Ted Ownby
Professor of History
Phone Number: (662)915-5993
Email: hsownby@olemiss.edu
http://history.olemiss.edu/2011/11/18/ted-m-ownby-professor-of-history-and-southern-studies-director-of-the-center-for-the-study-of-southern-culture/

Key Words: South, Religion, Popular Culture

Research Description: Ted Ownby has a joint appointment in History and Southern Studies. He is the author of American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture, 1830-1998 (1999) and Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920 (1990) and editor of Black and White: Cultural Interaction in the Antebellum South (1993). He is co-editor of the Mississippi Encyclopedia and the undergraduate advisor for Southern Studies majors. He writes and teaches classes on the social and cultural history of the American South.

Honors Theses:

Bray, Walker Alan (2022) Preservation and Public History in Mound Bayou, Mississippi (full text)

Nieman, William C. (2020) Country Fun: A Cultural History of Opryland USA, Nashville, and the Suburban South (full text)

Paul, James Gerald (2017) Out Of Darkness, Have I Cried Unto Thee: An examination of the treatment of African Americans at the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum during Reconstruction (full text)

Paul, James Gerald (2017) Out Of Darkness, Have I Cried Unto Thee: An examination of the treatment of African Americans at the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum during Reconstruction (full text)

Johnson, Ashley Ann (2013) "The Great Depression in Wilkinson County Mississippi: A Collection of Oral Histories"

Kenwright, Katherine Hitt (2013) "Memphis Carnival Traditions: Maintaining Identity in a Changing Society"

Green, Joseph Stone (2009) "The Last Drinking Drys: The Repeal of Prohibition in Mississippi"

Worley, Allison Ann (2006) "Country is…The Portrayal of Southern Culture in Country Music"

James, Clayton Anderson (2001) "Endless Challenges: A History of Student Housing at the University of Mississippi"