In Contemporary Southern Identity, Rebecca Bridges Watts explores the implications of four public controversies about southern identity—debates about the Confederate flag in South Carolina, the gender ...

Jere Nash, Jackson, Mississippi, is coauthor of Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2008 (published by University Press of Mississippi) and Mississippi Fried Politics: Tall Tales from the ...

Haley Barbour served as Mississippi's governor from 2004 to 2012 and is founding partner of the Washington, DC, firm BGR Group.

Kazumi Nagaike is associate professor in the Center for International Education and Research at Oita University.

Rebecca Bridges Watts is visiting assistant professor of communication studies at Stetson University.

James Welker is associate professor of cross-cultural studies at Kanagawa University.

Katsuhiko Suganuma is a lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of Tasmania.

Mark McLelland is professor of gender and sexuality studies at the University of Wollongong.