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Chad Berry came to Berea College from Maryville College, where he taught for eleven years. He is the author of Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles, published by the University of Illinois Press, which examines the migration of millions of white southerners to the Midwest during the twentieth century. The book was inspired by his paternal grandparents, who reluctantly left Tennessee in the 1940s, going first to Akron, Ohio, and ultimately settling in Mishawaka, Indiana, where they found jobs and the economic opportunity that had eluded them in the South. He is published widely in the area of Appalachian studies and international education. Having visited 41 countries, he enjoys taking students on international study trips, including destinations such as Cuba, China, and countries in Africa. In 2005, the East Tennessee Historical Society awarded him its Teaching Excellence Award. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, he was the 2006-2007 president of the Appalachian Studies Association. He is the editor of and a contributor to The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance (Illinois, 2008), an important radio program from Chicago that was instrumental in the development of country music. He is currently working on a project that explores the development of Appalachian Studies after World War II as well as another project analyzing maps that Berea students drew of their home communities between 1948 and the late 1960s for a general studies class.
View the Music Tomes interview with Chad Berry
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