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1 | Lucy | Long | Lucymlong@gmail.com | Folklore, Folkloristics, Foodways, Heritage, tourism (culinary tourism), museums, festivals, public performances of identity | History; Historic Preservation | Popular Culture/American Culture Studies | notes | |||||||||||||||||||
2 | Dawn | Betts-Green | cdbettsgreen@gmail.com | Library and Information Studies; LGBTQIA+; southern, rural, and small libraries; also a background in gender studies and comparative religion | Independent (adjunct for multiple universities) | Library and Information Studies | Have reviewed for The International Journal of Information, Diversity, and Inclusion and Feminist Collections | |||||||||||||||||||
3 | Kristin | Steele | steele47@marshall.edu | Literature, especially creative nonfiction and hybrid/experimental texts; mass media and cultural criticism; Appalachian death narratives; also a background in folk music studies and music journalism. | Marshall University | School of Journalism & Mass Communications | Native Appalachian from Wayne County, WV. I completed my BA and MA at Marshall University in Journalism and English, respectively. I finished my MFA in Creative Nonfiction at The New School with a thesis focused in Appalachian death narratives. | |||||||||||||||||||
4 | Terry | Cluse-Tolar | cluse@ohio.edu | Social policy, social issues | Ohio University | Department of Social Work | ||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Daniel | Wartham | dwartham@email.sc.edu | Folklore, Naturalism/Ecocriticism, Community Building, Agricultural Practices, Western NC/Eastern TN | University of South Carolina | Department of English | I completed my Bachelor's and Master's at Appalachian State University. I completed my Master's Thesis on Ecocriticism in Southern Appalachian settings with a direct focus on ecotourism, coal mining, daming, and restoration projects. | |||||||||||||||||||
6 | Alana | Anton | Amanton1@radford.edu | Appalachia and media discourse, inequality, Appalachian identity, healthcare in Appalachia, gender/sexuality, race/ethnicity | Radford University | Department of Sociology | PhD in sociology of Appalachia. My work is on newspaper discourse and attitudes about Appalachia. I have written for multiple popular media outlets, currently have RnR for the Journal and am working on transitioning my dissertation into a book with UTK Press. | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | David | Powell | dpowell@unionky.edu | Literary studies/criticism | Union Commonwealth University | |||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Charlie | Campbell | charlie.campbell@eku.edu | Visual arts, media arts | Eastern Kentucky University | School of Art & Design | Native Appalachian from Hazard/Perry County, Kentucky whose work explores Appalachian culture and religion through personal narrative, storytelling, and visual art. | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | Olivia | Phillips | ohphilli@iu.edu | folklore, Appalachian traditional music, ethnomusicology, ethnic identity in Appalachia, ballads and songs, vocal performance, Western North Carolina, ethnography, tradition as process, African American influences in Appalachian traditional music | Indiana University | Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology | Watauga County, NC native and PhD candidate in Folklore at Indiana University. I hold an MA in Ethnomusicology from IU and a BM in Vocal Music Education with a minor in Appalachian Studies from ETSU. | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | Lori | D'Angelo | sclly21@gmail.com | literary fiction, poetry | Have reviewed for Still, Necessary Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Amanda | Page | mandy.page@gmail.com | Literature, migration, retention, urban history, architectural history, revitalization | Scioto Literary / Shawnee State University | First Year Experience / Appalachian Studies | Published media review with Journal of Appalachian Studies. Writer and reporter for WVPB and 100 Days in Appalachia. | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | Jane | MacMorran | macmorra@etsu.edu | Scottish/Irish/Appalachian fiddling, migration, music, folklife | East TN State University | Department of Appalachian Studies | ||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Nicholas | Rose | njrose@nic.edu | Mineral extraction, property rights, ARC | North Idaho College | Geography | ||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Linda McKinnish | Bridges | lindamckinnishbridges@gmail.com | App mtn religion; music, Celtic influences | Administrator--Salem College, former professor | Religious studies professor | Author--"THE Mountain Behind the Mountain" festschrift for Bill Leonard (mercer Press) Native Appalachian (Henderson Co NC) | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | Donna | Wojnar Dzurilla | dwojnar2@gmail.com | Appalachia, literature, literary criticism, poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, urban centers in Appalachia, steel industry history, union and labor history, women in steel and other industries, visual arts and sculpture (exhibited in juried shows and studied visual arts and photography). | Carlow University University of Pittsburgh | Degrees:MFA 2023-concentration in fiction, studies in poetry; BA 2002-Professional Writing w/ English, Art, and Philosophy minors. Grants & Contracts Manager, School of Public Health | Reviewed poetry for the poetry journal, Presence. I have published poetry, CNF, and fiction (short stories and flash). I presented at ASA conference research in poster presentation entitled "Women Writing Steel." Shopping around my novel (historical fiction) entitled Work Greens. I am currently at work on a new novel and new collection of short stories. | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | Cassie Dawn | Ball | cassdawnball@gmail.com | Appalachian literature, ecocriticism, ecofeminism/queer ecologies, new materialism, fossil fuel capital and culture in Appalachia | Graduate Center, City University of New York | English / Women's and Gender Studies | From Beckley, WV. Currently an English PhD student with a certificate in Women's Studies. Working on a dissertation on fossil fuel capital/culture and gender in southern Appalachia. Recent paper on motherhood, feminist activism and the Mountain Valley Pipeline undergoing publication in Resistance this fall. | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | Jody | DiPerna | leftfielddiperna@gmail.com | labor writing, lgbtq, industrial appalachia, urban appalachia, the fine arts, Pittsburgh & Northern Appalachia | ||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Jed | DeBruin | jdebruin@jsu.edu | Black geographies, food and agricultural geographies, archives, oral histories, critical social theory, political economy (esp. Marxian economics), and political ecologies | Jacksonville State University | Chemistry & Geosciences | Have reviewed for the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society and serve as Archivist, Historian, and Special Collections Chair of ASA | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | Lauren | Kallmeyer | ljkallmeyer@gmail.com | Medicinal herbs, ethnobotany, appalachian ecoystems | N/A | I have an M.S. in Therapeutic Herbalism from Maryland University of Integrative Health and regularly teach workshops on herbalism and forest-related topics. Lifelong Kentuckian. | ||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Doc | McLemore | Dr.dr.mclemore@gmail.com | Nonfiction narratives, especially queer and sex work related | Independent | Reviews found with VIDA, Entropy, Salvation South | ||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Scott | McDaniel | smcdaniel1@udayton.edu | Appalachian religious culture; Appalachian poetry; ecocriticism; continental philosophy; place studies | University of Dayton | Philosophy | born & raised in Southwest VA; active participant in App Studies conference; PhD in theology with a focus on situating Appalchain identity within animal, vegetal, and lithic contexts/frameworks; contributor to upcoming New American Vein collection | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | Megan | Hall | meha319@uky.edu | sociology with a focus on rurality and environment; climate disaster; deindustrialization; western North Carolina | University of Kentucky | Sociology | Currently a PhD student. Earned an MA in Appalachian Studies from ASU in 2023. Served as editorial assistant and assistant editor for Apalachian Journal from 2021-2023 and published two reviews for them in that time. Born & raised in Buncombe County, NC. | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | Boni | Richardson | bli103@psu.edu | 2SLGBTQIA+, Rural, Spatial Equity, Spatial Identity, Summer Camps, Ethnography and Narrative, Families and Commuity. | The Pennsylvania State University | Curriculum and Instruction | Ph. D. candidate. Serves as reviewer for the Rural Sig at AERA. Member of National Rural Educators Assoc. Co-author of book chapter to be published late fall 2024. Born, raised and live in Northern Appalachia. | |||||||||||||||||||
24 | Michael Clay | Carey | mcarey@samford.edu | Media studies, journalism, representation and stereotypes | Samford University | Communication and Media (Journalism and Mass Communication specialization) | Author of The News Untold: Community Journalism and the Failure to Confront Poverty in Appalachia. I have reviewed books and media for the Journal of Appalachian Studies and American Journalism. | |||||||||||||||||||
25 | Jennifer | Adler | adlerj@etsu.edu | American religious history; religion in Appalachia; religion and material culture; visual art and religion; holidays and rituals; community-engaged learning | East Tennessee State University | History, with interdisciplinary responsibilities in Appalachian Studies and Philosophy | ||||||||||||||||||||
