Research Interests for Thomas S. Rankin

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

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, IT (2012), University of North Carolina Press [author's comments]
4. Jackson, B; Christian, D, In This Timeless Time, edited by Hill, IT; Rankin, TS (2011), University of North Carolina Press [author's comments]
5. Rankin, T, The Cruel Radiance of the Obvious, in Southern Cultures, Southern Cultures (2011)