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 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.

Melanie Benson Taylor is an assistant professor of English and Native American studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912–2002 and Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause (both Georgia).

Charles Reagan Wilson is director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and a professor of history at the University of Mississippi. He is coeditor of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture and author of Baptized in Blood (Georgia).