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Yalobusha Review

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An Atmosphere Of Doubt: A Conversation With Rachel Kushner, Sarah Ligon

Yalobusha Review

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Make The Disappeared Visible: A Conversation With Samyak Shertok, Shranup Tandukar

Yalobusha Review

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The Landlord, Derek Andersen

Yalobusha Review

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The Assembled Corpus, Connor Fisher

Yalobusha Review

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October 1, 2026, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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Finding Aid For The Blues Subject Files (Mum00958)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids (alphabetical)

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Choreographies Of Peruvian Reality: Conflicts In Surf Media's Digital Worlds, Tuck Rodi

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

This paper mobilizes the concept of the choreography of surfing to analyze networks of surfers, media creators, digital technologies, and development NGOs through which surfing becomes a device for sociopolitical and economic projects in Peru. Surf media, this paper’s object of analysis, includes all films, video blogs, and documents that incorporate surfing as a constitutive ingredient in their visual and discursive content. With the rise of online video-sharing platforms, surf media has become a digital world unto itself. This world is made through interactions among viewers, photographers, and their surfing subjects. Democratization of video-sharing platforms capacitates filmmakers to break from …

Tourism, Security, And Sacred Space At Bethany Beyond The Jordan, Olivia Stockwell

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

Bethany Beyond the Jordan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site advertised as the baptismal site of Jesus of Nazareth, lies on the border between Jordan and the occupied West Bank. Based on first-person observation, this article provides a semiotic analysis of how tourist spaces, commodification, and security infrastructure interact to create perceptions of sacred space. When placed in conversation with the historical and political contexts of the site, these factors provide insight into how meanings of sacrality are generated. I argue that notions of the sacred at Bethany Beyond the Jordan are shaped by tourism spaces and their organizing of ritual …

Visionary Alumni Support Ole Miss Engineering Students, Bill Dabney

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – An estate gift from the late David Walker Arnold and Barbara Daves Arnold, longtime University of Mississippi supporters, will create opportunities for future engineering students and honor a lifetime of devotion to Ole Miss.

Tenure And Promotion Announcement, 2026, University Of Mississippi. Provost

Tenure and Promotion Announcements

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Striking A Chord For Southern Music Scholarship, Michael Newsom

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – From the Delta blues to the birth of rock 'n' roll, many of the harmonies that shaped American music were first struck in the South, and a new gift aims to help the University of Mississippi study this rich history in depth.

Passion For Accurate Journalism Fuels Support, Bill Dabney

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – A lifelong belief in the power of accurate journalism, along with a personal connection to the profession, led Missy Pace Callero to support a new initiative shaping the future of news produced from the University of Mississippi.

Alice In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

Books at Rowan Oak, Home of William Faulkner

Description/Citation: Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Illustrated by Gwynedd M. Hudson. London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.

Project Identifier: faulkner_library_270; faulkner_library_271; faulkner_library_272; faulkner_library_273

Rowan Oak Accession Number: 2021.001.0459

Condition of Volume: The hardback volume is absent a dust jacket. The spine is fragile, separated from the gutters, and paper foxing is present.

1962 Location: Rowan Oak Library Room (William Faulkner’s Library: A Catalogue, p. 62).

Current Location: Rowan Oak Library Room

Annotations/Inscriptions: “Victoria Franklin, Oxford, Miss” is inscribed on front end pages of the book. Additional inscriptions and markings also appear throughout book, as …

New National Publication Gives Guidance To Teachers On Ai, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – With artificial intelligence tools available on every phone, laptop and tablet, higher education has struggled to implement consistent recommendations for how and when AI can be used. A new national guide seeks to change that.

Mississippi Institute Of Arts And Letters Honors Faulkner Conference, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi's Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference will receive a Citation of Merit from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters for its decades of work preserving and expanding William Faulkner's literary legacy.

Does A Common Threat Unite?: Alliance Formation In East Asia Under Chinese Pressure, Sean G. Mcclellan

Honors Theses

The study explores whether a shared geopolitical threat fosters alliance formation among East Asian nations, focusing on Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea in the context of increasing Chinese influence. Integrating insights from international relations theory and social psychology—particularly Realistic Conflict Theory and the out-group unifying effect—the research evaluates whether perceived Chinese aggression corresponds with increased positive sentiment toward the United States. Utilizing data from the Asian Barometer Survey, linear regression analysis is conducted to assess how perceptions of Chinese and U.S. influence, democratic values, and political affiliation shape public attitudes. Results show that while negative views of Chinese and U.S. …

Writing And Rhetoric Faculty Member Named Top Online Instructor, Pam Starling

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Colleen Thorndike, a lecturer in the University of Mississippi's Department of Writing and Rhetoric, is this year's winner of the Paragon Award for Distance Learning Teaching.

Graduates Offered Chance To Teach, Study Through Fulbright Awards, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The Fulbright U.S. Student Program has offered scholarships to seven University of Mississippi graduates to teach, study and conduct research across the globe.

University Museum Opens Doors To Community Partnerships, Michael Newsom

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Soft footsteps echoed through the galleries of the University of Mississippi Museum as a small group of visitors paused in front of a brightly colored Theora Hamblett painting, leaning closer to study its details and trade memories sparked by the art before them.

