Phone: 828-227-3868
Email: blethen@email.wcu.edu 
Office Address: McKee Building 227B
Website: http://www3.wcu.edu/~blethen

Biography:

Dr. Blethen received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina. His research interests include Appalachian history and the history of the Scotch-Irish.

In addition to numerous articles and reviews, he is co-editor of Ulster and North America: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Scotch-Irish (1997) and High Mountains Rising: Appalachia in Time and Place (2004), and co-author of From Ulster to Carolina: The Migration of the Scotch-Irish to Southwestern North Carolina (1983, rev. ed., 1998) and A Mountain Heritage: The Illustrated History of Western Carolina University (1989).

Dr. Blethen also coordinates the Appalachian Studies minor.

Courses Taught:

• ASI 250: “Introduction to Appalachian Studies”
• History 323: “British History Since 1603”
• History 411/511: “Western Imperialism, 1500 to the Present”
• History 446/546: “Southern Appalachian Culture”