Jessie Wilkerson
is the Stuart and Joyce Robbins Chair and associate professor of history at West Virginia University. Her first book, To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice, was published by University of Illinois Press in January 2019, in the Working Class in American History Series. It was awarded the H.L. Mitchell Prize in recognition of a distinguished book concerning the history of the southern working class and honorable mention by the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award. She is currently working on two books, They’ll Never Keep Us Down: A Women’s History of Appalachia (under contract with Simon & Schuster) and In Sisterhood, In Struggle: Feminisms in the American South (under contract with UNC Press). In 2021, she was named a Carnegie Fellow.
photo by Pableaux Johnson
FACULTY PAGE
Department of History, West Virginia University
NEWS
To Live Here, You Have to Fight awarded the H.L. Mitchell Prize from the Southern Historical Association.
“The Women’s Issue” of Southern Cultures is now available.
Contact
Jessica.Wilkerson@mail.wvu.edu