Wake Forest to host N.C. Sociological Association
This is a guest post from the Department of Sociology:
Steve Gunkel
The annual meeting of the North Carolina Sociological Association (NCSA) will be hosted by the University’s Sociology Department on Feb. 12 at Wake Forest Biotech Place in Innovation Quarter. NCSA President-Elect Steve Gunkel, associate teaching professor of sociology at Wake Forest, has organized the statewide conference on behalf of the NCSA with this year’s theme “Doing Justice: Community, Social, or Criminal?”
Several panels address issues related to justice such as mass incarceration and prisoner re-entry, politics, policing, health disparities, and wrongful conviction and the plight of exonerees. Several Wake Forest University students are serving as goodwill “ambassadors” to facilitate the conference.
Many Wake students are presenting their research in sociology including: the impact of residential segregation; internet depictions of pro-/anti-vaccine sentiments; cross-national approaches to intimate partner violence; post-graduation aspirations of first-generation college students; service-based learning experiences; state-corporate crime and human trafficking; and deviant activities within religious cults.
Support for the conference has been provided by the Office of the Provost, the Dean of the College and the American Ethnic Studies Program.
Categories: University Announcement
Gunkel elected President of the NC Sociological Association
Steve Gunkel, associate teaching professor in the sociology department, was elected President of the North Carolina Sociological Association (NCSA) in June. He will assume the duties of President-Elect for 2015-2016 and organize the Annual Meeting of the NCSA to be hosted by Wake Forest University.
Other sociology faculty who have served the NCSA include Ana-Maria Wahl, who is currently serving as a council member, and Ian Taplin, who served as the NCSA president (2012-2013). Catherine Harris has served twice as NCSA president (1984-1985; 1994-1995).
The NCSA promotes the discipline of sociology throughout the state and also publishes Sociation Today.
Categories: Faculty News
2015-16 Faculty Fellows Announced
Wake Forest prioritizes engagement inside and outside of the classroom. With an 11:1 student-faculty ratio and national recognition, like the U.S. News #11 ranking for undergraduate teaching, the Faculty Fellows program is an extension of the University’s teacher-scholar model.
The Faculty Fellows program increases faculty-student engagement by promoting informal, regular interactions between students and faculty in the residence halls for first-year students. The program fosters exceptional faculty-student engagement and helps to educate the whole person through enriching the intellectual, cultural, and social lives of the first-year students.
Categories: Faculty News, University Announcement