Finding Aid For The Mississippi Science Teachers Association Collection (Mum00949)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids (alphabetical)

The collection contains programs, minutes and conference materials related to the Mississippi Science Teachers Association Collection

Issues Of Justice Since Batson V. Kentucky: The Ethical Implications Of Peremptory Strikes In Jury Selection, Andrew M. Nichols

Honors Theses

The usage of peremptory strikes in jury selection have led to several issues over the course of American history. Since their inception in English Common Law, their ethically questionable use has led the United States Supreme Court to rule on them repeatedly, most notable in 1986’s decision Batson v. Kentucky. This case allowed attorneys to challenge the opposing counsel if they suspected that jurors may have been removed from the venire due to their race and reinstate them if such discrimination was present. This thesis argues that this decision has not corrected the ethical issues that I identify, namely …

Art In An Apocalypse: Aids, Activism, And Abolition In Work Of Essex Hemphill And Alternative Video Production, Sydney E. Guntharp

Honors Theses

This thesis is an exploration of Black, POC, feminist, and queer art in the late twentieth century, examining both the AIDS crisis and the increasing privatization of the prison industrial complex as key factors in the development of Essex Hemphill’s poetic, expressive works and the filmmaking activism of various videotape collectives. Through employing the lens of critical prison studies, this work seeks to understand how Black and POC art emerged as a site of political resistance to a carceral state as well as the broader social punishment doctrine that influenced the public health response to AIDS in the United States. …

From Sacred Harp To Byzantine Chant: Inculturation And Formation Of Orthodox Communion In Alaska, Ava Ortwein

Honors Theses

This thesis will explore how Eastern Orthodoxy has been embraced by some native Appalachians, which has led to a convergence of musical trends as a regional phenomenon. It argues that parts of Appalachia are embracing Orthodoxy, especially as noted through converging musical structures. Through an examination of countries which have accepted Orthodoxy, I emphasize inhabitants’ agency and free acceptance of the Eastern Church, especially through convergence of musical traditions. I also analyze lived experience in Sacred Music within this Appalachian Orthodox Context rather than formal music theory. The research incorporates a diverse range of scholars including ethnomusicologists, historians, Orthodox theologians, …

Selective Remembrance: Constructing Nostalgia At The Park Chung Hee Presidential Museum, Abigail Shaw

Honors Theses

How and why does Park Chung Hee remain so potent in the minds of South Koreans, decades after his rule? Seungsook Moon (2009) describes the phenomenon as Park Chung Hee Syndrome: a cultural condition in which Park’s image circulates between glorification, demonization, and humanization, producing an unresolved and emotionally charged field of memory. Building on this, researchers have examined how a type of “Park Chung Hee nostalgia” operates through selective remembrance of developmental success, moral discipline, and national unity, ultimately creating a positive memory and longing for semblance of his long-ended rule (Park, 2011; Podoler, 2016; Lee, 2022).

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What You Don't Hear About Barriers To Healthcare In The Deaf Community: Analyzing Interpreter Experiences In The Deep South, Ryan Augustine

Honors Theses

Deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals experience significant health disparities in the United States, yet the perspective of the ASL interpreter has remained largely absent regarding the barriers documented in existing literature. This pilot case study examined the barriers Deaf individuals face when seeking healthcare through the unique vantage point of eight ASL interpreters across the Deep South: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Guided by grounded theory methodology, eight semi-structured interviews were conducted and analyzed to find recurring themes. Findings confirmed and revealed barriers that would not have surfaced without the perspective of the interpreter. Four themes emerged from this study: healthcare …

Inherited Strategies: Why The U.S. And France Pursued Different Counterterrorism Approaches In The Horn Of Africa And The Sahel, Matthew B. Blackwood

Honors Theses

This thesis examines the counterterrorism strategies employed by the United States and France in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Somalia, the United States utilized a remote warfare centric strategy, precision drone strikes and limited special operations raids, in an attempt to degrade the Somali groups al-Shabaab and ISIS-Somalia. In the broader Sahel, France utilized large ground operations in Operation Serval and Operation Barkhane fighting various groups such as AQIM and JNIM. The thesis aims to explore why the United States and France, both Western countries, who fought similar non-state actors decided to employ drastically different strategies. Through process tracing and comparative analysis, …

Aquinas In The Twenty-First Century: A Reconciliation With The Catholic Church’S Teaching On The Death Penalty, Diego G. T. Abele

Honors Theses

When the Catholic Church revised its paragraph in the Catechism that concerned the teaching on the death penalty, many believed that this seemed to contradict the Church’s traditional teaching on the death penalty, which has included the writings of thinkers like St. Thomas Aquinas. However, after applying principles of his natural law theory, this apparent contradiction goes away, and the full Catholic teaching on the death penalty comes to light. Several key theses of Thomist natural law will be described, addressing the metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical questions it seeks to answer. This will be the backbone of my paper as …

Jtc 26: Magnolia Trees And Olive Groves, Jennifer Parsons

University of Mississippi News

This story is part of the 2026 Journey to Commencement series, which celebrates the pinnacle of the academic year by highlighting University of Mississippi students and their outstanding academic and personal journeys from college student to college graduate.

Prematurity And Special Education: Raising Awareness Of The Connections Between Preterm Births And Special Education, Nadia R. Corder

Honors Theses

In this thesis, the goal was to find the link, if any, between prematurity and special education, with regards to probability of special education and outcomes, and to create a means of professional development for not only special education teachers about prematurity risks and effects on students but also parental education about the possible procedures of their child’s education. This is accomplished through the organization of infographic pamphlets for parents and an online professional development presentation. Both these formats are compliant to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) accessibility parameters. A literature review was conducted to achieve this goal using …