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Kathryn Newfont
Kathryn Newfont
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Kathryn Newfont is a doctoral student in U.S. History at UNC-CH and a
long-time SOHP team member. She began working with the program on the
Women's Leadership and Grassroots Activism Project and is currently the
project coordinator for the "Listening
for a Change" initiative on "Environmentalism,
Forests and Communities" in Western North Carolina. Newfont is completing
her dissertation, "Moving Mountains: Forest Politics and Commons Culture
in Western North Carolina, 1964-1994," which documents how changes in
forest usage have reshaped the region's landscape. She was awarded the
Peace Sullivan Dissertation Fellowship from UNC-CH's Graduate School in
2000 and was invited to join the Graduate School's Royster Society of
Fellows.
Oral History Publications
- "Grassroots Environmentalism: Origins of the Western North Carolina
Alliance," Appalachian Journal, Vol. 27, No. 1, Fall 1999.
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