26 | Roberta | Campbell | dikki1951@gmail.com | Sociology with an emphasis on Appalachian Studies and qualitative research. | Independent | I have reviewed books for the Journal of Appalachian Studies in the past and, many years ago, for newspapers. | ||||||||||||||||||||
27 | Jessica | Cory | coryjs@appstate.edu | English/literature with focuses on Indigenous, African American, and environmental works.Queer theory, ecocriticism, Native South studies, and issues dealing with Appalachian Ohio. | Appalachian State Univ. | Appalachian Journal/Center for Appalachian Studies; affiliate in English | Can also review poetry, as I have an MA in poetry (creative thesis). | |||||||||||||||||||
28 | Rebecca | Turpin | turpinrl@appstate.edu | rural resilience; public health; health care administration | Appalachian State Univ. | Department of Nursing | Parent from Eastern KY, Breathitt County, I grew up in Eastern TN, and now lived in Western NC in Wilkes County x 9 years. Have been Nurse Administator in two small rural hospitals in NC working with rural patients, families, and healthcare professionals. | |||||||||||||||||||
29 | Brad | Nash | nashb@appstate.edu | Communities, Coal, Tourism, Economics | Appalachian State Univ. | Sociology | ||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Jacob | Johnson | jacob.johnson74@uky.edu | History, coal, commons, forest, social movements, environment, social/environmental/energy justice | University of Kentucky | History | ||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Tomeka | Jackson | tomekaj@clemson.edu | History, social movements, black studies, native American studies, library science | Clemson University | Libraries | ||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Cecilia | Salomone | cecilia.salomone@westliberty.edu | Media representations of Appalachia, stereotypes/tropes, Appalachia-based media | West Liberty University | Mass communications/journalism | My PhD dissertation focused on the podcast Appodlachia and representations of Appalachia in both national media and media based within the region. | |||||||||||||||||||
33 | Jewel | Parker | parkerjc3@appstate.edu | Race, Gender, and Medicine in the U.S. South, including Southern Appalachia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries | Appalachian State University | Department of HIsotry | Reviews in Women's History Review, American Indian Quarterly, North Carolina Historical Review, and Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians | |||||||||||||||||||
34 | Elizabeth "Betsy" | Osborne | elizabeth.osborne@mail.wvu.edu | Education in Appalachia, specifically working with teacher education and social studies. I critically examine whiteness and how to disrupt traditional narratives within the field. | West Virginia University | Department of History & School of Education | Reviewed for West Virginia History Journal and conference reviewer for CUFA (an associated group of National Council for the Social Studies). | |||||||||||||||||||
35 | Nathaniel D. | Porter | ndporter@vt.edu | Social science research methods, data science, US religion and nonreligion, sociology, disability and accessibility, social networks (IRL and online), Christian theology, higher education pedagogy, technology and society | Virginia Tech | University Libraries & Sociology | Primary role focuses on teaching/consulting for data-driven research (methods, etc.) but have training and/or professional certifications in diverse topic areas, including MA in theology and PhD in sociology with a minor in social thought. | |||||||||||||||||||
36 | Henry | Bundy | h.eriksonbundy@gmail.com | precarious labor arrangements; maldistributions of health and illness in Appalachia; disability and work; medical anthropology; public health; Appalachian North and South Carolina | Wake Forest University | School of Medicine, Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy | Medical anthropologist. I have reviewed books for JAS and for JANA (Journal for the Anthropology of North America | |||||||||||||||||||
37 | Emelie | Peine | epeine@pugetsound.edu | Global food systems, rural sociology, political economy of Appalachia | University of Puget Sound | International Political Economy | emeliekayepeine.substack.com Reviewed Hilbilly elegy, what you're getting wrong about Appalachia, and Ramp Hollow for Rural Sociology | |||||||||||||||||||
