David Simpson

From 1974 until his retirement in 2009, David Simpson was employed at Louisiana State University at Eunice, a two-year campus where he taught English and was also director of public relations, a position that involved extensive photography. In 1999, as a service to the community, he began taking photographs of Cajun and Zydeco musicians and rural Mardi Gras activities. His photographs have appeared in area newspapers, regional magazines, and tourism publications and have been included in books on Cajun and Zydeco music and Mardi Gras. In 2017, he received the Cajun French Music Association's Heritage Award. Simpson holds master's degrees in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and in journalism from Louisiana State University and a Ph.D. in English from Ohio State University.