Blair L M Kelley

Blair LM Kelley is Joel R. Williamson Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies, the director of the Center for the Study of the American South, and codirector of the Southern Futures initiative at the University of North Carolina. Her first book, Right to Ride, won the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize, and she received a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to support her writing of Black Folk. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Blair LM Kelley is Joel R. Williamson Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies, the director of the Center for the Study of the American South, and codirector of the Southern Futures initiative at the University of North Carolina. Her first book, Right to Ride, won the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize, and she received a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to support her writing of Black Folk. She lives in Durham, North Carolina. See less