Jessica Wilkerson is the Joyce and Stuart Robbins Chair and associate professor of history in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University. Wilkerson specializes in the histories of Appalachia and the South, modern America, women and gender, and labor and the working class. Her first book, To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice, won the H. L. Mitchell Award from the Southern Historical Association.
Wilkerson is currently working on two books: “A Women’s History of Appalachia” and “In Sisterhood, In Struggle: Feminisms in the American South.” Her writing has appeared in popular media outlets, including NPR, the Boston Review, the Washington Post, and Longreads.
Her project, “Feminisms in the American South,” will explore how diverse feminist activists built democratic movements with gender justice at their core and imagined a stronger, fairer democracy in the post-60s American South.
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