Doug Cantrell

Doug Cantrell holds the rank of Professor of History and Department Chair within the Kentucky Community and Technical College. He is one of a handful of scholars who has studied and written about immigration to the Appalachian coal fields. For the past 35 years he has taught Kentucky History, American History, Appalachian Studies, and World History at the Elizabethtown Campus. He holds academic degrees from Berea College and the University of Kentucky and currently resides in Elizabethtown, Kentucky with Lisa his of nearly 36 years and their well-raised cat, Sabrina. During his spare time he pursues largemouth and smallmouth bass on Nolin River Lake and on Lake Cumberland, where he renovated a log home. He currently is finishing a book tentatively titles Aliens, Appalachian, and Americans: Immigrants in the Southern Appalachian Coalfields, 1860-1940.