CULTURE, CLASS, AND POLITICS IN MODERN APPALACHIA: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF RONALD L. LEWIS

Contributors

335 Contributors Rebecca Bailey, a native of rural northern Virginia, but with family roots in McDowell and Mercer Counties of West Virginia, is a graduate of the College of William & Mary. Specializing in public and Appalachian history, she earned both graduate degrees at West Virginia University. Matewan Before the Massacre grew out of her doctoral dissertation, which was inspired by her participation in the West Virginia Humanities Council-funded Matewan Oral History projects of 1989–1990. Now an assistant professor at Northern Kentucky University, Bailey is also the public history coordinator for the NKU History & Geography Department. She lives in Crestview, Kentucky, with her dogs, Mickey and Ellie Grace. Dwight B. Billings, a professor of sociology at the University of Kentucky, studies Appalachia and the American South. He is a past president of the Appalachian Studies Association and a past editor of the Journal of Appalachian Studies. Shirley Stewart Burns holds a B.S. in news editorial journalism, a master ’s degree in social work, and a PhD in history, with an Appalachian focus, from West Virginia University. She is the author of Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal on Southern West Virginia Communities, the first academic treatment of the topic. She is also the editor CULTURE, CLASS, AND POLITICS 336 of Coal Country, the companion book for the documentary of the same name. A native of Wyoming County in the southern West Virginia coal- fields and the daughter of an underground coal miner, she has a passionate interest in the communities, environment, and histories of the southern West Virginia coalfields. Shirley Stewart Burns lives in Charleston, West Virginia, with her husband, Matthew. Jeffery B. Cook is an associate professor of history and the chairman of the Department of History and Political Science at North Greenville University. He received a B.A. from Fairmont State University, and earned a master’s and PhD from West Virginia University. Professor Cook is a contributor to several encyclopedias and he has written several scholarly articles and reviews for academic publications. His first book, The Missouri Compromise: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, will be published in 2010. His wife, Laura, is a Kentucky native, and they have three daughters, Margaret Anne (Maggie), Sara Elizabeth, and Samantha Joy. Jennifer Egolf iscurrentlyavisitingassistantprofessoratIndianaUniversity of Pennsylvania. Her teaching and research focus on nineteenth and twentieth century history. She was a co-organizer of the Rush Holt Conference that honored Dr. Ronald L. Lewis, to whom this book is dedicated. Ken Fones-Wolf is the Stuart and Joyce Robbins Professor of History at West Virginia University, where he teaches American social and working -class history. After earning his PhD from Temple University in 1986, he taught at the University of Massachusetts and for the Institute for Labor Studies and Research at WVU before joining the History Department in 2000. Fones-Wolf is the author or editor of five previous books and numerous articles on American labor and social history. His most recent works are: Glass Towns: Industry, Labor and Political Economy in Appalachia, 1890–1930s (University of Illinois Press, 2007) and Transnational West Virginia: Ethnic Groups and Economic Change, 1840–1940 (West Virginia University Press, 2002). He is currently working on a coauthored book with Elizabeth FonesWolf , tentatively titled, Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: Protestantism and the CIO’s Operation Dixie. CONTRIBUTORS 337 John Hennen is a professor of history and associate director of Appalachian Studies at Morehead State University. A 1993 PhD from WVU, he is writing a book on Local 1199 in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio from 1970 to 1989. He is the author of The Americanization of West Virginia: Creating a Modern Industrial State, 1916–1925 (University Press of Kentucky, 1996) and several articles on Appalachian working-class history. Hennen co-edited the Labor section of The Encyclopedia of Appalachia with Ron Lewis. Louis C. Martin is an assistant professor of history at Chatham University. He offers several courses in American, Latin American, African American, and labor and working-class history. His research interests include labor, working-class politics, Appalachian history and culture, and twentieth century political economy. He has researched workers in the steel and pottery industries in West Virginia and published multiple works on the steel industry of West Virginia. He has presented at the North American Labor History Conference, the Working-Class Studies Association Conference, and the Appalachian Studies Association Conference. Originally from...