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New Mississippi Story: Race, Place, And The Blues In Clarksdale, Admin Nov 2017

New Mississippi Story: Race, Place, And The Blues In Clarksdale, Admin

Blog Posts

New on Mississippi Stories, a lecture by Assistant Professor of Sociology and Southern Studies Dr. Brian Foster: "'That's for the White Folks': Race, Culture, and (Un)Making Place in the Rural South." Dr. Foster presented the lecture, based on his ethnographic work in rural Mississippi, on October 25, 2017 as part of the Center's Brown Bag Lecture Series.


Anthropological Research, University Of Mississippi. Department Of Sociology And Anthropology Nov 2017

Anthropological Research, University Of Mississippi. Department Of Sociology And Anthropology

University Website Migration from WordPress

No abstract provided.


November 15, 2017, The Daily Mississippian Nov 2017

November 15, 2017, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.


Faulkner's Short Stories Focus Of 2018 Um Common Reading Experience, Michael Newsom Nov 2017

Faulkner's Short Stories Focus Of 2018 Um Common Reading Experience, Michael Newsom

University of Mississippi News

Selection fulfills original goal of committee to showcase author's work


Slavery Research Group To Present Map Project, Christina Steube Nov 2017

Slavery Research Group To Present Map Project, Christina Steube

News from UMSRG

No abstract provided.


Slavery Research Group To Present Map Project, Christina Steube Nov 2017

Slavery Research Group To Present Map Project, Christina Steube

University of Mississippi News

New online resource to be unveiled at Oxford-Lafayette County Heritage Foundation meeting


November 8, 2017, The Daily Mississippian Nov 2017

November 8, 2017, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.


Pharmacy Students Partner With Mclean Institute To Make A Difference, Edwin B. Smith Nov 2017

Pharmacy Students Partner With Mclean Institute To Make A Difference, Edwin B. Smith

University of Mississippi News

CEED initiative allows participants to broaden their education while helping communities


October 27, 2017, The Daily Mississippian Oct 2017

October 27, 2017, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.


October 20, 2017, The Daily Mississippian Oct 2017

October 20, 2017, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.


Join Umsrg For A Twilight Tour Of Campus, Staff Oct 2017

Join Umsrg For A Twilight Tour Of Campus, Staff

News from UMSRG

No abstract provided.


Umsrg Members To Present At Symposium In Charlottesville, Staff Oct 2017

Umsrg Members To Present At Symposium In Charlottesville, Staff

News from UMSRG

No abstract provided.


Our Past Is Our Present: The Legacies Of Slavery And School Segregation, Staff, Robert L. Reece Oct 2017

Our Past Is Our Present: The Legacies Of Slavery And School Segregation, Staff, Robert L. Reece

News from UMSRG

No abstract provided.


Slavery Research Group Hosts Lecture On Educational Inequality, Christina Steube Oct 2017

Slavery Research Group Hosts Lecture On Educational Inequality, Christina Steube

University of Mississippi News

Alumnus Robert Reece will discuss research on racialized social outcomes


Grant Supports Student Internships In East Asia, Staff Report Oct 2017

Grant Supports Student Internships In East Asia, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

Freeman Foundation provides $100,000 for experiential learning initiative


Redefining Transformative Change In Higher Education, Phillis George, Amy Wells-Dolan Oct 2017

Redefining Transformative Change In Higher Education, Phillis George, Amy Wells-Dolan

Journal of Contemporary Research in Education

Introduction


Vol. 6, No. 1 (2017): Full Issue, Journal Editors Oct 2017

Vol. 6, No. 1 (2017): Full Issue, Journal Editors

Journal of Contemporary Research in Education

No abstract provided.


Southern Register. 2017.3 (Fall 2017), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture Oct 2017

Southern Register. 2017.3 (Fall 2017), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture

Southern Register

No abstract provided.


