Paper's Tobacco Report Features
WKU Geographer's Research
August 14, 2003
Bowling Green, Ky. - Research conducted by a Western Kentucky University faculty member was featured recently in a North Carolina newspaper's special report on tobacco farming.
"Tobacco at a Turning Point," an 18-page special issue of the Asheville Citizen-Times on June 15, included significant elements of research of Dr. Katie Algeo, as assistant professor in WKU's Department of Geography and Geology. Dr. Algeo conducts research on contemporary and historical conditions in tobacco-growing regions.
The newspaper's report on tobacco farming in Madison County, N.C., is available online at http://cgi.citizen-times.com/cgi-bin/index/tobacco_farming.
Much of the historical information about Madison County and the evolution of tobacco farming in the county was gleaned from Dr. Algeo's doctoral dissertation "Tobacco Farming in the Age of the Surgeon General's Warning: The Cultural Ecology and Structuration of Burley Tobacco Production in Madison County, North Carolina" completed in 1998.
For more information, contact Katie Algeo at (270) 745-4555 or katie.algeo@wku.edu. More WKU news is available on the World Wide Web at www.wku.edu. If you'd like to receive WKU news via E-mail, send a message to WKUNews@wku.edu.
