Books | Articles | Grants | Presentations
Current Research Activities:
Dr. Ross Haenfler is currently finishing the first draft of his next book, The Sociology of Contemporary Youth Subcultures, for Oxford University Press. Ross is also working with Brett Johnson and Ellis Jones on a study of voluntary simplicity and social responsibility movements.
Dr. Kirk Johnson is preparing a discourse analysis of interjournalistic conversations during television reports about African Americans during hurricane Katrina. He is working with Dr. John Sonnett and Dr. Mark Dolan (Journalism) on a comparative analysis of news coverage of Katrina in mainstream and black-owned newspapers in three U.S. cities. Another of Dr. Johnson’s current projects involves working with Dr. Laura Johnson (Psychology) to plan a study on the correlates of political awareness/activism among African American youth.
Dr. Gary Long is currently working with Dr. Elise Lake on a proposal for a book of readings by and about the work of Harry Crews. They are also collaborating on a piece titled Consuming Hungers and the Paradox of Plenty in Harry Crews's South.” Dr. Long is also preparing to launch the first issue of Alabama-Mississippi Online Sociological Review.
In the summer of 2005, Dr. Matthew Murray began an ongoing archaeological project in a portion of the Loess Hills of Lower Bavaria, Germany, between the Danube and Isar rivers. Six field seasons have so far been completed during the late winter, late spring and early summer, and late fall. The project examines long-term prehistoric and early historic occupation (ca. 8000 to 1800 years ago) of the region, and Dr. Murray also uses fieldwork to study methodological issues such as formation and analysis of surface collections and interpretation of “folk landscapes.” As part of the project, University of Mississippi anthropology students have an opportunity to conduct original fieldwork in Central Europe. Dr. Murray presents results of this project at national and international conferences. Aspects of the project were published in Landscape Ideologies, edited by Thomas Maier, and will be published in a forthcoming monograph by the Polish Academy of Sciences (see below).
Dr. John Sonnett has been awarded a 2008 College of Liberal Arts Summer Research Grant to continue work on news coverage of climate science, a project which was initiated as an ORSP Faculty Research Fellow in 2007. Initial research linked the framing of climate science in newspaper reporting to variation in the naming of climate issues, i.e. as “climate change” and/or “global warming.” This summer’s research will extend this work by comparing U.S. and U.K. newspapers. Dr. Sonnett is also collaborating with Dr. Kirk Johnson and Dr. Mark Dolan on a series of papers examining news coverage of African Americans during and after the Hurricane Katrina crisis, including a systematic coding of television coverage during the first week of the crisis, and a discourse analysis of journalists’ retrospective commentary on media coverage of the crisis.
Dr. Kirsten Dellinger is currently involved with two research projects that have distinct areas of focus: catfish and Katrina. The first project is an on-going ethnographic and in-depth interview study of the work dynamics in the catfish industry. Dr. Dellinger has presented recent conference papers on this project at the Southern Sociological Society and the Society for the Study of Social Problems meetings, and at invited talks at Mississippi State University, Mississippi University for Women, and the University of Georgia (spring 2007). The second project involves in-depth interviews with social science researchers who conducted research on the Mississippi Gulf Coast following Katrina. Dr. Dellinger and another sociologist from the University of Southern Mississippi, Ann Marie Kinnell, are interested in understanding the subjective experiences and ethical dilemmas of doing research in a disaster area.
Dr. Robbie Ethridge is currently working on an edited volume under contract by the University of Nebraska entitled Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The European Invasion and Regional Instability in the American South and a monograph under contract with the University of North Carolina Press tentatively titled From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The Indian Slave Trade and the Transformation of a Southeastern Indian Society. Both projects are part of Dr. Ethridge’s current investigation of the collapse of the pre-contact Mississippian chiefdoms following the European invasion and the reorganization of Native social groups in the ensuing decades. In particular, Dr. Ethridge’s work explores the involvement of Southeastern Indian groups in the colonial commercial trade in Indian slaves, and uses the Chickasaws as a case study of a group that early on opted to become trading partners with Europeans in the trafficking of Indian slaves.
Dr. Jeff Jackson is currently conducting an in-depth analysis of statistics on official development aid flows to developing countries (based on OECD data) in order to examine the global history of nation-building and the emergent transnational state. This data analysis, which tracks official aid flows to all recipient nations from 1960-2003, will make up a significant portion of a larger historical analysis of nation building since World War II that is the subject of his next book that he is preparing for Johns Hopkins University Press, “The Rise of the Globalizers: Global Aid Flows and the Birth of World Government, 1960-2010”.
Dr. Gabriel Wrobel is currently organizing and recruiting for the 2008 Summer Archaeology Fieldschool in Belize. Students from Ole Miss and from other institutions from around the world will be participating in the 21st season of the Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance project (www.BVAR.org). This year’s research focus is the settlement area surrounding the Classic period Maya monumental center of Baking Pot, which is located just outside of San Ignacio in Western Belize. Dr. Wrobel is also in the process of analyzing the skeletal remains and writing up the results of his recent excavations at the Caves Branch Rockshelter, conducted during the summers of 2005-2007. Other active projects include a collaboration with Dr. Andrea Cucina, a professor at the Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas of the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, studying morphological traits of the teeth to determine genetic relationships between ancient populations.
