Faculty and Staff

Books

• LaLone, M. (2003) Appalachian Farming Life: Memories and Perspectives on Family Farming in Virginia's New River Valley. (ed.), Brightside Press.
• LaLone, M. (2003) The Radford Arsenal: Impacts and Cultural Change in an Appalachian Region. (ed.), Brightside Press.
• LaLone, M. (1997) Appalachian Coal Mining Memories: Life in the Coal Fields of Virginia's New River Valley. (ed.), Pocahontas Press.
• Page, R. (2005) Bike Week at Daytona Beach: Bad Boys and Fancy Toys. University Press of Mississippi.
• Wagner M. B. (2023) Power and Place: Preservation, Progress, and the Culture War Over Land. University Press of Kentucky.
• Wagner, M. B. (1990) God's Schools: Choice and Compromise in American Society. Rutgers University Press.
• Wagner, M. B. (1983) Metaphysics in Midwestern America. Ohio State University Press.

Articles in Refereed Journals 

• Behnke, A. O., A. Bodenhamer, T. McDonald, and M. Robledo. (2019) “The Impact of the Juntos Program: A Qualitative Evaluation.” Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 41(1):63-84.
• Benson, D. E., and J. Mekolichick. (2007) “Conceptions of Self and the Use of Digital Technologies in a Learning Environment.” Education 127 (4):498-510.
• Bodenhamer, A. (2020) “‘Outlaw Operators’: Prevention Failures and the Resurgence of Black Lung in Central Appalachia,” National Issue Brief. 149. Durham, NH: Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire. 
• Bodenhamer, A. (2019) “The Resurgence of Black Lung in Central Appalachia: The Silencing of Coal Miners and Toxic Occupational Exposure.” Journal of the Social History of Medicine and Health (Chinese) 4(1):137-163.
• Bodenhamer, A. (2016) “King Coal: A Study of Mountaintop Removal, Public Discourse, and Power in Appalachia.” Society & Natural Resources 29(10):1139-1153.
• Bodenhamer, A. and T. Shriver (2020) “Environmental Health Advocacy and Industry Obstruction: The Case of Black Lung Disease.” Rural Sociology 85(3):757-779.
• Grether, S. T. and A. Bodenhamer (2019) “Analyzing Police Violence Against Men.” TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association.
• LaLone, M. B. (2012) "Neighbors Helping Neighbors: An Examination of the Social Capital Mobilization Process for Community Resilience to Environmental Disasters." Journal of Applied Social Science 6 (2):209-37.
• LaLone, M. B. (2010) "Running the Family Farm: Accommodation and Adaptation in an Appalachian Region." Journal of Appalachian Studies 14 (1-2):62-98.
• LaLone, M. B. (2005) "Building Heritage Partnerships: Working Together for Heritage Preservation and Local Tourism in Appalachia." Practicing Anthropology 27 (4):10-3.
• LaLone, M. B. (2005) "An Anthro-Planning Approach to Local Heritage Tourism: Case Studies from Appalachia." National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA) Bulletin 23:135-50.
• LaLone, M. B. (2001) "Putting Anthropology to Work to Preserve Appalachian Heritage." Practicing Anthropology 23 (2):5-9.
• LaLone, M.B. (1996) "Economic Survival Strategies in Appalachia's Coal Camps." Journal of Appalachian Studies 2 (1):53-68.
• Leicht, K. T. and E. C. W. Lyman. (2006) "Markets, Institutions, and the Crisis of Professional Practice." Research in the Sociology of Organization 24:17-44.
• Mekolichick, J. (2003) "Amateur Bodybuilders' Self-Concept: An Exploratory Examination." Sociology of Sport Online 6 (1).
• Mekolichick, J. (2002) "The Influence of Identity Meaning Independence on the Invocation of Multiple Identities." Sociological Focus, 35 (1):43-54.
• Mekolichick, J. (2001) "Self-Esteem among Amateur Bodybuilders: A Quantitative Examination." Sociology of Sport Online 4:2.
• Mekolichick, J. and J. Bellamy. (2012) "Research Experiences for Undergraduates: Students' Perceptions of Mentoring and Conference Presentation by College Generational Status and Sex." Perspectives on Undergraduate Research Mentoring, PURM 1.2. http://blogs.elon.edu/purm/research-experiences-for-undergraduates-student-presenters%e2%80%99-perceptions-of-mentoring-and-conference-presentation-by-generational-status-and-sex-purm-1-2/
• Mekolichick, J., J. Davis, and J. Chouinard. (2008) "Transitional Supportive Housing in a Rural Location: A Preliminary Case Study and Lessons Learned." Applied Social Science 2 (1):36-46.
• Mekolichick, J. and M. K. Gibbs. (forthcoming) "Understanding College Generational Status in the Undergraduate Research Mentored Relationship." CUR Quarterly.
• Page, R. (2004) "Biking into the Mainstream.” Contexts 3 (1):71.
• Page, R. (2001) "Social Change at Bike Week." Visual Sociology 16 (1):7-35.
• Shriver, T. E. and A. Bodenhamer (2018) “The Enduring Legacy of Black Lung: Environmental Health and Contested Illness in Appalachia.” Sociology of Health & Illness 40(8):1361-1375.
• Thomas, E., P. J. Obermiller, and M. B. Wagner (Spring/Summer 2013) "Fifty Years of Appalachian Advocacy: An Interview with Mike Maloney." Appalachian Journal 40(3-4):174-218.
• Wagner, M. B. (Fall 2016/Winter 2017 and Spring/Summer 2018) "Letter to the Editor Response to Persistent Misconceptions: Rehabilitating Jack Weller, Reevaluating Harry Caudill" by P. Obermiller, T. Wagner, B. Tucker, and S. Fisher. Appalachian Journal 44(1-2):96-129, Appalachian Journal 45(3-4):680-682.
• Wagner, M. B. (2008) "We are All Activists," in S. Ballard and T. Stanley (eds.) Special Issue of Appalachian Journal honoring Stephen Fisher, activists, and activism in Appalachia.
• Wagner, M. B. (1984) "Metaphysics in Midwestern America." Journal of Popular Culture 17 (3):131-40.
• Wagner, M. B. (1997) "Generic Conservative Christianity: The Demise of Denominationalism in Christian Schools." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 36 (1):13-24.
• Wagner, M. B. (1999) "Measuring Cultural Attachment to Place in a Proposed Power Line Corridor." Journal of Appalachian Studies 5 (2):241-6.
• Wagner, M. B. and K. L. Hendrick. (2001) "'You Have a Culture to Preserve Here, but We Have Power Line to Stop': University/Community Study of Cultural Attachment to Place." Practicing Anthropology 23(2):10-4.

