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Wahl elected NCSA council member

Ana-Maria Wahl, associate professor of sociology, was elected a council member of the North Carolina Sociological Association (NCSA) at the joint annual meeting of the NCSA and Southern Sociological Society held in Charlotte on April 2-5. Wahl will serve a three-year term. As a council […]


Faculty publications: March updates

Blee, Lisa. (History). Framing Chief Leschi: Narratives and the Politics of Historical Justice. The University of North Carolina Press. March 2014. Duke, Steven T. (Center for Global Programs and Studies). Forwards by Steven S. Reinemund (School of Business) & Ken Bouyer. Preparing to Study Abroad: […]


Sociology department winter highlights

        Saylor Breckenridge is completing his two-year rotation as the director of the National Science Foundation’s sociology program, where he manages the program’s approximately $10 million annual budget. He recently presented on “big data” research at the “The Big (Data) Bang: Prospects and […]


Kocze wins award from Woodrow Wilson Center

Angela Kocze, a visiting assistant professor in sociology, will receive the 2013 Ion Ratiu Democracy Award from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Kocze is a leading Hungarian Roma rights activist and scholar and is a research fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. More […]


Gunkel helps organize conference on gun violence

Steve Gunkel, lecturer in sociology, worked with colleagues at Winston-Salem State University and Salem College, as well as with community partners, to co-organize a community conversation about gun violence. More than 100 people attended the conference, “Gun Violence: A Campus and Community Discussion.” The Winston-Salem […]

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Gengler receives award for graduate paper

Amanda Gengler, an assistant professor of sociology, received the 2013 Herbert Blumer Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. This award is presented annually to the author of the best graduate student paper in the tradition of symbolic interaction. Gengler’s paper was […]


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