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Corey J. Miles, PhD

Assistant Professor

Corey J. Miles is an ethnographer of the U.S. South. His mama lived and died there.

She did both in simple and complicated ways. His research interest is a commitment to

her. It manifests in examining how southern Black people produce a thing we might call

home in spaces that are hostile to them. Sociologists often call this placemaking. As a

scholar who was raised by black women and trap music and trained as a sociologist, he

uses the quiet and loud pieces of southern Black performance as an entry point into

understanding the current unfolding of the U.S. South.

Contact Information

Contact Information

Tulane University

Department of Sociology

220 Newcomb Hall

New Orleans, LA 70118

cmiles6@tulane.edu

Africana Studies Program

300F Hebert Hall

New Orleans, LA 70118

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