44TH ANNUAL APPALACHIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE
TOWARD ANTIRACISM IN APPALACHIAN STUDIES
MARCH 11 – 14, 2021, VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
Click on the Session you would like to view to be directed to the YouTube recording.
(Note a few sessions were not recorded).
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TITLE: Abolitionist Appalachia: Looking to Rural Appalachia for Examples of Abolition Work
Presenter: angie luvara, American University
Presenters: Maia Surdam, Partnership for Appalachian Girls’ Education (PAGE)
TITLE: Recovering Appalachian History Through the Historical Reconstruction and Remembering of the All-Black School
Presenter: Kristan L. McCullum, University of Virginia
TITLE: WE EXIST: Black LivesMatter in Wheeling, West Virginia's Modern History
Presenter: William Hal Gorby, West Virginia University
TITLE: #BlueWave: Liberal Paternalism in the 2020 Kentucky Senate Election
Presenter: Amanda Burroughs, Virginia Tech
TITLE: Broadcasting Region: Educational Television via Airplane and the Beginnings of an Appalachian Communications System
Presenter: Carson Benn, University of Kentucky
TITLE: Building Resilience thru Connecting with Ourselves and Others
Presenters:
Tauna Gulley, University of Pikeville
Bernie Kenny, Health Wagon
TITLE: Using Culturally-Focused Storytelling to Empower Appalachian Kentucky Youth to Understand and Address Cancer Disparities in Their Communities
Presenter: Nathan L. Vanderford, University of Kentucky
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TITLE: “Enter to Learn, Depart to Serve”: The Work of the Historic Langston Centre in Bringing Communities Together
Convener/Panelist: Ron Roach, East Tennessee State University
Panelists:
Adam Dickson, Langston Center
Pauline Douglas, Langston Center
Nathnael Tadesse, East Tennessee State University
TITLE: Language Matters
Convener/Panelist: Michelle O'Malley, Ohio University
Panelists:
Kalynda Thayer, Ohio University
Rasmia Shraim, Ohio University
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TITLE: Mixed Mesophytic Nation: Pathways to Citizenship
Convener/Panelist: Kathryn Newfont, University of Kentucky
Panelists:
Michelle Baumflek
Tommy Cabe, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
Ruby Daniels, Sprouting Farms
Mary Hufford, Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network
Gary Bone
TITLE: A Sociological Analysis of Race and Teaching Anti-Racism in Appalachia
Presenter: Aysha Bodenhamer, Radford University
TITLE: The All Y'all Social Justice Collective: Making the Case for No-Cost, Anti-Racist Professional Learning Experiences for Educators and Service Providers
Presenters:
Adam W. Jordan, College of Charleston
Rebekah Cordova, University of Florida
Kasey H. Jordan, Medical College of South Carolina
TITLE: Unheard Voices and Keynote Listeners: Lessons from a Flipped Symposium in SW Virginia
Presenters:
Nathaniel D. Porter, Virginia Tech
H. Smith, Virginia Tech
TITLE: White Space
Presenter: Kelly A. Dorgan, East Tennessee State University
TITLE: Reclaiming the Edifice: Restorative Justice and the Archives
Convener: Stewart Plein, West Virginia University
Panelists:
Gene Hyde, University of North Carolina at Asheville
Patrick Bahls, University of North Carolina at Asheville
Sharyn Mitchell, Berea College
Juan Pacheco, Virginia Tech
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TITLE: Building a Worker Cooperative Ecosystem in Central Appalachia
Convener/Panelist: J. Todd Nesbitt, Lock Haven University
Panelists:
Hannah Scott, The Ohio State University
Michael Peck, Mondragon Cooperative Corporation, 1Worker1Vote.org
Performance 1
TITLE: Diversifying the Stream: How WANA LIVE! Introduces Underrepresented Appalachian Voices to the World
Lead Presenter/Convener: Christina Fisanick, California University of Pennsylvania
Additional Presenter(s):
Damian Dressick, California University of Pennsylvania
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TITLE: Apple Stack Cake as Icon in the Construction of an Appalachian Cuisine
