The presentation will consider Mississippi not as a “closed society” or provincial backwater but as a “middle ground” for interaction among empires, cultures, and forces of global change. Audiences are invited to imagine pig-crazy conquistadors and Native Americans as well as the lone pilot in the Civil War air force.
Speakers Expertise:
Dr. Noonkester has served as a professor instructor and administrator at William Carey University since 1983. Dr. Myron Noonkester is also the dean of the Noonkester School of Arts and Letters. His teaching ranges from early modern British history to the history of Mississippi. His scholarly interests include sheriffs in the Atlantic world and Edward Gibbon, historian of Roman decline. His favorite publications are his research notes regarding English literary figures, including novelists Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope and playwright John Marston.
