Dr. Christa Smith, associate professor of geography at Clemson University
Dr. Christa Smith, associate professor of geography at Clemson University, will give two talks on March 29 and 30 as part of Missouri Western State University’s Interdisciplinary Nature of Geography Speaker Series. The presentations are free and open to the public.
Dr. Smith’s first presentation, at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 29 in the Hoff Conference Room, Blum Student Union room 218, will focus on her research into tiny house homeless communities in America. Light refreshments will be served.
At noon on Friday, March 30 in Spratt Hall, room 201, Dr. Smith will present her research on the campaign to destroy the historic landscape of the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest labor dispute in U.S. history.
Blair Mountain in West Virginia, site of the largest labor dispute in U.S. history.
Dr. Smith’s talks are sponsored by the Missouri Western State University Foundation, the Department of History and Geography and the Mary Boder Trust.
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