Lou Martin
Associate Professor of History at Chatham University
Lou Martin is a co-founder of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum and an Associate Professor of History at Chatham University. He is also an honorary member of UMWA Local 1440 in Matewan, West Virginia, and a member of the organizing committee for Chatham Faculty United, an AFT affiliate.
He is the author of Smokestacks in the Hills: Rural-Industrial Workers in West Virginia , co-editor of Culture, Class, and Politics in Modern Appalachia, and co-editor of the West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies. Currently, he is working on a book for WVU Press about social movements in Appalachia from the Mine Wars through the movement to end mountaintop removal.
A third-generation Appalachian Hungarian, Martin (original family name Márton) is also an active participant in the Appalachian, Carpathian International Conference and is the author of “The Mártons: From Transylvania to West Virginia” at Appalachian History.net.
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