Affiliates
The Appalachian Center & Appalachian Studies Program is a vibrant community consisting of undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, staff, and community members. Representing a wide array of disciplines from colleges across the University, affiliates partner with Appalachian communities, conduct research, lead community engagement projects, and teach courses relating to the region.
To become an Appalachian Center affiliate, please complete the following form:
Appalachian Center Affiliation Application
To become a faculty affiliate for the Appalachian Studies Program please complete the following form:
Appalachian Studies Faculty Affiliation Application
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Senior Lecturer
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diane.loeffler@uky.edu
629 Patterson Office Tower
859-257-3506 |
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Graduate Research Assistant, M.S. Student
Landscape ecology, Conservation |
katherine.love@uky.edu
214 Thomas Poe Cooper Building
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Professor, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Professor, Department of English, Affiliate faculty, American Studies Program, and Appalachian Studies, University Research Professor
20th-century American culture and literature, critical studies of whiteness, race and reproduction, theories of gender and sexuality, Right-Wing Movements |
carol.mason@uky.edu
213 Breckinridge Hall
859-257-1788 |
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Anthropology Ph.D. Student
Food security, inequality and poverty, grassroots organizing and activism, Appalachia, Alternative food movements, environmental and sustainability studies, Economic Anthropology., business and organizational anthropology, labor |
alisha.mays@uky.edu
102F Lafferty Hall
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Ph.D. Candidate
African-American history; 20th century US history; the Black Power/Civil Rights Movements, Appalachian history |
jillean.mccommons@uky.edu
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Assistant Professor
Alternative food movements, Sustainable Agriculture, Black geographies, race and racism, spirituality and religion |
priscilla.mccutcheon@uky.edu
853 Patterson Office Tower
859-257-6057 |
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Doctoral Candidate- Sociology
Rural Sociology, Social inequality, Quantitative & Qualitative Methods, intersectionality |
jmmi245@g.uky.edu
1522 Patterson Office Tower
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nrmoos2@uky.edu
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Associate Professor
Appalachian history, the U.S. South, Environmental History |
kathryn.newfont@uky.edu
1727 Patterson Office Tower
(859) 257-1014 |
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Professor
Creative Writing |
gnorman@uky.edu
1257 Patterson Office Tower
(859) 257-1154 |
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lindell.ormsbee@uky.edu
233 Mining and Minerals Bldg
(859)-257-6329 |
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Professor of Musicology, Director, John Jacob Niles Center for American Music, Coordinator, Division of Musicology and Ethnomusicology
American music, Appalachian region |
ron.pen@uky.edu
859-257-8183 |
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j.perry@uky.edu
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High School Chemistry Teacher, STEM Education PhD Candidate
Chemistry Mental Models, Appalachian region, Cognitive Load, Science Literay, Comic Books, ,interactions |
chemicalphilosopher@gmail.com
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steven.price@uky.edu
208A Thomas Poe Cooper Bldg.
859-257-7610 |
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Assistant Professor, Interiors
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rebekah.radtke@uky.edu
117 Pence Hall
859-257-2229 |
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Provost's Distinguished Service Professor
Cultural-historical geography, American landscapes, Infrastructure, especially transportation, and its relationship to economic, social, and legal processes and engineering technologies |
gegraitz@uky.edu
865 Patterson Office Tower
(859) 257-6948 |
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Professor
Non-Fiction Writing, Creative Writing |
erik.reece@uky.edu
1231 Patterson Office Tower
257-6971 |
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Assistant Professor, Community and Leadership Development
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karen.rignall@uky.edu
713 W.P. Garrigus Building
(859) 257-5056 |
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Anthropology Ph.D. Candidate
Religion, Islam, Shi'ism, identity, nationalism, State, Iran and its Diaspora, West Asia (Middle East) |
erfan.saidi@uky.edu
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