Endowment to Help Train Next Generation of Storytellers         

The University of Mississippi News

Hudson, an Ole Miss alumnus and associate professor emeritus of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, has given $60,000 to enable the UM Center for the Study of Southern Culture to invite documentarians to work with students. 

Hudson created a National Endowment for Humanities traveling photographic exhibition, which is slated to come to the University Museum in 2027, and the companion book, "O.N. Pruitt's Possum Town: Photographing Trouble and Resilience in the American South," published by UNC Press in partnership with Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies. 

"I want students to realize that photographs can play a very important role in unlocking stories about who we are and who we have become," Hudson said. "Documentarians try to explain the world around us, where we've been and where we're going. 

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