Susan Mitchell Crawley is associate curator of folk art at the High Museum of Art. Her traveling retrospective exhibition of the sculpture of the Georgia wood carver Ulysses Davis is currently touring the United States. Her previous exhibitions include “Dreamscapes: Imaginary Landscapes from the Folk Art Collection” (2009), “Louis Monza: From Politics to Paradise” (2007), and “Southern Vernacular: Nineteenth Century Folk Art,” an ongoing installation of vernacular furniture, pottery, and textiles from the High’s permanent collection. Crawley received a master of arts degree in art history from Georgia State University in January 2005.

Dr. Carol Crown, professor of art history at the University of Memphis, contributed the principal essay on the Mullis Collection in the book *Amazing Grace: Self-Taught Artists from the Mullis Collection*. The book won a bronze medal at the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards and received the prize in the fine arts category at the 12th annual IPPY Awards in Los Angeles.

Charles Russell serves as Director of the Rutgers Graduate Program in American Studies and as Associate Director of the Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience. An Associate Professor of English, he is author of *Poets, Prophets, and Revolutionaries: The Literary Avant-Garde from Rimbaud through Postmodernism*, and is editor of *Self-Taught Art: The Culture and Aesthetics of American Vernacular Art*, among other books. Most recently, he co-edited with Professor Carol Crown of the University of Memphis, *Sacred and Profane: Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art*. His current research focuses on contemporary American literature and art, especially the work of Robert Stone and the theoretical formulations of mainstream and outsider art. He teaches courses in American literature, the foundations of literary study, and contemporary literature and art.

Charles Reagan Wilson is the Kelly Gene Cook Sr. Chair of History and Professor of Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi, where he has taught since 1981. He has worked extensively with graduate students and served as Director of the Southern Studies academic program from 1991 to 1998, and Director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture from 1998-2007. Wilson received bachelors and masters degrees from the University of Texas at El Paso and earned his PhD in history from the University of Texas at Austin. He taught at the University of Wurzburg, Germany, the University of Texas at El Paso, and Texas Tech University before coming to Oxford. Wilson is the author of *Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920* (1980), a study of the memory of the Confederacy in the post-Civil War South, and *Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis* (1995), which studies popular religion as a part of the culture of the modern South. He is also coeditor (with Bill Ferris) of *the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture* (1989), which received the Dartmouth Prize from the American Library Association as best reference book of the year and is also coeditor of *The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture*, currently in production. He is editor or coeditor of *Religion and the American Civil War* (1998), *The New Regionalism *(1996), and *Religion in the South* (1985).