Introductions Michael Hatch
and arts collective Appalshop, whose work challenges Appalachian stereotypes through film, music, and theater. He is currently writing a novel about the loss of
Jeffrey A. Keith is a seventh generation
traditional places, class anxiety, sinkholes,
native of Kentucky. He examines cultural
and the mystical limits of rational thought.
history through a variety of lenses, exploring how people perceive differences between
Jeff’s workshops in the MA program
themselves and others. Jeff received a Ph.D.
connected directly with my research into
in history from the University of Kentucky,
Appalachian craft economies. It became
and has been a professor of global studies
apparent that he also connected with
at Warren Wilson College since 2009. After
students whose research falls outside of
being a Workshop faculty in 2019-20, he
Appalachian studies when the majority of
became a Core faculty member of the MA
our cohort immediately descended on the
program in Critical Craft Studies in 2020-21.
library after his first lecture, scouring the
Jeff also teaches undergraduate courses on
shelves, racing for the last copy of All That
US foreign relations, Appalachian studies,
Is Native and Fine or Selling Tradition. Then
environmental history, and globalization.
we found ourselves in different sections
His recent work includes a digital oral
exploring the books around them. We were
history project that examines the media
skipping lunch. The librarian actually called
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