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 Belhaven University campus on February 2, 2026, at 4 p.m.
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 how Mississippi’s expansive history, rich culture, and complicated legacy remain imprinted on the landscape, shaping both progress and pride in ways that are deeply felt […]
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 Parallel Lives of Clara Schumann and Taylor Swift” is on the corresponding careers of Clara Schumann and Taylor Swift. Both were composer-performers who balanced their […]
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 is a craft talk offering tried-and-true tricks designed to help you turn procrastination into a priority when you sit down to face the page The […]
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, Susan B. Anthony, President William McKinley, Booker T. Washington, Duke of Argyll and Sir John Gorst. She was a journalist who wrote about human rights […]
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.” “Preserving Our Musical Moment: New Works and New Possibilities for the Bass Trombone” explores the bass trombone as both an artistic voice and a historical […]
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.” The lecture will take place on the Millsaps College campus on February 10, 2026, at 4:15 p.m.
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 on the Delta State University campus on February 10, 2026, at 6 p.m.
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 will focus on the literacy challenges faced by today’s incoming college students and examine how these challenges affect teaching and learning. She will focus on […]
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 State University, Dr. Luckett has become a leading scholar on the great writer, scholar and teacher, Margaret Walker. Best known as the author of For My […]
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 award-winning literature via stories and poetry, the audience will experience plantation life and escape, life view of a 110-year-old supercentenarian, living with Jim Crow during […]
