Affiliated Faculty

American Studies

Jolene Hubbs
Assistant Professor
Area of Interest: Southern fiction, 1865-present

Michael Innis-Jimenez
Assistant Professor
Area of Interest: Southern Latino Studies

Jeffrey Melton
Associate Professor
Area of Interest: Mark Twain

Anthropology

Ian Brown
Professor
Areas of Interest: Southeastern archaeology, Native Americans during the contact period, gravestones and cemeteries

Jim Knight
Professor
Area of Interest: Southeastern archaeology

Communication Studies

Jason Black
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Southeastern Native American and African American rhetoric, southern ethnicity and race

Robin Boylorn
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Lived and storied experiences of southern rural black women, social identity and social justice issues, interpersonal communication

English

Catherine Davies
Professor and Chair
Areas of Interest: Southern discourse and linguistics

Trudier Harris
Professor
Areas of Interest: African American literature and folklore; African American writers and the South; lynching; domestic work; narratives of southern identity

History

Margaret Abruzzo
Associate Professor
Areas of interest: Southern intellectual history, Debates over slavery

David Beito
Professor
Area of Interest: Black history

John Giggie
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: African American history, southern religious history

Kari Frederickson
Associate Professor and Chair
Areas of Interest: Modern South, especially the intersection of politics, economic development, and culture

Lisa Lindquist Dorr
Associate Professor
Area of Interest: Southern women’s history

Heather Miyano Kopelson
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Race and religion in early America

George Rable
Professor and Charles Summersell Chair of Southern History
Area of Interest: Civil War

Joshua Rothman
Associate Professor and Director, Summersell Center for the Study of the South
Areas of Interest: Nineteenth Century South, slavery and race

Jenny Shaw
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Atlantic History, early modern Caribbean, race and slavery in the Americas

Journalism

Rick Bragg
Professor
Areas of Interest: Nineteenth and twentieth century southern history, working-class and poor southerners, millworkers, Native Americans

New College

James Hall
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Civil Rights, Higher Education in the South, Literature and Memoir

Ellen Griffith Spears
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Southern environmental and civil rights history

Michael Steinberg
Associate Professor
Area of Interest: Environmental conservation in the South

Political Science

Stephen Borrelli
Professor
Area of Interest: Southern politics

Richard Fording
Professor and Chair
Areas of Interest: Poverty, civil rights, race and politics, southern politics

Utz McKnight
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Critical race theory, political theory, social policy and racial politics

Religious Studies

K. Merinda Simmons
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Religious practice and identity in the American South, Gender Studies, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Migration Studies

Telecommunication and Film

Andrew Grace
Director, Documenting Justice
Area of Interest: Documentary film representations of the South

University Libraries

Jessica Lacher-Feldman
Associate Professor, Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library
Areas of Interest: Southern and Alabama authors, Jewish culture in the South, Southern and Alabama folklife