Books by Faculty
Haenfler, Ross. 2007, The Better World Handbook: Small Changes That Make a Big Difference, New Society Publishers, coauthored with Ellis Jones and Brett Johnson.
Light on the PathEthridge, Robbie & Pluckhahn, Thomas J. eds. 2006. Light on the Path: The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians. University of Alabama Press
Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World, University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Transformation of the Southeastern IndiansThe Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760, co-edited with Charles Hudson, University Press of Mississippi, 2002.
Haenfler, Ross. 2006. Straight Edge: Clean Living Youth, Hardcore Punk, and Social Change. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
The GlobalizersJackson, Jeffrey T. 2005. The Globalizers: Development Workers in Action . Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. (2007 Paperback)
Johnson, Jay K. ed. 2006. Remote Sensing in Archeology: An Explicitly North American Perspective . University of Alabama Press.
Sisson, Ed. 2005. Tlacuilolli; Style and Contents of the Mexican Pictorial Manuscripts with a Catalog of the Borgia Group. University of Oklahoma Press.
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Yukleyen, Ahmet (co-author). 2006. Islam, Secularism, and Democracy in Europe. (TESEV: Istanbul) This book is available only in Turkish.
Forthcoming Books
Ethridge, Robbie. Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The European Invasion and Regional Instability in the American South, co-edited with Sheri Shuck-Hall. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, in press.
Ethridge, Robbie. From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The Indian Slave Trade and the Transformation of a Southeastern Indian Society. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, under contract, in preparation.
Recent Faculty Articles / Book Chapters
Johnson, Kirk A. and Dixon, Travis L. (2008). Change and the Illusion of Change: Evolving Portrayals of Crime News and Blacks in a Major Market. Howard Journal of Communications, 19: 1-19.
Jackson, Jeffrey T. and Dellinger, Kirsten A. 2007. "Volunteer Voices: Making Sense of Our Trip to the Mississippi Gulf Coast After Katrina," in Narrating the Storm: Sociological Stories of Hurricane Katrina, Danielle A. Hidalgo and Kristen Barber, eds. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Wrobel, Gabriel (2007) Issues Related to Determining Burial Chronology by Fluoride Analysis of Bone from the Maya Archaeological Site of Chau Hiix, Belize. Archaeometry 49(4): 699-711.
Danforth, Marie Elaine, Keith P. Jacobi, Gabriel D. Wrobel, and Sarah Glassman (2007) Health and the Transition to Horticulture in the South Central U.S. In Ancient Health: The Skeletal Indicators of Economic and Political Intensification, edited by M. N. Cohen and G. Crane-Kramer, pp.65-79. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.
Wrobel, Gabriel, James Tyler, and Jessica Hardy (2007) Rockshelter Excavations in the Caves Branch River Valley. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology, Vol. 4, edited by John Morris and Jaime Awe, pp. 187-196. National Institute of Culture and History, Belmopan, BZ.
Ethridge, Robbie. 2006. "Raiding the Remains: Indian Slave Traders and the Collapse of the Southeastern Chiefdoms," in Light on the Path: The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians edited by Thomas J. Pluckhahn and Robbie Ethridge, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
Murray, Matthew L. 2006. Place Names and Folk Landscapes in Southern Germany as Archaeological Resources. In Landscape Ideologies, edited by Thomas Maier, pp. 155-173. Archaeolingua, Budapest.
Sonnett, John, Barbara J. Morehouse, Thomas D. Finger, Gregg Garfin, and Nicholas Rattray. 2006. “Drought and Declining Reservoirs: Comparing Media Discourse in Arizona and New Mexico, 2002-2004.” Global Environmental Change, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 95-113.
Marie Elaine Danforth, Keith P Jacobi and Gabriel D Wrobel. 2006. Health and the Transition to Agriculture in the Deep South: Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. In Ancient Health: The Skeletal Indicators of Economic and Political Intensification, edited by Mark N. Cohen and Gillian Kramer-Crane. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.
In a project broadly surveying the literature on sociology of food, Dr. Minjoo Oh co-authored with Dr. Elise Lake the entry “Sociology of Food” for The Handbook of 21st century Sociology (Sage Publications, 2006). Dr. Oh will discuss the Handbook entry and her thoughts on the direction of sociology during the panel session “Bringing Sociology Back In,” at the 2006 meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association. Additionally, the February 2007 issue of The View from Ventress, the College of Liberal Arts newsletter, will feature the Handbook project.
Forthcoming Faculty Articles / Chapters
Yukleyen, Ahmet. “State Policies and Islam in Europe: Milli Görüş in Germany and the Netherlands” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2008, forthcoming.
