Project Grants

Helen Bateman, Associate Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience Steering Committee, Sewanee: The University of the South

Helen Bateman, Associate Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience Steering Committee, Sewanee: The University of the South

Project Leader: Helen Bateman

Project Title: Psychological Sense of Community in Rural Southern Appalachian Schools: Relationship with students’ Body Mass Index and bullying

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Katharine Cammack, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Sewanee: The University of the South

Katharine Cammack, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Sewanee: The University of the South

Project Leader: Katharine Cammack

Project Title: Opioid use in Southern Appalachia: How Drug Education Framing can be Informed by Local Perceptions, Attitudes, and Worldviews

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Daniel Carter, Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Sewanee: The University of the South

Daniel Carter, Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Sewanee: The University of the South

Project Leader: Daniel Carter

Project Title: Community Development in Rural Appalachia

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Dana Cavallo, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine

Dana Cavallo, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine

Project Leader: Dana Cavallo

Project Title: Development of a School-wide Tobacco Survey to Inform a Smoking Cessation Program in a Southern Appalachian High School

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Melody Crowder-Meyer, Assistant Professor of Politics, Sewanee: The University of the South

Melody Crowder-Meyer, Assistant Professor of Politics, Sewanee: The University of the South

Project Leader: Melody Crowder-Meyer

Project Title: Rural Consciousness and Political Opinions in Southern Appalachia

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Russell Fielding, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Sewanee: The University of the South

Russell Fielding, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Sewanee: The University of the South

Project Leader: Russell Fielding

Project Title: The Cleanest Line: A Recreation Ecology Study of Rock-Climbing
in Southern Appalachia

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Carmen McEvoy, Professor of History, Sewanee: The University of the South

Carmen McEvoy, Professor of History, Sewanee: The University of the South

Project Leader: Carmen McEvoy

Project Title: Appalachian and the Andes: Dialogue North-South in the Americas

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Travel Grants

2017 Annual Conference of the Appalachian Studies Association held on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, VA 

Presenters:

Daniel Carter, Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies, Sewanee: ‘‘Thinking like a Region: Redefining Place in Rural Appalachia’’

Paige Schneider, Assistant Professor of Politics and Women’s and Gender Studies & Emily Partin, Grundy County Family Resource Center Director and Director of Discover Together: ‘‘Explaining Variation in College Going and Completion Rates in a Sample of Rural Appalachian Youth’’

Emily Senefeld, Visiting Instructor, Sewanee: ‘‘ ‘You Can’t Padlock an Idea’: Highlander Folk School and Civil Rights in Appalachia’ “

Attendees:

Kelsey Arbuckle, Sewanee student, C’19

Amber Layne, Sewanee student C’17

Gabby Valentine, Sewanee student C’17