We are thrilled to announce Malinda Maynor Lowery as our new director as of July 1, 2017. Extending the University’s historic role as the foremost site for southern studies and inspired regional engagement, the Center for the Study of the … Read more

As a complement to the intensely personal stories chronicled in the Black Pioneers Project, a play which is being staged by the Process Series Nov. 4 and 6, the Center is pleased to sponsor a panel discussion about the building … Read more

Mark your calendars! The godfather of southern sociology and pitmaster par excellence will join us to discuss “Barbecue and Politics, and Vice Versa.” John Shelton Reed is a co-founder of the Center for the Study of the American South and a … Read more

In his 1935 novel Of Time and the River, Thomas Wolfe wrote, “October had come again, and he would lie there in his mother’s house at night, and feel the darkness moving softly all about him, and hear the dry … Read more

In a Southern Cultures essay published in 2000, Jerry Leath Mills came up with a “single, simple, litmus-like test [to gauge] the quality of southerness in literature . . . Is there a dead mule in it?” We were curious … Read more