Jordan Laney is Presidential Pathways Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Virginia Tech in the Department of Religion and Culture. She holds a PhD in Social and Cultural Thought. Jordan’s current work addresses issues of gender within traditional Appalachian music, theories of space and place, sustainable economies, and qualitative research methodology. She will present a paper entitled: "And the Winner Is: Awards, Recognition, and Politics of Respectability in Bluegrass Music"