Assistant Professor/Undergraduate Research and Digital Scholarship Librarian

Education

• 2018, Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, MUW
• 2021, Master of Information and Library Science, USM
• 2021, Graduate Certificate in Archives and Special Collections

Past Experience

• 2021-2023: Research & Instructional Services Librarian, Delta State University
• 2024-2026: Director of Archives and Museums, Delta State University

Awards

• 2025 Press On’s Southern Movement Media Fund for manuscript-in-process: City of Flowers: a people’s history of poetry in Mississippi, 1890-1900
• 2024 Mississippi Institute of Higher Learning’s Excellence in Diversity Faculty Award 

Grants

• 2024 LGBTQ Fund of Mississippi grant for Delta State University 
• 2023 Mississippi Humanities Council mini-grant for Rosedale & Sunflower’s Freedom Summer Creative Writing curriculum 
• 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Big Read! Grant with Delta State University 

Select Articles & Essays

• Salazar, C.T. (2024). Light strike the cave: Reading Etheridge Knight. Rooted. https://rooted.substack.com/p/light-strike-the-cave-reading-etheridge
• Salazar, C.T. (2022). How the prison industry crosses us out. Mississippi Libraries 85(2). 28-30. https://aquila.usm.edu/ml/vol85/iss2/1/
• Salazar, C.T. (2021) Flesh with thicket wonder: Reading besmilr brigham. Annulet Poetics: A Journal of Literary Criticism 2(1). https://annuletpoeticsjournal.com/C-T-Salazar-Flesh-with-Thicket-Wonder

Select Presentations-Library Sciences

• Salazar, C.T. and Cook, D. (2023, October 11) Approaches for a more inclusive humanities: Two librarians are unimpressed with the literary canon. Mississippi Library Association.
• Dean, P. & Salazar, C.T. (2022, October 12). Left behind, self-sufficient, or Uninterested? Part of “Level-up Your Marketing.” Mississippi Library Association annual conference 2022.
• Emerson, M. & Salazar, C.T. (2022, April 1). Access a database with only a broken monitor: Nonvisual information access in a visual world. Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy 2022.
• Salazar, C.T. (2021, October 13). Disability and Databases: Toward inclusive library instruction for the visually-impaired and blind. Mississippi Library Association annual conference 2021.

Select Presentations-Archives and Museum Studies

• Salazar, C.T. (2025, February 19). “Amzie Moore’s Century: A Delta Freedom House” for History is Lunch, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz2AXDsl90U&t=6s
• Salazar, C.T. (2025, March 8) Mississippi Nadir: Black poets in Mississippi, 1900-1939 Part of “Beyond the Harlem Renaissance.” The Southeastern American Studies Association Conference.