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RESEARCH/TEACHING PROJECTS:
Oral History/Ethnographic
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Background: My specializations are in Applied research (community-based planning; participatory development), Historical, Economic, and Environmental Anthropology, and experiential teaching. I received my Ph.D. in Anthropology from UCLA in 1985 with a focus on Inca-colonial Peru. When I started teaching at Radford University in 1989, I became interested in the Appalachian culture surrounding RU and shifted my research/teaching focus to Appalachia. I developed a combined research and experiential teaching model that I've used since the 1990's to carry out heritage preservation projects in Appalachian Virginia with my students. These include projects focused on oral history documentation, heritage tourism, and park/museum planning. My Appalachian research projects -- listed in the left-hand column -- have focused on Appalachian coal mining and family farming cultures and other related Appalachian topics. In addition to the introductory course in Understanding Cultures (SOCY 121), I teach classes in Culture Change & Globalization; Community-Based Research (Applied Anthropology/Sociology); and Ecology, Economy & Culture. |
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I'm married to Dr. Kimbell Knight, geologist and avid landscape
horticulturalist. We have 7 cats and 2 dogs, and tend
our two-acre botanical garden, Stonewood Garden.
My very special
interest is raising orchids and tropical plants.
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