38 | Summer | Stevens | susteven@unc.edu | Library Science, archives, digitization and accessibility, community history and preservation. Background also in politics and art history | University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill | Library and Information Science | ||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Jessi Rae | Morton | jessiraemorton@gmail.com | Literature after 1900 (esp. American, but also global anglophone); Appalachian literature; Appalachian foodways; writing studies; visual rhetoric; film studies; object-oriented philosophies; animal rights; working-class studies. | University of North Carolina - Charlotte | Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies | Frequently publishes reviews in Southern Review of Books, prioritizing Appalachian-foreward texts. Recent scholarly publications in Critique and The Comparatist. Recent academic reviews for symploke and American Book Review. Born and raised in Southern West Virginia. | |||||||||||||||||||
40 | Sydney | Varajon | s.varajon@gmail.com | folklore, material culture, folk art, vernacular architecture, place studies, tourism, historic preservation, environmental sustainability, museums | Western Kentucky University | Folk Studies & Anthropology | Folklorist from east TN; my PhD dissertation was on the rebuilding of Gatlinburg, TN, following the 2016 fire; I've done several oral history and architectural survey projects for SHPOs, etc.; Have written National Register nominations; I teach folklore classes to undergraduates at Western Kentucky University | |||||||||||||||||||
41 | Meghan | Moore-Hubbard | meghanemh@gmail.com | social studies education, rural teachers, critical whiteness studies, | Clemson University (PhD candidate) | Teaching & Learning | from southwestern Virginia, currently residing in Asheville, NC & completing PhD in Teaching & Learning at Clemson Unviversity, research interests in rural education, social studies education, working-class whiteness, critical whiteness studies | |||||||||||||||||||
42 | Krisanna | Machtmes | machtmes@ohio.edu | Program evaluation, Interactional ethnography, doctoral education,agriculture (all areas) | Ohio University - faculty member | Educational Studies -Program area is Research Methods and Evaluation | My focus in on program evaluation and interactional ethnography. I focus on doctoral education. I am also the Director if Individual Interdisciplinary Program for the Graduate School of Ohio University. I am currently section editor for the new publication titled :Oxford Intersections: Educational and Online Learning. I have two degrees in Agriculture which are soil science and seed phyiology. | |||||||||||||||||||
43 | Danielle | Burke | danielle.burke@wisc.edu | folklore, craft, material culture, visual culture, print history, ethnography, archival research, museums and exhibitions | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Design Studies, History | Co-curator for 2023-34 exhibition "Heart, Head, and Hand: Making and Remaking at Berea College Student Craft;" was the Program Coordinator with Warren Wilson's MA in Critical Craft Studies; MA in Folklore from UNC-Chapel Hill ('22); conducted independent research on Southern Appalachian coverlets while living in Asheville, NC; weaver and studio artist. JAF book reviewer. | |||||||||||||||||||
44 | Leia | Cain | LeiaCain@Tennessee.edu | Qualitative & Mixed Methods Research; Arts-Based Research Methods; Narrative Inquiry; Oral History; Southern Appalachia; Queer Populations; Autoethnography; Duoethnography | University of Tennessee, Knoxville | Program: Evaluation, Statistics, & Methodology; Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies | I primarily examine how the use of creative and arts-based research methodologies can uniquely position our scholarship when engaging with queer southerners and southern Appalachian people. Editorial Board Member for The Qualitative Report and the Journal for Multiple Research Approaches; Developmental Editor of the Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education. | |||||||||||||||||||
45 | Phil | Obermiller | solotso@aol.com | migration, urbanization, demography, history, sociology | University of Cincinnati | School of Planning | Past president of the Appalachian Studies Association who has written reviews for the Appalachian Journal, the Journal of Appalachian Studies, the Michigan Historical Review,, the Journal of Urban Affairs, and the American Review of Canadian Studies. | |||||||||||||||||||
46 | Emily | Cobb | eccobb@g.clemson.edu | rural education; Appalachian oral histories and literacy; Applachian storytelling practices; supporting rural educators with university partnerships; community partnerships with local museums to collect and perserve local history and stories | Clemson University | Literacy, Language, and Culture | I am a current doctoral student from upstate SC. I have reviewed for JoLLE @UGA. My research interests are in critical discourse analysis, critical literacies, out-of-school literacies, social media literacy and writing on social media, and sociocultural studies | |||||||||||||||||||
47 | Alexis | Doutrich | ard529@msstate.edu | Twentieth Century America, Southern History, Southern and Appalachian Foodways, Food History, Film History, Popular Culture | Mississippi State University | Department of History | BA in History from Young Harris College, MA in History from ETSU; currently, second year PhD History student at Mississippi State University researching the history of wine and wine tourism in Georgia's burgeoning wine country | |||||||||||||||||||
