The University of Southern Mississippi School of Library and Information Science is pleased to welcome a new tenure-track faculty member, J. Brenton Stewart, Ph.D.  Dr. Stewart recently earned his doctorate in Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His dissertation was "Informing the South: On the Culture of Print in Antebellum Augusta, Georgia, 1828 - 1860" and areas of interest include Southern print culture, history of libraries, and social informatics. Dr. Stewart earned a M.S. in Library Science from Clark Atlanta University and a B.A. in History and African-American Studies from UNC Greensboro. He was recently a Stephan Botein Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society, has presented at various conferences including the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), and has papers under review for journal publication.

Teresa S. Welsh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Library & Information Science
The University of Southern Mississippi
118 College Drive #5146
Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001