AHC Bernard L. Majewski 2007 Fellowship


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Bernard L. Majewski 2007 Fellowship

Kinship, Labor, and the Law: Women’s Engagement with Wyoming’s Coal Mining Industry

By Jessica Smith, 2007 Fellow

October 2, 2007 4:00-5:00 p.m
Wyoming Stock Grower's Room

Jessica Smith is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology with a certificate in women’s studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her dissertation research looks at the extractive industries and the everyday lives of people living in Wyoming, especially looking at the roles of women in the coal mining industry. Smith has spent considerable time conducting ethnographic fieldwork with oral history interviews in Gillette and researching collections at the AHC. Her research will study the question whether historical records bring to light women’s work in mines before and during industrialization. Smith grew up in Riverton and Gillette and has spent several summers driving trucks in the coal mines during breaks from college.