Presenter: Lucy M. Long, Center for Food and Culture
TITLE: Nursing in Rural Appalachia: The Voice of the Registered Nurse
Presenters:
Evelyn Brewer, Lees-McRae College
Florence Weierbach, East Tennessee State University
Rebecca Adkins Fletcher, East Tennessee State University
Katherine Hall, East Tennessee State University
Wendy Nehring, East Tennessee State University
TITLE: Resilient Experiences in Appalachian Housing: Architectural Experiments in Planned Housing
Presenter: Gregory Galford, Virginia Tech
TITLE: You Can Take Me Out of Appalachia, But You Can't Take Appalachia Out of Me
Presenter: Gary Vaughn, University of Cincinnati
TITLE: Understories from Black Western Carolina: Community Elder's Voices from Late 1980s Oral Histories
Convener/Panelist: Wilburn Hayden, York University (Toronto, Canada)
Panelists:
Marie Cochran, Affrilachian Artist Project, UNC-Chapel Hill
Elizabeth Skene Harper, City of Asheville
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TITLE: Expanding Opportunities for Children with Sensory Disabilities in Appalachian Ohio
Convener/Panelist: Doug Sturgeon, University of Rio Grande
Panelists:
Karen Koehler, Shawnee State University
Emily Maginn, South Central Ohio Services Center
Greg Williams, Portsmouth City Schools
TITLE: Lamentations: Black/Folk Song Suite
Lead Presenter/Convener: Sean Hawthorne, East Tennessee State University
Special Panel 2
TITLE: Global Climate Commons and the Appalachian Forest
Convener/Panelist: Betsy Taylor, LIKEN
Panelists:
Chris Bolgiano, James Madison University
Neil Pederson, Harvard Forest
Rex Mann, American Chestnut Foundation
Rosanne Healy, University of Florida
TITLE: Appalachian Futures: Black, Native, and Queer Voices
Moderator: Carter Sickels, Eastern Kentucky University
Additional Presenter(s):
Davis Shoulders, Atlas Books
Crystal Wilkinson, University of Kentucky
Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
TITLE: Emma Bell Miles and the Native Mountaineer
Presenter: Sara Boissonneau, Howard University
TITLE: On Common Ground: The Infrapolitics of John Henry
Presenter: Anne Mahady, Indiana University
TITLE: Using Metadata Describing Appalachian Materials as Data for Reparative Archival Redescription Projects
Presenter: Elizabeth James, Marshall University
TITLE: Pittsburgh's Forgotten Tragedy: The Dorothy Albert Case
Presenter: Richard P. Mulcahy, University of Pittsburgh at Titusville
TITLE: Dialogic Imagination in "Ray and Jack Go Hunting" (1969): An Appalachian Folktale beyond "Their Racial Heritage"
Presenter: Maako Shiratori, Appalachian State University
TITLE: Everything We Are: A Study of Food in Appalachian Literature
Presenter: Hallie M. Knipp, Marshall University
TITLE: The Otherness of Nature; The Criticism of Anthropocentrism in Specter Mountain
Presenter: Micah Daniel McCrotty, Johnson University
TITLE: About Face: Representing Indigenous, Asian American, and African American Characters on Appalachian Stages
Convener/Panelist: Gina L. Grandi
Panelists:
Renee´ Flemings
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M. J. Moneymaker
TITLE: Sharing Stories of Recovery in Appalachia: Creating the Community Website Movable: Narratives of Recovery and Place
Convener/Panelist: Amy Saunders, Marshall University
Panelists:
Jamie Menshouse-Lukhmanov, Marshall University
Kristen Lilvis, Marshall University
Hilton Córdoba, Marshall University
Stefan Schoeberlein, Marshall University
TITLE: "This is My West Virginia": Silenced History in Appalachian Songs
Presenters:
Sarah Morris, West Virginia University
Beth Nardella, West Virginia University
TITLE: Is White Fragility the New Hillbilly Elegy?: An Appalachian Bookseller Reflects on Anti-Racist Bestsellers
Presenter: Davis Shoulders, Atlas Books
TITLE: Portrayals of Appalachian Regionalism in American Art: Modernism and Environment
Presenter: Ali Printz, Temple University
TITLE: Squirrel Rebellion
Presenter: Cary Curlee, Appalachian State University
TITLE: Lessons Learned: Online Teaching Strategies and Best-Practices
Convener/Panelist: Leah Vance-Berg, University of Kentucky
