Thomas S Rankin, Director, Center for Documentary Studies

Thomas S Rankin
Contact Info:
Office Location:  1317 W Pettigrew St
Office Phone:  (919) 660-3613, (919) 660-3610
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Teaching (Fall 2009):

  • ARTSVIS 117.01, DOC PHOTO/SOUTH CULTURE Synopsis
    Bridges 201, W 02:50 PM-05:20 PM
Teaching (Spring 2010):

  • FVD 103.01, CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTARY FILMS Synopsis
    Nasher 105, Tu 01:30 PM-05:00 PM
Specialties:

Production - Documentary
Research Interests:

A photographer, filmmaker, and folklorist, Tom Rankin has been documenting and interpreting American culture for nearly twenty years. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (1993), which received the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Photography, 'Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre': Photographs of a River Life(1995), Faulkner's World: The Photographs of Martin J. Dain (1997), and Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (2000).

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. T. Rankin, Rendering Local Community: Stories of Indivisible (October, Accepted, 2002) (Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK.) .
  2. T. Rankin, Photography's Lure (October, Accepted, 2002) (Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Michael Carlos Museum, Emory University.) .
  3. T. Rankin, The Lure of the Picture and the Nature of Tradition (October, Accepted, 2002) (American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Rochester, New York.) .
  4. T. Rankin, Fixing the Southern Vernacular: The Contemporaneous Art of Walker Banks and William Faulkner (July, Accepted, 2002) (Delivered at 26th annual Faulkner & Yoknafatawpha Conference, Oxford, MS.) .
  5. T. Rankin, Knowing John McWilliams, Castings (March-April 2002) (publication exhibition created by Cathy Byrd.) .