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Katrina M. Powell

Katrina M. Powell
Katrina M. Powell, founding director of the Center for Refugee, Migrant, and Displacement Studies, is a professor of rhetoric and writing in the Department of English at Virginia Tech University. Powell’s research focuses on displacement narratives and the ethical dimensions of archiving those narratives in alternative spaces. Her current project, Resettled: Beginning (Again) in Appalachia, is an oral history collection in which narrators describe their experiences relocating to and within the Appalachian region.


Local Outsiders: On Growing Up Black in Appalachia

Katrina M. Powell Explores the Long History of Migration and Displacement in a Majority White Region
June 10, 2024  By Katrina M. Powell
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