Lou Martin, Ph.D.
Lou Martin is an associate professor of history at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, a board member of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, and an honorary member of UMWA Local 1440. His research focuses on rural-industrial workers in Appalachia. He has published articles in LABOR: Working-Class Histories of the Americas, Labor History, Pennsylvania History, West Virginia History, and Jacobin. […]
Leslie Marshall, Ph.D.
Dr. Leslie Marshall serves as the Associate Director of the Center for Sustainable Business in the Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration at the University of Pittsburgh, overseeing all aspects of the center’s programming. Her research focuses on how socio-economic class, ethnicity, and gender intersect to influence cooperation in groups and […]
Jill Kriesky, Ph.D.
Dr. Kriesky (retired) was the Associate Director of the Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project and Senior Project Coordinator at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health’s Center for Healthy Environments and Communities. She has spent more than twenty years in university-based community outreach on issues including labor relations, economic development and community health […]
Tony Ingraffea, Ph.D.
Dr. Ingraffea is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Emeritus, and a Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow at Cornell University where he has been since 1977. He holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, an M.S. in Civil Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York, and a Ph.D. in Civil […]
Martina Angela Caretta, Ph.D.
Dr Martina Angela Caretta is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Human Geography at Lund University, Sweden. She holds a PhD in Geography from Stockholm University, Sweden. Dr Caretta was an Assistant Professor in Geography at West Virginia University between 2016 and 2020. While at WVU, Dr Caretta investigated the social, economic and environmental […]
Mark Partridge, Ph.D.
Mark Partridge is the Swank Chair of Rural-Urban Policy at Ohio State University and is affiliated with GSSI in Italy and Jinan University in China. He served twelve years as Co-Editor of the Journal of Regional Science, is Co-editor of Springer Briefs in Regional Science, and serves on a dozen other editorial boards. He has […]