Services for Faculty

The Appalachian Center can help you integrate the Appalachian region into your teaching or scholarship.

Learning Resources and Information
The Appalachian Center can connect you with resources to support your teaching.

• Our Appalachian Artifacts Collection has been used to support classes and research across the campus.
• Our Appalachian Gallery, featuring the exhibit Thinking Appalachia: People, History, and Landscape can introduce students or visitors to the region.
• Our departmental resource library contains hundreds of books, journals, magazines, video, sound recordings, maps, brochures, etc.

And if we don’t have it ourselves, chances are Hutchins Library Special Collections or another regional collection does! Let us help you find the resources and information you need to include the region in your teaching.

Expertise and Networking
The Appalachian Center has in-house expertise available for guest lectures, class discussions, or consultation. Topics include

• Appalachian Studies,
• Material Culture study,
• Leadership and Entrepreneurship,
• Community Economic Development,
• Appalachian Literature, and
• Appalachian Music and Dance.

We can also connect you with others on campus, in the region, and in the Appalachian Studies community who share your research or project interests. We would welcome the opportunity to help you infuse Appalachian topics and materials into your own course. Just give us a call.

Support for Regional Scholarship and Research
The Appalachian Center can help support student and faculty research in and about Appalachia.

• We have funds to help faculty (and students) attend or present at the annual Appalachian Studies Conference. The 30th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference will be held March 23-25, 2007, in Maryville, Tennessee.
• We can help you or your students prepare a proposal to present at the annual Appalachian Studies Conference.
• We have limited funds to support research projects that involve the Appalachian Region.
• The AC offers opportunities to publish fiction, poetry, and essays in Appalachian Heritage Magazine. We can also help connect you with regional publishers and journals that may publish your work related to the region.
• Want to spend a year with a reduced teaching load, doing research in or about Appalachia? Contact us about our NEH Chair in Appalachian Studies.
• Interested research or travel in Appalachia in your sabbatical proposal? We can help you with contacts and ideas.

Appalachian Seminar & Tour
Each August, the Center plans an intensive weeklong immersion into Appalachian Studies, including a bus tour of the Region, for new faculty and staff. Visit this link for more information. If you are interested in attending, please let us know.