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 • 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

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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)

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• 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 "" 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 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)

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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 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

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2001 E.M. Beck. “Hate Crimes”. Pp. 6479-6482 in N.J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. Oxford: Pergamon

2000 E.M. Beck. “Guess Who’s Coming to Town: , Ethnic Competition and Social Change”. Sociological Focus 33 (May): 153-174

1999 Glenn Deane, E.M. Beck, and Stewart E. Tolnay. “Incorporating Space into Social Histories: How Spatial Processes Operate and How We Observe Them”. International Review of Social History 43 (Supplement): 57-80. Reprinted in Larry J. Griffin and Marcel van der Linden (eds.), New Methods for Social History, Cambridge University Press, 1999

1997 Jack K. Martin, E.M. Beck and S.A. Tuch, “Racial Attitudes in the 1990s”. Pp. 1-9 in J.K. Martin and S.A. Tuch (eds.), Racial Attitudes in the 1990s: Continuity and Change. Greenwich: Praeger Press

1997 E.M. Beck and Stewart E. Tolnay. “When Race Didn’t Matter: Black and White Mob Violence Against Their Own Color in the American South, 1882-1930”. Pp. 132-154 in W. Fitzhugh Brundage (ed.), Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press

1996 Stewart E. Tolnay, Glenn Deane, and E.M. Beck. “Vicarious Violence: Spatial Effects on Southern Lynchings, 1890-1919.” American Journal of Sociology 102 (November): 788-815

1995 E.M. Beck and Stewart E. Tolnay. “Analyzing Historical Count Data: Poisson and Negative Binomial Regression Models”. Historical Methods 28 (Summer):125-131

1995 E.M. Beck and Stewart E. Tolnay. “Violence Toward African-Americans in the Era of the White Lynch Mob”. Pp. 121-144 in Darnell F. Hawkins (ed.), Ethnicity, Race, and Crime: Perspectives Across Time and Place. Albany: State University Press of New York

1995 E.M. Beck and Stewart E. Tolnay. “A Season for Violence: The Lynching of Blacks and Labor Demand in the Agricultural Production Cycle in the American South”. Pp. 101-125 in M. van der Linden and Jan Lucassen (eds.), Racism and the Labour Market: Historical Studies. Bern: Peter Lang AG

1994 Stewart E. Tolnay and E.M. Beck. “Lethal Social Control in the South: Lynchings and Executions Between 1880 and 1930”. Pp. 176-194 in George S. Bridges and Martha A. Myers (eds.), Inequality, Crime, & Social Control. Boulder: Westview Press

1992 Stewart E. Tolnay and E.M. Beck. “Racial Violence and Black Migration in the South, 1910 to 1930.” American Sociological Review 57 (February): 103-116

1992 Stewart E. Tolnay and E.M. Beck. “Toward a Threat Model of Black Lynchings”. Pp. 33-52 in Allen E. Liska (ed.) Social Threat and Social Control. Albany: SUNY Press

1992 E.M. Beck and Stewart E. Tolnay. “A Season for Violence: The Lynching of Blacks and Labor Demand in the Agricultural Production Cycle in the American South”.International Review of Social History 37:1-24

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1992 Stewart E. Tolnay, E.M. Beck, and James Massey. “Black Competition and White Vengeance: Legal Executions of Blacks as Social Control in the American South, 1890 to 1929.” Social Science Quarterly 73 (September): 627-644

1991 Stewart E. Tolnay and E.M. Beck. “Rethinking the Role of Racial Violence in the Great Migration”. Pp. 20-35 in Alferdteen Harrison (ed.), Black Exodus: The Great Migration from the American South. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi

1990 Stewart E. Tolnay and E.M. Beck. “Black Flight: Lethal Violence and the Great Migration, 1900 to 1930.” Social Science History 14 (Fall): 347-370

1990 E.M. Beck and Stewart E. Tolnay. “The Killing Fields of the Deep South: The Market for Cotton and the Lynching of Blacks, 1882-1930.” American Sociological Review 55 (August): 526-539. Reprinted in Donald G. Nieman (ed.), African-American Life in the Post-Emancipation South, 1861-1900. Hamden, CT: Garland Publishing Co. and Robert P. Weiss (ed.), Social History of Crime, Policing, and Punishment. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing (1999)

1989 E.M. Beck, James Massey, Stewart E. Tolnay. “The Gallows, the Mob, and the Vote: Lethal Sanctioning of Blacks in North Carolina and Georgia, 1882-1930.” Law & Society Review 23 (No. 2): 317-331

