Kathryn Newfont, University of Kentucky Rate Professors

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Mars Hill University
Associate Professor of History
Kathryn worked at Mars Hill University as a Associate Professor of History
Southern Oral History Program
Researcher
Kathryn worked at Southern Oral History Program as a Researcher

Haverford College
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
History
UNC Chapel Hill
Master of Arts (M.A.), Doctor of Philosophy ((Ph.D.)
U.S. History

Blue Ridge Commons: Environmental Activism and Forest History in Western North Carolina
University of Georgia Press
"The Blue Ridge forests, and the human communities they have sustained, have found in Kathryn Newfont an historian who deftly captures their cultural significance and environmental import. Blue Ridge Commons provides a close reading of local aspirations and needs, and suggests how what has happened in these particular mountains also has been manifest across the nation and globe. It is an inspired contribution to the writing of American environmental history." —Char Miller, author of Ground Work: Conservation in American Environmental Culture "Very well written and carefully researched, Blue Ridge Commons breaks new ground in Appalachian history and in our broader understanding of the politics of environmental movements. Newfont's central premise, the idea of commons environmentalism, is timely both for historians and for environmental activists, and her book will be recognized down the road, I believe, as a seminal publication that helped to change the way we understand Appalachian culture and its complex relationship to the land." —Ronald Eller, author of Uneven Ground: Appalachia since 1945