Michael K. Honey, University of Washington, Tacoma (WA)

The Pleasures of Shame: Emotional Starvation and Sensual Hunger in Dorothy Allison's Trash - Faune Albert, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (MA)

Economies of Scarcity and Abundance in Contemporary Southern Blues - Nicholas Neil Gorrell, University of Mississippi (MS)

Second Lines, Creative Economies, and Gentrification: Music Cooperatives in Post-Katrina New Orleans - Anne Gessler, University of Texas, Austin (TX)

Eric Porter, University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)