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48th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference | Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, Tennessee | March 20 - 22, 2025.
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Saturday, March 22
 

7:00am CDT

Education Committee Meeting
Saturday March 22, 2025 7:00am - 8:00am CDT
HENDERSON HALL 216
Saturday March 22, 2025 7:00am - 8:00am CDT
Henderson Hall

7:00am CDT

Journal of Appalachian Studies Editorial Board Meeting
Saturday March 22, 2025 7:00am - 8:00am CDT
Henderson 214
Saturday March 22, 2025 7:00am - 8:00am CDT
Henderson Hall

8:00am CDT

Creating Change for Resilient Community Water Systems in Central Appalachia
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
HEND 214
Convener: Deborah J. Thompson, LiKEN Knowledge
  • "Creating Spaces of Mutual/Social Learning and Action, Undoing Entrenched Inequities through a Collaborative Research Project on Community Water Systems in Two Counties of Central Appalachia,” Maria Bareli, LiKEN Knowledge
  • “Water Inequalities and Extractive Developmental Pathways: Analyzing Water System Challenges in Two Central Appalachian Communities," Madison Mooney, LiKEN Knowledge
  • "Toolkits for Community Engagement and Water Resilience in the Face of Climate Change," McKensi Gilliam, LiKEN Knowledge
  • "Toolkits for Community Engagement and Water Resilience in the Face of Climate Change," Natasha Moore-Howell, LiKEN Knowledge
  • "LiKEN’s Theory of Change and Points of Leverage for Disrupting Vicious Cycles," Deborah J. Thompson, LiKEN Knowledge

Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Henderson Hall

8:00am CDT

Folklore
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
HEND 305
Convener: Rebecca Proffitt, East Tennessee State University, Reece Museum
  • "Ritual Remembrance: Material Culture as Historical Document," Rebecca Proffitt, East Tennessee State University, Reece Museum
  • "Captivity, Myth, and Memory: Examining the Origins and Cultural Significance of Hungry Mother State Park," Elise Johnson, Appalachian State University
  • "‘Around the Old Ore Knob Today’: Exploring Labor, Environment, and Memory in a Western North Carolina Ballad," Trevor McKenzie, Appalachian State University

Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Henderson Hall

8:00am CDT

Gas Build Outs in the Tennessee River Valley: A Continuing of Exploitation of People and Land in Appalachia
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
HEND 114
Convener and Presenter: Brig Ortner, SAGE TN
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Henderson Hall

8:00am CDT

Leveling the Playing Field: To be Heard and Seen
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
HEND 004
Convener: Cat Pleska, Marshall University
  • "I'll Always Be That Georgia Girl: Burn," Sara Henning, Marshall University
  • "She is Among so Many Silent Heroes," Cat Pleska, Marshall University
  • "Billie Lee," Nathan Rucker, Marshall University

Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Henderson Hall

8:00am CDT

Sites of Memory: History, Storytelling, and Undermining the Erasure of BIPOC in Northern Appalachia
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
HEND 304B
Convener: Kenton Butcher, Bucknell University
  • "Outside the Mainstream: Black Self-Publishing in Appalachian Ohio," Kenton Butcher, Bucknell University
  • "‘Eww, these apples suck, de donde son?’: Latinx Storytelling in Rural Pennsylvania," Elena Perez-Zetune, University of Texas at Austin/Bucknell University
  • "Race and Reputation: Black Appalachian Soldiers in the United States Colored Troops," Alexandra Finley, University of Pittsburgh
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Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Henderson Hall

8:00am CDT

Coalition Building through the Arts in Rural Appalachian Communities
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
HEND 108
Convener: Krystal Brooke Carter, Independent Scholar
  • Krystal Brooke Carter, Independent Scholar
  • Lacy Snapp, East Tennessee State University
  • Becks Lipshultz, Appalachian State University
  • LB Prevette, Independent

Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Henderson Hall

8:00am CDT

Rooted, Resilient, Rising: Women Growing Food across the Mountains Writing Workshop
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
HEND 316
Convener and Presenter: Amy Le Ann Richardson, Independent
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Henderson Hall

9:30am CDT

Appalachian Health Disparities are a Local Expression of Global Worsening of Health Disparities
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
HEND 304B
Convener: Robert Miller, Mayo Clinic
  • "Worsening Disparities in Cancer Outcomes in Appalachian Eastern Kentucky," Robert Miller, Mayo Clinic; Kennedy Sabharwal, University of Kentucky College of Medicine
  • "Disparity as a Manifestation of Environmental Destruction: The Impact of Mineral Extraction on Cancer Care Across the Globe," Elijah Baker, Maryville College, Maryville, Tennessee
  • "Excess Smoking Related Cancer Deaths in Eastern Kentucky Continue to Persist Despite Improving Survival Rates Elsewhere in The United States," Lauren Slone, Asbury University; Robert Miller, Mayo Clinic