1989 Stewart E. Tolnay, E.M. Beck, and James L. Massey. “Black Lynchings: The Power Threat Hypothesis Revisited.” Social Forces 67 (March): 605-623

1988 E.M. Beck and Glenna S. Colclough. “Schooling and Capitalism: The Effect of Urban Economic Structure on the Value of Education.” Chapter Six (pp. 113-139) in George Farkas and Paula England (eds.), Industries, Firms, and Jobs: Sociological and Economic Approaches. New York: Plenum Publishing

1988 E.M. Beck and Lee Watson. “Oligopoly Capitalism, Labor Organization, and Wages of Workers in American Manufacturing Industries.” Sociological Quarterly 29 (No.1): 83-95

1986 Alice A. Kemp and E.M. Beck. “Equal Work, Unequal Pay: Gender Discrimination Within Work-Similar Occupations.” Sociology of Work and Occupations 13 (August): 324-347

1986 Glenna S. Colclough and E.M. Beck. “The American Educational Structure and the Reproduction of Social Class.” Sociological Inquiry 56 (Fall): 456-476. Reprinted in Jeanne Ballantine (ed.), 1989. Schools and Society. Mountain View, CA.: Mayfield Publishing Co. Reprinted in Jeanne Ballantine (ed.), 1997. The Sociology of Education. Prentice-Hall.

1981 Alice A. Kemp and E.M. Beck. “Female Underemployment in Urban Labor Markets.” Pp. 251- 272 in Ivar Berg (ed.), Sociological Perspectives on Labor Markets. New York: Academic Press

1980 E.M. Beck. “Labor Unionism and Racial Income Inequality: A Time Series Analysis of the Post World War II Period.” American Journal of Sociology 85 (January): 791-814

1980 E.M. Beck. “Discrimination and White Economic Loss: A Time Series Examination of the Radical Model.” Social Forces 59 (September): 148-168

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1980 Charles Tolbert, Patrick Horan, and E.M. Beck. “The Structure of Economic Segmentation: A Dual Economy Approach.” American Journal of Sociology 85 (March): 1095-1116. Reprinted in The Political Economy of Crime, Prentice-Hall Canada Inc.

1980 Patrick Horan, E.M. Beck, and Charles M. Tolbert. “The Market Homogeneity Assumption in Stratification Research: On the Theoretical Foundations of Empirical Knowledge.” Social Science Quarterly 61 (September): 278-292

1980 E.M. Beck, Patrick Horan, and Charles Tolbert. “Industrial Segmentation and Labor Market Discrimination.” Social Problems 28 (December): 113-130 1980 E.M. Beck, Patrick Horan and Charles Tolbert. “Social Stratification in Industrial Society: Further Evidence for a Structural Alternative.” American Sociological Review 45 (August): 712-719

1979 Gene F. Summers, E.M. Beck, and C.M. Snipp. “Coping with Industrialization.” Pp. 161-178 in R. Lonsdale and H.L. Seyler (eds.), Transformation of the Nonmetropolitan Industrial Landscape. New York: John Wiley

1979 E.M. Beck and Gene F. Summers. “Additive, Multiplicative, and Mixed Models for Studying Community Change.” Pp. 255-262 in Gene F. Summers and Arne Selvik (eds.), Nonmetropolitan Economic Growth and Community Change. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath

1978 E.M. Beck, Patrick Horan, and Charles Tolbert. “Stratification in a Dual Economy: A Sectoral Model of Earnings Determination.” American Sociological Review 43 (October): 704-720. Reprinted in Alberto Meixide (ed.), El Mercado de Trabajo y la Estructura Salarial. Madrid, Spain: Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social, 1988

1975 E.M. Beck and Michael Betz. “A Comparative Analysis of Organizational Conflict in Schools.” Sociology of Education 48 (Winter): 59-74

1975 Dennis Mileti and E.M. Beck. “Explaining Evacuation Symbolically: Communication in Crises.” Communication Research 2 (January): 24-29

1974 E.M. Beck. “Conflict, Change, and Stability: A Reciprocal Interaction in Schools.” Social Forces 52 (June): 517-530

1974 E.M. Beck with J.H. Madans. “On the Relationship Between First Occupation and Current Occupational Status.” Sociology of Work and Occupations 1 (November): 372-395

