Areas of Expertise

Our combined research experience and practice have ranged over the following areas:

• Alabama history
• American history and literature
• American medical history
• American South
• American women's history
• Appalachian regional history, culture, and development
• Blue Ridge Parkway history and policy
• Clinical social work
• Country music
• Cultural policy
• Cultural representation and presentation
• Cultural resources management
• Documentary film
• Environmental history
• Ethnography
• Folklore / folklife
• Latin American history
• National Parks history
• New Deal period
• Nicaraguan cultural / social history
• North Carolina history
• Politics of culture
• Public history
• Regional economic development
• Tourism development
• Traditional music

Additionally, David is bilingual in Spanish and has done extensive archival work in Spanish-language sources.