March 18, 2025 • 3:44 pm | Faculty/Staff Spotlight, Research Spotlight, Student/Alumni Spotlight
On this episode of Appalachian Excellence: Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity, Karen Fletcher, director of grants resources and services…
January 10, 2025 • 9:05 am | Student/Alumni Spotlight
BOONE, N.C. — Jesse Barber ’24, an alumnus of the Appalachian studies program, has been a key documentarian in media efforts to cover the stories Western North Carolina mountain communities after the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene. His photography,...
October 9, 2024 • 3:36 pm | Student/Alumni Spotlight
SOUTHERN LIVING—Jesse Barber focuses his camera with the quiet pensiveness of a mountain man—someone who appreciates the solace of a porch rocker, the depth of a Blue Ridge vista. A Morganton resident, Barber has lived his whole life in the Western North Carolina...
April 6, 2017 • 3:52 pm | Student/Alumni Spotlight
By Elizabeth Wall Laura Brookshire ’16 worked on farms and with local farmers, built community outreach programs and fostered good nutritional practices in a county school system during several intern experiences. Laura Brookshire ’16 credits internships and work with...
June 28, 2005 • 12:23 am | Student/Alumni Spotlight
A 1983 graduate of the MA program in Appalachian Studies, Mary Jane Putzel wrote narratives about the history of her community of Pottertown, at the headwaters of the north fork of the New River. As a woman moving between the rural community in the high mountains of...
