T. DeWayne Moore, Ph.D.

Dr. Tyler Moore
T. DeWayne Moore, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Contact Information

Lecturer I
Office: 207 G.R. Woolfolk Social & Political Science Building
Phone: 936-261-2555
Email, Twitter, Instagram
Personal website, Organization website
Curriculum Vitae

Teaching/Research Area of Interest

  • Museum Studies, Archival Administration, and Historic Preservation
  • Cultural Resource Management and Heritage Tourism
  • Slavery
  • The Black Freedom Struggle
  • Delta Blues Music

Education

  • Ph.D., US History, University of Mississippi
  • M.A., Public History, Middle Tennessee State University
  • B.S., Mass Communications, Middle Tennessee State University

Selection of Courses Taught

  • Historical Society Administration
  • Aspects of African American History
  • Civil War/Reconstruction
  • Critical Thinking
  • Early US History
  • Modern US History

Selected Research Activities

  • Forthcoming – Old Time Mississippi Fiddle Tunes & the Segregation of Sound (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2022).
  • Forthcoming – He Sold Hisself to the Devil: A History of Tommy Johnson, Blues, and the Black Freedom Struggle in the Brown-Loess Belt, 1815 to 2021
  • “‘Degrading ‘God’s Acre’: The Alleged Disinterment of Mississippi’s Only African American Secretary of State James D. Lynch,” The Journal of Mississippi History (2021). In Press.
  • “Lightning Struck Him”: Walter Rhodes, the Delta’s Crowing Rooster, and the Influence of Accordion on the Blues,” The Frog Blues & Jazz Annual 6 (2021). In Press.
  • “Worth Westinghouse Long Jr.: Creating Dangerously in The Land Where the Blues Began,” Southern Cultures 26:1 (Spring 2020): 54-77.
  • “‘Ripped Spike, Tie and Rail from its Moorings’: Racial Reconciliation, Public History, and the ‘Yellow Dog’ of the Mississippi Blues Trail,” The Public Historian 42:2 (May 2020): 56-77.
  • “Revisiting Ralph Lembo: Complicating Charley Patton, the 1920s Race Record Industry, and the Italian American Experience in the Mississippi Delta,” Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal 49:2 (Dec. 2018): 153-184.
  • I am also the Executive Director of the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund, a historical consulting firm promoting responsible practices regarding the memorialization of African Americans and the maintenance of abandoned cemeteries. After I conducted research that ended a legal dispute over cemetery access—between landowners and the African Americans descendants of the interments in a cemetery located on private land, I collaborated with other descendants of blues artists to research, design, and install memorials that transformed several endangered cemeteries into international tourist destinations. Our work builds on the growing interest in inclusive memorialization processes by emphasizing the role memorials play in the process of racial reconciliation. From the framework that regards memorials as instruments of reparations that keep the past visible, we encourage the public to see monuments as symbolic reparative tools that facilitate historic preservation

Selected Service Activities

  • Member, History Program Fundraising Committee, Fall 2020-present
  • Director, Grants Subcommittee, History Program’s working group for the Commission for the Study of the Impact of Slavery & the Legacy of Segregation, Fall 2020-present