1973 E.M. Beck, Gene F. Summers, and Louis Dotson. “Some Effects of Industrial Development on Heads of Households.” Growth and Change 4 (July): 16-19. Reprinted in Ekistics 36 (December, 1974): 416-418

1973 E.M. Beck. “A Canonical Approach to Assessing Occupational Mobility Matrices.” Social Science Research 2 (September): 247-256

1973 Gene F. Summers and E.M. Beck. “Social Status and Personality Factors in Predicting Interviewer Success.” Sociological Methods and Research 2 (August): 111-122

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Shorter Papers, Comments, and Book Reviews

2010 E. M. Beck, “What? No Teaching Philosophy?”, Pp. 31-32 in Chalk Talk: Teaching Tips From the UGA Teaching Academy, University of Georgia

2010 E.M. Beck and Stewart Tolnay, “The Era of the Lynch Mob”, forthcoming The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Social Class

2005 E.M. Beck, “Review of ‘Where We Stand’”, Southern Cultures, Winter: 110-112

2001 Stewart E. Tolnay and E.M. Beck. “Lynching.” Pp. 465 in The Oxford Companion to History. New York: Oxford University Press

2001 E.M. Beck, “Review of ‘Homecoming’”. Journal for MultiMedia History, Vol. 3. Web-based: http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/vol3/homecoming/homecoming.html.

2000 E.M. Beck. “Review of ‘The Color of the Law’.” Contemporary Sociology

2000 E.M. Beck. “Review of ‘Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy.” Journal of Southern History 66 (No. 1): 151-152

1998 E.M. Beck and Stewart E. Tolnay, “Revisiting A Festival of Violence”. Historical Methods 31 (Fall): 178-180

1997 E.M. Beck. “Advice on Surviving the Job Interview: The ‘Talk’,” Organizations, Occupations, and Work Newsletter Winter/Spring: 7-8

1996 E.M. Beck. “Review of Nisbett and Cohen’s ‘Culture of Honor: The Psychology of Violence in the South’”. Georgia Historical Quarterly 80 (Winter): 922-924

1996 E.M. Beck. “The Job Interview: A Study in Terror.” Organizations, Occupations, and Work Newsletter, Fall:9-11. Reprinted in Work in Progress: Newsletter of the Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work, Spring, 2004, pp. 9-13

1994 E.M. Beck. “Analyzing Count Data: Poisson and Negative Binomial Regression Models.” Institute for Behavioral Research, Seminar Summary 6:21-26

1994 E.M. Beck. “Review of Botwinick’s ‘Persistent Inequalities’”. Contemporary Sociology 23 (July): 526

1992 E.M. Beck. “Mob Violence Against Blacks in the American South.” Institute for Behavioral Research, Seminar Summary 4: 27-32

1989 Stewart E. Tolnay, E.M. Beck, and James L. Massey. “The Power Threat Hypothesis and Black Lynchings: Wither the Evidence.” Social Forces 67 (March): 634-640

1987 E.M. Beck. “Review of Hills’ ‘The Changing Labor Market’.” Contemporary Sociology 16 (May): 326-327

1988 E.M. Beck. “Karl and Sociology’s ‘Black Hole’.” Contemporary Sociology (March):

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1984 E.M. Beck. “Review of Livingstone’s ‘Class Ideologies and Educational Futures’.” Contemporary Sociology 13 (May): 339-340

1981 Patrick M. Horan, Charles M. Tolbert, and E.M. Beck. “The Circle Has No Close.” American Journal of Sociology 86 (January): 887-894

1981 E.M. Beck. “Review of Coleman and Rainwater’s ‘Social Standing in America’.” Sociology and Social Research 65 (No. 2): 235-236

1977 E.M. Beck. “Growth and Poverty: A Reconsideration.” Growth and Change 8 (April): 48-49

1976 E.M. Beck. “Review of Korin’s ‘Statistical Concepts for the Social Sciences’.” Journal of the American Statistical Association 71 (September): 772-773

1974 E.M. Beck. “Review of Chris Argyris’ ‘Intervention Theory and Method’.” Contemporary Sociology 3 (May): 242-244

1973 Frank Clemente, Dean Rojek, and E.M. Beck. “Trade Patterns and Community Identity: Five Years Later.” Rural Sociology 39 (Spring): 93-95

1972 E.M. Beck. “Comments on Lazarfeld’s ‘Regression Analysis with Dichotomous Attributes’.” Social Science Research 1 (December): 421-424