48 | Richard | Lloyd | rhl102@msstate.edu | Cultural History; Appalachian History; History of the British Isles; European settlement of Appalachia; Scots-Irish History; Philology, particularly the influence of Celtic languages on Appalachian English; bilateral cultural influence between Appalachia and the British Isles | Mississippi State University | Department of History | BA & MA History, ETSU; Grad.Cert. Appalachian Studies, ETSU; currently, 2nd year PhD History student at Mississippi State; recent and current research includes: 1. a multifaceted history of Perry County, Kentucky and 2. the importance of Middle Irish to modern historians; Native of Northeast Tennessee | |||||||||||||||||||
49 | Jess | Lewis | quarefutures@gmail.com | WNC history and culture, Appalachian history and culture, LGBTQIA+, trans and nonbinary culture and theory, post colonial theory, design theory, science fiction, fantasy, and Weird Fiction (author and theorist), ecofeminist fiction and theory | Queer studies, Scifi/Fantasy/Weird Fiction studies, Design studies | Practicing designer, and organizer/author/theorist/organizer in Weird/Scifi/Fantasy studies including organizing symposia, Queer southern/mountain culture specialist. Focused on practical applications of theory in local and/or burgeoning communities. BA in Literature from UNCA with a focus in Appalachian Studies, MS in Digital Media from GA Tech with a focus in participatory design methods and oral history art | ||||||||||||||||||||
50 | Katie Beth | Brooks | kbrooks@ccgaedul | Place based writing pedagogy and place-based writing; rhetoric and writing studies | College of Costal Georgia | Rhetoric and Writing | BA in English UVA Wise; MA English and PhD Rhetoric and Writing from Virginia Tech | |||||||||||||||||||
51 | Tucker | Seifert | tjs00052@mix.wvu.edu | Appalachian history, sociology, anthropology, geogrpahy, culture, and politics. Hisotry, development, and geography of the Upland South, and how Appalachia intersects with other American Regions. Ozarks and Ouachita (Interior Highlands) history, sociology, anthropology, geogrpahy, culture, politics. Appalachian identity (and the construction of American Identities. Drug use, addiction, the opiooid crisis, alcohol and taboaco studies, novel psychoactive substnaces, harm reduction, community-based practices, public health, rural health. Folkmedicien, ethnobotany, and pharmacology. Interdisciplinary methods, studies, and viewpoints. | West Virgnia University | Ph.D in Sociology program, in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology | BA in Antrhopology with a minor in sociology from Sonoma State University (focussing on religious practices as well as drug use). MA in History from Appalachian State University (researcha nd projects foccused on Appalachian folk medicne, the opioid epidemic, american history of drug use, and Black experiences in the Ozarks). Currently a Ph.D student at West Virginia University, utilizing mixed methods to address the needs of appalachian communites to mitigate the impacts of the opioid crisis. | |||||||||||||||||||
52 | Sarah | Mollette | jenkins59@marshall.edu | Literature/Writing, Library Science | Marshall University | Associate Professor / Research Librarian (MA, Creative Writing, MLIS, Information Science) | ||||||||||||||||||||
53 | Aaron | Padgett | japqn5@umsystem.edu | Settler culture, natural resource extraction, environmental sociology, critical geographies, nature, place, and embodiment, social and economic development, critical migration and refugee studies, southern Kentucky, global Appalachia, changing communities, dams and rivers | University of Missouri | Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology | M.A. in Sociology from University of Missouri. B.A. in Sociology from Georgetown College. Co-authored chapter in "Deviant Hollers," recently published by University Press of Kentucky. From Burnside, Kentucky. | |||||||||||||||||||
54 | Scott | Huffard | huffardr@lmc.edu | Labor history, history of capitalism, railroads, southern history, late 19th century history, western NC | Lees-McRae College | History | ||||||||||||||||||||
55 | Christian | Rowe | cbrowe@mix.wvu.edu | Twentieth-century United States history, Appalachian history, labor and working class history, new deal order politics, postwar political economy, history of capitalism, unions, the labor movement, and the UMWA, West Virginia history | West Virginia University | 2nd year M.A. student, History | I am currently researching the 1977-78 Bituminous Coal Strike with a special focus on writing a narrative that centers the perspectives of rank-and-file UMWA members and their familes. The broader goal of the project is to better understand the coal industry's place in the political economy and social order of the postwar U.S., and analyze the ways that this strike may have been a harbinger of the decline of labor's power in the decades to come. | |||||||||||||||||||
