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 the editor of Mississippi Folklife and the undergraduate advisor for Southern Studies majors. He writes and teaches classes on the social and cultural history of the American South.