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall

9:30am CDT

Appalachian Queer Pedagogy as Space of Resistance and Resilience: Creativity, Uniqueness, Nerve, and Talent in Rural Spaces
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
HEND 114
Convener: Clint Whitten, Virginia Tech
  • Clint Whitten, Virginia Tech
  • Josh Thompson, Virginia Tech
  • Amy Price Azano, Virginia Tech
  • Daniel Vandeberg, Roanoke City Public Schools
  • Justin Smith, Farm to Feed (Nonprofit)

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall

9:30am CDT

Pipelines, Pathways, and Potential: Workforce Development as a Positive Force for Thriving People and Communities in Appalachia
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
HEND 214
Convener: Maribeth Saleem-Tanner, High Rocks
  • "Introduction to the High Rocks Theory of Change," Maribeth Saleem-Tanner, High Rocks

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall

9:30am CDT

Power of Stories
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
HEND 216
Convener: Karen Spears Zacharias, Independent
  • "The Devil's Pulpit and Other Mostly True Scottish Misadventures," E.J. Wade, Independent; Karen Spears Zacharias, Independent
  • “Muriel Rukeyser’s Book of the Dead and the Discourse of Disaster in Appalachia,” Jeannie Dalporto, University of Charleston
  • “Tell Me about Your Bad Guys: Fathering in Anxious Times,” Michael Dowdy, Villanova University
  • "Acorns and Atoms: Nuclear Weapons, Exploitation, and Erasure in Appalachia," Emily Strasser, Tufts University

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall

9:30am CDT

After the Flood Documentary Short Screening
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
HEND 004
Convener and Presenter: Ali Gautier, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall

9:30am CDT

African American History and Culture in the Upper Cumberland
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
HEND 316
Convener: Megan Atkinson, Tennessee Tech University
  • "Black Union Soldiers of the Upper Cumberland," Troy D. Smith, Tennessee Tech University
  • "Cookeville's Historic West End," Linda Irby, Northeast School Retired Teachers and Putnam County NAACP
  • "West End Oral History Project," Krystal Akehinmi and Megan Atkinson, Tennessee Tech University
  • "Race Relations in Cookeville," Carl Owens, Tennessee Tech University

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall

9:30am CDT

Community-Based Participatory Archiving with Historic Brownsville Descendants
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
HEND 205
Convener: K. Melchor Hall, SAEDi Collective
  • K. Melchor Hall, SAEDi Collective
  • Clory Jackson, The Brownsville Project
  • Cheryl Jefferson Page, SAEDi Collective
  • Teniqua Pope, SAEDi Collective

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall

9:30am CDT

Embracing and Celebrating Appalachian Heritage through Storytelling, Art, & Place-Based Reflection
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
HEND 106B
Convener: Emily Colleen Cobb, Clemson University
  • Brittany Beeker, Clemson University
  • Emily Colleen Cobb, Clemson University

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall

9:30am CDT

Publishing in Appalachian Studies
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
HEND 308
Convener: Meredith McCarroll, Journal of Appalachian Studies
  • "Publishing in Journal of Appalachian Studies," Meredith McCarroll, Journal of Appalachian Studies
  • "Getting Published in Appalachian Journal," Jessica Cory, Appalachian Journal
  • "Publishing with West Virginia University Press," Marguerite Avery, West Virginia University Press
  • "Publishing with University Press of Kentucky," Abby Freeland, University Press of Kentucky
  • "Publishing with University Press of Kentucky," Margaret Kelly, University Press of Kentucky
  • "Publishing in Literary Journals," Marianne Worthington, Still: The Journal

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall

9:30am CDT

Rebellious Educators: P-12 Educators Sharing Stories of Joy as Resistance in the American South and Appalachia
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
HEND 307A
Convener: Adam Jordan, College of Charleston
  • "Making the Road: Clarifying ‘Rebellious Education,’" Adam Jordan, College of Charleston
  • "Authenticity as Resistance: The Case of Two Teachers from Southern Appalachia," Carrie Rogers, Western Carolina University
  • "To Dare Mighty Things: A Pedagogical Reflection on How Student-Driven Affirmative Communities Led to Joyful Learning and Amplifying Identities," Pete Locher, American University
  • "Loving Coalitions: Teaching and Forming Intergenerational LGBTQ+ Community in the Classroom," Carrie Hart, University of North Carolina School of the Arts
  • "Outcries of the Silent Voices: A Resistance against ‘Bless Your Heart’," Allison Jones, Forsyth County Schools, Georgia