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TITLE: Gathering at the Table: Crystal Wilkinson and Ronni Lundy Discuss Culinary Representation, Shame, and Redemption
Convener/Panelist: Erica Abrams Locklear
Panelists:
Crystal Wilkinson
Ronni Lundy
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TITLE: Appalachian Historic Districts, Natural Gas Pipelines, Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Convener/Panelist: Anita Puckett, Virginia Tech
Panelists:
Lakshmi Fjord, University of Virginia
David Brady, Virginia Tech
Ann Rogers, Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League
Simona Perry, Pipeline Safety Coalition
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Performance 3
TITLE: Anne Braden: Southern Patriot Film Screening
Convener: Mimi Pickering, Appalshop
Panelists:
Anne Lewis, Appalshop
Concurrent 8
TITLE: "Campus Conversations:" Addressing Race and Racism in 2020
Presenter: Kristi A. Barnes, Ohio University
TITLE: "I got a home in that rock, don't you see?": Unearthing Affrilachian Children's Stories
Presenter: E. Gale Greenlee, The Ohio State University
TITLE: Calfee Community & Cultural Center: Honoring the Past, While Planning for the Future
Presenter: Keiona Eaves, Caffee Community & Cultural Center
TITLE: Representing Race in Appalachia in C.E. Morgan's The Sport of Kings
Presenter: Erin M. Presley, Eastern Kentucky University
TITLE: Nuestrxs Apalaches: A Roundtable Discussion on the Latinx-Appalachian Experience
Convener/Panelist: Sophia Enriquez, The Ohio State University
Panelists:
Ricardo Nazario-Colón, Western Carolina University
Cassie Rosita Patterson, The Ohio State University
Estela Diaz Knott, The Lua Project
Maria Pomales, West Virginia University
Flor de Maria, University of Kentucky
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TITLE: Finding Learners’ Voices in School & Community Gardens
Convener/Panelist: Tim Thomas, James Madison University
Panelists:
Nichole Barrows, Project GROWS
Lexy Close, Appalachian RC&D Council
Cody Miller, Department of Sustainable Development, Appalachian State University
Skyler Amsden, Department of Sustainable Development, Appalachian State University
Hannah Cullen, Department of Sustainable Development, Appalachian State University
Sally Reeske, Seasons of Grace
TITLE: Still Here: Cultural Erasure in Appalachian Music
Convener/Panelist: Liza DiSavino, Berea College
Panelists:
Sam Gleaves, Berea College
Kathy Bullock, retired, Berea College
Deborah Thompson, Berea College, Kentucky Historical Society
TITLE: Forests of Hope: Mined Land Reforestation in Appalachia
Convener/Panelist: Kenton Sena, University of Kentucky
Panelists:
Jennifer Franklin, University of Tennessee
Rebecca Swab, Grange Insurance Audubon Center
Sara Klopf, Virginia Tech
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TITLE: Appalachian Phonetics in Southeastern Ohio
Presenter: Lynn Caldwell, Ohio University
TITLE: Variable Language Crescendos and Teenager Identity
Presenters: Kirk Hazen, West Virginia University
Samantha R. Barney, West Virginia University
TITLE: Life in the Valley of Pottery: Appalachian Trendsetters and the Consumer Revolution
Presenter: Zada Komara, University of Kentucky
TITLE: Code-Meshing Appalachian Understories in College Writing
Presenter: Subhi Hindi, University of Houston
TITLE: Appalachian Heritage Education: Teaching with Place in Mind
Convener/Panelist: Michael C. Melton, Letcher Central High School
Panelists:
Robert Donnan
Alan Taylor
Sabrina Bennett
Kimberly Sergent
Jeff Hawkins
Dessie Bowling
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TITLE: Anti-racist Knowledge Production in Appalachia: Curricula and Critical Spaces
Convener/Panelist: Carol Mason, University of Kentucky
Panelists:
Shaila Mehra, Virginia Tech
David Nemer, University of Virginia
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TITLE: Queer Appalachian Literature
Convener/Panelist: Jessica Cory, Western Carolina University
Panelists:
Emily Brier, Western Carolina University
Sage Gerson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Eileen Waggoner, University of California, Riverside
