Michelle Roberts, Anthropology, “Webs of Care: Understanding Acquired Disability in Rural Appalachia through Culture, Politics, and Biomedicine”

Grace Seymour, Clinical Psychology, “The Impact of Trauma on Sleep Health in Appalachia: Examining the Roles of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Sleep Reactivity, and Use of Alcohol as a Sleep Aid”

Ruth Toole, Community and Leadership Development, “Effect of Agricultural Education on the Resilience of Economically Disadvantaged High School Students in the Appalachian Region of Kentucky and West Virginia”

Masafumi Uchiumi, Kinesiology and Health Promotion, “Effects of Inadequate Sleep and Obesity on Plantar- and Dorsi-flexor Motor Unit Recruitment during Balance and Muscle Strength Testing”

Bradley Firchow, Rural Physician Leadership Program in the UK College of Medicine: “Emerging Health Trends in Accredited and Unaccredited Local Health Departments in Kentucky: Community Health Needs Assessments in Aggregate.”

Allen Fletcher, Department of History in the UK College of Arts and Sciences: “Women and the Politics of Education in Twentieth Century Appalachia.”

Arshiya Jeelani, Department of History in the UK College of Arts and Sciences: “Mary Jane in the Mountains: ‘The Social, Political, and Environmental Effects of Marijuana Growth in Appalachia.’”

Courtney Martin, Department of Kinesiology and Health Promotion in the UK College of Education: “Identifying Changes in Support of ICU Survivors after Hospital Discharge based on Geographic Location.”

Ryley Butler Modaff, College of Social Work: “The Impact of Stigma in Community Implementation of Medication-Assisted Therapy (MAT).”

London Orzolek, Department of Anthropology in the UK College of Arts and Sciences: “Higher Education in Appalachia: Examining Engagement, Success, and Inclusion for First-Generation and Low-SES Students.”

Jimmy Robinson, Department of Sociology in the UK College of Arts and Sciences: “Taking the Rural with You: Rural Artists in the City.”

Kopana Terry, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History in UK Libraries: “Place, Identity and Natural Disaster: The Storm That Changed A Town and Its People.”

Research Presentation Recordings:

3/27/2024 - Jimmy Robinson (and Edward Lo, Lyman T. Johnson Postdoctoral Fellow, "Supporting Indigenous Peoples and Their Role in a Sustainable Kentucky")

4/3/2024 - Kopana Terry (and Mack Thompson, 2024 Symposium on Dis/Ability & Debility in Appalachia Coordinator)

4/10/2024 - London Orzolek and Ryley Butler Modaff

4/12/2024 - Arshiya Jeelani and Courtney Martin

Jed DeBruin, Department of Geography, College of Arts and Sciences: “From Past to Present: Black Farming in Appalachian Kentucky.”

Allen Fletcher, Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences: “Women, Politics, and Education Reform in Southern Appalachia, 1920-1970.”

Bonnie Lewis, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education: “The Risks of Remembering: Teaching Hard History in Appalachian Classrooms."

Madeline Dunfee, Epidemiology Biostatistics, "The Influence of Social Networks on Appalachian Adults’ Type Two Diabetes Self-Management"

Emma Kiser, History, "Protecting Old-Growth Forests in the Mountain South"

K.C. Vick, Sociology, "Demarginalizing methods: Engaging community-based participatory methodology in a South Appalachian cancer cluster study"

Sia Beasley, Anthropology, “Reproducing Marginalization: Cultural Politics of Obstetric Service Closures in the Rural United States”

Carson Benn, History, “Broadcasting Region: The Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction and the Case for an Appalachian Network”

Rachael Blandau, Political Science, “Substantive Political Representation in Rural Kentucky”

Madeline Dunfee, Epidemiology-Biostatistics, “Conducting Social Network Analysis Among Adults with Cardiometabolic Disease in Appalachia”

Jade Hollan, Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology, “Kentucky Appalachians’ Intentions to Use Telemental Health”

Annie Koempel, Anthropology, “Embodied Insecurities: Socio-Economic Status, Eating Patterns, and Metabolic Health” See PRESENTATION SUMMARY

Alisha Mays, Anthropology, “An Appalachian Narrative of Food Justice: What Happens to Locally Produced Foodstuffs in Appalachian Eastern Kentucky”

Dane Ritter, English, “Maybe Mountain: the Devastating Poetry of Mountaintop Removal”

Rebecca Ellen Tucker, Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation, “Berea College's Commitment to Appalachia Kentucky”

Madeline Dunfee, Behavioral Science, Tailoring a Successful Health Intervention for Implementation in Appalachian Communities See PRESENTATION SUMMARY

Erfan Saidi Moqadam, Anthropology, Reconstituting Religious Identity: Multivocal Religiosity in the Appalachian Iranian Diaspora See PRESENTATION SUMMARY

Julia M. Miller, Sociology, Let's Not Do Anything Drastic!: Processes of Reproducing Rural Marginalization in Education Policy Decision-making

Christopher A. Preece, S.T.E.M. Education, Chemistry Comic Books: Investigating Mental Models in Appalachian High Schools

Aaron Guest, Gerontology, The Impact of Rural Aging Appalachian LGBTQ Social Networks on Health

Christopher Leadingham, History, John Bowman and an Environmental Approach to Early Kentucky History

Mauri Systo, Anthropology, Gig City: Tech Revitilization and Social Justic in Chattanooga, TN