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall

9:30am CDT

Reimagining the Small Press in Appalachia: The Red Branch Review
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
HEND 108
Convener: Nicole Drewitz-Crockett, Carson-Newman University
  • "Red Branch Review: Background & Goals," Noah Soltau, Carson-Newman University
  • "The Red Branch Review: Literary Arts," Wesley Scott McMasters, Carson-Newman University
  • "The Red Branch Review: Visual Arts," Heather Hartman Folks, Carson-Newman University

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall

9:30am CDT

The Online Encyclopedia of Appalachia Project
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
HEND 305
Convener: Ron Roach, East Tennessee State University
  • "Overview and Update on the Online Encyclopedia of Appalachia Project," Ron Roach, East Tennessee State University
  • "Update to the Online, Open-Access Encyclopedia of Appalachia, Part 2," Jeremy Smith, East Tennessee State University

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Henderson Hall

11:00am CDT

Appalachian Community
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
HEND 106B
Convener: Vonnia Davis, Independent
  • "Monuments in Black Appalachia: Community Engagement for Memory and Growth," Gregory Galford, Virginia Tech; Vonnia Davis, Independent
  • "There Was a Solid Community Here: The Development and Effects of Huntington, West Virginia’s Segregated Public Housing, 1938-1950," Jillian Kendall, West Virginia University

Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Henderson Hall

11:00am CDT

Appalachian Music
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
HEND 304B
Convener: Randal Williams, Tennessee Tech University
  • "Authenticity Meets the Sacred and Profane: Focus on Country Music," James Akenson, Tennessee Tech University; Randal Williams, Tennessee Tech University

Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Henderson Hall

11:00am CDT

Historic Events
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
HEND 316
Convener: Carson Benn, Lincoln Memorial University
  • "Nixon in the Mountains: A History of Twentieth-Century Conservatism through Two Kentucky Visits," Carson Benn, Lincoln Memorial University
  • "The Tennessee Valley Authority v. Appalachia: Exploring the Complicated and Exploitive History of the Tennessee Valley Authority within East Tennessee and Beyond," Madeleine Howe, University of Tennessee Knoxville
  • "To Be a Good Soldier, Citizen, and Patriot: How Southern Military Tradition at UNG Upheld the Lost Cause in Post-Civil War Appalachia," Ariana Mohr, University of North Georgia

Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Henderson Hall

11:00am CDT

Knowledge Access
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
HEND 216
Convener: Kathryn Wisinger, Putnam County Library
  • "Johnson's Unfulfilled Promise: Accessibility to Higher Education in Appalachia during the War on Poverty," Zoe Davin, Connecticut College
  • "Rural Libraries and Their Influence in Appalachian Communities," Kathryn Wisinger, Putnam County Library
  • "Cyber Possibilities: Making Higher Education Accessible for Rural Appalachian Students," Kristen LeFevers, University of Tennessee Knoxville

Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Henderson Hall

11:00am CDT

Pop Culture: Representation
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
HEND 114
Convener: J. M. L. Whittington, University of Central Florida
  • "Navigating the History and Evolution of Professional Wrestling in Appalachia," Caleb Brown, Appalachian State University
  • "From Carpet Capital to Soccer Town USA: ‘Monday Night Fútbol’ in Dalton, Georgia," Michael Dowdy, Villanova University
  • "Introducing Appalachian Game Studies: Fallout 76, Imaginative Geography, and Extractive Tourism," J. M. L. Whittington, University of Central Florida

Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Henderson Hall

11:00am CDT

Re-writing the Appalachian Family: Households of Necessity, Households of Choice
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
HEND 004
Convener: Doug Van Gundy, West Virginia Wesleyan College
  • Doug Van Gundy, West Virginia Wesleyan College
  • Jamey Temple, University of the Cumberlands
  • Sara Henning, Marshall University

Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Henderson Hall

11:00am CDT

Higher Education in an Appalachian Context
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
HEND 305
Convener: Michelle Boettcher, Clemson University
  • "The Rural Educators Academy: A Community Colleges of Appalachia Initiative," Michelle Boettcher, Clemson University

Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Henderson Hall

11:00am CDT

Investigating Retail Theft in Sullivan County Tennessee - A Project of the Appalachian Justice Research Lab
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
HEND 108
Convener: Wendy A. Bach, University of Tennessee Appalachian Justice Research Center
  • Imani Mfalme-Shu’la, Community Defense of East Tennessee
  • Kyra Martinez, Lecturer, University of Tennessee Department of Sociology

Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Henderson Hall

11:00am CDT

From Appalachia to the Andes: Virtual Field Trips, Language Learning, and Making Place-Based Connections
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
HEND 214
Convener: Emily Colleen Cobb, Clemson University
  • Sharon Jackson, Clemson University
  • Emily Colleen Cobb, Clemson University

Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Henderson Hall

2:30pm CDT

Community Legacies
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
HEND 216
Convener: Kopana Terry, University of Kentucky
  • "Peck’s Addition Revisited: Exploring Southwestern Ohio’s Appalachian Legacy through Public History," Matthew Smith, Miami University-Hamilton; Ashley Hopkins, Miami University-Hamilton
  • "Invisible Appalachia," Kopana Terry, University of Kentucky

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall

2:30pm CDT

Death Traditions
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
HEND 214
Convener: Clint Whitten, Virginia Tech
  • "Cemetery Language in Western North Carolina," Bridget Anderson, Old Dominion University; Craig Winkelmann, Independent
  • "Appalachian Cultural Traditions Regarding Death, Dying, and Funerals," Adeline Rosenberger, University of North Georgia

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall

2:30pm CDT

Displacement
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
HEND 305
Convener: Katherine Everhart, UVA Wise
  • "Rural Displacement: Public Housing in Rural Southwest Virginia," Anngel Gallihar, UVA Wise; Katherine Everhart, UVA Wise
  • "Remember Me: Addressing Displacement and Collective Trauma Following the Construction of Fontana Lake," Ryan Floyd, Lander University
  • "The Death of the Hillbilly Ghetto?," Michael Maloney, University of Cincinnati

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall

2:30pm CDT

Labor
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
HEND 108
Convener: Meghan Moore-Hubbard, Clemson University
  • "Mountain Mothers, Summer Gardens, and 100 Years of West Virginian Food Preservation," Sarah Trautwein, Marshall University
  • "Whose Labor History?: A Counterstory of Labor History in Appalachia," Meghan Moore-Hubbard, Clemson University; Brandon Beck, Clemson University
  • "‘Come to Me, All You Who Labor, and I Will Give You Rest’: Post-Coal Industrial Identity in Appalachia as Shown through the Upper Big Branch Miners Memorial," Jane M. Harris, Independent

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall

2:30pm CDT

Dark Skies in Appalachia Part III: Musical Star Streams
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
HEND 004
Convener: Lee Bidgood, East Tennessee State University
  • "Dark Skies and Songwriting: Tim Stafford," Tim Stafford, East Tennessee State University
  • "Dark Skies and Songwriting: Danny Schmidt," Danny Schmidt, Independent
  • "Dark Skies and Songwriting: Wild Ponies," Wild Ponies, Independent

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall

2:30pm CDT

Night Skies
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
HEND 304B
Convener: Cassandra Wade, Independent
  • "Star-Sown: Creative Explorations in Ecological and Astrological Confluences: Moon in the Thighs, the Undertakers’ Almanac," Leslie Bohn, Independent
  • "The Soil, the Spirit, and the Stars," Cassandra Wade, Independent

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall

2:30pm CDT

Roundtable on Disability in Appalachia
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
HEND 307A
Convener: Mack Thompson, University of Kentucky Department of Anthropology
  • Mack Thompson, University of Kentucky Department of Anthropology
  • Justin-Ray Dutton, Wake Forest University
  • Courtney Johnson, Just Keep Stimming, Tennessee Council on Developmental Disabilities
  • Alexandria Knipp, Mountain Association
  • Michelle Roberts, University of Kentucky Department of Anthropology
  • Rachel Stallard, Care Collective of Southwest Virginia, Cumberland Mountain Mutual Aid, Patchwork Kinfolx

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall

2:30pm CDT

Agency, Fiber Work, and the Appalachian Woman
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
HEND 205
Conveners: Carlee Bradbury, Radford University; Morgan Gilbert, Southwest Virginia Community College
  • Morgan Gilbert, Southwest Virginia Community College
  • Carlee Bradbury, Radford University

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall

2:30pm CDT

Community Stories to Policy Action: A Digital Storytelling Workshop
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
HEND 114
Convener: Bishop Marcia Dinkins, Black Appalachian Coalition
  • Bishop Marcia Dinkins, Black Appalachian Coalition
  • NitaJade, Black Appalachian Coalition
  • Milan Bush, Black Appalachian Coalition
  • Shana Goggins, Black Appalachian Coalition

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall

2:30pm CDT

Preserving Rural Voices: Engaging Preservice Teachers in Oral History Projects in East Tennessee
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
HEND 106B
Convener: Melissa Comer, Tennessee Tech University
  • Kristen Pennycuff Trent, Tennessee Tech University
  • Melissa Comer, Tennessee Tech University

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Henderson Hall
 
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