Author Sabeth Jackson
Laura Attanasio joined the Collaborative for Southern Appalachian Studies as a post-doctoral fellow for the 2016-17 academic year. Along with teaching “U.S. Health Policy: National, State, and Local Contexts,” and “History and Politics of Midwifery in the United States,” she… Continue Reading →
We are delighted to share some of the outcomes reported by our grant recipients. For a full listing of grant awards from 2015-16 visit this page. Max Fraser (Ph.D. Candidate in History at Yale University) was awarded funds for “The Southern… Continue Reading →
Live with historian Dr. Margo Shea and her students Kelsey Arbuckle, Amber Layne and Tori Hinshaw discussing their upcoming 40’s themed event “Highlander Hoedown” on Saturday, April 22, 5-8pm at the uber historic Highlander Folk School Library. Visit the event… Continue Reading →
Drawing the People’s Map A Sewanee professor and her students collect stories about places on the South Cumberland Plateau to compile a rich topography of personal history. Read the full story here: http://www.sewanee.edu/features/story/places-project.html
From the Past… a More Sustainable Future Among the many global environmental crises we face, one of the most certain is food production. The global food crisis has the potential to “explode within weeks and kill within days” (Cribb 2010:8)…. Continue Reading →