Facebook Realness: Exploring Online Authenticity Through Drag Queens And The Infamous ‘Real Name Policy’, Ray Leblanc Oct 2017

Facebook Realness: Exploring Online Authenticity Through Drag Queens And The Infamous ‘Real Name Policy’, Ray Leblanc

Southern Anthropologist

Winner: 2015 Graduate Student Paper Competition

Early September 2014, Facebook profiles of popular drag queens on the West Coast were suspended for violating the rule of authenticity. Facebook profiles are designed to represent “real” people, and a battle began between corporate identity politics and the obnoxiously contradicting, subversive identities of drag performance. Drawing upon my own ethnographic work on drag performance and the social media of drag performers, I present this event as an opportunity to explore how drag queens bring their protest into cyberspace. Drag queens are disruptive cyborgs whose queer identity both on a digital and physical stage, …


Investigating The Gender Pronoun Gap In Wikipedia, Mehrdad Yazdani Sep 2017

Investigating The Gender Pronoun Gap In Wikipedia, Mehrdad Yazdani

WikiStudies

In recent years there have been many studies investigating gender biases in the content and editorial process ofWikipedia. In addition to creating a distorted account of knowledge, biases in Wikipedia and similar corpora have especially harmful downstream eects as they are often used in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applications. As a result, many of the algorithms that are deployed in production “learn" the same biases inherent in the data that they churned. It is the therefore increasingly important to develop quantitative metrics to measure bias. In this study we propose a simple metric, the Gendered Pronoun Gap, that measures …


The Devil's Music: Adam Gussow Publishes New Book On The Devil In The Blues, Admin Sep 2017

The Devil's Music: Adam Gussow Publishes New Book On The Devil In The Blues, Admin

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This interview by Scott Barretta originally appeared in the Fall 2017 Southern Register. Adam Gussow is an associate professor of English and southern studies at the University of Mississippi whose latest book is Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil in the Blues Tradition (University Press of North Carolina), a survey that occupied seven years of research. Gussow has also grappled extensively with the devil in his parallel career as a professional blues musician -- for over thirty years he's recorded and toured internationally with Sterling "Mr. Satan" Magee, a relationship he addressed in his memoir Mr. Satan's Apprentice.


Adam Gussow Examines The Devil In The Blues For New Book, Staff Report Sep 2017

Adam Gussow Examines The Devil In The Blues For New Book, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

Author plans several signings and readings throughout the state in October


North Mississippi Vista Project Receives Seventh Year Of Funding, Staff Report Sep 2017

North Mississippi Vista Project Receives Seventh Year Of Funding, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

Grant renewal brings $595,000 to region for programming and resources


Computer Science Student Wins Quip Diversity Technology Scholarship, Xinyi Song Sep 2017

Computer Science Student Wins Quip Diversity Technology Scholarship, Xinyi Song

University of Mississippi News

Blake Lewis visited organization's San Francisco offices in August


Center For The Study Of Southern Culture: A Short History Of The First Forty Years, Admin Sep 2017

Center For The Study Of Southern Culture: A Short History Of The First Forty Years, Admin

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Center for the Study of Southern Culture: A Short History of the First Forty Years. This short history by Anna F. Kaplan can also be found, along with entries on Frederick A. P. Barnard, William Faulkner, William Ferris, Living Blues, and the University of Mississippi, in The Mississippi Encyclopedia, recently published by the University Press of Mississippi.


Third Annual Hispanic Heritage Film Series Begins Sept. 21, Michael Newsom Sep 2017

Third Annual Hispanic Heritage Film Series Begins Sept. 21, Michael Newsom

University of Mississippi News

UM screenings part of Hispanic Heritage Month observance


Special Collections Fall Lecture Series Begins This Month, Christina Steube Sep 2017

Special Collections Fall Lecture Series Begins This Month, Christina Steube

University of Mississippi News

No abstract provided.


Study The South Article "Revisiting Deliverance", Admin Sep 2017

Study The South Article "Revisiting Deliverance", Admin

Blog Posts

On June 19, Study the South published a new essay by Isabel Machado, a Brazilian historian currently living in Monterrey, Mexico, while writing her PhD dissertation for the University of Memphis.


Founder Of Georgetown Memory Project To Speak At Um, Christina Steube Sep 2017

Founder Of Georgetown Memory Project To Speak At Um, Christina Steube

University of Mississippi News

Richard Cellini to discuss work Monday in public lecture


August 31, 2017, The Daily Mississippian Aug 2017

August 31, 2017, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.