In her writing, Grace Elizabeth Hale examines how people in the past have used stories, images, sounds, and artifacts to understand their worlds. She has worked on the history of the US South, popular music, documentary film, photography, and how Americans have thought about race and racial difference. She is a native of Georgia, where she grew up in Atlanta before moving to Athens. There, she earned undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Georgia while playing in a band and co-founding and running a café/ music venue/ gallery. She left Athens to earn a PhD in US History at Rutgers University. Today, Hale lives in Charlottesville with her husband the photographer and art professor William Wylie.
