Work
I am a scholar and I am a citizen of a place. I believe that learning, teaching, research, study, scholarship all share a public responsibility. That responsibility is to make ideas, insights, observations, questions, lessons, knowledge as accessible as possible in order to serve the common good and to make our places stronger, healthier, better places to live for all people. This is one of the guiding, defining impulses of The Poco Field: An American Story of Place. This same understanding has shaped all of my administrative work, my teaching, my writing, and my civic work.
Peak's Knob - Pulaski County, Virginia
Since 1996, I have worked at Emory & Henry College in the Appalachian Center for Community Service. The mission and core values of the Center strive to articulate to students, partners, and colleagues this same commitment to the public responsibilities of scholarship, and to joining learning with service in a place-based approach to education.
The Appalachian Center’s Mission Statement and Statement of Core Values
The Appalachian Center's place-based work
In several essays and articles, I have described the work associated with the initial development of the Appalachian Center for Community Service and the practice of a place-based education that joins learning with civic service. To read some of these essays and articles:
Partners, Neighbors, and Friends
Renaming the World in the Valley of the Holston
Quite frequently, I have opportunity to speak to groups. These have included civic clubs, service organizations, academic conference, and gatherings of scholars. I have provided a sample of those public addresses here:
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