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Ferris, William Reynolds was born on February 5, 1942 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States. Son of William Reynolds and Shelby Gibbs (Flowers) Ferris.
(William Ferris, director of the Center for the Study of S...)
William Ferris, director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, has written a book as deep as the blues: rich in conversation, reference, history, and firsthand experience with blues musicians and the culture that informs the music. The poetry, games, house parties, religious and secular traditions of black life in the Delta are explored in living prose that is also a work of immense scholarship.
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( William Ferris, director of the Center for the Study of...)
William Ferris, director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, has written a book as deep as the blues: rich in conversation, reference, history, and firsthand experience with blues musicians and the culture that informs the music. The poetry, games, house parties, religious and secular traditions of black life in the Delta are explored in living prose that is also a work of immense scholarship.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0306803275/?tag=2022091-20
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Ferris, William Reynolds was born on February 5, 1942 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States. Son of William Reynolds and Shelby Gibbs (Flowers) Ferris.
Bachelor, Davidson (North Carolina) College, 1964; Master of Arts in English, Northwestern University, 1965; Master of Arts in Folklore, University of Pennsylvania, 1967; Doctor of Philosophy in Folklore, University of Pennsylvania, 1969.
Assistant professor English Jackson State University, 1970-1972. Associate professor American and Afro-American Studies Yale University, 1972-1979. Professor anthropology University Mississippi, University, 1979-1997.
Chairman National Endowment for Humanities, Washington, 1997—2001. Professor of history, adjunct professor in folklore curriculum, senior associate director Center for Study of America South University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, since 2002. Director Center for Study Southern Culture, University Mississippi, Oxford, 1979-2001.
National advisor University Pennsylvania Black Literature Center, Philadelphia, since 1989. Member history and memory group DuBois Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1987. Visiting fellow Stanford University Humanities Center, Palo Alto, California, 1989-1990.
Public policy fellow Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, since 2002.
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( William Ferris, director of the Center for the Study of...)
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Member American Folklore Society (executive board since 1987), American Studies Association (national council 1991).
1 child, Virginia Louise.