About Our Project Staff and Contributors

The NEW SOUTH VOICES project is the work of a dedicated corps of students, faculty, staff, and community partners.  The following students have contributed to the project by transcribing, editing, tagging, copying and digitizing the interviews: Kelvin Allen, Adele Barnes, Breona Barr, Krystal Blanton, Robin Bouchez, Kevin Cohen, Jessica Colopy, Christina Davis, Melinda Demarais, Mike Drum, Connie Forlidas, Ruth Faye Griffin, Russell Henderson, Abby Hillard, Brittany Johnson, Meghan Kaylor,  Walter Knox, Erica Long, Rashmi Nayak, Misty Penry, Lisa Posner, Joanne Shand,  Allison Sinclair, Tamara Turner, and Laurie Wright.

New South Voices was developed by Pat Ryckman, Reference Archivist, Special Collections, who served as the initial project manager. The current manager is Katie McCormick, Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections at UNC Charlotte Atkins Library.

The current database and application design and programming was done by Stephen Westman (Digital Information Services Librarian, Library Systems who also serves the project's technical manager for programming and system support) with help from Allison Pittman (as part of her Computer Science Senior Project) and Jonathan Champ. People who worked on previous versions of the application include Aditya Vashisht (Computer Science graduate student); Niraj Bista, Robin Brandt, Don Callahan, Kavita Desai, Carlton Hoover, Divyesh Jambusaria, Bryan Klimasewiski and Ronak Mehta (other students who assisted with the project as part of their CS Senior Projects); and Wade Dean and Brad Spry (Library Systems staff who provided system support).

Our community and university partners have included:

  • Lenora Stein - Carolina Agency for Jewish Education
  • Charlotte Cultural Heritage Partnership
  • June Blotnick - Cultivating Common Ground
  • Jean Johnson and Ryan Sumner - Levine Museum of the New South
  • Gabriel Cumming - Perspectives on Land
  • Dr. Boyd Davis and Lisa Russell-Pinson - Project MORE
  • Sam Eneman - Video consultant for the project.
  • Dr. Karen Flint, UNC Charlotte History Department
  • Dr. Rob Smith, UNC Charlotte History Department
  • Lois Stickell and Bridget Sanders, UNC Charlotte Atkins Library