Work at Southern Spaces continues to bear witness to the tangled histories of the South as well as provide insights to current and future topics surrounding race, equity, and social justice. 2022 articles that address these themes include:‍

Susanna Ashton, “Ablaze: the 1849 White Supremacist Attach on the Pendleton Post Office.”‍

Stephanie Bryan, “'The Emblem of North American Fraternity': Opossums and Jim Crow Politics.”‍

Adriana Chira, “Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba’s Plantations.”‍

Steve Suitts, “Voting Rights: Justice Alito’s False, Partisan Facts”

As part of the COVID in Viral Times series launched in 2022, which addresses the public health and political implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, Southern Spaces published Melissa Creary’s “COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health” and Daniel A. Pollock’s “COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance.” As part of the Covid series, Southern Spaces also published “Covid Light and Darkness Alike,” a photo essay featuring original work by Tom Rankin, professor of art and documentary studies at Duke University. The COVID in Viral Times series is edited by Professor Mary Frederickson.

As part of the Queer Intersections series, an ongoing collection of interdisciplinary, multimedia publications, Southern Spaces produced Martin Padgett’s “Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971.” Edited by Dr. Eric Solomon, this series offers critical perspectives on LBGTQ+ history with an emphasis on the US South. 

In 2022 and currently, Southern Spaces has a very diverse graduate student part-time staff: Ra’Niqua Lee (managing editor), Mary Ann Richardson (assistant managing editor), Amelia Golcheski (reviews and social media), Ayoung Kim (editorial associate), Ariel Lawrence (editorial associate), and Abighayle Mazzocco (undergraduate editorial associate). We receive video assistance from ECDS staff member Steve Bransford, and GIS mapping assistance from Emory history PhD student Stephanie Bryan.