56 | Kai | Schafft | kas45@psu.edu | rural sociology, rural education, natural resource sociology, community development, rural poverty, international comparative analyses, rural youth development | Penn State | professor of education and rural sociology | ||||||||||||||||||||
57 | Kristi | Barnes | kab007@marietta.edu | psychology--links bw place of residence and cultural identity to student learning outcomes, self-esteem, self-esteem, gender attitudes, percpetions of social support, and attitudes about social justice. | Marietta College | Associate Professor of Psychology | ||||||||||||||||||||
58 | Laura | Dennis | laura.lynn.dennis3@gmail.com | Northern Appalachia (specifically New York's Southern Tier / the Twin Tiers of NY and PA); connections/relationships between New York Appalachia and parts of the region more traditionally considered Appalachian; fiction and CNF relating to climate-related disaster (especially floods). If ever there were a title involving the French or Spanish languages or related cultures, I would be a good fit for that as well. | Northern Appalachia (specifically New York's Southern Tier / the Twin Tiers of NY and PA); connections/relationships between New York Appalachia and parts of the region more traditionally considered Appalachian; fiction and CNF relating to climate-related disaster (especially floods). If ever there were a title involving the French or Spanish languages or related cultures, I would be a good fit for that as well. | Professor of French and Spanish | My academic degree and current job do not directly relate to my research and writing on Northern Appalchia, but I write a fair amount of CNF and some short fiction about the region. I am also an experienced book reviewer, both in my academic field and beyond it. I have reviewed Appalachian fiction and essay collections for Still: The Journal and I am co-editor of book reviews for MER (Mom Egg Review), where I have also reviewed books in multiple genres. | |||||||||||||||||||
59 | Kristen | LeFevers | klefever@vols.utk.edu | writing studies, composition studies, Appalachian dialects, rural education, LGBTQ Appalachian literature | University of Tennessee, Knoxville | Graduate Teaching Associate | Although I am technically more of a rhetoric and composition scholar, I have published literary scholarship (forthcoming) in Appalachian queer literature. I have taught both first year composition (FYC) and literature classes across multiple institutions and have interest in both fields of pedagogy and scholarship. | |||||||||||||||||||
60 | Michael A. | Ausbon | michael.ausbon@dncr.nc.gov | Decorative Arts Curator at NCMOH, NC Gov's mansion, and Western Rez; presentation for Col. Wmbg; cultural festivals; reviewed for NC Southern Journal, and dec art books | NC Museum of History | Southern Decorative Arts and Folk arts curator | I have reviewed dec art books for state library and other institutions; prepare lectures and presentations on various material and cultural subjects | |||||||||||||||||||
61 | Casey Thomas | Jakubowski | casey.t.jakubowski@gmail.com | Northern Appalachia- NY Southern Tier. Teaching Social Studies and Rural school policy by metro states. | Adjuncting | Adjuncting | Written multiple books on teaching in Northern Appalachia | |||||||||||||||||||
62 | Caitlin | McHale | mchale.caitlin.m@gmail.com | Mining, environmental and energy law, the Clean Water Act and related water issues, legislative and regulatory matters, economic opportunity | Not an academic - I'm an attorney at the National Mining Association. But graduated from Virginia Tech in 2011 with a minor in Appalachian Studies. My thesis focused on using federal contracting programs as tools of economic development in Central Appalachia. | Not an academic - I'm an attorney at the National Mining Association. But graduated from Virginia Tech in 2011 with a minor in Appalachian Studies. My thesis focused on using federal contracting programs as tools of economic development in Central Appalachia. Also interested in a potentail graduate program in Appalachian Studies! | ||||||||||||||||||||
63 | Jessica | Manack | jmanack@gmail.com | Northern Appalachia, Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania specifically, the history of women in the region, the logging industry and forests | Not an academic - freelance writer/editor with a broad range of knowledge on poetry and poetics | I teach creative writing workshops at various locations | I have written book reviews for MER (Mom Egg Review) and Change Seven | |||||||||||||||||||
