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Helen Matthews Lewis

Sociology

#1888

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#2117

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#638

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Helen Matthews Lewis

History

#4553

World Rank

#6302

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#1602

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American History

#15

World Rank

#18

Historical Rank

#13

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Helen Matthews Lewis's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of Chicago
Masters Sociology University of Chicago
Bachelors Sociology University of Chicago

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Why Is Helen Matthews Lewis Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, Helen Matthews Lewis was an American sociologist, historian, and activist who specialized in Appalachia and women's rights. She was noted for developing an interpretation of Appalachia as an internal United States colony, as well as designing the first academic programs for Appalachian studies. She also specialized in Appalachian oral history, collecting and preserving the experiences of Appalachian working-class women in their own words. She is known as the "grandmother of Appalachian Studies" as her work has influenced a generation of scholars who focus on Appalachia.

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Helen Matthews Lewis's Published Works

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Colonialism in Modern America: The Appalachian Case (1978) (104)
Subcutaneous Fat Necrosis of the Newborn Associated with Hypercalcaemia (1994) (18)
Mountain Sisters: From Convent to Community in Appalachia (2003) (13)
Helen Matthews Lewis: Living Social Justice in Appalachia (2012) (8)
Rebuilding Communities: A 12-Step Recovery Program (2016) (4)
Strangers and Kin: A History of the Hillbilly Image (1985) (1)
Virgins, Widows, and Whores: The Bride Pool of the John Wayne Westerns (2013) (1)
Where Are Our Medicine Bundles? (2013) (0)
We Are Giving Birth to a New Way of Life: An Interview with Maxine Waller (1988) (0)
Where Are Our Medicine Bundles? (2014) (0)
Wednesday Night Music: Traditional Music at Clinch Valley College, 1974 (2015) (0)
Maxine Waller: The Making of a Community Organizer. (1990) (0)
Editorial: What Is This Thing Galled Love? What Do We Do for Fun? (1940) (0)
A Cold Day in Hell--An Interview with Jerry Williamson. (2000) (0)
Redbud Trees (Flowering Judas) (2009) (0)
Passing the Torch (2014) (0)
Then and Now: The Women of Englewood's Textile Mills (review) (2014) (0)
Virgins, Widows, and Whores (2012) (0)
Response #7: "Can the Region Survive?" (2011) (0)
Entering the Unpredictable: Making the Road by Walking (2011) (0)
Helen Matthews Lewis (2012) (0)
Mountain Families in Transition.@@@Elites and Change in the Kentucky Mountains. (1974) (0)
Paulo Freire at Highlander (2010) (0)
Queen of the Meadow (Joe Pye Weed) (2014) (0)
MOUNTAIN FAMILIES IN TRANSITION. By Harry K. Schwarzweller, James S. Brown, and J. J. Mangalam and ELITES AND CHANGE IN THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAINS. By H. Dudley Plunkett and Mary Jean Bowman (1974) (0)

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