August 17, 2021 EARL WRIGHT II Professor of Sociology Department of Anthropology and Sociology 209 Clough Hall Rhodes College 2000 North Parkway Memphis, Tennessee 38112 Office: (901) 843-3932 Email:
[email protected] Personal Website: www.EarlWrightII.com EDUCATION Ph.D. University of Nebraska, Sociology, Lincoln, Nebraska, August, 2000. Dissertation: Atlanta University and American Sociology, 1896-1917: An Earnest Desire for the Truth Despite Its Possible Unpleasantness M.A. University of Memphis, Sociology, Memphis, Tennessee, May, 1997. Thesis: More Than Just A Haircut: An Ethnographic Study of an Urban African American Barbershop B.A. University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, August, 1994. Major: History, Minor: Black Studies ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS August 2020 - Professor Present Department of Anthropology and Sociology Rhodes College September 2010 - Professor August 2020 Department of Sociology University of Cincinnati (Faculty in Africana Studies Department from 2010 to 2017) (Promoted from Associate to Full Professor June 2013) September 2006 - Associate Professor August 2010 Department of Sociology Texas Southern University (Awarded tenure August 2007) January 2005 - Associate Professor August 2006 Department of Sociology Fisk University (Promoted from Assistant to Associate upon hiring) August 17, 2021 August 2000 - Assistant Professor, December 2004 Department of Sociology and Anthropology University of Central Florida ADMINISTRATIVE / PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS May 1, 2018 - Co-Editor, Social Problems, The Official Journal of the Society for Present the Study of Social Problems September 2014 - Co-Founder, The Cincinnati Project 2018 Director of Classroom-Partnered Research, The Cincinnati Project, University of Cincinnati. September 2006 - Chairperson August 2010 Department of Sociology Texas Southern University BOOKS (Original Research) Earl Wright II and Kalasia Ojeh.