Queer Mississippi

Project Description: Dr. McDowell is the director of Queer Mississippi, an oral history project at the University of Mississippi. This is a great opportunity for Honor students to gain experience collecting, processing, and analyzing oral history interviews with members of a marginalized community in one of the most impoverished and religiously conservative states in the country. Visit the Queer Mississippi interview archive on eGrove for more information on how the project got started and what has been collected to date: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/queerms/

Desired Student Qualifications: Experience with qualitative interviewing or training in oral history or qualitative research methods.

Project Timeline: Dr. McDowell will be on sabbatical in Spring 2022 and will return to the project in the fall of 2022.

Duties of Student Researcher: Establishing networks and contacts for oral history interviews with queer Mississippians; collecting and transcribing interviews for the archive; creating and organizing new Queer Mississippi exhibits to be shared with the wider public.

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