On Campus

The SFA is an institute of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. All SFA employees are staff, not faculty. Funding for the SFA comes, primarily, from member and corporate contributions. The University of Mississippi pays the salary of our oral historian.

The SFA is working to establish a curriculum of foodways classes. To date, a number of classes have been offered but no systemic approach to teaching undergraduate or graduate students has been established. The SFA seeks funding to establish a dedicated professor of foodways or a joint appointment with another department.

The SFA underwrites assistantships each year. Among graduate students who have completed the program and published their theses is Georgeanna Milam, who wrote of Craig Claiborne, the Mississippi-born food editor of the New York Times.