"The Beauty of History: A review of Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval (New York: Norton, 2020)," American Book Review 42:2 (Jan/Feb 2021): 5-6.

“The High and Lonesome Art of John Cohen and Roscoe Holcomb,” Southern Cultures (November 2020) https://www.southerncultures.org/article/the-high-and-lonesome-art-of-john-cohen-and-roscoe-halcomb/

“The Birth and Death of Pylon, America’s Best Rock Band,” Slate (July 8, 2020) https://slate.com/culture/2020/07/pylon-band-athens-georgia-history-video-cool-town.html

 “Happy Birthday, R.E.M.” University of North Carolina Press Blog (April 3, 2020) https://uncpressblog.com/2020/04/03/grace-elizabeth-hale-happy-birthday-r-e-m/ 

 “The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia,” Southern Spaces (September 26, 2011)

“Shaping a Southern Soundscape,” Southern Spaces (July 29, 2010)    

“Give Me Something Good to Eat: An Essay on Anorexia and Bulimia” Iris, Winter 1999, 39  

“We’ve Got to Get Out of This Place: Tony Horwitz Tours the South,” (an essay on the history of Civil War remembrance), Southern Cultures, Winter 1999, 54-66  

"For ‘Colored’ and For ‘White’: Bounding Consumption in the South," in Glenda Gilmore, Jane Dailey, and Bryant Simon, eds., Jumping Jim Crow: The New Political History of the New South (Princeton: Princeton University Press,  2000)  

“A Note on Region, Race, and Vision,” part of a roundtable on James N. Gregory, “Southernizing the American Working Class: Postwar Episodes of Regional and Class Transformation,” Labor History 39 (Spring 1998), 155-57