{"id":29356,"date":"2026-04-10T14:10:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=29356"},"modified":"2026-04-10T16:06:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:06:27","slug":"marshalls-csega-to-host-2025-26-faces-of-appalachia-fellow-dr-stephen-young-for-research-presentation-and-panel-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2026\/04\/marshalls-csega-to-host-2025-26-faces-of-appalachia-fellow-dr-stephen-young-for-research-presentation-and-panel-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall\u2019s CSEGA to host 2025\u201326 Faces of Appalachia Fellow Dr. Stephen Young for research presentation and panel discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia (CSEGA) at Marshall University will host the 2025\u201326 Sarah Denman Faces of Appalachia Fellow, Dr. Stephen Young, for a presentation and panel discussion highlighting his yearlong research project. The event is set for 5 p.m. Thursday, April 16, in the Brad D. Smith Business and Innovation Center, Room 109.<\/p>\n<p>Young, an associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology in Marshall\u2019s College of Science, will present his project, \u201cLights, Camera, Exploitation: Examining Film\u2019s Role in Defining Race, Gender, and Deviance in Appalachia,\u201d followed by a panel discussion immediately following.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by CSEGA, the Sarah Denman Faces of Appalachia Fellowship supports scholarship focused on gender and\/or ethnicity in Appalachia. The fellowship is awarded annually to a full-time Marshall faculty member and includes a $3,000 award. Fellows present their research to the university community each spring.<\/p>\n<p>As this year\u2019s fellow, Young\u2019s work examines how film has shaped and reinforced perceptions of race, gender and deviance in the Appalachian region. His presentation represents the culmination of his fellowship research and contributes to CSEGA\u2019s mission of fostering dialogue about the diversity of cultures, peoples and histories in Appalachia.<\/p>\n<p>CSEGA is the only Appalachian center in the nation dedicated specifically to the study of ethnicity and gender in the region. The center works to challenge longstanding stereotypes of Appalachia by highlighting the experiences of diverse populations, including ethnic, religious and sexual minorities, as well as the roles of women in the region\u2019s history and culture.<\/p>\n<p>The event is free and open to the public.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia (CSEGA) at Marshall University will host the 2025\u201326 Sarah Denman Faces of Appalachia Fellow, Dr. Stephen Young, for a presentation and panel discussion highlighting his yearlong research project. The event is set for 5 p.m. Thursday, April 16, in the Brad D. Smith Business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cola","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29359,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29356\/revisions\/29359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}