Alan

Gilchrist Pike
Ph.D. Candidate
agpike@emory.edu
www.alangpike.wordpress.com
(336) 337-6115 (cell)

Emory University
The Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts
537 Kilgo Circle
S415-Callaway Center
Atlanta, GA 30322

Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Emory University, anticipated graduation in May 2015.

Committee: Allen Tullos (chair), Matthew Bernstein

Dissertation Title: Locked Up: The Prison Genre in American Film and Television

Masters of Arts, Southern Studies, University of Mississippi, 2010.
Advisor: Ted Ownby
Masters Thesis: Natural Born World-Shakers: Southern Prisoners in Popular Film

Bachelor of Arts, History and American Studies, with Honors, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
2008.
Undergraduate Honors Thesis: Stalking the Grey Ghost: John Singleton Mosby in Sectional and
National American Memory.
Committee: Timothy Marr (chair), W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Jay Garcia

Professional Experience
Review Editor, Southern Spaces, Emory University, March 2012-present.
Digital Projects Coordinator, Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, 2014-present.
Editorial Associate, Southern Spaces, Emory University, Jan 2011-March 2012.
Educational Technology Consultant, Emory Center for Interactive Teaching, May 2012-2014.
Production Assistant, Pride & Joy. A Documentary Film by Joe York produced for the Southern Foodways
Alliance, January-May 2010.
Graduate Assistant, Southern Foodways Alliance, University of Mississippi, August 2008-May 2010.
DVD Coordinator, Southern Cultures, UNC-Chapel Hill, May-September 2009. Compiled, produced, and
mastered DVD supplement to Southern Cultures. Vol. 15, No. 4 (Winter 2009).
Editorial Assistant, Southern Cultures, UNC-Chapel Hill, May 2006-August 2008.

Digital Projects
Project Lead, Technology, Pedagogy, Curriculum + Research, a six-week graduate student training and
professional development program designed to teach them how and why to use digital
technology in their pedagogy and research.
Leah Chuchran, Alan Pike, Maired Sullivan. Laney Graduate School Digital Pedagogy Initiative.
Successfully proposed a digital pedagogy training initiative open to all Laney Graduate School

students comprised of a for-credit graduate course, Technology, Pedagogy, and Research

workshops (quarterly), and an online course entitled Foundations of Online Learning. Ongoing.
Project team member, Emory Open Education Initiative, Emory Summer Institute for Digital Scholarship.
Summer 2014.
Project Team Member (videography and development), The Battle of Atlanta, May 30, 2014.
Media Room Programming and Production for Seamus Heaney: The Music of What Happens, Schatten
Gallery. Emory University, 540 Asbury Circle, Atlanta, Georgia. With Chase Lovellette and Bryan
Chitwood. Opened February 22, 2014.
Wayne Morse, Leah Chuchran, Alan Pike. Emory College Online 2013: Flipping the Classroom.
Facilitator in a week-long faculty development program focused on flipping the classroom,
Summer 2013.
With Steve Bransford, Lee Clontz, and Shannon ODaniel, Instructional design and content development
for 2 Coursera classes Introduction to Digital Sound Design, taught by Steve Everett (February
2013) and Citizenship and US Immigration, taught by Polly J. Price, (June 2013).
Emory College Language Centers Languages Make a Difference Video series, with Sarah Franzen.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/languages-make-a-difference/id598689317?mt=10
Project Staff, Southern Spaces, www.southernspaces.org (See Professional Experience).

Publications
Web:
Unlock the Gates: Genre and Rhetoric in MSNBC's "Lockup"
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2013/04/03/unlock-gates-genre-and-rhetoric-
msnbcs-lockup
Film/Documentary:
Low and Slow, promotional video for Pastured Poultry Week 2012, produced with Compassion in World
Farming and Georgians for Pastured Poultry.
Tortillas de Maiz. Documentary Film. A part of: Put It on the Skillet. DVD supplement to Southern
Cultures. Vol. 15, No. 4 (Winter 2009).
Tortillas de Maiz. Screened at the Oxford Film Festival, Mississippi Films Category. February 6, 2010.
Put It on the Skillet. DVD. Compiled, produced, and mastered by Alan Pike. 2009; Chapel Hill, NC:
University of North Carolina Press. DVD Supplement to Southern Cultures. Vol. 15, No. 4 (Winter
2009).
Production Assistant, Pride & Joy (2012), Capitol Q (2009), Cut, Chop, Cook (2010), Carolina Grist (2011).
Documentary films by Joe York produced for the Southern Foodways Alliance. Capitol Q and
Cut, Chop, Cook also produced for the Big Apple Barbecue Block Party in Madison Square Park in
New York City 2009, 2010.