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Performance 5
TITLE: Who Are You? The Evolution of Appalachian Student Identity
Lead Presenter/Convener: Ann Andaloro, Morehead State University
TITLE: Towards Restoration: Minority Empowerment in West Virginia's Incarceration System
Presenter: Jerry Dooley, Waynesburg University
TITLE: Claremont and Stone Cliff, WV: Exploring Hidden and Segregated Cemeteries in the New River Gorge
Presenter: Elisabeth "Lisa" Orr, West Virginia University
TITLE: Documenting African American Music Legacies in East Tennessee: The Knoxville Sessions, 1929-1930
Presenter: Ted Olson, East Tennessee State University
TITLE: The Whiteness Problem in America's Prison System
Presenter: Laura Leigh Morris, Furman University
TITLE: Education and Learning for a Just Transition in Appalachia
Presenter: Colleen Unroe, Pennsylvania State University
TITLE: A Hyperlocalized National Poetry Arts Designation Built an Inclusive and Diverse Community
Presenter: Eric Sloss (Asa Ana), Point Park University
TITLE: Sexy Sex-Ed
Presenter: Shaylan Clark, Berea College
TITLE: Dialog on the State of Race, Racism, and White Supremacy in Appalachia
Convener/Panelist: Cicero Fain, College of Southern Maryland
Panelists:
Darin Waters, UNC-Asheville
Wilburn Hayden, York University
William Turner, Kentucky State University
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TITLE: Ron Rash’s World Made Straight as a Round-About Route to Anti-Racist Reflection
Convener/Panelist: Martha Eads, Eastern Mennonite University
Panelists:
James Richardson, Eastern Mennonite University
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TITLE: Steadfast in the Face of a Changing Climate: Reforestation on the Monongahela National Forest, a Case Study
Convener/Panelist/Presenter: Kenton Sena, University of Kentucky
Panelists:
Chris Barton, University of Kentucky
Michaela Lambert, University of Kentucky
James Leonard, West Virginia University
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TITLE: Fostering Tolerance and Promoting Diversity through Public Art in Berea, Kentucky
Presenter: Joy Gritton, Morehead State University
TITLE: My Father, J.D. Vance, and Me
Presenter: Pauletta Hansel, Urban Appalachian Community Coalition
TITLE: The Creation, Perpetuation, and Exploitation of Appalachian Stereotypes in Modern Media
Presenter: Ryan Sergent-Payne, Eastern Kentucky University
TITLE: Truth-Telling in Country Music: A Rhetorical Analysis of Ken Burns’ PBS Limited Series
Presenter: Lora E. Smith, Indiana University
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General Appalachian Studies: Place
TITLE: By Any Other Name: A Workshop Exploring the Language Used to Describe Geographic Relationships to Place Across Appalachia
Convener/Panelist: Amanda Page, Mount Carmel College of Nursing
Panelists:
Cassie Patterson, Center for Folklore Studies
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TITLE: Addressing Antiracism and Decentering Whiteness in Appalachian Studies Programs
Convener/Panelist: Meredith McCarroll, Bowdoin College
Panelists:
Theresa Burriss, Radford University
Chris Green, Berea College
Julie Shepherd-Powell, Appalachian State University
TITLE: Commitment to a Lifestyle and Life of Social Justice
Lead Presenter/Convener: Jennifer Elam
Panelists:
Deborah Thompson
Ken Jacobsen
TITLE: Disability, Nearly Absent in Today's Appalachian Literature: A Look at Disability's Presence in Crystal Wilkinson's Birds of Opulence
Presenter: Elizabeth Glass, University of Louisville
TITLE: Engaging Beyond Project: Using Authentic Touch Points to Enhance Relationships and Build Community
Presenters: Rita Colistra, West Virginia University
Samantha Stocksdale, West Virginia University
TITLE: Enhancing Cancer Literacy in Kentucky Middle and High School Students through Cancer Education
Presenter: Lauren Hudson, University of Kentucky
TITLE: Folklore Transformed to History: Documenting African American Eptitude in Pre-Civil War Southern Ohio
Convener/Panelist: Omope Carter Daboiku
