Southern Living has honored Susan Glisson, assistant professor in Southern studies and executive director of the Institute on Racial Reconciliation at the University of Mississippi, as one of “The New Heroes of Civil Rights.”

Dubbed by Cynthia Tucker as “The Moderator,” the essay briefly outlines Glisson’s work with the Mississippi Truth Project and her work for social justice. To read the full article, click here.

To listen to her talk on “The American Organizing Tradition” from the 2008 Spring Institute for Lived Theology: Lived Theology and the Language of Peace, click here.