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Kathryn Newfont

Kathryn Newfont
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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