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Contributors Roschelle Bautista is assistant professor of Spanish at Dalton State College, where she has been teaching since 2001. She has taught study-abroad courses in Mexico and has led numerous tours groups across Latin America. Her innovative Spanish courses involve cultural immersion exercises in Dalton’s many Latino neighborhoods. She holds an M.S. in curriculum and instruction from the University of Tennessee. David P. Boyle is dean of the School of Social Work at Dalton State College. He holds an M.A. in linguistics from Indiana University, with an applied area in Spanish, and an M.S.W. and Ph.D. in social work from the University of Georgia. While teaching in the Department of Social Work at the University of Georgia, he developed a student exchange program with the University of Veracruz in Mexico. At Dalton State College he oversees an innovative bachelor of social work degree program with an emphasis on assisting Latino and Appalachian families. Donald E. Davis is professor of sociology at Dalton State College. He is the author of five books, including Homeplace Geography: Essays for Appalachia and the award-winning Where There Are Mountains: An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians. He has worked as both researcher and community organizer in locales across the Appalachian region and was featured in Suzanne Marshall’s “Lord We’re Just Trying to Save Your Water”: Environmental Activism and Dissent in the Appalachian South. Thomas M. Deaton is Professor Emeritus of the Social Sciences at Dalton State College. He is the author of Bedspreads to Broadloom: The Story of the Tufted Carpet Industry and the more recent essay “Tufted Titans” in The Southern Elite and Social Change: Essays in Honor of Willard B. Gatewood Jr. Professor Deaton holds a master of divinity degree from Southern Baptist Seminary and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Georgia. Ken W. Ellinger has been an educator for more than twenty years. He is associate professor of political science at Dalton State College, where he has taught such courses as introduction to education, American government, and state and local government. He received an M.A. in political science from Vanderbilt contributors 186 University and an Ed.D. in political science college teaching from Oklahoma State University. He also has authored a weekly column in the Dalton Daily Citizen, focusing on local, state, and national issues. Aref A. Hervani is assistant professor of economics at Chicago State University . He obtained his Ph.D. at West Virginia University and an M.A. in economics from Ohio State University. Hervani has completed several studies on the economic impact of Latinos in the nation’s carpet capital, as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles in the fields of environmental and sustainable economics. Monte Salyer holds a Ph.D. in English from Michigan State University with concentrations in applied linguistics and reading theory. He has taught courses in ESL, linguistics, and English composition at Sahmyook University in Korea, Andrews University in Michigan, and St. Mary of the Plains College in Kansas. He is associate professor of English and ESL at Dalton State College, teaching courses in learning support English and linguistics. He also coordinates the DSC Summer Academy, which prepares more than two hundred bilingual middle and high school students for higher education. Jo-Anne Schick served as the executive director for the Georgia Project from 2001 to 2007. Prior to coming to Dalton, she worked at the University of West Georgia in the College of Education. She holds a doctorate in education from the University of Houston and a master of arts in applied linguistics as well as a master of arts in French language and literature. She is presently employed as program coordinator in the Adult Language and Training Branch of the province of Manitoba’s Department of Labor and Immigration. Father Daniel Stack holds a master of divinity degree from St. Vincent de Paul in Boynton Beach, Florida. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1982 and has pastored numerous Latino churches since that time. From 1995 to 1999, he was the pastor of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Dalton, overseeing the funding and construction of a new church facility. He is presently the pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Cartersville, Georgia. ...

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