Otis Westbrook PickettOtis W. Pickett holds a Ph.D. in U.S. History from The University of Mississippi; an M.A. in History from the College of Charleston and The Citadel; an M.A.T.S. in Theological Studies from Covenant Theological Seminary; and a B.A. in History from Cleson University. Currently an Assistant Professor of History and Political Science at Mississippi College, Otis directs the B.S.Ed. program in Secondary Social Studies Education and the M.Ed. Program in Social Studies Education. He also teaches classes in Southern Religious History; Civil War History; U.S. History; Mississippi History; Geography; and an interdisciplinary course in the History and Literature of the New South (with Dr. J.B. Potts in the English Department). Otis' research focuses on nineteenth-century missionaries to enslaved peoples in South Carolina and to the Choctaw and Chickasaw in Mississippi. He is also interested in the history of education, racial reconciliation and incarceration in the U.S. South. He is the co-founder, with Dr. Patrick Alexander from The University of Mississippi, of the Mississippi Prison to College Pipeline Program, which offers for-credit college courses to pre-release incarcerated students at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Read More Read Less