Editor: 

Meredith McCarroll is a writer and educator from western North Carolina. McCarroll earned her PhD in African-American Literature and Film from University of Tennessee, where she focused on critical race theory and critical whiteness studies. She worked as Director of Writing and Rhetoric at Bowdoin College for eight years before launching Dogwood Writing and Editing. She is author of Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film (2018) and co-editor of Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy, which won the American Book Award and the Weatherford Award for Nonfiction in 2019. She is past President of Appalachian Studies Association where she has served on the Spadaro Award committee. Her essays and stories have appeared in The Guardian, CNN, Boston Globe, New Lines Magazine, Still, Salvation South and elsewhere. She is a dancer, yoga teacher, and enthusiastic hiker. 

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Associate Editor: 

Michael S. Martin is Associate Professor of English, Modern Languages, and Cultural Studies at Nicholls State University, located in the Bayou Region of South Louisiana, where he is also the Leonard and Belle Toups Endowed Professor of Literary Study. Originally from the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, Michael has published original essays in Postmodern Culture, the Journal of Appalachian Studies, Imago Mundi: An International Journal of Cartography, Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Criticism, and more. He is very excited about his new position as Associate Editor of the Journal of Appalachian Studies. His first book in Appalachian Studies, Appalachian Pastoral: Mountain Excursions, Aesthetic Visions, and the Antebellum Travel Narrative, was published by Clemson University Press in 2023. In his free time, he enjoys running, spending time outdoors, watching horror films, and doing various activities with his family, both of the two-legged and four-legged variety.

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Editorial Board:

• Chad Berry, History Berea College

• Dwight Billings, Sociology University of Kentucky

• Martha Billips, Literature/Women’s and Mountain Literary Traditions Transylvania University

• Wesley R. Bishop, History Jacksonville State University (Alabama)

• Alison Buck, Sociology Eastern Kentucky University

• Richard J. Callahan, Jr., History, Religion, Folklore, and Folklife Gonzaga University

• Cicero M. Fain, III, African American & Black Appalachian History Marshall University

• Rebecca Adkins Fletcher, Appalachian Studies East Tennessee State University

• Wilburn Hayden, Social Work York University (Ontario)

• Thomas Alan Holmes, Literature/ Popular Culture East Tennessee State University

• Christopher L. Leadingham, History University of Kentucky

• James Maples, Sociology Eastern Kentucky University

• Richard P. Mulcahy, History and Political Science; University of Pittsburgh at Titusville

• Ted Olson, Appalachian Studies/Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Country Music Studies Program East Tennessee State University

• Edwina Pendarvis, professor emeritus College of Education and Human Services Marshall University

• Douglas Reichert Powell, English Columbia College, Chicago

• Erin Presley, Appalachian Literature Eastern Kentucky University

• Mary Beth Pudup, Geography University of California, Santa Cruz

• Gloria Goodwin Raheja, Anthropology University of Minnesota

• Rachel Rosolina, Publishing; Appalshop

• Shaunna L. Scott, Sociology University of Kentucky

• Anna Rachel Terman, Sociology Ohio University

• Karen Tice, Education and Women’s Studies University of Kentucky

• Barry Whittemore, History and Religion University of North Georgia

• Susan Williams, Education Coordinator Highlander Research and Education Center

• Jacqueline Yahn, Education Ohio University

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