1972 E.M. Beck. “On Greene and Organ’s ‘Evaluation of Causal Models’.”Administrative Science Quarterly 18 (September): 393-395

Presentations to Professional Audiences

2010 E.M. Beck, “Averted, Foiled, and Threatened Lynchings in the American South”, Session on Historical Forms of Social Control in the South, American Sociological Association, Atlanta, Georgia, 16 August

2009 Amy K. Bailey, Stewart E. Tolnay, E.M. Beck, and Jenn Laird, “Was Anyone Safe? Characteristics of Lynch Victims in the American South, 1882 – 1930". Session on Ethnic Conflict, American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California, August

2009 Amy K. Bailey, Stewart E. Tolnay, and E.M. Beck, “Making the Unknown Known: Demographic Characteristics of Southern Lynch Victims,” Population Association of America, Detroit, Michigan, 2 May

2007 E.M. Beck, “American Terrorism: Southern Lynchings, the Historical Context.” Plenary Session, American Society of Criminologists, Atlanta, Georgia, 15 November

2007 E.M. Beck, “Dynamics of Mob Violence in the American South”, Carolina Undergraduate Social Science Symposium, Lander University, Greenwood, South Carolina, 19 April

2007 E.M. Beck, “Southern Lynchings, Domestic Terrorism”, Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee, 30 March

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2007 E.M. Beck, “The Domestic Terrorism of Southern Lynch Mobs”, Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 29 March

2007 Amy K. Bailey, Stewart E. Tolnay, and E.M. Beck. “Making the Unknown Known: Demographic Characteristics of Southern Lynch Victims”, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, New York, New York, 29 March

2006 E.M. Beck, “Mob Violence in the American South”, Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, Georgia, 28 November

2006 E.M. Beck, “Dynamics of Mob Violence in the American South”, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, 13 November

2006 E.M. Beck, “The Power of an Idea: Lessons Learned from Southern Lynch Mobs”, Center for the Study of the American South, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 7 November

2003 E.M. Beck, “Lynch Mob Terrorism in the American South”. Invited lecture, Department of Sociology, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, 4 April

2003 E.M. Beck, “Why Some Job Candidates Get Interviews and Offers, and Others Don’t”. AKD Awards Banquet, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, 4 April

2003 E.M. Beck, “From White Sheets to Cammies to the Internet, But the Same Old Hate”. Invited lecture, University of Georgia, College of Education, Multicultural Education Initiative, 27 February

2003 E.M. Beck, “What We Think We Have Learned About Lynchings”. Invited lecture, Department of Sociology, State University, Tallahassee, Florida, 14 February

2002 E.M. Beck, “Civil Liberties in the United States After 11 September”. Public lecture at La Lique des Droits de l’Homme, University of Paris, 22 January

2001 E.M. Beck, “Lynching in the American South.” Lifting the Veil of Silence: Workshop on Racial Violence and Reconciliation”, Atlanta, Georgia, 27 October

1998 E.M. Beck, “Guess Who’s Coming to Town: White Supremacy, Ethnic Competition, and Social Change in the American South During the 1980s.” College of Education Task Force for Multicultural Education,College of Education, University of Georgia, 17 September

1996 E.M. Beck and Stewart E. Tolnay. “When Race Didn’t Matter: Black Mob Violence Against Their Own Color in the American South, 1882-1930.” Session on Lynching in the Postbellum South, Annual Meetings of the American Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, 6 January

1995 E.M. Beck and Stewart E. Tolnay. “Black and White Mob Violence Against Their Own Color in the American South, 1882-1930.” Session on Lynching in the Postbellum South, 47th Annual Conference of the American Society of Criminology, Boston, Massachusetts, 15 November

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1995 E.M. Beck and Michele Burch. “ in the 80’s: Factors Affecting the Public Activities of White Supremacists.” Session on White Supremacist Organizations, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., 22 August

1995 E.M. Beck. “Archival Data on Racial Violence and White Supremacist Activity”. Session on Sociologists in Historyland, Annual Meetings of the Georgia Sociological Association, Jekyll Island, Georgia, 20 October

1994 E.M. Beck. “Racial Competition and Conflict in the American South”. Session on Social Demography of Racial, Ethnic and Religious Groups, 13th World Congress of Sociology of the International Sociological Association, Bielefeld, Germany, 18-23 July

1992 Stewart E. Tolnay and E.M. Beck. “Lethal Social Control in the South: Lynchings and Executions Between 1880 and 1930”. Invited paper, Conference on Inequality, Crime, and Social Control, University of Georgia, Athens, 10-12 April

