 | Navigating Souths: Transdisciplinary Explorations of a U.S. Region Subjects: Southern States -- Civilization -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States; Interdisciplinary approach in education -- United States; The work of considering, imagining, and theorizing the U.S. South in regional, national, and global contexts is an intellectual project that has been going on for some time. Scholars in history, literature, and other disciplines have developed an advanced understanding of the historical, social, and cultural forces that have helped to shape the U.S. South. However, most of the debates on these subjects have taken place within specific academic disciplines, with few attempts to cross-engage. Michele Grigsby Coffey (Editor) MICHELE GRIGSBY COFFEY is an instructor of history at the University of Memphis. Her work has been published in the edited collection South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times (Georgia), Louisiana History , and in the Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History . Jodi Skipper (Editor) JODI SKIPPER is an assistant professor of anthropology and southern studies at the University of Mississippi. Her work has been published in the Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage , the Southern Quarterly , the Black Scholar , Community Development , and Sociology of Race and Ethnicity . |
