Appalachian Studies

Mary Anglin, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-1051
E-mail: mary.anglin@uky.edu
Specialization:

1. Medical anthropology
   Breast cancer/reproductive health
   Women's health, with emphasis on reproductive cancers and HIV
   Cultural anthropology
   Gender
   Political economy
   Appalachia and U.S., Latin America
   Ethnographic research in North America: rural Southern Appalachia, urban West Coast of the U.S.
   Culture, power and political economies
   The intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, class and (trans)nationality
   Environmental contamination and risks to health and livelihood

Shannon Elizabeth Bell, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-6883
E-mail: shannon.eliz.bell@uky.edu
Specialization:

1. Environmental sociology
   Gender and social movements
   Barriers to local participation in the environmental justice movement that has risen up against mountaintop removal mining in Central Appalachia

Dwight Billings, Professor, Department of Sociology
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-4412
E-mail: billing@pop.uky.edu
Specialization:

1. Social inequality
   Appalachian and regional studies
   Poverty
   Sociological theory
   The sociology of religion

Ron Eller, Associate Professor, Department of History
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-6857
E-mail: eller@uky.edu
Specialization:

1. Appalachian history, politics and culture

Gurney Norman, Associate Professor and Director of the Creative Writing Program, Department of English
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257- 1154
E-mail: gnorman@uky.edu
Specialization:

1. Fiction
   Film
   Literary and cultural history of the Appalachian Region

Karl Raitz, Professor, Department of Geography
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-6948
E-mail: gegraitz@email.uky.edu
Specialization:

1. American landscapes, historical geography, U.S., Appalachia, photography and geography, visual methods

Shaunna Scott, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-6882
E-mail: shaunna.scott@uky.edu
Specialization:

1. Social inequality
   Gender
   The politics of identity and commemoration
   Participatory action research and social movements in Appalachia and Northern Ireland
   Understanding and promoting democratic practices and social justice projects in conflictual, stratified, rural contexts

Frank X. Walker, Associate Professor, Department of English, Director, African American and Africana Studies Research Program
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257- 1634
E-mail: fxwalker2@uky.edu
Specialization:

1. Affrilachian Poetry
   African American Studies
   Poetry

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Arts & Culture

Clyde Carpenter, Professor, School of Architecture, College of Design
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-3651
E-mail: arc104@uky.edu
Specializations:

1. Historic Preservation
   Modern House in Kentucky

David Mohney, Professor, School of Architecture, College of Design
Contact Phone(s): (859) 323-2538
E-mail: mohney@uky.edu
Specializations:

1. Kentucky architecture
   Louisville architecture
   Lexington architecture

Ron Pen, Professor of Musicology, Director of John Jacob Niles Center for American Music, School of Music, College of Fine Arts
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-8183
E-mail: ron.pen@uky.edu
Specializations:

1. Appalachian Music
   Country Music
   John Jacob Niles

Julie Riesenweber, Assistant Professor, Department of Historic Preservation, College of Design
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-4624
E-mail: jriesen@uky.edu
Specialization:

1. Kentucky architecture 1780-1860

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Economic Development

Susan Roberts, Professor and Chair, Department of Geography and Support Faculty, Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-2399
E-mail: sueroberts@uky.edu
Specialization:

1. Global political economy
   Geography of financial capital
   Development
   Feminist theories
   The Caribbean

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History

Reinette Jones, Librarian, Nunn Center, Special Collections
Contact Phone: 859-257-6042
Email: rjones@uky.edu
Specializations:

1. African American Library History in Kentucky
   Researching the History of African Americans in Kentucky
   Notable Kentucky African Americans Database

Kopana Terry, Program Manager, National Digital Newspaper Program for Kentucky
Contact Phone: 859-338-1872
Email: klterr0@uky.edu
Specializations:

1. Historic and Contemporary Kentucky Newspapers

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Kentucky Politics

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Rural Medicine

 

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Violence Against Women

Carol E. Jordan, Assistant Provost, Director, Center for Research on Violence Against Women
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-2737
E-mail: carolj@uky.edu
Specialization:

1. Issues related to domestic violence (intimate partner violence)
   Rape
   Stalking
   Homicide
   Legal issues associated with violence against women
   Legislative reform
   Campus victimization
   State and legislative policy

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