In 2007, he was honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship, in recognition of his published memoir, Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi's Dark Past, which Washington Post literary critic Jonathan Yardley named as one of the best nonfiction books of 2003.

Ron Charles, editor of The Washington Post's Book World, had praised VQR's "refreshing range of voices" under Eubanks's leadership in a January 5, 2015, article.

A January 9, 2015 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education noted that Eubanks's departure "may provide lessons about how, and even whether, universities should manage their sponsorship of literary journals.

"[6] While Eubanks was working with the American Psychological Association, he simultaneously served as a faculty advisor for Howard University's summer book publishing program.

From January through December 2016, Eubanks served as the Eudora Welty Visiting Professor in Southern Studies at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.

The historical biography takes a look at American identity and race relations, beginning with his maternal grandparents and presented in context with contemporary issues undergone by three generations of his family.

[9] In the Georgia Review, KaToya Ellis Fleming wrote "Reading A Place Like Mississippi is as much a visceral experience as it is an intellectual one, even down to the supple feel of the pages and the soft, elegant texture of the book in your hands.

[17] Other works include "The Land the Internet Era Forgot" in WIRED, "Atticus Finch Confronted What the South Couldn't" in TIME, "Mississippi, The Two-Flag State" in The New Yorker, and "Color Lines" in The American Scholar.

These include reviews for My Generation by William Styron,[18] Down to the Crossroads by Aram Goudsouzian [19]Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon by Scott E. Casper,[20] Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese,[21] and Them by Nathan McCall.

In 2004, he appeared on All Things Considered, where he spoke about the 1964 murder of three American civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, whose deaths were attributed to members of the Ku Klux Klan.

[25] On July 27, 2009, Eubanks appeared as a guest on Talk of the Nation, speaking on race relations and police conduct in the aftermath of the 2009 arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.