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Joyce M. Barry, visiting assistant professor by special appointment of Women’s and Gender Studies, published an article in the January 2021 issue of the Environmental History journal. Barry’s invited article “Misfits in the Mountains: Tensions Between Environmental and LGBTQIA Identities in Appalachia,” is part of a roundtable conversation titled “Go Tell It On the Mountain: A Forum on Appalachia’s Environmental History.”

Joyce M. Barry, visiting assistant professor of women’s studies, was invited by the department of Environment and Sustainability at Bowling Green State University to give a lecture on April 21 as part of BGSU’s Earth Week programming.

Joyce M. Barry, visiting assistant professor of women’s studies, published an article in the anthology Women of the Mountain South: Identity, Work and Activism.

The scholarly achievements of female faculty authors in the humanities and social sciences at Hamilton College were celebrated at a book party in the Burke Library this winter. 

Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal by Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies Joyce M. Barry was recently published by Ohio University Press as part of the series on Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies Joyce M. Barry was invited to participate in a workshop on “Environmental Displacement in a Global Context” on May 4-5 at York University in Toronto. Barry presented a paper titled “Dislocating Appalachia: Gender, Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining, and Climate Change.”

Joyce M. Barry, visiting assistant professor of women’s studies, presented a paper titled “Situating the Particular and the Universal: Gender and Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining in the Context of Global Climate Change” at the Gender and Climate Change conference on Sept. 15 in Prato, Italy. The paper is part of a chapter from Barry’s forthcoming book Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal.

Scholar-in-Residence Joyce M. Barry was awarded a $30,000 American Association of University Women (AAUW) Postdoctoral Fellowship based on her book project Bombing Appalachia: Gender and Environmental Justice in the Age of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining. 

Joyce M. Barry, environmental studies lecturer, has published an essay in the inaugural issue (Spring 2008) of Environmental Justice. Barry's article, "A Small Group of Thoughtful, Committed Citizens: Women's Activism, Environmental Justice, and the Coal River Mountain Watch" examines the environmental justice efforts of the Coal River Mountain Watch (CRMW) in Whitesville, West Virginia.