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A person with brown hair wearing a brown shirt smiles and leans against a bookcase.

From salon chair to theory: App State student uses feminist rhetoric to help people connect
Nov 6, 2026

BOONE, N.C. — Scissors snip close to an ear. A spray bottle hisses. Damp hair drifts onto the dorm-room tile, and the person in the chair laughs too hard to sit still.

GWS Student Profile, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies
Woolly Worm Festival Race in Banner Elk, NC. Photo by Reyna Drake, WFDD

Slow and steady wins the winter: what is the woolly worm tradition? [faculty featured]
Oct 29, 2026

Each October, thousands gather in Banner Elk, North Carolina, to use the woolly worm to predict the winter weather.

Appalachian Studies
Our Movement Starts Here—directed by John Rash and Melanie Ho and produced by Rash, Ho, and the Southern Documentary Project—is an award-winning documentary that tells the story of a rural community in the American South that fought the state of North Carolina's toxic landfill.

April 15: Our Movement Starts Here Screening
Apr 11, 2025

The Center for Appalachian Studies invites you to a free screening of Our Movement Starts Here on Tuesday, April 15, at 6 p.m.

Events
Dr. Beth Davison and Jesse Barber ’22 ’24

Dr. Beth Davison and Jesse Barber ’22 ’24 featured on Appalachian Excellence podcast
Mar 20, 2025

On this episode of Appalachian Excellence: Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity, Karen Fletcher, director of grants resources and services... Appalachian Studies, Documentary Studies

Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review (vol. 52, no. 3)

Appalachian Journal (vol. 52, no. 3) now available
Mar 12, 2025

BOONE, N.C. — The new issue of Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review (vol. 52, no.

Appalachian Studies
Trevor McKenzie is the director of Appalachian State University's Center for Appalachian Studies. Photo submitted

March 27: Blue Ridge Ballads Revisited with Apalachian Studies' Trevor McKenzie
Jan 30, 2025

This presentation and performance traces the history behind ballads from the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Appalachian Studies, Events
Beyond Theater of Witness will host a virtual peacebuilding workshop on Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from 3:30-4:45 p.m. via Zoom.

November 20: Beyond Theater of Witness Workshop
Nov 11, 2024

BOONE, N.C. — Beyond Theater of Witness will host a virtual peacebuilding workshop on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, from 3:30-4:45 p.m.

Events