Panelists:
Cicero Fain, College of Southern Maryland
Jessica Lucas
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TITLE: From Mountaineers to Mountain Queers: Western Carolina’s Evolving Campus Archives
Convener/Panelist: Travis Rountree, Western Carolina University (WCU)
Panelists:
Mae Miller Claxton, Western Carolina University
Jordan Upton, Western Carolina University
Sarah Syeiner, Western Carolina University
Sarah DeArmon, Western Carolina University
Erin Callahan, Western Carolina University
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TITLE: The Ballads of Katherine Jackson French: Kentucky's Forgotten Ballad Collector
Lead Presenter/Convener: Elizabeth DiSavino, Berea College
Additional Presenter:
A.J. Bodnar
TITLE: The Ginseng Commons: The Past, Present, and Future of Appalachian Root Digging and Herb Gathering
Convener/Panelist: Mary Hufford, LIKEN
Panelists:
Luke Manget, Dalton State
Betty Belanus, Smithsonian
Susan Leopold, United Plant Savers
Kate Farley, Washington University
2:00-4:00 PM, Saturday
Moderators: Silas House and Crystal Wilkinson
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PUBLISHERS’ VIRTUAL GATHERING
5:00-6:30 PM, Saturday
(Access note each publisher has a separate link click on the hyperlink for the publisher you wish to attend).
Featuring:
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Y’ALL Conversation with Gabrielle Chapman: In this talk, Chapman will discuss racial equity, Black organizing in Appalachia, and what an inclusive Appalachian future can look like.
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TITLE: Addressing Disparities in Appalachian Ohio’s African American Community
Convener/Panelist: Lori Boegershausen, Foundation for Appalachian Ohio
Panelists:
Ernest A. Bynum, African American Community Fund
TITLE: Black Education Matters: The Remarkable Achievements of Black Teachers and Students Before Integration in SWVA
Convener/Panelist: Jinny Turman, University of Virginia’s College at Wise
Panelists:
Tom Costa, University of Virginia’s College at Wise
Zoe Crihfeld, University of Virginia’s College at Wise
Mitchell Holbrook, University of Virginia’s College at Wise
Math Rowe, University of Virginia’s College at Wise
Alexandria Deckard, University of Virginia’s College at Wise
Gina Kissell, University of Virginia’s College at Wise
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TITLE: A Reading from Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel (PMS&G) Volume 23: Appalachian Edge
Lead Presenter/Convener: Sherry Cook Stanforth, PMS&G
Presenters:
Chiquita Mullins Lee, Ohio Arts Council
Jim Minick, PMS&G
Dana Wildsmith, PMS&G
Jay Butler, Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative (SAWC)
Pam Hirschler, SAWC
Kari Gunter-Seymour, Ohio Poet Laureate
Bonnie Proudfoot, author
Hilda Downer, SAWC
John York, poet, retired teacher
Rhonda Pettit, University of Cincinnati--Blue Ash College
Ann Shurgin, SAWC
Kate Fox, writer, editor, Textual Healing
Jessica Cory, Western Carolina University
Omope Carter Daboiku, folk artist-wordsmith-storyteller, Homeside Cultural Programming
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Performance 9
TITLE: Appalachian Fiddler Albert Hash: The Last Leaf on the Tree
Lead Presenter/Convener: Malcolm Smith, Radford University
TITLE: Teaching from Writing Appalachia: An Anthology: Three Papers and a Q & A Session
Convener/Panelist: Theresa Lloyd, East Tennessee State University
Panelists:
Richard Parmer, University of Kentucky
Rebecca Stephens, Liberty Bell Middle School
Katherine Ledford, Appalachian State University
TITLE: Health Systems in Appalachia
Convener/Panelist: Maggie Thomas, Cooper Carry
Panelists:
Lesly-Marie Buer, Choice Health Network
Bayla Ostrach, UNC Health Sciences at MAHEC
Jennifer Akerman, University of Tennessee
Emilee Wilson, Hastings Architecture
TITLE: What's My Name: The Evolution of a Revolution-Documentary
Lead Presenter/Convener: Vonnia Harris Davis
TITLE: Black in Appalachia The Podcast
Lead Presenter/Convener: William Isom II
Additional Presenter(s):
Enkeshi El-Amin