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ALAN BANKS
Professor and Director Center
for Appalachian Studies
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Brief Biography
Alan recieved his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from McMaster University
in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. His interest in understanding the emergence of a
working class in southeastern Kentucky
brought him here in the late 1970's. Alan's first full-time teaching
position was at Union College in Barbourville, Kentucky, where he taught in the
Appalachian Semester program with his late friend, Sherman Oxendine.
Since 1981, he has been at Eastern
Kentucky University.
Alan lives with watercolor artist Pat Banks in a house they
built near the Kentucky River in northern Madison
county.
Areas
of Interest
Social Change, historical sociology,
environmental sociology, social theory, inequality, grassroots resistance, Appalachia
Some
Recent Publications
Pat
Banks, Stephanie McSpirit and Alan
Banks, “The Riverkeeper
Survey: A Preliminary Summary of Community leader Views on the Kentucky River,” a report prepared for the Kentucky
Riverkeper through the Center for Appalachian Studies, August, 2008.
Alan Banks, “Thoughts in the Presence of
Fear,” Appalachian Journal,
34:3-4, Spring/Summer, 2007.
Alan Banks, Alice Jones and Anne
Blakeney, “Place-Based Teaching at the Headwaters: Documenting Water
Quality and Public Health Issues in an Eastern Kentucky
Community” Journal of Appalachian Studies, Spring-Fall, 2005.
Alan Banks, book review, Dan Rottenburg, In the Kingdom of Coal, Routledge, Inc., Journal
of Appalachian Studies,
Spring-Fall, 2005.
Alan Banks, Alice Jones , Anne
Blakeney & Students , The Headwater Report, a report prepared for
the Kentucky Appalachian Commission and Division of Local Government, 2003,
available online at: http://www.appalachianstudies.eku.edu/projects/headwaters/report.pdf
Alan Banks, Dwight Billings and Karen
Tice, “Appalachian Studies,
Resistance and Postmodernism,” in Phillip Obermiller
& Michael Maloney, Appalachia:
Social Context Past and Present, Kendall/Hunt Publishers, 2002.
Alan Banks and Anne Blakeney, “Place, Power, and Pedagogy in Appalachia,” Appalachian Journal, 29:3, Spring
2002.
Alan Banks, "Miners Talk Back: Activism in Southeastern
Kentucky in 1922," in Dwight Billings,
Gurney Norman and Katherine Ledford
(editors) , Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes,
University Press of Kentucky, 2001.
Alan
Banks, Dwight Billings
and Karen Tice, "Appalachian Studies
and Postmodernism," in Mary F. Rogers (editor), Multicultural
Experiences, Multicultural Theories, New
York: McGraw-Hill, 1996.
Alan
Banks, book review, Shaunna Scott, Two Sides to
Everything: The Cultural Construction of Class Consciousness in Harlan County,
Kentucky, State University of New York Press, 1995, Appalachian Journal,
Autumn 1995.
Alan
Banks, "Class Formation in Southeastern
Kentucky," in Mary Beth Pudup, Altina Waller and Dwight Billings
(editors), The Making of Appalachia, Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 1995.
Karen Tice, Dwight Billings, and Alan
Banks, "Sustaining Our Region-Wide Conversation:
Founding Hopes and Future Possibilities of the Appalachian
Studies Association," Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association, Vol. 5, 1993.
My Office is located at :
Center for Appalachian Studies
300 Summit Street
Richmond, KY 40475
Phone: (859) 622-1622 or
622-3065
email:
alan.banks@eku.edu
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