64 | Anna | Mullany | amullany@gmail.com | public health; addiction; rural poverty; weath disparities; tourism in rural areas; rural-urban interface; gender violence | postdoctoral fellow at Emory, Rollins School of Public Health; graduated from UMass Amherst with PhD Public Health - work on rural intimate partner violence in New England | currently not teaching, but teach public health, gender violence, political economy of health, health activism, social movements | ||||||||||||||||||||
65 | Matthew | Stroud | Mgstroud@ad.unc.edu | Archives, digitization, preservation of local history, library science, Western North Carolina, museumes, rural-urban divide. | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Second year M.S. student, Library Science. | Bachelors in History from Western Carolina University, worked with collections pertaining to Appalachia at the Pack Memorial Library in Buncombe County, North Carolina. | |||||||||||||||||||
66 | Christopher | Price | cprice@newriver.edu | Post-Civil War US history, American religious history, West Virignia politics, history of medicine | New River Community and Technical College | Instructor of History, also teach classes in political science and geography | BA in History and Government, WVU Tech, MA in history from Marshall, Doctor of Arts in History from the Univefrsity of North Dakota, author of articles on Jennings Randolph in West Virginia History and Baptist History & Heritage, among others, and just published a book on the Spanish flu. Taking graduate classes in geography through Marshall. | |||||||||||||||||||
67 | Donna | Bredenberg | donna.bredenberg@cchmc.org | Public health | Western KY University | Nursing / FNP | Doctor of Nursing Practice— (Family Nurse Practitioner)— Community Health. from Harlan KY | |||||||||||||||||||
68 | Griffin C. | Anderson | gcanderson3@crimson.ua.edu | Library and Information Science; Advocacy and social justice in libraries; Political threats to libraries; LGBTQIA+ issues in libraries; Rural, Southern and Appalachian libraries | The University of Alabama | Communication & Information Sciences; Library & Information Science | MLS with a concentration in public libraries from East Carolina University; Current PhD student in Communication & Information Sciences at The University of Alabama; Current public library branch manager in far Western North Carolina | |||||||||||||||||||
69 | Bundrick | Christopher | bundrick@sc.edu | 19th-20th Century Regional Literature | University of South Carolina Lancaster | Professor of English | ||||||||||||||||||||
70 | Martha Evans | Wiley | marthaewiley@gmail.com | Gravestones and cemeteries; preservation; material culture | Not academic - Independent | Curator, museum collection manager | BA in History; MA in Historic Preservation; worked in national and state parks in Appalachia | |||||||||||||||||||
71 | Annalee | Tull Lanier | atull@emoryhenry.edu | Appalachian dance, dance styles of Scotland and Ireland, Blue Ridge region, Appalachian identity | Emory and Henry University | Dance Professor | BA in Dance, BA in Media Studies, MA in Professional Communication, MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts, PhD candidate in Dance at Queen's University Belfast | |||||||||||||||||||
72 | Laura | Rice | rice17314@gmail.com | Ecofeminism, contemporary Appalachian fiction, posthumanism, cultural criticism, intersections between place, gender, and culture | Independent at the moment--previously with Ohio University and Marshall University before that | English and literature instruction | BA in literary history and psychology with minors in humanities and Spanish, MA in English with a concentration in literary history, graduate certiificate in instructional design. My MA thesis focused on an ecofeminist analysis of contemporary Appalachian texts by women writers. | |||||||||||||||||||
73 | Adrien | Lievin | adrien.lievin.13@gmail.com | History of Appalachian education, gender and women's economic citizenship and social emancipation, late 19th and 20th century, socialism and coal mining | TA in US HistoryUniversity of Lille (France), PhD candidate | American studies | M.A. from UT Knoxville (where I discovered the beauties and majesties of Appalachia). Currently getting a PhD at the University of Lille in (Appalachian) history. | |||||||||||||||||||
74 | William | Hicks | hicks.williamM@gmail.com | Appalachian History, Appalachian Fiction, Folklore and Superstition, folk music, naturalism, agrarian societies, creative writing. | George Rogers Clark High School, Winchester KY | English and Language Arts Instructor, Folklorist | BA in English Literature with dual emphasis in Appalachian Literature and Medieval British Literature from Eastern KY University; MAT in Secondary English from The University of the Cumberland. Born with a "KY Proud" sticker on me. | |||||||||||||||||||
75 | Camren | Lewin | cmurra24@vols.utk.edu | African American history, urban history, 20th century US history | The University of Tennessee | PhD student in History | I study urban renewal and redevelopment in Knoxville, TN & how these initiatives impacted Black communities in the area from 1950 to 1997 | |||||||||||||||||||