1991 Lowenstein, Arlene, Cathryn Granville, E.M. Beck. “Racial and Class Conflict in the Health Care Workplace.” Poster Session, Annual Meetings of Health Services Research, San Diego, California, 30 June

1991 Stewart E. Tolnay and E.M. Beck. “Racial Violence and Black Migration in the American South, 1910 to 1930.” Session on Race and Ethnic Relations, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Cincinnati, Ohio

1991 E.M. Beck and Stewart E. Tolnay. “A Season for Violence: The Lynchings of Blacks and Labor Demand in the Agricultural Production Cycle in the American South”. Invited paper, Conference on Racism and the Labour Market, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 5-7 September

1990 E.M. Beck and Stewart E. Tolnay. “Lynching in the American South.” Invited paper, Ninth Conference on the Black Experience, Paine College, Augusta, Georgia, 7 February

1990 E.M. Beck and Stewart E. Tolnay. “A Season for Killing: Mob Violence Against Blacks and the Agricultural Production Cycle in the South, 1882-1930.” Session on Racial Violence, Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, Louisville, Kentucky

1990 E.M. Beck and Stewart E. Tolnay. “Mob Violence and the Marketplace: Agricultural Production and the Lynchings of Blacks in the American South, 1882-1930.” Tenth Annual Meetings of the Southern Stratification Research Group, Louisville, Kentucky

1990 E.M. Beck. “The Lynching of Blacks in the American South.” Invited paper presented at the Panel on Lynching in the South, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, 12 April

1989 E.M. Beck and Stewart E. Tolnay. “White Cotton and Black Death: The Lynching of Blacks and the Price of Cotton in the American South, 1882-1930.” Session on the Sociology of Agriculture, Annual Meetings of the Rural Sociological Society, Seattle, Washington

1989 E.M. Beck and Stewart E. Tolnay. “Lynchings in the American South, 1882-1930: A Progress Report”. Session on Lynching in America, Annual Meetings of the Social Science History Association, Washington, D.C.

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1989 Stewart E. Tolnay and E.M. Beck. “Rethinking the Role of Racial Violence in the Great Migration” Paper presented at National Symposium, ‘Those Who Stayed Home During the Great Migration, 1915 to the Present.’ Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, 14-15 September

1987 E.M. Beck and Lee Watson. “Oligopoly Capitalism, Labor Organization, and Wages of Workers in American Manufacturing Industries.” Session on Labor Markets, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, Illinois

1987 Stewart E. Tolnay, E.M. Beck, and James Massey. “Black Lynchings in the American South, 1889-1931.” Session on Deviance and Social Control, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, Illinois

1986 E.M. Beck and Glenna S. Colclough. “Advanced Capitalism and the Value of Education in Urban Economies.” Section on Economy and Society, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, New York, New York

1986 James Massey, Stewart Tolnay, and E.M. Beck. “Seasonal Patterns in Southern Lynchings, 1890- 1930.” Annual Meetings of the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, Georgia

1984 E.M. Beck. “Urban Labor Markets, Oligopoly Capitalism, and the Process of Earnings Determination.” Annual Meetings of the Southern Stratification Research Group, Knoxville, Tennessee

1984 Glenna S. Colclough and E.M. Beck. “The American Educational Structure and the Reproduction of Social Class.” Section on Sociology of Education, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Antonio, Texas

1982 Glenna S. Colclough and E.M. Beck. “Urban Poverty and Unemployment.” Session on Poverty, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California

1980 Alice A. Kemp and E.M. Beck. “Underemployment Among Working Females in Urban Labor Markets.” Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, Knoxville, Tennessee

1980 E.M. Beck and Alice A. Kemp. “Underemployment in Urban Labor Markets: Race and Gender Comparisons.” Conference on Labor Market Structure and Socioeconomic Stratification, Athens, Georgia

1979 Patrick Horan, Charles Tolbert, and E.M. Beck. “Occupational Differentiation in a Dual Economy.” Section on Economics and Sociology, Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, Georgia

1978 Gene F. Summers and E.M. Beck. “Coping with Industrialization: Problems Communities Face With Industrial Growth.” Annual Meetings of the American Association of Geographers, New Orleans, Louisiana

1978 Charles Tolbert, Patrick Horan, and E.M. Beck. “Toward the Development of an Indicator of Industrial Centrality.” Section on Social Indicators, Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, Louisiana

