Jeffrey A. Keith earned a doctorate in history from the University of Kentucky, and now he teaches courses on U.S. foreign relations, Appalachian studies, environmental history, and globalization at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, North Carolina.  He also served on the graduate faculty for Warren Wilson College’s short-lived but much-loved MA program in critical craft studies.  Keith writes about rural life, cultural history, and diplomacy, and he has toured throughout the U.S. and abroad playing old-time and bluegrass music.