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CURRICULUM VITAE <br /> NAME: William R.Ferris <br /> BIRTHDATE: February 5,1942 <br /> HOME ADDRESS: 1 Mint Springs Lane <br /> Chapel Hill,NC 27514 <br /> WORK ADDRESS: Center for the Study of the American South <br /> The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill <br /> CB#9127,410 East Franklin Street <br /> Chapel Hill,NC 27599-9127 <br /> TITLE: Senior Associate Director,Center for the Study of <br /> the American South <br /> Joel R.Williamson Eminent Professor of History <br /> Adjunct Professor in American Studies <br /> Adjunct Professor in the Curriculum in Folklore <br /> Adjunct Professor in the School of Information and Library Sciences <br /> TELEPHONE: (919)962-0519(Office) <br /> AIL: wferris @unc.edu <br /> ACADEMIC TRAINING: <br /> Summer Program Union Theological Seminary 1963 <br /> (New York) <br /> BA(English Literature) Davidson College 1964 <br /> MA(English Literature) Northwestern University 1965 <br /> One-Year Student Trinity College 1965-66 <br /> (Dublin,Ireland) <br /> MA(Folklore) University of Pennsylvania 1967 <br /> PhD(Folklore) University of Pennsylvania 1969 <br /> Dissertation:'Black Folklore <br /> From the Mississippi Delta" <br /> TEACHING EXPERIENCE: <br /> Assistant Professor Jackson State University 1970-72 <br /> Department of English :lackson,Mississippi <br /> Associate ProfessorYale University 1972-79 <br /> Afro-American and New Haven,Connecticut <br /> American Studies <br /> Programs <br /> Director,Center forUniversity of Mississippi 1979-97 <br /> Study of Southern Oxford,Mississippi <br /> Culture and Professor of <br /> Anthropology <br /> Visiting Fellow,Stanford Humanities Center 1989-90 <br /> Stanford University <br /> Palo Alto,California <br /> 2 <br /> Ferris Vitae <br />