We're pleased to welcome James C. Cobb as a Contributing Editor at Cliopatria. A former president of the Southern Historical Association, Professor Cobb is the B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor of History at his alma mater, the University of Georgia. His books include: The Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936-1980 (Louisiana State University Press, 1982); Industrialization and Southern Society, 1877-1984 (University Press of Kentucky, 1984); The New Deal and the South: Essays (University Press of Mississippi, 1984), The Most Southern Place on Earth (Oxford University Press, 1992), The Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936-1990 (University of Illinois Press, 1993), The Mississippi Delta and the World: The Memoirs of David L. Cohn (Louisiana State University Press, 1995), Georgia Odyssey (University of Georgia Press, 1997), Redefining Southern Culture: Mind and Identity in the Modern South (University of Georgia Press, 1999), The Brown Decision, Jim Crow and Southern Identity (University of Georgia Press, 2005), Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity (Oxford University Press, 2005), and Globalization and the American South (University of Georgia Press, 2005). His articles, op-eds, and reviews have appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Charlotte Observer, Georgia Review, the Journal of Southern History, History News Network, The New Republic, Southern Cultures and elsewhere. He blogs at CobBlog. We're very pleased to welcome him to Cliopatria.

Rebecca Anne Goetz - 9/29/2005

As Charlotte would say, Salutations! Glad you're joining us!

Rob MacDougall - 9/29/2005

Professor Cobb, welcome! I'm a fan - I read and really enjoyed The Most Southern Place on Earth this summer, and I will be using an excerpt in my American Studies class next spring.

Jonathan T. Reynolds - 9/29/2005

Hail and well met, Dr. Cobb! Welcome to Cliopatria.