Monuments Across Appalachian Virginia

Monuments Across Appalachian Virginia (MAAV) is a $3 million initiative jointly led by the Center and the Appalachian Studies Program. Funded by the Mellon Foundation,  MAAV is funding 9 new monuments through projects led by the community and Virginia Tech faculty, with a focus on: the diversity of Appalachian communities (with regard to race, ethnicity, indigeneity, national origin, sexuality, and more); movement across the landscape via migration and population displacement; resource extraction and environmental change; and collective struggles for social justice including anti-racist, environmental justice, feminist, and labor movements. Through funded projects and a MAAV Monuments Inventory, MAAV seeks reclaim, imagine, document, reinterpret, display, and amplify histories and experiences that highlight collective struggles for the vitality of people and our shared environment, especially by, for, and with people whose stories have been silenced, denied, or excluded.

For more information, please email maav@vt.edu.