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Congratulations to Professor Morgan and Yvonne Wells

Professor Stacy Morgan and Yvonne Wells were recently awarded the 2021 Anne B. and James B. McMillan Prize for their forthcoming book Folk Art with a Difference: The Story Quilts of Yvonne Wells.  This prize has been awarded annually since 1995 to the manuscript chosen as “Most Deserving in Alabama or Southern History or Culture” by The University of Alabama Press Faculty Editorial Board, and which has been accepted for publication in the prior calendar year. The book chronicles Wells’s […]

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Congratulations to AMS Professor Stacy Morgan for his new book!

Congratulations to American Studies Professor Stacy Morgan for the upcoming release of his latest book,  Frankie and Johnny: Race, Gender, and the Work of African American Folklore in 1930s America. The book, published by the University of Texas Press and now available for pre-order, Frankie and Johnny “presents a new argument for the centrality of African American folklore as a source of cultural expression in the 1930s.” “I am extremely impressed by this book. I think it will be a valuable addition to African American […]

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