of how a comedian uses words and humor strategies is vital for understanding the contextual meaning of jokes and how they appeal to logic and reason. The objectives are to identify and categorize lexical choices and interpret their denotative, connotative, and affective meanings. Based on the Incongruity Theory (Attardo, 1994) Data …

Unearthing The Old South/West: Histories Of Racial Capitalism In Modernist Border Narratives, Bailey Moorhead

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

“Unearthing the Old South/West” examines four works of modernist historical fiction which accentuate competing regimes of racial capitalism through South/Western border settings. Following the trend in New Southern and Western Studies to break with exceptionalist and essentialist considerations of these regions, my analysis challenges white-centric narratives of the U.S. South and West and questions their popular portrayals as culturally distinct spaces. Viewing the U.S. as a site of ongoing settler colonialism, imperialist conquest, and international trade reliant upon labor exploitation, I develop the idea that South/Western borders form a microcosm for larger structures of systemic oppression throughout the nation by …

This Is Home: Stories Of H-2a Placemaking In The U.S. And Mexico, Lillian Slaughter

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis contextualizes the lived experiences of two agricultural guest workers who I work with in Kentucky. Beginning in 1917, the history of agricultural guest worker programs in the United States is detailed up until today with the H-2A visa program. The first chapter pro-vides this history and pays close attention to the impact of the liberalization of Mexico’s econo-my and integration into the larger agricultural market between the US and Canada. In chapter two, census data of Kentucky and the county that the farm is located, provides a background on the Latino population. This chapter focuses on the growth …

Transforming Place: The Socio-Environmental Afterlives Of Tellico, Cheyenne Bennett

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis assesses the socio-environmental afterlives of the Tellico Dam controversy that affected citizens of Loudon, Blount, and Monroe Counties in East Tennessee. The central goal is to understand the impacts that development-induced displacement and resettlement had on communities following dam construction. The people from the aforementioned counties witnessed the landscape transform from one that had an abundance of farmland to an area where the farmland is diminished due to the creation of the dam, the reservoir, and the waterfront properties that surround the reservoir. This project analyzes these post-Tellico Dam impacts in terms of waterfront property development, gentrification, land …

Blues Is My Business (And Business Is Good?), David N. Larson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This work focuses on the social, political, and economic trends that govern the blues music scene in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Clarksdale is seen as a sort of “ground zero” in the blues world, it is often referred to as, “the land where blues began.” This claim is not without merit but it is not strictly historically accurate. Many of the town’s spokespeople use euphemisms that distort the troubled history of race relations in the town and its music spaces.

This investigation centers around the economic state of the town’s tourism industry, the individuals who act as the town’s promoters, and the …

Partnership Prepares Sec Universities For Increase In Spanish Speakers, Shea Stewart

University of Mississippi News

Conference Spanish Consortium launched by two UM faculty members

Center Sponsors Theatre Of War Event, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Blog Posts

The University of Mississippi's Department of Classics and Office of Veteran and Military Services is using the lens of ancient Greek literature to explore the emotional and social tension between soldiers and the societies that send them to war. The Veterans Day event, presented in partnership with Theater of War Productions, is designed to help veterans and other people confront and understand issues that often remain hidden.

Theater Of War Invites Community To See Impact Of Conflict, J. B. Clark

University of Mississippi News

Production uses ancient literature to bridge the gap between civilian, soldier experience

All In. All Year' Calendar Highlights Identity Year-Round, J. B. Clark

University of Mississippi News

Cross-departmental calendar promotes intersectional events

Graduate Student Shares Her Love Of Law Enforcement, Lauren Lucas

University of Mississippi News

Megan Suprenant continues her criminal justice education through the School of Applied Sciences

Mississippi Health And Hunger Atlas 2021, Jasmine Nguyen, Anne Cafer, Jamiko Deleveaux

Liberal Arts Faculty Books

No abstract provided.

