A recently published anthology for which Associate Professor of History Clyde Ellis was a contributor has been named to Choice mgazine’s Outstanding Academic Title list for 2004. A total of 6,847 books were reviewed this year; 651 were chosen. The book is “Southern Heritage on Display : Public Ritual and Ethnic Diversity within Southern Regionalism,” Celeste Ray, ed. (University of Alabama Press, 2003).
Ellis’ essay is “’There’s a Dance Every Weekend’: Powwow Culture in Southeast North Carolina.” This is the second time Ellis has worked on books named to the list; his first was as co-author of “The Jesus Road: Kiowas, Christianity, and Indian Hymns,” (University of Nebraska Press, 2002).