Southern Cultures

cici cheng is a Chinese-born US photographer who grew up in Durham, North Carolina. Her work focuses on family, identity, and cultural transition through visual storytelling. A passionate educator, she continues to explore and teach about finding the edges of self-comfort. Cheng is currently teaching at Duke Kunshan University.

deniz daser is an anthropologist who studies migration, labor, and citizenship. She is an external lecturer at University of St. Gallen and holds a PhD in anthropology from Rutgers University. Her dissertation, "Leveraging Labor in New Orleans: Worklife and Insecurity among Honduran Migrants," drew upon extensive fieldwork in New Orleans.

burak erdim is associate professor of architectural history and design at North Carolina State University. His research traces the operations of transnational planning cultures and his recent book, Landed Internationals: Planning Cultures, the Academy, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, was published by the University of Texas Press (2020).

sarah fouts is assistant professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and holds a PhD in Latin American studies from Tulane University. Fouts is currently working on a book manuscript on labor, migration, food, and transnationalism in post-Katrina New Orleans and Honduras.

steve gallo is a historian and writer who recently completed his PhD in the Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham (UK). His work focuses on the use of public parks as a means of economic stimulation and social control in service of the New South movement.

john lusk hathaway was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He received his MFA from East Tennessee State University in 2012. Nominated for the Baum Award, he received the Individual Artist Fellowship Grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission in 2014. Hathaway is an adjunct professor of photography at the College of Charleston.

endia l. hayes is a doctoral student in sociology at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Her work engages methods of alternative archiving among Afro-Texans by tracing sensorial, sonic, affective, and immaterial embodiments as a map of early twentieth-century Texas. She is also a contributor to Environmental History Now (EHN). [End Page 162]

alex hofmann is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Chicago, completing his dissertation, "Southern Sublime: Legacies of Civil War Violence in the New South." In the fall, he will be a teaching fellow in the Division of the Social Sciences and the College at the University of Chicago.

jessica jacobs is the author of Take Me with You, Wherever You're Going, winner of the Devil's Kitchen and Goldie Awards, and Pelvis with Distance, winner of the New Mexico Book Award. Chapbook editor for Beloit Poetry Journal, she coauthored Write It! 100 Poetry Prompts to Inspire with her wife, Nickole Brown.

Political geographer mark long is professor of political science at the College of Charleston, and curator-at-large and academic liaison at its Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art. His research is concerned with intersections between visual culture and place in settings as varied as Antarctica, Israel, and the American South.

henry knight lozano is senior lecturer in American history and liberal arts at the University of Exeter. He is the author of Tropic of Hopes: California, Florida, and the Selling of American Paradise, 1869–1929 (2013) and California and Hawai'i Bound: US Settler Colonialism and the Pacific West, 1848–1959 (2021), and coeditor of The Shadow of Selma (2018).

hannah s. palmer is author of the award-winning memoir Flight Path: A Search for Roots Beneath the World's Busiest Airport. A native of Atlanta's Southside, her writing about place is informed by her work as urban designer. Since 2017, she has led a campaign to restore the urban headwaters of Georgia's Flint River.

claire raymond is the author of eight books of critical theory examining feminism and race, including The Photographic Uncanny: Photography, Homelessness, and Homesickness (Palgrave, 2019) and The Selfie, Temporality, and Contemporary Photography (Routledge, 2021). She was a faculty member at the University of Virginia for many years and is now a visiting research collaborator at Princeton University.

annie simpson, a multi-/inter-/un-disciplined artist, was born in North Carolina and...