Bs Barbecue. Southern Barbecue Trail: A Southern Foodways Alliance Documentary Project.

http://www.southernbbqtrail.com/b_s_bbq/bs.shtml
Print:
Book Note, In This Timeless Time: Living and Dying on Death Row in America. By Bruce Jackson and
Diane Christian. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press in association with the Center for
Documentary Studies at Duke University, 2012) Journal of Southern History, vol. 78, no. 4 (2012).
American Guide Series in Mississippi. Forthcoming. An entry in the Mississippi Encyclopedia.
University Press of Mississippi.

Presentations
Prison Reformers, Censors, and Hollywoods Prison Film Boom, 19301932, paper delivered at the
American Studies Association annual meeting, Los Angeles, California, November 8, 2015. Part
of the panel The Mass Medias Carceral Imaginary, organized by Alan G. Pike.
Exploring New Forms: The Visual/Video Essay, Institute of Liberal Arts Colloquium Series, December 2,
2014.
Infographics in the Classroom, a presentation with Donna Troka at the Atlanta Digital Pedagogy
Meetup, October 7, 2014.
Troka, Donna and Alan Pike Infographics Using Piktochart. Presentation and workshop for Connect
with Teaching, an event hosted by the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship and the Emory
Center for Faculty Development and Excellence, May 1, 2014.
Whyd You Do It?: Initiation Sequences in 1990s Hollywood Prison Films, video essay delivered at
the Fifth Annual International Crime, Media, and Popular Culture Studies Conference: A Cross-
Disciplinary Exploration, Terra Haute, Indiana, September 26, 2013.
First Time in Prison?: The Big House (1930) and the Prison Film Genre, paper delivered at the Society
for Cinema and Media Studies annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois, March 7, 2013 on a panel
entitled Becoming Genres organized by Steven Cohan.
Brown Bag Lecture at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi: Tortillas
de Maiz, screening and discussion, September 21, 2009.

Service
Member of Advisory Committee for Emory Liberal Arts Forward Seminars, an initiative of Emorys
Commission on the Liberal Arts, 2014.
President, Institute of Liberal Arts Graduate Student Committee, 20122013.
Events organized

TPC+R: Technology, Pedagogy, Curriculum, + Research program for Laney Graduate
School (LGS) students, Emory University. With Leah Chuchran, Chase Lovellette, Wayne Morse,
and Anandi Salinas. Designed curriculum and led sessions for 2 concurrent 6-week programs
that teach graduate students from all LGS disciplines how to incorporate technology into their

pedagogy and research. Part of Laney Graduate School Digital Pedagogy Initiative (see above).
Raised $30,000+.
Hybrid Learning: Expanding the Walls of The Classroom. This was a five part pedagogical
workshop series open to graduate students and faculty across the university. It featured five
workshops related to hybrid pedagogy (Hybrid Tension, Hybrid Engagement, Hybrid Regulation,
Hybrid Response). Pete Rorabaugh and Robin Wharton (co-founder and associate editor of HP
and Production Editor of HP respectively. Hybrid Pedagogy is an academic and networked
journal that combines the strands of critical and digital pedagogy to arrive at the best social and
civil uses of technology and digital media in education. Raised $1000.

This Aint Chicago: Regional Identity and the Post-Soul South, a talk by Zandria
Robinson, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Memphis on January 30, 2013. Raised
$1700.

ILA Graduate Student Dissertation Boot Camps, Summer 2013. Co-organized with
Michael Hall. Raised $2200.

Awards
Laney Graduate School Fellowship, Emory University.
Lucille and Motee Daniels Thesis Award, University of Mississippi, May 2010.
Full Scholarship, University of Mississippi, 2008-2009 and 2009-2010.
Graduate Assistantship, Southern Foodways Alliance, 2008-2009 and 2009-2010.
Oxford Film Festival, Honorable Mention-Mississippi Films category, Tortillas de Maiz. Oxford,
Mississippi, February 6, 2010.
Southern Foodways Alliance Greenhouse Initiative Award for Student Film for Tortillas de Maiz,
University of Mississippi, May 2009.
Travel awards from the University of Mississippi, 2008 and 2009.
Research Grant from the Office for Undergraduate Research, UNC-Chapel Hill, Fall 2007.

Courses Taught
I have taught Introduction to American Studies at Emory University during the following semesters:

Spring 2013
Fall 2013
Summer 2014
Fall 2014
Spring 2015

My courses have ranged in size from 5 (Summer 14) to 20 (Fall 13) students, but are typically 18
students. Some semesters this enrollment has been primarily juniors and seniors, and others primarily
freshmen and sophomores, while others have been composed of a balance of the two.