76 | Emily | Rowley | erowley@wvup.edu | Portrayals of Appalachia in film/television, contemporary fiction/CNF (specifically atypical, suburban narratives), folklore and folk medicine, pop culture | WVU Parkersburg | Instructor of English | BA in professional writing; MA in creative writing. Extensive prrofessional experience in the healthcare industry for WV and Westerrn PA with focus on utilization management, access to care, and SDOH. Current teaching focus is technical communication. | |||||||||||||||||||
77 | Hunter | Moyler | mohmoyler97@gmail.com, hunter.moyler@richmond.edu | 19th-century Appalachia, slavery in Appalachia, labor history, Melungeons and other triracial isolates | University of Pittsburgh | PhD student in History | -BA in English Literature and Journalism from the University of Richmond, MA in public history from Northeastern University. From 2022 to 2025, served as research assistant to Ibram X. Kendi at the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research (rip). Reviews published in the Journal of African American History, Journal of Global Slavery, Slavery & Abolition, The North Carolina Historical Review, and The New England Journal of History | |||||||||||||||||||
78 | Ethan | Tackett | et300421@ohio.edu | 20th-century to present Appalachia, labor history, political history, popular culture (including portrayal of Appalachia and Appalachians in pop culture), intellectual history, Appalachian education, immigrants to Appalachia. | Ohio Univerity | Doctoral Candidate in History | BA in History, Political Science, and Religion from the University of Pikeville, an MA in History from Marshall University, and a doctoral candidate in history at Ohio University. I am currently researching the development of a working-class consciousness in Appalachia. Extensive archival research concerning Appalachia history at archives such as the Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Special Collections at Morrow Library at Marshall University (including an intership at the Special Collections). Born and raised in eastern KY. Presented on topics concerning Appalachia, such as the Kanawha County textbook controversy, at conferences. | |||||||||||||||||||
79 | Melissa | Comer | mcomer@tntech.edu | Appalachian culture, languge patterns, and place-based education pedagogy and methodology. Particular interest in the role voice and religion play in academia. | TN Tech University | Professor of Literacy | BA in English Education from Lincoln Memorial University; MA and Ed.D. in English Education from the University of TN. Current Professor of Literacy at TN Tech University. Lifelong resident of the Appalachian region. Published articles on Appalachia culture and languge patterns. Serve (have served) as editor of international journal and am on the editorial review board of numerous journals. | |||||||||||||||||||
80 | Kiesa | Kay | kiesakay@gmail.com OR programs@pioneerlife.org | Poetry, rural education, rural sociology, community development, activism, twice exceptionality, trauma, domestic violence, systemic oppression, monolithic domes, pioneer experience | University of Kansas | Programs Manager, Center for Pioneer Life, Yancey County, NC | Freelance writer and editor; playwright whose works have been performed in seven states; editor of High IQ Kids and of Uniquely Gifted: Identifying and Meeting the Needs of the Twice Exceptional Student; researcher; rural woman. Have judged the Appalachian Playwriting Festival and reviewed grant applications for the Kansas Arts Commission. Board member of TLAN, Transformative Language Arts Network. Creator of the video series Transforming Trauma through Creative Expression for Survivor Space, a division of Zero Abuse Project. Darkness to Light facilitator and formerly nationally certified child forensic interviewer. | |||||||||||||||||||
81 | Allison | Ricket | aricket@georgiasouthern.edu | Community and Career Connected Learning, Community parnterships, workforce ecosystems and community vitality, community regeneration and social entrepreneurship | Georgia Southern Universtiy | Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership | Allison L. Ricket, accredited by Social Value International, has led the SROI and Impact Measurement team at the Voinovich School. Ricket works with social enterprises, impact investors, nonprofits, foundations, and impact funds to measure and maximize their social, environmental, and economic impact. Ricket researches asset-based and strengths-based approaches to rural community building; social entrepreneurial ecosystems; and approaches to lean impact data, and systems thinking and holistic approaches to community well-being, with an emphasis on measures that reinforce and strengthen healthy community ecosystems. | |||||||||||||||||||
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