St. Joseph, Mo. – A Bishop LeBlond faculty member is one of the contributors to a recent encyclopedia publication.

The Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi announced the publication of the Mississippi Encyclopedia, published by the University Press of Mississippi. According to a press release, the 1,451-page work includes over 1,600 entries and is the first encyclopedic treatment of the state since 1907.

Bishop LeBlond social studies teacher Dr. Christopher Losson, who holds two graduate degrees from the University of Mississippi, was one of 700 contributors to the book and wrote thirty entries for it. Those include seventeen biographical sketches of Confederate generals plus entries on Civil War cemeteries, Civil War monuments, steamboats, the author Shelby Foote and soul singer Tyrone Davis, among others.

Losson joined Center for the Study of Southern Culture officials at Lorelai Books in Vicksburg, Miss., on June 2, as part of a series of events celebrating publication of the Mississippi Encyclopedia.

Losson teaches College American History, Psychology, Civil War and Holocaust classes at Bishop LeBlond.