Director
Dr. Samuel C. Hyde, Jr.
About the Director
Dr. Samuel C. Hyde, Jr. an associate professor of history at Southeastern Louisiana University is the Director of the Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies and holds the Leon Ford Endowed Chair in Regional History. Hyde, a northern Tangipahoa Parish native who has extensively studied the history of the Florida Parishes, is the author of Pistols and Politics: The Dilemma of Democracy in Louisiana's Florida Parishes (winner of a 1998 American Association for State and Local History Award) and author/editor of Plain Folk of the South Revisited. His forthcoming Class and Conflict in the Piney Woods South continues his study of Southern Plain Folk.