Clyde Ellis, associate professor of history, recently published an essay in an anthology on Southern culture titled “Southern Heritage on Display: Public Ritual and Ethnic Diversity within Southern Regionalism,” published by the University of Alabama Press and edited by Dr. Celeste Ray, an anthropologist from the University of the South. Ellis’ essay is titled “There’s a Dance Every Weekend: Powwow Culture in Southeast North Carolina,” and discusses the appearance and evolution of Plains-style powwows in the Southeast from the 1970s to the present.