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1978 E.M. Beck and Patrick Horan. “The Structure of American Capitalism and Status Attainment Research: A Reassessment of Contemporary Stratification Theory.” Section on Changes in Work and Social Stratification, Meetings of the Ninth World Congress of Sociology, Uppsala, Sweden

1978 E.M. Beck, Patrick Horan, and Charles Tolbert. “Labor Market Segmentation and Discrimination Against Minorities.” Section on Occupations, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California

1978 E.M. Beck and Gene F. Summers. “Additive, Multiplicative, and Mixed Models for Studying Community Change.” Seminar on Nonmetropolitan Industrial Growth and Community Change, Annual Meetings of the Rural Sociological Society, San Francisco, California

1977 E.M. Beck. “Affluence, Equality, and Poverty in Nonmetropolitan America.” Rural Sociology Section, Annual Meetings of the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists, Atlanta, Georgia

1976 E.M. Beck and J.H. Madans. “Affluence, Equality, and Equity: A Study of Rural Development and Economic Status.” Annual Meetings of the Rural Sociological Society, San Francisco, California

1975 E.M. Beck and Suzanne Bianchi. “Affluence and Equality in Rural America, 1950-1970.” Annual Meetings of the Rural Sociological Society, San Francisco, California

1973 E.M. Beck. “Causal Models and Bayesian Estimation.” Section on Statistics and Hypotheses, Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, Georgia

1973 E.M. Beck. “A Canonical Approach to Assessing Occupational Mobility Matrices.” Section on Innovative Uses for Quantitative Methods, Annual Meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association, Scottsdale, Arizona

1973 E.M. Beck and Gene F. Summers. “Regional Industrial Diversification and Changes in Occupational Structures.” Section on Social Change, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, New York

1973 E.M. Beck. “A Nonrecursive Formulation of Intra-Organizational Conflict in Schooling.” Section on the Sociology of Education, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, New York

1972 E.M. Beck. “Community Industrial Development and Occupational Movers and Stayers.” Section on the Sociology of Occupations, Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, Louisiana

1972 Richard Wanner and E.M. Beck. “Least Squares Estimation of Effects on Intra- and Inter- generational Occupational Transition Probabilities.” Invited Paper, Social Statistics Section, Annual Meetings of the American Statistical Association, Montreal, Canada. (Pp. 14-19 in the Proceedings of the Social Statistics Section, American Statistical Association)

1972 Gene F. Summers and E.M. Beck.“Industrial Development and Urbanization: A U.S. Case.” Meetings of the Third World Congress of Rural Sociology, New Orleans, Louisiana

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1971 E.M. Beck. “Applications of Dolby’s Method of Selecting a Linearizing Transformation.” Section on Methodology, Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, Miami, Florida

1970 E.M. Beck. “Organizational Determinants of Social Conflict.” Section on Complex Organizations, Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, Georgia

1970 Michael Betz and E.M. Beck. “The Impact of Client Status Upon Occupational Goal Priorities.” Section on Stratification and Mobility, Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, Georgia

Other Professional Presentations

2006 Presider/Discussant, Panel on the Significance of the South to American Sociology, Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, 24 March

2006 Participant, Author-Meets-Critics, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Racism Without Racists, Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, 23 March

2004 Organizer and Presider, Session on Labor and Labor Movements, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California, 14 August

2004 Participant, Author-Meets-Critics, Kathleen Blee’s Inside Organized Racism, Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, Georgia, 15 April

2004 Organizer, Presider, Participant, Panel on Teaching About the South, Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, Georgia, 16 April

2003 Session Chair, Symposium on Race, Southern Violence, and the State, University of Georgia, 28 February

2003 Presentation to the Alpha Kappa Delta Honor Society, Department of Sociology, University of Georgia, 26 February

2002 Chair, Panel on “Domestic Terrorism: Race Riots in U.S. History”, Lynching and Racial Violence Conference in America, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 5 October

2002 Presider, Presidental Plentary Session: Equality and Diversity in Our Research, Southern Sociological Society, Baltimore, Maryland, 6 April

2002 Presider, Presidental Address, Southern Sociological Society, Baltimore, Maryland, 5 April

2001 Organizer, Session on the "Challenges of the 'Browning' of America." Annual Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Los Angeles, California, 19 August

2001 “Careers in Sociology”, Presentation to Alpha Kappa Delta, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 30 March

2000 “Getting a Job, Vitae Raising, and How Not to Blow the Interview”. Presentation to Alpha Kappa Delta, University of Georgia, April 7

