Dr. Matthew Guinn will present the 2026 Humanities Teacher Award lecture for Belhaven University titled "Carrying the Fire: Old Books and New Maps." The lecture will take place on the […]
Kemeshia Swanson will present the 2026 Humanities Teacher Award lecture for Mississippi State University titled “Mississippi Memory: Landscape, Loss, and Legacy.” “Mississippi as Memory: Landscape, Loss, and Legacy” will explore […]
Dr. Anna Morgan will present the 2026 Humanities Teacher Award lecture for Itawamba Community College titled “Swiftly Romantic: The Parallel Lives of Clara Schumann and Taylor Swift.” “Swiftly Romantic: The […]
T.K. Lee will present the 2026 Humanities Teacher Award lecture for Mississippi University for Women titled “Not the Same Old Story: Learning How to Stop So You Can Start.” This […]
Dr. Cassie Sade Turnipseed presents "Ida B. Wells: The Mother of the American Human Rights Movement" Ida B. Wells’s life has intriguing ties to Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, […]
Dr. Jason Beghtol will present the 2026 Humanities Teacher Award lecture for Northeast Mississippi Community College titled “Preserving Our Musical Moment: New Works and New Possibilities for the Bass Trombone.” […]
The Mississippi Humanities Council will hold its regular board meeting at the University of Mississippi Medical Center on Friday, February 20, at 11 a.m.
William Storey will present the 2026 Humanities Teacher Award lecture for Millsaps College titled “The Death of William K. Storey: A Historian Investigates the Killing of His Great-Grandfather in Ireland.” […]
Dr. Karen Bell will present the 2026 Humanities Teacher Award lecture for Delta State University titled “Wut und bose: Women's Rage in Recent German-Language Literature.” The lecture will take place […]
Dr. Shanell Bailey will present the 2026 Humanities Teacher Award lecture for Mississippi Valley State titled “Bridging the Literacy Gap with Effective Teaching Strategies for Today's College Students.” Dr. Bailey's presentation […]
Robert Luckett presents “This Is My Century: Margaret Walker and the Black Arts Movement." As Director of the Margaret Walker Center for the Study of the African-American Experience at Jackson […]
Barbara Jones Clark presents “Savoring African American History through Stories and Poetry" Take a story walk through the eyes and feelings of African Americans from slavery to the mid-seventies. Using […]
