Greetings, Class Community.
I am so grateful that Dr. AnnKingsolver shared the history of African Americans and race relations in Eastern
Kentucky and the Appalachian region of the United States with us. We also benefitted from viewing the movie
starring Evelyn Williams about property rights in the Appalachian region.
Dr. Kingsolver would like to
share the notes from the lecture with you. I will load them on Blackboard under
course content. She also wanted to make sure that you were aware of the course
offerings with the Appalachia Studies Program. The course descriptions will
follow.
BUT FIRST, please describe how
did Dr. Ann Kingsolver’s lecture affirm, complicate, or change your knowledge
of African American life and culture? Be
specific. Consider what you believed about African American culture and slavery
in Kentucky and the broader Appalachian region.
Yours truly,
Dr. Hill
A&S 500 (section_): NGOs & the Politics of Humanitarian Aid
Instructor: Sasikumar Balasundaram
Meets: Time, Date,
and Classroom TBA
This course will
use a critical approach to examine the political nature of humanitarian aid.
This course will provide students with a foundation for understanding
humanitarian crises, how the international aid communities function, and the
role of NGOs in humanitarian crises. Using cross-cultural examples, students
will compare and contrast the roles, power, and politics of states and NGOs in
humanitarian interventions. This course will offer an opportunity for students
to understand development discourses and international aid. In addition, we will also examine the
challenges faced, and damages caused, by humanitarian regimes in the Global
South and how aid-receiving communities respond to them. Requirements for
undergraduates and graduate students will be different.
A&S 500 (section_): Global Appalachia
Instructor: Ann Kingsolver
Meets: Time, Date, and Classroom TBA
In this course, we will examine the ways
in which Appalachia has always had strong global connections, environmentally,
economically, and culturally. Instead of seeing mountain regions as isolated,
we will focus on the shared histories and concerns of communities in Appalachia
and other mountain regions, including social and economic marginalization,
resource extraction, low-wage industries, migration, and environmental challenges.
This course will also emphasize what can be learned from global mountain
regions about sustainable livelihoods, community identity and action, and
social capital at a time when the nation-states that have marginalized mountain
communities now face some of the same challenges. There will be different
requirements for graduate and undergraduate students in the course. This semester, the course will focus on water
issues in Global Mountain Regions, and students will have the opportunity to
communicate directly with students in Global Mountain Regions around the world.