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2000 Panelist, Panel on Interdisciplinary Research, Institute for Behavior Research, University of Georgia, 28 August

1999 Panelist, Panel Session on the Job Hunt Process, Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, Nashville, Tennessee, 8 April

1998 Presider and Discussant, Session on Southern Social Problems, Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, Georgia, 3 April

1997 “Interviewing for Academic Jobs: Tips for Graduate Students.” Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, 4 April

1996 “Guess Who’s Coming to Town: The Klan and Ethnic Competition.” Department of Sociology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 25 October

1995 Presider and Discussant, Session on Organizations and Occupations, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., 22 August

1994 Chair and Presider, Session on Lynching in the South, Annual Meetings of the Social Science History Association, Atlanta, Georgia, 15 October

1994 Chair and Presider, Session on Social Demography of Racial and Ethnic Groups II, 13th World Congress of Sociology of the International Sociological Association, Bielefeld, Germany, 18-23 July

1994 “Analyzing Count Data: Poisson and Negative Binomial Regression Models”, Institute for Behavior Research, University of Georgia, 14 March

1993 Session Organizer and Presider, Session on Racial Violence, Annual Meetings of the Social Science History Association, Baltimore, Maryland

1993 Discussant, Institute for Behavioral Research Conference on Race Attitudes in the 1990s, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 28 January

1992 “Mob Violence Against Blacks in the American South, 1882-1930.” Institute for Behavioral Research, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia,13 January

1991 Session Organizer and Presider, Session on Race Relations in the 21st. Century, Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, Georgia

1990 Session Organizer and Presider, Session on Racial Violence: Historical and Contemporary, Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, Louisville, Kentucky

1988 Panelist, Colloquium on Organized Labor, Institute for Behavioral Research, University of Georgia, 7 June

1986 Session Organizer and Presider, Session on Work and Industry, Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, Louisiana

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1986 Discussant, Session on the Sociology of the South, Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, Louisiana

1985 Discussant, Section on Labor Markets, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C.

1983 Discussant, Section on Social Mobility, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Detroit, Michigan

1982 Discussant, Section on the Sociology of Labor Markets, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California

1981 “Stratification Research and the Organization of Industrial Capitalism.” Department of Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

1981 “Labor Markets and Socioeconomic Analyses.” Institute of Public Affairs, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

1981 Discussant, Section on Organizational Characteristics and the Distribution of Class of Employees, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, Canada

1980 Session Organizer and Presider, Session on Research Methods, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, New York, New York

1979 “Dual Economic Theory and Rural Industrial Development.” Department of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

1979 Discussant, Section on Marxian Sociology: Empirical Research, Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, Georgia

1977 Discussant, Section on Applied Sociology, Annual Meetings of the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists, Atlanta, Georgia

1977 Discussant, Section on Power Relations, Annual Meetings of the Rural Sociological Society, Madison, Wisconsin

1975 “Subjective Approach to Quantitative Data Analysis.” Didactic Seminar, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California

1972 “Problems in Longitudinal Studies.” Department of Sociology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee

Other Public Presentations

2008 “Reflections on Hate”, Russell Hall Last Lecture Series, University of Georgia, 5 November

2008 “Learning from the Past: Lessons from Southern Lynch Mob Violence”, Kiwanis Club, Vidalia, Georgia, 5 February

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2005 “The South: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow”, Perimeter Adult Learning and Services, Dunwoody, GA, 25 April

2005 “Lynching in the American South”, Honor’s American History class, Monroe Area High School, Monroe, GA, 9 March

2002 “Lynching in the American South”, Honor’s American History class, Monroe Area High School, Monroe, GA, 28 March

2002 “Mob Violence in Georgia”, African-American History Luncheon, Oconee County Civic Center, Watkinsville, GA, 28 February

2001 “The Era of Lynch Violence”, Honor’s American History class, Monroe Area High School, Monroe, GA, 18 December

Unpublished Technical Papers

1984 E.M. Beck. “Capitalism and Inequality: Organization of Urban Production and Racial Inequality in Earnings Determination.” Unpublished paper, Department of Sociology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

1983 Colclough, Glenna S. and E.M. Beck. “Urban Poverty and Unemployment: A TOBIT Analysis.” Unpublished paper, Department of Sociology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

1982 E.M. Beck. “Measures of Concentration and Diversity for Nominal Classifications.” Unpublished paper, Department of Sociology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