Um, Ecru Partners Working To Tell Story Of M.B. Mayfield, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Blog Posts

Archival partnership helps shine light on one of university's first Black students, acclaimed folk artist. Tucked away in a broom closet within a University of Mississippi classroom, M.B. Mayfield earned a fine arts education in the 1950s the only way he could at the time.

Nsf Award Helps Sociologist Study Effects Of Social, Political Shifts, Shea Stewart

University of Mississippi News

UM professor, graduate students to examine changing racial identities

Um, Ecru Partners Working To Tell Story Of M.B. Mayfield, Abigail Meisel

University of Mississippi News

Archival partnership helps shine light on one of university's first Black students, acclaimed folk artist

Southern Register. 2021.3 (Fall 2021), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture

Southern Register

No abstract provided.

September 30, 2021, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Anthropologist Sheds Light On Politics Of Migrant Life And Death, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Blog Posts

Jason De León brings work of Undocumented Migration Project to campus for Sept. 30 discussion. Jason De León will share his experiences as executive director of the Undocumented Migration Project, a nonprofit research-art-education-media collective, in a Thursday (Sept. 30) lecture at the University of Mississippi. "The Land of Open Graves: Understanding the Current Politics of Migrant Life and Death along the U.S.-Mexico Border," is set for 4 p.m. in the David H. Nutt Auditorium, at 542 University Ave. The event is free and open to the public.

Anthropologist Sheds Light On Politics Of Migrant Life And Death, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

University of Mississippi News

Jason De León brings work of Undocumented Migration Project to campus for Sept. 30 discussion

Immersed In Summer Research, Shea Stewart

University of Mississippi News

Undergraduate program opens doors to new creative scholarship

Folklorist Bill Ferris Joins 'Lmr Live' On Monday Afternoon, Lynn Adams Wilkins

University of Mississippi News

Shardé Thomas and Scott Baretta talk music and Mississippi with Ferris and host Balach

The View From Ventress - 2020-21 Academic Year, University Of Mississippi, College Of Liberal Arts

Liberal Arts Newsletters

News from the College of Liberal Arts

Faculty Senate Membership, 2021-2022, University Of Mississippi. Faculty Senate

Membership

A list of officers, committee chairs, and senators of the University of Mississippi Faculty Senate for the 2021-2022 academic year.

Fall Southtalks Series Focuses On Mississippi Voices, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Blog Posts

This fall, the SouthTalks Series, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, focuses on "Mississippi Voices." SouthTalks explore the interdisciplinary nature of Southern studies and includes lectures, performances, film screenings and panel discussions. Although events usually take place in the Tupelo Room of Barnard Observatory, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many have shifted online.

Fall Southtalks Series Focuses On Mississippi Voices, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

Lineup kicks off virtually Sept. 8 with Benton County reflections, goes in-person in October

New Faculty, 2021-2022, University Of Mississippi. Provost

New Faculty

No abstract provided.

Opening Tiny Worlds Of Exploration, Shea Stewart

University of Mississippi News

NSF funding provides new imaging microscope for UM research

Sulfur Isotopes As A Proxy For Human Diet And Mobility From The Preclassic Through Colonial Periods In The Eastern Maya Lowlands, Claire E. Ebert, Asta J. Rand, Kirsten Green-Mink, Julie A. Hoggarth, Carolyn Freiwald, Jaime J. Awe, Willa R. Trask, Jason Yaeger, M. Kathryn Brown, Christophe Helmke, Rafael A. Guerra, Marie Danforth, Douglas J. Kennett

Faculty and Student Publications

Maya archaeologists have long been interested in understanding ancient diets because they provide information about broad-scale economic and societal transformations. Though paleodietary studies have primarily relied on stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopic analyses of human bone collagen to document the types of food people consumed, stable sulfur (δ34S) isotope analysis can potentially provide valuable data to identify terrestrial, freshwater, or marine/coastal food sources, as well as determine human mobility and migration patterns. Here we assess applications of δ34S for investigating Maya diet and migration through stable isotope analyses of human bone collagen (δ13C, δ15N, and δ34S) from 114 …