Opening Remarks
Document Type
Event
Start Date
19-3-2026 9:30 AM
Venue
The Depot (101 Depot Street, Oxford MS 38655)
Abstract
Stephen Fafulas is an Associate Professor at the University of Mississippi and a co-founder of the SEC Spanish Consortium, which promotes cross-disciplinary scholarship and cross-institutional collaborations aimed at documenting newly-established Latinx communities in the U.S. South. He is the director of the SoCIOLing (Study of Communities, Involvement & Outreach and Linguistics) Lab through which he mentors students and leads a number of research initiatives with bilingual communities globally.
Dan O'Sullivan is a Professor of French and the Chair of the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Mississippi. He teaches a wide variety of courses in French language, literature, and linguistics. His research is primarily in medieval vernacular song and songbooks. As Department Chair, he leads one of the largest departments at the university with nearly seventy full-time faculty members and oversees a curriculum including thirteen languages plus theoretical and applied linguistics in English.
Eduardo Prieto is the Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Management at the University of Mississippi and a higher education veteran with more than 30 years of expertise and experience working at both public and private universities. He is a member of several civic and professional organizations, in addition to sitting on a handful of national advisory boards. Prieto serves on the University’s senior leadership team and oversees the Division of Enrollment Management.
John T. Edge is Director of the Mississippi Lab, Founding Director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, and a Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. John writes and hosts the television show TrueSouth, which airs on the SEC Network and ESPN and streams via Hulu. His memoir, House of Smoke, was published in the fall of 2025. His book, The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South, was named a best book of 2017 by NPR, Publisher’s Weekly, and a host of others.
Dan Jones is a Former Chancellor of the University of Mississippi and a global medical humanitarian and activist for social justice, especially health care access. Over a long and diverse career, he has served as a physician, medical missionary, medical school professor and dean, medical researcher, and university chancellor. In his community of Hazlehurst, MS, Jones serves on the local hospital board and public school board.
Alan Florian is an American Guatemalan from Hazlehurst, Mississippi. He is currently a first-generation college student at the University of Mississippi majoring in Finance. His early exposure to the Finance industry, like many others, was through the stock market, which ultimately led to his decision in declaring his search for a B.B.A in Finance.
Relational Format
Conference proceeding
Recommended Citation
Fafulas, Stephen; O’Sullivan, Dan; Prieto, Eduardo; Edge, John T.; Jones, Dan; and Florian, Alan, "Opening Remarks" (2026). SEC Spanish Consortium Conference. 2.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/secspanish_conference/2026/schedule/2
Opening Remarks
The Depot (101 Depot Street, Oxford MS 38655)
Stephen Fafulas is an Associate Professor at the University of Mississippi and a co-founder of the SEC Spanish Consortium, which promotes cross-disciplinary scholarship and cross-institutional collaborations aimed at documenting newly-established Latinx communities in the U.S. South. He is the director of the SoCIOLing (Study of Communities, Involvement & Outreach and Linguistics) Lab through which he mentors students and leads a number of research initiatives with bilingual communities globally.
Dan O'Sullivan is a Professor of French and the Chair of the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Mississippi. He teaches a wide variety of courses in French language, literature, and linguistics. His research is primarily in medieval vernacular song and songbooks. As Department Chair, he leads one of the largest departments at the university with nearly seventy full-time faculty members and oversees a curriculum including thirteen languages plus theoretical and applied linguistics in English.
Eduardo Prieto is the Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Management at the University of Mississippi and a higher education veteran with more than 30 years of expertise and experience working at both public and private universities. He is a member of several civic and professional organizations, in addition to sitting on a handful of national advisory boards. Prieto serves on the University’s senior leadership team and oversees the Division of Enrollment Management.
John T. Edge is Director of the Mississippi Lab, Founding Director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, and a Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. John writes and hosts the television show TrueSouth, which airs on the SEC Network and ESPN and streams via Hulu. His memoir, House of Smoke, was published in the fall of 2025. His book, The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South, was named a best book of 2017 by NPR, Publisher’s Weekly, and a host of others.
Dan Jones is a Former Chancellor of the University of Mississippi and a global medical humanitarian and activist for social justice, especially health care access. Over a long and diverse career, he has served as a physician, medical missionary, medical school professor and dean, medical researcher, and university chancellor. In his community of Hazlehurst, MS, Jones serves on the local hospital board and public school board.
Alan Florian is an American Guatemalan from Hazlehurst, Mississippi. He is currently a first-generation college student at the University of Mississippi majoring in Finance. His early exposure to the Finance industry, like many others, was through the stock market, which ultimately led to his decision in declaring his search for a B.B.A in Finance.