Participant Info
- First Name
- Jessica
- Last Name
- Wilkerson
- Country
- United States
- State
- MS Mississippi
- jessie.wilkerson@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- University of Mississippi
- Website URL
- https://jessicawilkerson.org/
- Keywords
- women, gender, labor, Appalachia, South, feminism, social movements, welfare, environmental justice
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
- I write, research, and teach about U.S. women’s and gender history, labor history, the South, oral history, and Appalachia. I am an assistant professor of history and southern studies at the University of Mississippi. And I am finishing a book on the history of women’s labor, caregiving, and activism in 1960s and 1970s Appalachia, To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice (University of Illinois Press, 2019). I am also a contributor at Rewire News.
- Recent Publications
- “The Company Owns the Mine But They Don’t Own Us: Feminist Critiques of Capitalism in the Coalfields of Eastern Kentucky,” Gender & History 28, no. 1 (March 2016): 199-220.
“Mill Mother ‘Just A’waiting for a Strike’: Ella May Wiggins” in North Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, eds. Michele Gillespie and Sally McMillen (University of Georgia Press, 2015).
“Mountain Feminist: Helen Matthews Lewis, Appalachian Studies, and the Long Women’s Movement,” Southern Cultures (with David P. Cline).
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @Dr_JessieW
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Capitalism, Gender, Public History, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Women