1979 Patrick M. Horan, Charles Tolbert, and E.M. Beck. “Occupational Differentiation in a Dual Economy.” Unpublished paper, Department of Sociology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

1974 Gene F. Summers, Sharon Evans, Frank Clemente, E.M. Beck, and Jon Minkoff. “Industrial Invasion of Nonmetropolitan America.” Final Report to the Office of Economic Research, Economic Development Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce

1972 Richard L. Hough, E.M. Beck, and Gene F. Summers. “Status Inconsistency: A Two-Step Approach.” Working Paper 72.10, Center for Applied Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

1967 E.M. Beck. “A Study of School Dropouts in Grundy County, Tennessee.” A Report to the Elk River Development Association. TVA-15. Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge Associated Universities

1966 E.M. Beck. “Study of School Dropouts in Lincoln County, Tennessee.” A Report to the Elk River Development Association. TVA-12. Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge Associated Universities

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ADDENDUM

Dissertations Directed

2004 Michelle Petrie, University of Georgia, “And Justice for All? An Analysis of Procedural Equity in the Implementation of Superfund”

2001 Marina Karides, University of Georgia, “Development Ideology, State Policies, and the Street Vendors in Port of Spain, Trinidad”

1983 Glenna S. Colclough, University of Georgia, “Education and Society: An Analysis of the Revisionist Perspective”

1981 Alice A. Kemp, University of Georgia, “Male-Female Earnings Differences in Task Homogeneous Occupations”

1977 Richard M. Cohn, University of Michigan, “The Consequences of Unemployment on Evaluations of Self”

1977 Susan A. Stephens, University of Michigan, “The Social Meanings of Neighborhood”

1976 Darnell F. Hawkins, University of Michigan, “Nonresponse in Detroit Area Study Surveys: A Ten Year Analysis”

Research Practicum/Master’s Theses Directed at the University of Georgia

2001 Michelle Neal, “Pride, Prejudice, and Politics: The Perceived Effects of Immigrants on American Society”

2000 Cherise Harris, “Get to Work!: Understanding Public Support for Welfare Reform”

2000 Nikki Khanna, "Biracial Identity: The Racial Identity Formation of Asian-White Adults"

1998 Ryan Hubbard, “The Effects of Wal-Mart on Small Business Opportunity Structure”

1998 Tim Clark, “Debunking the Myths of the ‘Strange Negro’ and the ‘Bad Negro’ in Lynching: Georgia’s African American Victims of Lynching, 1882-1930”

1997 Michelle Burch, “A Choice of Tactics: The Role of Women Beneath the Hood and Robe”

1994 M.K. Park, “Economic Strain, Political Process and Labor Disputes: A Time Series Analysis of South Korean Case, 1979-1991”

1993 Mary Ann Mauney, “Southern Same-Race Lynchings, 1882-l930: The Notion of Popular Justice Explored”

1990 Herbert Wind, “Socioeconomic Effects of New Technology in Georgia Newspaper Publishing”

1986 Lee Watson, “Concentration, Unionization, and Wages in American Manufacturing Industries”

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1980 Glenna S. Colclough, “Race and Sex Differences in Determining Urban Poverty”

1979 Alice A. Kemp, “Underemployment Among Working Females in Urban Labor Markets”

1979 Molly S. Killian, “Female Employment and Fertility: An Examination of Mincer’s Opportunity Cost Hypothesis”

1978 Susan Carley, “Discrimination and White Gain”

Courses Taught at the University of Georgia

Undergraduate Courses • Introductory Sociology • Poverty and Discrimination • American Society • Sociology of Work and Industry • Social Problems • Urban Sociology • Research Methods • Industrial Sociology • Data Analysis and Statistics • Race and Ethnicity • Freshman Seminar: White Supremacy Movement • Global Issues: Migration & Ethnic Confict* • Freshman Seminar: Sociology of the South • Sociology of the American South • Freshman Seminar: Understanding Genocide Through Film

*In University of Georgia’s Study Abroad Program in Verona Italy (1998-2001, 2006-07) and UGA a´ Paris (2007, 2010)

Graduate Courses and Seminars • Industrial Sociology • Organization of Industrial Capitalism • Neo-Marxist Revival in Stratification • Political Economy of the Old South • Poverty and Discrimination in the U.S. • Research Methods • Introductory Quantitative Methods • Rise of the Southern Proletariat • Intermediate Quantitative Methods • Race in America • Advanced Quantitative Methods • Sociology of the American South

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