John Hennen
Associate Professor of History

Dept. of Geography, Government, and History Morehead, KY 40351 Office: Rader 305 Phone: (606) 783-2767 E-mail: j.hennen@moreheadstate.edu

Education
Ph.D., History, West Virginia University, 1993
M.A., History, Marshall University, 1987
B.A., History, West Virginia University, 1975

Courses
Early U. S. survey (HIS 220)
American Studies (HIS 202)
Practicing History (History 250) 
U.S. in the Industrial Era (HIS 305)
Appalachian History (HIS 322)
Kentucky History (HIS 323)
Latin American History (HIS 379)
Labor History and the Civil Rights Movement (HIS 399)

Research Interests

Labor Relations/labor History of Appalachia, 1900-present
Union Organization Among Appalachian Health-care Workers
Company Unionism in the 1930s
Oral History

Service Activities
Kentucky Association of Teachers of History
Advisor, Students for Progressive Democracy

Organizations
Appalachian Studies Association,Southern Historical Association
United Association of Labor Educators
Kentucky Association of Teachers of History

Selected Publications
The Americanization of West Virginia: Creating a Modern Industrial State, 1916-1925. University Press of Kentucky, 1996.

Co-editor, with Ronald L. Lewis: Labor section, Encyclopedia of Appalachia (forthcoming); West Virginia: Historical Essays in the Literature (1993); and West Virginia: Documents in the History of a Rural-Industrial State (1991 and 1996)