CHAUTAUQUA: Jessica Wilkerson - A Women's History of Appalachia - Keynote for Women's History Month
Jessica Wilkerson
“A Women's History of Appalachia”
Thurs Mar 2, 7:30PM
***Brock Auditorium, Coates Building***
Jessica Wilkerson is a Carnegie Research Fellow, professor of history and the Joyce and Stuart Robbins Chair of History at West Virginia University and the author of _To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice_ (U Illinois Press, 2019). Her research and teaching explores questions of political economy and social change in the 20th-century South and Appalachia. She is currently interested in exploring and contesting big narratives about Appalachia and how the region intersects with ideas of race, gender and the mainstream history of the American women’s movement. A Women’s History of Appalachia will be the first narrative history of the Mountain South through the lives of women who lived and worked in the region from the nineteenth century to the present.
Event Date: March 02 7:30 PM Location: Brock Auditorium, Coates Building Cost: Free
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