Below is a list of media interviews I’ve given or where my work is mentioned, as well as items I’ve written for media/blog outlets:
“Would there have been a debate over the Confederate flag 100 years ago?” a video chat with The Civil War Monitor, September 18, 2015.
“Hillbilly Ingenuity: Tourism & Souvenirs,” in South Writ Large, August 10, 2015
Discussion of southern identity on Minnesota Public Radio (MPR News with Kerri Miller), July 29, 2015
Quoted in Charlotte Observer article “Defaced Memorial Stirred Controversy from the Beginning,” July 24, 2015
Quoted in the Wall Street Journal article “Confederate-Symbol Backlash Grows,” July 9, 2015
Blog for the Huffington Post “Confederate Monuments Don’t Belong on the Landscapes of Government,” June 30, 2015.
I appear in a discussion of the Confederate battle flag on Georgia Public Broadcasting June 30, 2015
Quoted in Süddeutsche Zeitung, one of the leading German daily newspapers, regarding the Confederate battle flag. June 25, 2015
The Southern Foodways Alliance hosts a podcast series called “Gravy.” In this episode on Fried Chicken, I appear at around 18:00 minutes. June 18, 2015
My Heritage Tourism Class went to Charleston and here’s the article. April 21, 2015
A shout out to Pop South AHA Member Spotlight: David Vivian, July 30, 2014
“Writer Searching for Goat Castle Details,” Natchez Democrat, July 17, 2014
Pop South mentioned in “Dear Mr. Kristof: A Letter from a Public Intellectual,” Tenured Radical, The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 18, 2014
Interviewed by Voice of Russia about the South and the Government Shutdown, October 16, 2013
Op-ed on AMERICAblog, “Please Stop Blaming the South for the Government Shutdown,” October 14, 2013
Interviewed for “Cotillions and Etiquette Schools,” WFAE Radio 90.7, October 7, 2013
New Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians, 2013-2014; Related: Inside Charlotte, May 8, 2012
Quoted in ‘Duck Dynasty’: Why is this show so popular?, San Jose Mercury, March 27, 2013
Visit to Clark University in Worcester, Mass. “Noted Southern Historian Karen L. Cox to Deliver Lecture at Clark,” March 20, 2013
Quoted in “The South Still Lies About the Civil War,” in Salon.com, March 16, 2013
Interviewed and quoted by the Los Angeles Times,”Rednecks translate to greenbacks on TV,” March 10, 2013
CBC Radio–Day 6 with Brent Bambury, January 11, 2013
Hal Ginsberg Talk Show, KRXA 540 AM, Carmel Valley, CA, November 19, 2012
Op-ed mentioned on The History News Network, November 19, 2012
Op-ed mentioned in The Maddow Blog (Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC), Blue-dot Democrats part red sea, November 19, 2012
“A New Southern Strategy,” New York Times, November 18, 2012
“What’s the Problem with Uncle Poodle: A Queer Historian and Her Critics,” Tenured Radical, The Chronicle of Higher Education Blog Network, October 13, 2012
“We’re Here, We’re Queer, Y’all,” New York Times, October 4, 2012
“Southern Hospitality and What it Means to be Hospitable,” Charlotte Talks, WFAE 90.7, Sept. 21, 2012
“Whistling Past Dixie–Hosting the DNC is Bad Southern Strategy,” HuffPost Live, Sept. 2012
“State Spends on Reality TV Airtime,” Houma Today, Jan. 28, 2012
“Eyes on the South,” Greensboro News and Record, Jan. 9, 2012
Several short radio interviews on the South in pop culture with Demetri Ravanos, WPTF 850 AM (Raleigh, NC), 2012
“Kentucky’s Turtleman join’s TV’s wave of ‘hixploitation’ oddities,” Louisville Journal-Courier, Oct. 20, 2011
“Dreaming of Dixie,” C-Span, Sept. 19, 2011
“The South Ain’t Just Whistlin’ Dixie,” Op-ed, Sunday Review, New York Times, Sept. 18, 2011
“Gone With the Wind as Southern History,” UNC Press Civil War 150 Blog, June 9, 2011
“The South in Pop Culture,” An Idiot With Questions, Podcast, Free on iTunes, June 6, 2012
“Gone With the Wind Still Evokes Strong Feelings,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 2, 2011
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