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E.M. (Elwood Meredith) Beck, Jr. Spring 2011 RANK/POSITION Professor Emeritus of Sociology Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus OFFICE Department of Sociology University of Georgia Athens, Georgia 30602-1611 Phone: 1.706.542.2421 FAX: 1.706.542.4320 E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://uga.edu/soc/people/faculty/beck_em.php RESIDENCE 512 Ashbrook Court Athens, Georgia 30605-3986 Phone: 1.706.546.5857 MARITAL STATUS Married to Virginia H. Davis-Beck. EDUCATION 1968 B.A. (American History), University of Alabama, Senior Paper: “Effects of Industrialization on Political Behavior in Southern Cities: A Case Study of Birmingham, Alabama, 1900 to 1920.” 1969 M.A. (Sociology), University of Tennessee, Master’s Thesis: “Organizational Determinants of Social Conflict. The Development and Testing of a Model for the Public School.” 1972 Ph.D. (Sociology), University of Tennessee, Doctoral Thesis: “A Study of Rural Industrial Development and Occupational Mobility.” AREAS OF • Race Discrimination and Racial Violence • Poverty and Inequality INTEREST • Sociology of the American South • Quantitative Methodology and Statistics; Simultaneous Equations Models; Bayesian Estimation and Inference PROFESSIONAL • American Sociological Association • Southern Sociological Society MEMBERSHIPS • Southern Historical Association • International Sociological Association • International Association for the Study of Racism • Mid-South Sociological Association • Georgia Sociological Association Experience 1966 Research Intern, Oak Ridge Associated Universities. 1968-70 Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, University of Tennessee 1970-72 Research Specialist, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1972-73 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado 1972-73 Professional Staff, Research Program on Technology, Environment, and Man, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado 1973-76 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan 1974-75 Director, Detroit Area Study, University of Michigan 1976-92 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Georgia 1976 Appointed to Graduate Faculty, University of Georgia 1978-79 Director, Data Analysis Laboratory, Department of Sociology, University of Georgia 1979 Appointed to Graduate Faculty of Applied Quantitative Sciences, University of Georgia 1984-87 Graduate Coordinator, Department of Sociology, University of Georgia 1990 Acting Graduate Coordinator, Department of Sociology, University of Georgia 1991-95 Fellow, Institute for Behavioral Research, University of Georgia 1991-93 Director, Attitudes and Opinions Studies Group, Institute for Behavioral Research, University of Georgia 1992-08 Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Georgia 1993-02 Head of Department, Department of Sociology, University of Georgia 1998-07 GLOBIS Study Abroad Program in Verona, Italy 2002 Visiting Scholar, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris 2002-03 Director, University of Georgia Study Abroad Program in Avignon, France 2005-06 Undergraduate Coordinator, Department of Sociology, University of Georgia 2009- Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, University of Georgia 2 Honors and Awards 1999 William A. Owens Award for Outstanding Contributions in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Georgia Research Foundation 2002 University of Alabama-Huntsville Alumni Association's Alumni of Achievement Award 2005 Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorship, University of Georgia 2005 Departmental and College nominee for Distinguished Research Professorship 2007 Distinguished Lectureship Award, Southern Sociological Society 2008 Outstanding First-Year Seminar Award, University of Georgia 2008 Selected Russell Hall “Last Lecture” Lecturer, University of Georgia Professional Activities Associate Editor • American Sociological Review (Associate Editor, 1986-87; Associate Editor, 1995-98) • Social Forces (Associate Editor, 1979-82) • Sociology of Education (Associate Editor, 1976-79) • Sociological Spectrum (Editorial Board, 1993-95) • Southern Cultures (2005- ) • Southern Spaces (2005- ) Occasional Journal Referee • American Sociological Review • Law & Society Review • American Journal of Sociology • Sociology Methodology • Canadian Journal of Sociology • Social Problems • Social Forces • Journal of Gerontology • Sociology and Social Research • Sociology of Work and Occupations • Sociological Methods and Research • Sociological Spectrum • Social Science Quarterly • Rural Sociology • Sociological Quarterly • Social Science Research • Sociological Inquiry • Sociological Perspectives • Social Science Journal • Journal of American Real Estate • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology • Growth and Change • Journal of Applied Sociology • Journal of Southern History • Journal of American History Proposal Reviewer • National Science Foundation (Sociology Program; Economics Program; Program for Applied Economics; Program for Law and Public Policy; Cultural Anthropology Program) 3 • Canada Department of Labor • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada • Social Security Administration Editorial Consulting • Worth Publishers • Rand McNally Publishers • W.C. Brown Publishers • St. Martin’s Press • Greenwood Press • Allyn and Bacon, Inc. • State University of New York Press • McGraw-Hill, Inc. • University of Illinois Press Documentary Film Consulting • Consultant (and participant) to documentary film "Strange Fruit" produced and directed by Joel Katz. 2002. Oniera Films LLC • Consultant (and participant) to documentary film “Lynch Law” produced, written, and directed by Christophe Weber for France 5. 2002. Sunset Presse • Consultant (and participant) to documentary film “Sacrifices of Hate” produced, written, and directed by Nancy Dorr, Cracked Productions. 2004 • Consultant (and participant) to yet untitled documentary film produced, written, and directed by Anne Ostrenko. 2004 Professional Association Activities • Executive Committee, Southern Sociological Association (1998-2002) • Vice-President Elect, Southern Sociological Association (2000-2001) • Chair, Nominations Committee, Southern Sociological Association (2001-2002) • Vice-President, Southern Sociological Association (2001-2002) • Chair, Elections Committee, Southern Sociological Society (2003-2004) • Co-Chair, Program Committee, Southern Sociological Society (2006-2007) Research Grants 1998 “Evaluating Teaching Effectiveness in Large Classes.” College of Education and Franklin College of Arts & Sciences. Carl Glickman, Co-Principle Investigator ($1,000) 1993 “Racial Violence in the American South During the Decade of the 1980s.” National Science Foundation ($114,745) 1987 “Social Structure and Lynchings in the American South, 1882-1930.” National Science Foundation ($65,955). Stewart Tolnay and James Massey, Co-Principle Investigators 1986 “Social Structure and Lynchings in the American South, 1890-1930.” University of Georgia Research Foundation ($8,000). Stewart Tolnay and James Massey, Co-P.I.’s 1981 “Urban Wages and Employment: A Labor Market Approach.” National Science Foundation ($21,835) 4 1979 “Interdisciplinary Conference on Labor Market Structure and Socioeconomic Stratification.” National Science Foundation ($19,964) 1978 “The Purchase and Analysis of the Survey of Income and Education.” Office of General Research, University of Georgia ($2,237) 1976 “The Relationship Between Racism and Economic Status of Whites.” Office of General Research, University of Georgia ($2,400) 1974 “Rural Economic Diversification and Income Inequality.” H.H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan ($2,000) Current Research Projects Investigation of the relationship between lethal violence, use of ritualistic torture, and the size of mobs. Exploring the social and economic characteristics of victims of mob violence by linking lynching inventory data to U.S. manuscript census data – project funded by the National Science Foundation, Stewart Tolnay, P.I. Books 1995 Stewart E. Tolnay and E.M. Beck. A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882-1930. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Winner 1992 Social Science History Association President’s Book Award. Winner 1996 Mid-South Sociological Association’s Best Book Award. Chosen Outstanding Book by Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights. Nominated for 1996 Merle Curti Award in American Social History, 1996 Lillian Smith Book Award, 1996 Oliver Cromwell Cox Award, and others. 1976 Gene F. Summers, Sharon Evans, Frank Clemente, E.M. Beck, and Jon Minkoff. Industrial Invasion of Nonmetropolitan America. New York: Praeger Publishers Articles and Chapters in Books 2009 Amy K. Bailey, Stewart E. Tolnay, E.M. Beck, “Was Anyone Safe? Individual and Household Characteristics of Lynch Victims in the American South, 1882-1930”. Under review at the American Sociological Review. 2008 Amy K. Bailey, Stewart E. Tolnay, E.M. Beck, et al. “Personalizing Lynch Victims: A New Database to Support the Study of Mob Violence”, Historical Methods 41 (Winter): 47-61 2004 E.M. Beck and Stewart E. Tolnay. “Lynching in Georgia”. The New Georgia Encyclopedia, University of Georgia Press 2002 E.M. Beck and Timothy Clark. “Strangers, Community Miscreants, or Locals: Who Were the Black Victims of Mob Violence?” Historical Methods 35 (Spring): 1-6 5 2001 E.M. Beck. “Hate Crimes”. Pp. 6479-6482 in N.J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral
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