Appalachian Studies

Click bars at top left if sidebar does not show.

Author's Research Career Goals & Debates

• 2015. “My Journey: Appalachia, Civil Rights Activism, and Revisionist Scholarship,” Distinguished Alumna Award (University of Tennessee, 2015) See also News Coverage

• 2004. “Revisionist with a Cause: Interview with Wilma Dunaway.” Appalachian Journal 31 (Winter/Spring).

Books

• The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860 (University of North Carolina Press, 1996) See Table of Contents

• The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation (Cambridge University Press, 2003) See Table of Contents

• Slavery in the American Mountain South (Cambridge University Press, 2003) See Table of Contents

• Women, Work and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South (Cambridge University Press, 2008) See Table of Contents

Articles & Book Chapters

• "The Incorporation of Mountain Ecosystems into the Capitalist World-System." Review of the Fernand Braudel Center 19 (1996)

• "The Southern Fur Trade and the Incorporation of Southern Appalachia into the World-Economy, 1690-1763." Review of the Fernand Braudel Center 17 (Spring 1994).

• "Women at Risk: Capitalist Incorporation and Community Transformation on the Cherokee Frontier" In A World-Systems Reader: New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples and Ecology, edited by Thomas D. Hall ( Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999)

• "The Spatial Organization of Trade and Class Struggle over Transport Infrastructure: Southern Appalachia, 1830-1860" In Space and Transport in the World-System, edited by Stephen Bunker and Paul Cicantell (Greenwood Press, 1998)

• 1995. "'The Disremembered' of the Antebellum South: A New Look at the Invisible Labor of Poor Women." Critical Sociology 21 (3): 89-106

• 1995. "Speculators and Settler Capitalists: Unthinking the Mythology about Appalachian Landholding, 1790-1860." In Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Mary Beth Pudup, Dwight Billings, and Altina Waller. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, pp. 50-75.

Dissertation

• “The Incorporation of Southern Appalachia into the Capitalist World-economy, 1700-1860.” A Dissertation Presented for the Doctor of Philosophy Degree, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Presentations

• 2010. "The Heroic Lives of 19th Century Appalachian Women." Lecture Presented to the Night for Notable Women, History Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, 3 June 2010

• 2009. "Challenging Historical and Contemporary Mythology about Appalachian Ethnic and Gender Diversity." Lecture presented at Union College (Barbourville, Kentucky), 26 October 2009

• 2009. "Romantic Idealism Dies Hard: Challenging Scholarly Mythology about Southern Appalachia." Lecture presented to Montgomery County School Teachers, 12 March.

• 2009. "Slavery and Black Appalachian Families" Lecture presented to the American Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia, 10 March.

• 2014. “Sorting Social Darwinism from History: The Ethnic and Racial Origins of Southern Appalachians.” Paper presented at the Southern Sociological Society Meeting.