Book Chapters

• LaLone, M. B. (2009) "Guidelines for a Partnership Approach to Appalachian Community and Heritage Preservation Work." In Participatory Development in Appalachian Communities: Essays on Cultural Identity, Social Capital, and Sustainability. Susan Keefe, ed. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, pp. 202-29.
• LaLone, M. B. (2008) "Voices from the Coal Camps: Life in an Appalachian Coal Mining Region." In Life in the Coal Camps of Wise County [Virginia]. P. Kuczko, ed.  Big Stone Gap, VA: Lonesome Pine Office on Youth with support from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, pp. 139-64.
• LaLone, M. B. (2003) "Walking the Line Between Alternative Interpretations in Heritage Education and Tourism: A Demonstration of the Complexities with an Appalachian Coal Mining Example." In Signifying Serpents and Mardi Gras Runners: Representing Identity in Selected Souths. C. Ray and L. E. Lassiter, eds. Athens: University of Georgia Press, pp. 72-92.
• LaLone, M. B. (1997) "The Appalachia Tourism Project: Applied Anthropology in an Appalachian Coal Mining Town." In Practicing Anthropology in the South, Tim Wallace, ed.  Athens: University of Georgia Press.
• Mekolichick, J. (2008) "Becoming a Claimsmaker," pp. 67-70 in Teaching Social Problems from a Constructionist Perspective Manual. K.S. Lowney, ed. New York: W.W. Norton.
• Mekolichick, J. (2007) "Chapter 3: Sociological Research." In Fundamentals of Sociologywith Readings, by P. Shifflett and R. Haija.  Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall Hunt.
• Mekolichick, J. (2003) "Chapter 2: Sociological Research." In The Fundamentals of Sociology by K. Everett and P. Shifflett. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall Hunt Publishing.
• Wagner, M. B. (2020) "Celebrating the Local." In Reinventing and Reinvesting in the Local for Our Common Good. B. A. Hoey, ed. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press.
• Wagner, M. B. (2009) "Playing the Power Game: The Limits of Participatory Development." In Participatory Development in Appalachian Communities: Essays on Cultural Identity, Social Capital and Sustainability. S. E. Keefe, ed. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press.
• Wagner, M. B. (2006) "Religion in Appalachia." In A Handbook to Appalachia. G. T. Edwards, J. A. Asbury, and R. L. Cox, eds. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press.
• Wagner, M. B. (2005) "Christian Schools." In The Encyclopedia of Religion in the South by S. S. Hill and C. Lippy. Mercer University Press.
• Wagner, M. B. (2005) "Connecting What We Know to What We Do: Modifying Interview Techniques for the Collective Self in Appalachia." In Culturally-Relevant Practice in Appalachia. S. Keefe. Knoxville: University of Tennesee Press.
• Wagner, M. B. (2002) "Space and Place, Land and Legacy." In Culture, Environment, and Conservation in the Appalachian South. B. J. Howell.  Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
• Wagner, M. B. (2001) "Monolith or the Tower of Babel? Ultimate Sacred Postulates at Work in Conservative Christian Schools." In Ecology and the Sacred: Engaging the Anthropology of Roy A. Rappaport. E. Messer and M. Lambek. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
• Wagner, M. B. (1997) "The Anthropological Study of Religions in American Society." In Anthropology of Religion: A Handbook of Theory and Method. S. D. Glazier. Westport, CT: Greenwood.
• Wagner, M. B., K. Ingoldsby, C. Pauley, M. Dickerson, B. Hollandsworth, and A. Myers. (forthcoming) "Roots With Wings: Oral History Project in Floyd County, Virginia." In Engaging Appalachia: A Guidebook for Building Capacity and Sustainability. W. Schumann, ed. University Press of Kentucky.

