Jon Free Awarded F.K. Weyerhaeuser Forest History Fellowship

Jon Free has been awarded a F.K. Weyerhaeuser Forest History Fellowship from Forest History Society. The fellowship, which is given to graduate students working on a project dealing with "land use, forestry, or the environment in some general way," comes with a $10,000 stipend. Jon will use those generous funds to support the final stages of research and writing on his dissertation, tentatively titled "Dark as a Dungeon: Coal, Capitalism and Community in the 1970s," which explores the relationship between environmental risk and solidarity in Appalachian coal communities during the shift from underground to surface coal mining.