Graduate students: Consider taking C&I 693A (Research in Appalachian Contexts) in the fall (2025)
This 3-credit course explores interdisciplinary research methodologies and methods that have been used by interdisciplinary scholars to support critical and community-based research in Appalachian contexts.
The course will use guest speakers, readings and film study/media analysis, optional site visits and student projects to explore topics like land acknowledgement and Native American culture; community inequalities; gender-diverse youth; mental health-stress, trauma and resilience; quilting as mutual aid; foodways; language and dialects; Black voice and oral histories; flooding and displacement; environmental sustainability; prison economy; and education.
Specific research approaches may include critical discourse analysis, critical participatory action research, critical place inquiry, arts-based research, material culture studies, historical methods, mixed methods, and others.
Questions? Melissa.Sherfinski@mail.wvu.edu