{"id":898,"date":"2026-05-11T11:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/library\/?page_id=898"},"modified":"2026-05-11T11:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:11:10","slug":"ct-salazar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/library\/about\/directory\/ct-salazar\/","title":{"rendered":"CT Salazar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Assistant Professor\/Undergraduate Research and Digital Scholarship Librarian<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/05\/20260115-_J5A9843-edited-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"portrait of CT smiling\" class=\"wp-image-902\" style=\"width:416px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/05\/20260115-_J5A9843-edited-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/05\/20260115-_J5A9843-edited-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/05\/20260115-_J5A9843-edited-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/05\/20260115-_J5A9843-edited-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/05\/20260115-_J5A9843-edited-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/05\/20260115-_J5A9843-edited-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/05\/20260115-_J5A9843-edited-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Education<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2018, Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, MUW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021, Master of Information and Library Science, USM<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021, Graduate Certificate in Archives and Special Collections<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Past Experience<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2021-2023: Research &amp; Instructional Services Librarian, Delta State University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2024-2026: Director of Archives and Museums, Delta State University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Awards<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2025 Press On\u2019s Southern Movement Media Fund for manuscript-in-process: <em>City of Flowers: a people\u2019s history of poetry in Mississippi, 1890-1900<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2024 Mississippi Institute of Higher Learning\u2019s Excellence in Diversity Faculty Award&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Grants<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2024 LGBTQ Fund of Mississippi grant for Delta State University&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023 Mississippi Humanities Council mini-grant for Rosedale &amp; Sunflower\u2019s Freedom Summer Creative Writing curriculum&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023 National Endowment for the Arts Big Read! Grant with Delta State University&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Select Articles &amp; Essays<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Salazar, C.T. (2024). Light strike the cave: Reading Etheridge Knight. <em>Rooted. <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/rooted.substack.com\/p\/light-strike-the-cave-reading-etheridge\">https:\/\/rooted.substack.com\/p\/light-strike-the-cave-reading-etheridge<\/a><em><\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Salazar, C.T. (2022). How the prison industry crosses us out. <em>Mississippi Libraries<\/em>\u00a0<em>85<\/em>(2). 28-30. <a href=\"https:\/\/aquila.usm.edu\/ml\/vol85\/iss2\/1\/\">https:\/\/aquila.usm.edu\/ml\/vol85\/iss2\/1\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Salazar, C.T. (2021) Flesh with thicket wonder: Reading besmilr brigham. <em>Annulet <\/em><em>Poetics: A Journal of Literary Criticism<\/em> <em>2<\/em>(1). <a href=\"https:\/\/annuletpoeticsjournal.com\/C-T-Salazar-Flesh-with-Thicket-Wonder\">https:\/\/annuletpoeticsjournal.com\/C-T-Salazar-Flesh-with-Thicket-Wonder<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Select Presentations-Library Sciences<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Salazar, C.T. and Cook, D. (2023, October 11) <em>Approaches for a more inclusive humanities: Two librarians are unimpressed with the literary canon. <\/em>Mississippi Library Association.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dean, P. &amp; Salazar, C.T. (2022, October 12). <em>Left behind, self-sufficient, or Uninterested? <\/em>Part of &#8220;Level-up Your Marketing.&#8221; Mississippi Library Association annual conference 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Emerson, M. &amp; Salazar, C.T. (2022, April 1). <em>Access a database with only a broken monitor: Nonvisual information access in a visual world. <\/em>Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Salazar, C.T. (2021, October 13). <em>Disability and Databases: Toward inclusive library instruction for the visually-impaired and blind.<\/em> Mississippi Library Association annual conference 2021.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Select Presentations-Archives and Museum Studies<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Salazar, C.T. (2025, February 19). \u201cAmzie Moore\u2019s Century: A Delta Freedom House\u201d for History is Lunch, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mz2AXDsl90U&amp;t=6s\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mz2AXDsl90U&amp;t=6s<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Salazar, C.T. (2025, March 8) <em>Mississippi Nadir: Black poets in Mississippi<\/em>, 1900-1939 Part of \u201cBeyond the Harlem Renaissance.\u201d The Southeastern American Studies Association Conference.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor\/Undergraduate Research and Digital Scholarship Librarian Education Past Experience Awards Grants Select Articles &amp; Essays Select Presentations-Library Sciences Select Presentations-Archives and Museum Studies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":63,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-898","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/898\/revisions\/903"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}