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 Recent Faculty Publications

Books

1. Rankin, T. Truths of the Matter: Traditions in Documentary Studies. (2012).
2. Rankin, T. A Place of Tender Images: Paul Kwilecki’s Four Decades of Photography of Decatur County, GA. (2012).
3.  Colors of Confinement: Color Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II.  edited by Rankin, T; Hill, ITUniversity of North Carolina Press, (2012).
4. Jackson, B; Christian, D. In This Timeless Time.  edited by Hill, IT; Rankin, TSUniversity of North Carolina Press, (2011).
5. Rankin, TS. Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound.  edited by Rankin, T; Hill, IT; Biewen, J; Dilworth, A(2010).
6. Rankin, T. Beyond Beauty: The Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University. The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, (2009).
7. Rankin, T. Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible. W.W. Norton and Company/Lyndhurst Books, (2000).

Articles Published

1. Rankin, T. "The Cruel Radiance of the Obvious." Southern CulturesSouthern Cultures  (2011).
2. Rankin, T. "Maasai Community of Lakipia."   (September, 2009). [available here]
3. Tom Rankin. "Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families."   (July, 2009). (Five-hour National Public Radio Special)
4. Rankin, T. "Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families (NPR Special)."   (July, 2009).
5. Rankin, T. "Paul Kwilecki Remembered." Porch Gallery  (2009). (Porch Gallery,http://cdsporch.org/archives/1863) [1863]
6. Rankin, T. "Mike Seeger Remembered." Porch Gallery  (2009). (Porch Gallery, Http://cdsporch.org/archives/589) [589]
7. Rankin, T. "Visualizing the World of William Faulkner." American Studies International, Oct. 1998. Edited by Brownlee, PJ.  vol. XXXVI no. 3 (2007).
8. Rankin, T. "Judgment and Grace in Dixie." Judgment and Grace in Dixie. Edited by Wilson, CR.  (2007).
9. Rankin, T. "The Injuries of Time and Weather." Southern Cultures  vol. 13.2 (2007): 3-28. (Introductory essay for special issue on southern photography)
10. Rankin, T. "Share a Table, Make a Friend." Appalachian Heritage  (2007). (Berea College, KY)
11. Rankin, T. "Seeing What We Need To See." The Light Factory  (2007). (an essay on documentary photography, River Docs Catalog, Charlotte, NC)
12. Rankin, T. "Careful Tending." Last Harvest: Truck Farmers in the Deep South. Edited by Dilbeck, P.  (2006). (Book by Perry Dilbeck)
13. Rankin, T. "Putting a Bottom Under It." Oxford American  no. 49 (2005). (Issue 49)
14. Rankin, T. "The Last Days of Kitty Shenay." American Radio Works  (2004). (Web-based photographic exhibition for "The Hospice Experiment," National Radio Documentary, American Radio Works (americanradioworks.org))  [abs]
15. Rankin, T. "In Wildness (photo essay)." Daylight Magazine  vol. 1 (2004). (Photo essay)
16. Rankin, T. "Home and Away at 25." 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Phogtographers  (2003).
17. Rankin, T. "Photography’s Lure."   (October, 2002). (Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Michael Carlos Museum, Emory University)
18. Rankin, T. "Rendering Local Community: Stories of Indivisible." Anchorage Museum of History and Art  (October, 2002). (Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK)
19. Rankin, T. "The Lure of the Picture and the Nature of Tradition."   (October, 2002). (American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Rochester, New York)
20. Rankin, T. "Fixing the Southern Vernacular: The Contemporaneous Art of Walker Evans and William Faulkner."   (July, 2002). (Delivered at 26th annual Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference, Oxford, MS)
21. Rankin, T. "Indivisible: Stories of American Community."   (January, 2001). (Tampa Museum of Art)
22. Rankin, T. "Crossroads and the Cross: Visualizing the Blues, Visualizing the Blues Symposium."   (November, 2000). (The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN)
23. Rankin, T. ""Near the Cross": Rendering Faiths in the American South"."   (November, 1999).
24. Rankin, T. ""Carried to the Heart:: Faith & Doubt"."   (November, 1999). (Contemporary Southern Art and Literature, Milsaps College, Mississippi)

Other

1. Tom Rankin. "The Art of Farming."   (December, 2010). (Photographs and audio by students at the Center for Documentary Studies, part of the larger Five Farms Project.)
2. "In My Mind."   (2009). (Tom Rankin, executive producer; (Gary Hawkins, director; Emily Ladue, producer); Traces the creation and performance of Jazz pianist Jason Moran's interpretation of Thelanious Monk's 1959 Town Hall Concert.)
3. Tom Rankin. "Knowing John McWilliams." Castings  (2002). (publication exhibition created by Cathy Byrd)
4. Tom Rankin. ""A Mississippi Portrait": Farm Security Administration Photographs, 1935-1940."   (2000). (CD Rom of the Library of Congress. FSA Photographs from Mississippi)
5. Tom Rankin. ""Near the Cross": Rendering Faiths in the American South"." Image: Journal of Art, Literature and Religion  (Winter, 1999).