Appalachian Studies
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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.