Student Awards

The Gray and Coterie Awards honor the best undergraduate papers in Southern Studies classes. Faculty teaching Southern Studies classes nominate papers for the awards, and a faculty committee selects the winners. The awards include an honorarium.

The Lucille and Motee Daniel Award honors the best papers by Southern Studies graduate students. Faculty nominate and submit papers to the program chair, who appoints a faculty committee to evaluate the papers. The award includes an honorarium.

The Peter Aschoff Prize honors the best papers on music of the American South, especially the blues, by an undergraduate or graduate student at the University of Mississippi. Faculty nominate papers and a committee of faculty members makes the award, which includes an honorarium.

2009 Southern Studies Student Award Winners


GRAY AWARD
Joseph Stone Green for his Honors College thesis "'The Last Drinking Drys': The Repeal of Prohibition in Mississippi in 1966."

 


COTERIE AWARD
Mallory Nicole Blasingame for her Honors College thesis "'No Place for You, My Love':Negotiation of Home and Identity in Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding, The Optimist's Daughter, and The Bride of the Innisfallen"

                                                 

LUCILLE AND MOTEE DANIELS AWARD
Mary Warner for her Southern Studies master's thesis "A History of Thacker Mountain Radio"

 

 

 

PETER ASCHOFF PRIZE
Ben Child for his paper "Raised in the Country, Workin' in the Town: Spatial and Temporal Modernisms in Bob Dylan's Love and Theft"

 

 

Pictured at the Southern Studies Graduation Luncheon on May 9 are, from top: Dr. Ted Ownby, left, and Joseph Green; Mallory Blasingame, left, and Dr. Katie McKee; Mary Warner, left, and Dr. David Wharton; Ben Childs.