Miscellaneous Publications

• Bodenhamer, A. (2022) Review of: Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners & the Struggle over Black Lung Disease, by B. E. Smith. Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy 31(4):487-488.
• Bodenhamer, A. (2020) "Prevention Failures and the Resurgence of Black Lung in Central Appalachia.” National Issue Brief No. 149. Durham, NH: Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire.
• Bodenhamer, A. (2019) Review of: The Devil We Know, by Soechtig and Seifert. Journal of Appalachian Studies 25(1):133-135.
• Bodenhamer, A. (2014) Review of: Rural Wales in the Twenty‐First Century: Society, Economy and Environment, P. Milbourne, ed. Rural Sociology 79(4):536-538.
• LaLone, M. B. (2014) “Farming Life in the New River Valley of Virginia: Ten Important Features Learned Through the NRV Farming Study.” Journal of the New River Historical Society 26:6-33.
• Mekolichick, J. (2011) "Undergraduate Research and Professional Presentations: Variations in Mentoring Experiences by College Generational Status." 3rd Annual Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy Proceedings.
• Mekolichick, J. (2007) Contributor. ASA's Social Psychology Teaching Resource Manual 4th edition. R. Kettlitz, ed. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association.
• Mekolichick, J. (2004) "Wallet Exercise for Social Structure." In Introductory Sociology Resources Manual,  6th ed.. J. Sikora and N. Mbugua, eds. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association.
• Mekolichick, J. (2003) Contributor. In Distance and Cross-campus Learning: Syllabi and Curriculum Materials. M. M. Redlin and S. Hilal, eds. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association.
• Mekolichick, J. (2002) “Themes in the presentation of women and men in FLEX magazine.” In The Sociology of Gender: Syllabi & Other Instructional Material.  A. Blackstone and B. Lucal, eds. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association.
• Mekolichick, J. and M. K. Gibbs. (2012) "Understanding Students' College Generational Status as it Impacts Mentored Undergraduate Research Experiences." 2012 Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy Proceedings.  Pp. 67-8.
• Wagner, M. B. (2019) "From the Front Porch to the Front Lines, Rural Virginia on a Threshold of Change: The making of the movies." Historical Society of Western Virginia Journal 23:2:27-33.
• Wagner, M. B. (2010) "Education: Lose Yourself, Find the Other, Find Yourself." In Celebrations of Teaching: Radford University Faculty Perspectives. Radford University Foundation. Deer Park, NY: Linus Publications.
• Wagner, M. B. (2008) "The Black Church: Connecting a Community." In Pride and Preservation: Mountain View Cemetery by D. L. Brown. Radford, VA: Radford University Center for Experiential Learning and Career Services.
• Wagner, M. B. (2005) Central Appalachia:  People, Hardwood, and Coal. MapGuide to Appalachia, National Geographic Traveler 22(3).
• Wagner, M. B. (1994) Teacher's Corner: Beyond the Classroom Walls: University Students Create A Children's Book, AnthroNotes, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Bulletin for Teachers 16(2).
• Wagner, M. B. (1984) Analyzing the ABC'S OF APPALACHIA: University Students Write a Children's Book. Focus: Teaching English Language Arts X(2):19-25.