This year’s annual meeting will be held March 27-28 at Fant Memorial Library on the campus of Mississippi University for Women in Columbus. You can register here. Information about parking and hotels is also available at that link.

“Praise the Bridges that Carried Us Over”: Mississippi Women in the Archives

Thursday, March 27

8:30 – registration, coffee, breakfast snacks

9:00 – Researching Everyday Women

• Jennifer McGillan – Cooking with Ketchup
• Danielle Bishop Stoulig – Finding Nancy: One Student’s Search for a Female Cotton Planter in Antebellum Mississippi”

10:00 – break

10:15 – Rory Grennan and Katie McCormick – “Let Them See”: Mamie Till-Mobley in the Emmett Till Archives

11:15 – lunch break

1:00 – Institutional Records

• Heather Moore – Hillman College Legacy
• Melissa Hering – Silent Stories: Examination into Circuit Court Felony Cases from Lowndes County, Mississippi

2:00 – break

2:15 – Aaron Waterson, Jennifer Burt, Brad Johnston – Progressive Mississippi: An Unconventional Angle to Mississippi History

3:15 – break

3:30 – Lorraine Stuart, Jessica Clark, Ella Lauderdale – Southern Miss, Mrs., and Ms.: The Women of USM Special Collections

Friday, March 28

9:00 – coffee, breakfast snacks

9:30 – Revisiting Collections and Their Legacies

• Stephanie Salvaterra, Jared Quist, Sarah Parrish – “The Mystery and the Detective”: Rediscovering Blanche Colton Williams
• Jennifer Brannock – Bumping Into an Old Friend: Becoming Reacquainted with the Will D. Campbell Papers

10:30 – Lorraine Stuart, Elizabeth LaBeaud, and Brennan Collins – Bridging Southern Miss Digital Collections and Finding Aids: The O’Keefe Family Archive Case Study

11:30 – closing remarks by SMA President Miranda Vaughn

12:00 – lunch / SMA board meeting (board meetings are open to any member who wants to attend)