Jean Haskell

Jean Haskell retired as director and professor in the
Center for Appalachian Studies and Services at East
Tennessee State University. She is author of The Appalachian
Photographs of Earl Palmer, co-editor of Performance,
Culture, and Identity, and numerous other publications on
Appalachian issues.

Haskell has served in several capacities that promote
Appalachian interests: as John D. Whisman Scholar with the
Appalachian Regional Commission, Visiting Scholar with the
School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh,
cultural resource advisor to the Blue Ridge Parkway and the
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, on the board of
directors of the Appalachian Consortium, Friends of the Blue
Ridge Parkway, and the Birthplace of Country Music Alliance,
as past president of the Appalachian Studies Association,
and as curator of the Appalachian program for the 2003
Smithsonian Folklife Festival.

Haskell holds a B.A. and M.A. degree from the University of
Memphis and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.
She currently resides in Portsmouth, Virginia, where she is
vice-president of Commodore Associates, Inc., owners and
operators of the historic Commodore Theatre.