Several IDV students and faculty recently participated in the 46th Annual Southern Regional Science Association conference in Charleston, South Carolina. 

USM FACULTY PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS:

ARTICLES:

• Dr. David Butler: 2008 “Women's Work: The Home, the Workplace, and the Spaces Between” submitted to Industrial Geographer, with Perry Carter, accepted for publication June.

• Dr. David Butler: 2008  “Imagining Plantations: Slavery, Dominant Narratives, and Foreigners,” submitted to the Southeastern Geographer, March, with Perry Carter and Owen Dwyer, accepted for publication June, publication date spring 2009.

• Dr. David Butler: 2008 “Framing the Race Debate: Analyzing a New York Times conversation,” submitted to the Southeastern Geographer, March, with Josepher Montes, accepted with revisions, revised June.

• Dr. David Butler: 2007 “Interdisciplinary Departments” as part of the NSF’s Enhancing Departments and Graduate Education (EDGE) project.

• Dr. David Butler: 2007 "The Social and Economic Impact of The Call Center Industry in Ireland,” in the International Journal of Social Economics, volume 34, numbers 3 and 4, with Chuck Jobs and Deena Burris, pages 276-289.

CONFERENCES/PRESENTATIONS:

• Dr. David Butler: 2008 Keynote Panelist, International Contact Center Management, Canada, October, scheduled.
• Dr. David Butler: 2008 “Call Centers and Economic Development,” at the New South Economic Development Conference, Jackson, September, scheduled.
• Dr. David Butler: 2008 “Gazing Across the Color Line: White visitors to Southern Heritage Sites” presentation at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, April, with Perry Carter and Own Dwyer.
• Dr. David Butler: 2007 “Tourism Plantations - Racialized Spaces and Unexpected Results” Presentation at the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, Charlotte, NC, October.
• Dr. David Butler: 2007 “Call Centers and Development” presentation at the New South Economic Development Course, Biloxi, September.
• Dr. David Butler: 2007 “Viewing Historical Sites through the Gaze of the ‘Other’” presentation at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, April, with Perry Carter and Own Dwyer.
• Dr. David Butler: 2007 I'm sorry, can you please repeat that?, India and the call center phenomena, Presented to Mississippi University for Women's International Series, February 2007

BOOK CHAPTERS:

AWARDS

• 2007                Mississippi Department of Employment Security grant, 1 year, “Continuation of the MDES Call Center as a Virtual WIN Job Center,” $100,000.

Students serving as panel discussants included:

• Topics in International trade and finance: Meaza Z. Demissie
• Economic growth: The Interplay of Institutions and Geography: Markus Turkopuls
• Regional Economic Growth: Glendscene Williams

Other USM faculty attending the conference included: 

• George Carter, Professor and Chair of Economics
• Daniel Monchuk, Assistant Professor of Economics
• Edward Nissan, Professor of Economics

Brian Richard was also in attendance.

USM was second only to West Virginia University in overall participation.  We were happy to see so many of our graduate students participate.  The relatively small size of this conference allows for greater discussion of the papers and better feedback for the presenters.  We invite you to look over the association website at: www.regionalscience.org/srsa.  Next years conference will be in Washington DC.  Hope to see you there!