Simone Delerme
Associate Professor of Anthropology and McMullan Associate Professor of Southern Studies
Dr. Simone Delerme joined the University of Mississippi’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Center for the Study of Southern Culture in the fall of 2013. She specializes in migration to the U.S. South, with interests in race relations, integration and incorporation, community development, and social class inequalities.
Research Interests
- Race relations
- Integration and incorporation
- Community development
- Social class inequalities
Biography
Delerme holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s degree in liberal arts from the University of Delaware, as well as master’s and doctorate degrees in anthropology from Rutgers University. The research for her first book, Latino Orlando: Suburban Transformation and Racial Conflict, focuses on Puerto Rican migration to Orlando, Florida and the social class distinctions and racialization processes that create divergent experiences in Southern communities. Delerme’s work has been featured in several academic publications, including Southern Spaces, Southern Cultures, and Florida Historical Quarterly.
Publications
Suburban Transformation and Racial Conflict
From the publisher:
Latino Orlando portrays the experiences of first- and second-generation immigrants who have come to the Orlando metropolitan area from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, and other Latin American countries. While much research on immigration focuses on urban destinations, Simone Delerme delves into a middle- and upper-class suburban context, highlighting the profound demographic and cultural transformation of an overlooked immigrant hub.
Peer-Reviewed Articles & Book Chapters
- 2023 Delerme, Simone and Patricia Silver, eds. “Introduction,” Florida Historical Quarterly Special Issue: Puerto Ricans in Florida, Volume 102, Number 2.
- 2017 “65th Infantry Veteran’s Park: Contested Landscapes and Latinization in Greater Orlando,” Southern Cultures. Vol. 23(4): 116-125.
- 2017 “Reflections on Cultural Capital and Orlando’s Puerto Rican and Latino ‘Elite,’” Centro Journal. XXIX(3): 74-96.
- 2017 “The Fractured American Dream: From Country Club Living to Suburban Slum in Latino Orlando,” Florida Historical Quarterly. Vol. 95(3): 383-426.
- 2016 “Language Ideologies and Racial Formation in Latino Orlando.” In Public Space, Public Policy, and Public Understanding of Race and Ethnicity in America: An Interdisciplinary Approach, edited by Teresa Booker. University of Akron Press, pp. 105-120.
- 2014 “Puerto Ricans Live Free: Race, Language, and Orlando’s Contested Soundscape.” Southern Spaces.
- 2013 “The Latinization of Orlando: Language, Whiteness, and the Politics of Place.” Centro Journal. Vol. XXV(2): 60-95.
Digital Humanities Projects & Other Publications
- 2024 “The Southern Latinx Artist Archive”
- 2022 “Foodways, Dissent, and the Politics of Place: From Latino Orlando to International Memphis,” The Georgia Review, Volume LXXVI(1) (Re-printed)
- 2021 “From Latino Orlando to International Memphis: Foodways, Dissent and the Politics of Place,”Gravy, Southern Foodways Alliance
- 2021 “Summer Avenue Oral History Project,” Southern Foodways Alliance, Oral History Collection
- 2018 “Latino Memphis,” Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition
- 2018 “Latino Memphis and Oxford,” Southern Foodways Alliance, Oral History Collection.
- 2017 “The In·vis·i·ble Oxford Project.” Mississippi Stories.
- 2017 The Invisible Oxford Project: A Longitudinal Study of Place.
Education
M.A. Anthropology, Rutgers University-New Brunswick (2010)
Ph.D. Anthropology, Rutgers University-New Brunswick (2013)