Ferris, William R.
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Name (Latin)
Ferris, William R.
Other forms of name
Ferris, Bill
Date of birth
1942-05-02
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Folklore--Southern States
Southern States--Civilization
Occupation
College teachers
Authors
Folklorists
Historians
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
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MARC
Sources of Information
- William R. Ferris; professor of history and adjunct professor in the Curriculum in Folklore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; MA, Northwestern University, English (1965); MA University of Pennsylvania, Folklore (1967); PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Folklore (1969) ( (UNC College of Arts & Sciences WWW site, June 10, 2016) )
- University of Mississippi Museum profile page, 6 July 2017(Dr. William R. Ferris (1942-); born in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1942; considered one of the foremost American authors and scholars of Southern art)
- Wikipedia, August 13, 2019(William R. Ferris; William Reynolds Ferris; born February 5, 1942, Vicksburg, Mississippi; American author and scholar; co-founded the Center for Southern Folklore in Memphis, Tennessee; founding director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi; co-editor of The encyclopedia of Southern culture; chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1997-2001; joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2002 as senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South, professor of history, and adjunct professor in the Curriculum in Folklore)
- His Mississippi Black folklore, 1971:t.p. (William R. Ferris, Jr.)
- His Local color, c1983:t.p. (William Ferris) CIP data sheet (b. 2/5/42)
- His Ray Lum, mule trader, c1977:p. 1 (Bill Ferris) p. 5 (associate professor of American and Afro-American studies, Yale University; co-director of the Center for Southern Folklore) p. 7 (Ferris, William)
Wikipedia description:
Dr. William Reynolds Ferris Jr. (born February 5, 1942), also known as Bill Ferris, is an American folklorist, scholar, author, filmmaker and ethnomusicologist focused on the distinct cultural qualities of the American South. He is a former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities and, with Judy Peiser, he co-founded the Center for Southern Folklore in Memphis, Tennessee. He was the founding director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, and is co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.
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