Known as the sister of famous composer Felix Mendelssohn, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel composed over 450 works despite being discouraged by family members and 19th-century society. Hear stories of her life and some of her most significant compositions, performed by Dr. Victoria Johnson, assisted by the women of the Jones College music faculty. Dr. Johnson is […]

Dr. Vanessa Holden from the University of Kentucky will speak at Mississippi College as part of MC's continued effort to bring lived and scholarly expertise of the African American experience to the Mississippi College campus and the larger metro Jackson community. She is an associate professor of History, the Director of African American and Africana […]

Jesse Brown is Delta State University's 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Brown’s lecture, This is a Beast. The Beast is Us., will be presented 2/6/25 at 7:00 pm on the college’s campus. Brown will be among those honored at the Mississippi Humanities Council Awards Ceremony March 28, 2025 at the Two Mississippi Museums in […]

Seth Parry is Belhaven University’s 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Parry’s lecture, Ancient Foes, Modern Narratives: Framing the Ottomans as Trojans in Venetian Humanism, will be presented 2/7/25 at 3:00 pm on the college’s campus in the Student Center Theatre. The presentation will look at a linguistic construct used by Venetian Renaissance humanists in respect […]

Micael Gleason is Millsaps College’s 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Gleason’s lecture, Epic Ideas, Lyric Insights: Homer, Virgil, Ovid, will be presented 2/13/25 at 4:00 pm on the college’s campus in the McMullen Lecture Hall Room 122. Gleason will be among those honored at the Mississippi Humanities Council Awards Ceremony March 28, 2025 at the Two […]

Brandi Pillow is Mississippi Delta Community College's 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Pillow's lecture, Building A Community of Learners: Fostering Community, will be presented 2/18/25 at 11:00 am on the college’s Moorhead campus in the Fine Arts Auditorium. Pillow will be among those honored at the Mississippi Humanities Council Awards Ceremony March 28, 2025 […]

Dr. Renee Wilson is Mississippi College's 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Dr. Wilson's lecture, Elevated: The Influence of Vernacular Music on American Art Music, will be presented 2/18/25 at 6:00 pm on the college’s campus in Jean Pittman Recital Hall, Aven Hall Rm 202. The presentation explores vernacular music as music of the people. […]

Valtreasa Tolliver-Cook is Alcorn State University's 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Tolliver-Cook's lecture, Service to Others: A Christian Perspective on Social Work Values, will be presented 2/20/25 at 12:30 pm on the college’s campus in Dumas Hall Lecture Room 107. The presentation explores the alignment between Christian teachings and the core values of the social […]

Dr. Sol Peláez is Mississippi State University’s 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Dr. Peláez’ lecture, The Paradox of Narrating Violence, will be presented 2/20/25 at 3:00 pm on the college’s campus in the Grisham Room, Mitchell Memorial Library. Dr. Peláez will be among those honored at the Mississippi Humanities Council Awards Ceremony March 28, 2025 […]