Author Archive
Ralph Eubanks
W. Ralph Eubanks is the author of A Place Like Mississippi, which will be released on March 16, 2021 by Timber Press. A Place Like Mississippitakes readers on a complete tour of the real and imagined landscapes that have inspired generations of authors. This is a book that honors and explores the landscape of Mississippi—and the […]
Julie Dhossche
An active science researcher, Julie’s work at the UM Medical Center on the effects of alcohol intake on brain receptor development was published in a medical journal. As a community volunteer active with the Spanish Club, she combined the two for a medical missionary trip to Bolivia. Julie’s honors thesis examining songs in the plays […]
Tametrice Eckols Strickland
Since graduation, Tametrice Strickland (BA ’95; MEd 2010 ) has worked in the field of K-12 education in Quitman County, as teacher, administrator, and director of the first Alternative Pathway to Excellence Program. Strickland earned her MA in curriculum and instruction from UM, participated in educational leadership programs, and earned an educational specialist degree from […]
Taylor Sledge
President of financial strategies firm Sledge and Company and recipient of business awards such as the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors Top 4 Under 40, Taylor has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, USA Today, and Mississippi Business Journal.. “Getting a liberal arts education at Ole Miss was awesome, especially in the English department. A […]
Leah Thomson
Leah Thomson comes from a family where service was a priority. The daughter of Mitzie Lindsey and Dr. Kenneth Lindsey of Fulton, Mississippi, her mother was an inspiring special education teacher for 36 years. Leah earned her BA in English from the University of Mississippi in 1984 and went on to obtain a paralegal degree […]
Robert Harper
Robert Harris Harper grew up in the small Mississippi Delta town of Indianola. An Eagle Scout, he grew up showing livestock in the 4-H club and competing in tennis and golf tournaments. He graduated from Mississippi Delta Junior College (now Mississippi Delta Community College) where he was inducted into the MDJC Hall of Fame and […]
Dr. Jay Wellons
Jay Wellons MD, MSPH holds the Cal Turner Chair of Pediatric Neurosurgery and is Chief of the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. He is a Professor in the Departments of Neurological Surgery, Pediatrics, Plastic Surgery, and Radiology and Radiological Sciences. He also […]
The 2021 Edith T. Baine Lecture featuring Mab Segrest, Monday, March 8th at 6:30 PM
Mab Segrest is professor emeritus of gender and women’s studies at Connecticut College and the author of Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum, Memoir of a Race Traitor, Born to Belonging: Writings on Spirit and Justice, and My Mama’s Dead Squirrel: Lesbian Essays on Southern Culture. A […]
