Confronting Ecological Crisis in Appalachia and the South: University and Community Partnerships

Contributors

247 Contributors Conner Bailey is a professor of rural sociology at Auburn University, where he has worked since 1985. Bailey’s work focuses on the sociology of natural resources and the environment, and he has been working on the connection between forestry and quality of life in the southeastern United States for twenty years. He also has been involved with citizen activist groups fighting solid and hazardous waste facilities in the region , which has led to research on environmental justice. Internationally , Bailey has had a long commitment to research on coastal aquaculture and marine fisheries. He has published in a variety of academic journals, including Rural Sociology, Society and Natural Resources, Marine Policy, the Journal of Development Studies, and World Development. Alan Banks is a professor of sociology and director of the Center for Appalachian Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. He teaches courses in Appalachian studies and has written several essays about social change in Appalachia for regional journals and books. Alan lives near the Kentucky River in a house he built with his wife, Pat Banks. Anne Blakeney is an Eastern Kentucky University professor emerita. For twenty-six years, until her retirement in 2009, she directed graduate students in research exploring the impact of environmental degradation on the health and daily lives of people in the coalfields. In 2005 the American Occupational Therapy Association recognized her work with the Lindy Boggs Award, for “significant contributions to occupational justice for the people of Appalachia.” Sherry Cable’s primary research interests are environmental conflict, environmental inequalities, and environmental policy. Just published by Temple University Press is her book Sustainable Failures: Environmental Policy and Democracy in a Petro-dependent World. Recent articles include “Risk Society and Contested Illness: The Case of Nuclear Weapons 248 Contributors Workers” (American Sociological Review), with Tom Shriver and Tamara Mix, and “Mining for Conflict and Staking Claims: Contested Illness at the Tar Creek Superfund Site” (Sociological Inquiry), with Tom Shriver and Dennis Kennedy. Cable received the 2011 Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award from the American Sociological Association. She is currently working with Donald W. Hastings on a book manuscript, “The Shaping of Pre-industrial Societies by Economic Activities: Classical Athens, Classical/Imperial Rome, and Medieval Britain.” Patrick Carter-North graduated from Eastern Kentucky University with a BA in sociology in 2003. His work with the Martin County project led him to Auburn University, where he completed his master’s thesis on watershed management and received an MS in rural sociology in 2005. He currently resides in Portland, Oregon. Lynne Faltraco’s involvement as a community activist and organizer began in 1995. She has been the program coordinator for the Concerned Citizens of Rutherford County and was awarded a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship to the University of Kentucky, where she completed “Bridging the Gap: A Resource Manual for Local Rural Communities.” Her fellowship marked the beginning of this book project. She has spoken at public hearings, town hall meetings, and conferences such as the Southeast Rural Sociological Conference; conducted classes at various universities throughout the Southeast; and given presentations in local communities from Alabama to Pennsylvania. She has written and been featured in numerous articles, editorials, magazines, book reviews, and regulatory publications , such as the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources and EPA Region 4’s performance partnership agreement. Dick Futrell is professor emeritus from Eastern Kentucky University, where he taught sociology from 1974 to 2005. He now lives with his wife, Janet, at Egrets’ Cove, a small eco-village east of Berea, Kentucky. He currently has two writing projects, one tentatively titled “Crossroads Classroom” and the other “Pragmatic Local Sociology, A Workbook.” He spends much of his time on household projects, gardens, and projects around Egrets’ Cove. Robert Futrell is a professor of sociology at the University of Nevada, Contributors 249 Las Vegas. His research specialties cover social movements, environmental sociology, sociology of science and technology, and sustainability . He has published widely on science and technological controversy, chemical weapons activism, the U.S. white power movement, and environmental sustainability in the American Southwest. He is coauthor, with Pete Simi, of American Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement ’s Hidden Spaces of Hate. Robert Gipe is a professor of humanities at Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College, where he is director of the Appalachian Program. He coordinates a variety of community arts projects in Harlan County, Kentucky, and holds a master’s in American studies...