Dr. Shaunna Scott, associate professor of sociology at the University of Kentucky, has become the editor of the Journal of Appalachian Studies.

Dr. Scott is a member of the IRSA steering committee and of the Rural Sociological Society; she is a former president of the Appalachian Studies Association and has served that organization in numerous capacities over the years. She is the author of Two Sides to Everything: The Cultural Construction of Class Consciousness in Harlan County, Kentucky (1995) and numerous articles and book chapters.

Dr. Scott is particularly keen to include more comparative and international research in the journal. She encourages her IRSA colleagues to contact her at shaunna.scott@uky.edu to discuss their research and possible links to the Appalachian region. Among the topics that would be of obvious relevance to Appalachia are resource extraction, environment, community and economic development, land ownership and use, forestry, agriculture, food systems, education, government, public policy, entrepreneurship, tourism (especially adventure, ecological and heritage tourism), and social movements. Any ideas that you have will be considered.