John Shelton Reed
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John Shelton Reed is a sociologist and essayist, author
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 or editor of eighteen books, most of them dealing with the contemporary American South
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. Reed regularly contributes articles to non-academic publications such as The Wall Street Journal
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, National Review
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, and the Oxford American
Oxford American
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. He was graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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 in 1964 and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University
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 in 1971. He taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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 from 1969 until his retirement in 2000 as William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of sociology and director of the Howard Odum Institute for Research in Social Science. While at UNC he helped to found the Center for the Study of the American South
Center for the Study of the American South
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 and was a founding co-editor of the quarterly Southern Cultures.

Reed served as president of the Southern Sociological Society in 1988-89 and the Southern Association for Public Opinion Research in 1999-2000. He was elected to the Fellowship of Southern Writers
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 in 2000, and was chancellor of that organization, 2009-11. He has lectured at over 300 colleges and universities in the United States and abroad and held visiting positions at over a dozen, including Fulbright lectureships
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 in Israel and India, and the Pitt Professorship of American History and Institutions at Cambridge University
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. After his retirement from the University of North Carolina, he held visiting positions at a number of institutions; among other things, he was a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University
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 and a lieutenant colonel in the South Carolina Unorganized Militia, while teaching at The Citadel, in Charleston.

Reed has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the National Humanities Center
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, and (twice) a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
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. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of the South and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
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.

Selected works

  • Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue (with D. V. Reed and W. McKinney; University of North Carolina Press, 2008).
  • Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing (edited with D. V. Reed; University of Georgia Press
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    , 2008).
  • Townways of Kent, by Ralph Patrick (edited and with a new introduction by J. S. Reed and D. V. Reed; University of South Carolina Press, 2008).
  • Minding the South (University of Missouri Press, 2003).
  • Glorious Battle: The Cultural Politics of Victorian Anglo-Catholicism (Vanderbilt University Press, 1996; U.K. ed. Tufton Press, 1998).
  • Kicking Back: Further Dispatches from the South (University of Missouri Press, 1995).
  • Surveying the South: Studies in Regional Sociology (University of Missouri Press, 1993).
  • "My Tears Spoiled My Aim" and Other Reflections on Southern Culture (University of Missouri Press, 1993; paperback ed., Harcourt Brace, 1994).
  • Whistling Dixie: Dispatches from the South (University of Missouri Press, 1990; paperback ed., Harcourt Brace, 1992).
  • Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy: Native White Social Types (University of Georgia Press, 1986).
  • Southerners: The Social Psychology of Sectionalism (University of North Carolina Press, 1983; Booksurge, 2008).
  • One South: An Ethnic Approach to Regional Culture (Louisiana State University Press, 1982).
  • Regionalism and the South: Selected Papers of Rupert Vance (edited and with an introduction by J. S. Reed and D. J. Singal; University of North Carolina Press, 1982).
  • Perspectives on the American South: An Annual Review of Society, Politics and Culture (edited with M. Black; Gordon & Breach), vol. I, 1981; vol. II, 1983.
  • The Enduring Effects of Education (with H. Hyman and C. Wright; University of Chicago Press, 1975).
  • The Enduring South: Subcultural Persistence in Mass Society (D. C. Heath, 1972; paperback ed., University of North Carolina Press, 1974; revised ed., 1986).

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