Jillean McCommons
- African American history
- Social Movements
- Appalachian history
M.S., University of Michigan, 2007
M.A., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2003
B.A., Michigan State University, 2000
Jillean McCommons is a Ph.D. candidate studying the social history of Black Appalachians in the twentieth century. Her op-ed columns have been published in the Lexington Herald-Leader, the History News Network, and Newsweek. She is recipient of the Lyman T. Johnson Fellowship, the Robert S. Lipman Graduate Fellowship, and the 2018 Eller & Billings Student Research Award. She will join the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia from 2020-2022 as a Pre-Doctoral Woodson Fellow. Prior to returning to graduate school in 2017, she spent tens years working as a piblic librarian.
"Appalachian Hillsides as Black Ecologies: Housing, Memory, and the Sanctified Hill Disaster of 1972," Black Perspectives. June 16, 2020.
"Corporatism's Triumph is Humanity's Defeat; An Antidote Exists," Lexington Herald-Leader. July 14, 2017. (Op-Ed)
“Black Women Are Eagerly Using the Votes They Fought For,” Newsweek. December 29, 2017. (Op-Ed)
"Manuel Querino" in The Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas. 2nd Edition. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, December 2005.