Metcalfe, Jessica Z., Christine D. White, Fred J. Longstaffe, Gabriel Wrobel, and Della Collins Cook (in press) Hierarchies and Heterarchies of Food Consumption: Stable Isotope Evidence from Chau Hiix and the Northern Belize Region. To appear in Latin American Antiquity.
Danforth, Marie Elaine, Gabriel Wrobel, David Swanson, and Carl Armstrong (in press) A Model Growth Curve for Juvenile Age Estimation Using Diaphyseal Long Bone Lengths among Ancient Maya Populations. To appear in Latin American Antiquity.
Murray, Matthew. Forthcoming. “Revealing a Landscape ‘Between:’ The Archaeological Study of a Rural Micro-Region in Southeastern Germany” in Human Impact on Lowland, Upland and Mountain Geosystems – Similarities and Differences, edited by Bartłomiej Szmoniewski. Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw.
Ross Haenfler, Johnson, Brett, and Ellis Jones. 2010. “Sociology and Social Change: Creating a More Just and Sustainable World.” In Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler (eds.). 2010. Sociological Odyssey: Contemporary Readings in Introductory Sociology. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage.
Ethridge, Robbie. " Measuring Chickasaw Responses to a Changing Frontier During the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century Using Ethnohistory and the Restudy of Archived Site Collections." Co-authored with Jay K. Johnson, John W. O Hear, Brad R. Lieb, Susan L. Scott, and H. Edwin Jackson. Southeastern Archaeology, accepted.
Ethridge, Robbie. "On Interpreting Cofitechequi." Co-authored with Charles Hudson, Robin Beck, Chester DePratter, and John Worth. Ethnohistory, in press.
Ford, Janet. Forthcoming. “Delta Dawn: An Ethnographic Account of Martha’s Early Work in the Delta.” Accepted for publication of papers in honor of Martha Rolingson. Arkansas Archeologist.
Danforth, Marie Elaine, Gabriel D. Wrobel, Carl Armstrong. "A Model Growth Curve for Juvenile Age Estimation Using Diaphyseal Long Bone Lengths Among Ancient Maya Populations." To be published in Latin American Antiquity.
Wrobel, Gabriel. Forthcoming. “Determining Burial Chronology by Fluoride Analysis of Bone from the Maya Archaeological Site of Chau Hiix, Belize.” Archaeometry.
Recent Faculty Grants
Dr. Minjoo Oh received College of Liberal Arts research grants for 2005 and 2006 which enabled her to travel extensively in China (particularly in Shanghai) and Korea (particularly in Seoul) for research and data collection and then to analyze the resulting information. That effort yielded both excellent empirical data and helped to establish strong scholarly connections that have resulted in continuing participation in a working group that is analyzing the cultural transformation of the global eastern Asian block.
Gabriel Wrobel was awarded a grant in 2007 by the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies (FAMSI). “A Proposal for Securing a Temporal Context for the Caves Branch Rockshelter”
2008 UM College of Liberal Arts Summer Research Grant Recipients:
Ross Haenfler, Kirk Johnson, Gabe Wrobel, John Sonnett
2008 UM Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Research Grant Recipients:
Ahmet Yukleyen
2007 UM Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Research Grant Recipients:
Ross Haenfler, Gabe Wrobel, Matthew Murray, John Sonnett
2006 UM Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Research Grant Recipients:
Ross Haenfler, Elise Lake, Gabe Wrobel, Kirk Johnson
2006 UM College of Liberal Arts Summer Research Grant Recipients:
Kirsten Dellinger, Jeff Jackson, Minjoo Oh
Faculty Conference Presentations
Ethridge, Robbie: Roundtable discussant, "Removed and Invisible: Where are Native People in the Canons of Southern Studies, History, and Literature?" Roundtable at the Annual Meeting of the Native American and Indigenous Studies, April 10-12, 2008, Athens, GA.
Ethridge, Robbie: Shatter Zone: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Southeastern Indians. Invited speaker at the Center for Historic Research, The Ohio State University, April 18, 2008, Columbus, OH. Robbie will also present this work at the Seminar on Politics, Society, the Environment, and Development, Barnard College, Columbia University, April 24, 2008, New York, NY.
Matthew Murray, “Walking Through the Past: 6000 Years of Prehistory in Southeastern Germany,” in March 2008 at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Gabe Wrobel, March 2008. Mortuary Ritual at Caves Branch Rockshelter, Belize. Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC, The Context of Ancient Maya Ritual in Caves: the case of Midnight Terror and other Subterranean Sites in the Roaring Creek Valley, Belize with Rafael A. Guerra and Jaime Awe (Institute of Archaeology, Belize). Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC. and an Analysis of Skeletal Remains from the Chalillo Dam Salvage Excavations of the Upper Macal River Valley, Belize. With Lenna Nash (University of Mississippi). Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC. He will also be presenting in July 2008. Final Report on the 2005-2007 excavations at the Caves Branch rockshelter. Belize Archaeology Symposium. Belize City, BZ.
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