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Wanda Rushing, Ph. D. Professor of Sociology October 1, 2014 Wanda Rushing, Ph. D. Professor of Sociology October 1, 2014 Department of Sociology University of Memphis Clement Hall 231 Memphis, TN 38152 EDUCATION Ph. D. Sociology, University of Tennessee – Knoxville, 1998 Dissertation: Mediated Inequality: The Role of Governmental, Business, and Scientific Elites in Public Education M. A. Sociology, UNC Greensboro, 1981 Thesis: Ethnicity in Modern Society: An Empirical Analysis B. A. History, UNCG, December 1973; attended UNC-CH 1970-1972 RESEARCH INTERESTS Urban Sociology, Political Economy, Racial and Gender Inequality, Globalization, the American South, Historical Sociology APPOINTMENTS 2011-2014 Dunavant University Professor 2011- Professor 2004-2011 Associate Professor to Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Memphis 1998-2004 Assistant Professor to Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Memphis 2007-2010 Director of Women’s Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Memphis 1994-1998 Graduate Teaching Associate, University of Tennessee, Department of Sociology 1995 Graduate Research Assistant, January - December 1995 (on leave from GTA) University of Tennessee, Department of Sociology and Community Partnership Center, USDA Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community Evaluation Project 1989-1994 Sociology Instructor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro OTHER TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1981-1987 North Carolina Justice Academy and North Carolina Department of Justice, Juvenile Justice Consultant. Authored three Department of Justice Publications, including two textbooks written for the use of the NC Department of Public Instruction. Prepared a state newsletter for public school teachers, and developed in-service training for teachers. 1980-1988 Part-time sociology instructor, Forsyth, Mitchell and Davidson County Community Colleges. 1974-1978 Non-Profit Coordinated a federally funded arts program connected with the desegregation of Winston-Salem Forsyth County, NC public schools, and worked in juvenile delinquency prevention non-profit. HONORS/AWARDS 1979 Alpha Kappa Delta, UNCG (charter member) 1993-1994 Faculty Fellow, UNCG Center for Critical Inquiry 1996 Phi Kappa Phi, University of Tennessee 1997 Outstanding Sociology Graduate Student, University of Tennessee 1997 American Sociological Association Honors Program 2000 Oromo Studies Association, Professional Excellence Award for Journal of Oromo Studies (African Studies journal) 2002 Golden Key Honor Society, Honorary Faculty Member (selected by student members) 2 2004 Nominee and Finalist, Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Memphis 2004-2005 Faculty Fellow, Technology Fellowship Program, Advanced Learning Center, FedEx Institute of Technology 2005-2006 College of Arts and Sciences Professional Development Assignment University of Memphis 2006 Alma Bucovaz Urban Research and Service Award, University College, University of Memphis 2008 Nominee and Finalist, Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Memphis 2010 College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Research Award (CASDRA), University of Memphis 2012-2013 College of Arts and Sciences Professional Development Assignment University of Memphis SCHOLARSHIP/PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY 2002 Duke University Summer Institute. Globalization, Women & Development. Sponsored by a Title VI Grant to the Duke Center for International Studies and Women’s Studies. GRANTS 2001-2002 “Global Cities: Promise and Peril.” Public Service Funding Grant, University of Memphis ($1,800); with York Bradshaw. 2002-2003 Curriculum grant, International Programs ($2,500). 2003 “Teaching about Globalization, Culture, and Information Technology: Is ‘Place’ Still Relevant?” Office of Information Systems, University of Memphis; Wanda Rushing and York Bradshaw, with Melinda Jones, and others (funded $9,699). 2003 York Bradshaw and Wanda Rushing. "Improving IT Fluency for Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching Initiatives." GAs for FITness Program, Advanced Learning Center, University of Memphis ($4,000). 3 2004 Wanda Rushing. “Information Technology and Visual Sociology.” GAs for FITness Program, Advance Learning Center, University of Memphis ($4,000). 2004 Wanda Rushing, Corey Twombly, and Daniel Duerr. “Teaching, Learning, and Information Technology: Struggles for Educational and Economic Opportunity in a Digital Age.” Hooks Institute, Working Papers Series, University of Memphis ($2,000) 2007 Wanda Rushing and Deborah Clubb. Girls in Change Program. Academic Enrichment Grant, University of Memphis ($500). 2008 Wanda Rushing. Academic Enrichment Grant, University of Memphis, for Third Annual Women’s Studies Symposium ($500). 2011 Wanda Rushing, College of Arts and Sciences, Dunavant Travel Enrichment grant, $500. 2011-2014 Dunavant Professorship ($15,000) 2012-2013 Hooks Institute Faculty Research Grant ($5,000) BOOKS 2009 Memphis and the Paradox of Place: Globalization in the American South. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 2010 The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Urbanization, Editor, University of North Carolina Press. Volume 15 of the 24 volume series under the general editorship of Charles Reagan Wilson, Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. BOOK Edited, Contract in Advance (book in progress) Wanda Rushing and Michele Scott, Memphis Barbecue Tofu: Foodways, Culture and Identity in the Mid-South. University of Arkansas Press. (anticipated publication in 2016) REFEREED ARTICLES (student names listed in bold) 1995 Gaventa, John, Janice Morrissey, and Wanda Rushing Edwards. “Empowering People: Goals and Realities.” Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy 10:4:116-121. 4 2000 Rushing, Wanda. “Cold War Racial Politics and Global Impression Management: North Carolina Economic Development as a Case Study.” Current Sociology Vol. 48(2): 51-69. 2000 Rushing, Wanda. “Rural Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities: The Impact of Globalization Processes and Public Policy on Economic Development.” Journal of Poverty 4:4:45-63 2001 Rushing, Wanda. “Inequality and Education Reform: Formulating a Macro Historical Sociology Perspective.” Race Ethnicity and Education 4:1:29-44. 2002 Rushing, Wanda. “Sin, Sex, and Segregation”: Social Control and the Education of Southern Women.” Gender and Education 14:2:167-179. 2003 Collins, Tracy and Wanda Rushing. “Across the Pond: A Comparative Analysis of Social Capital formation in the United States and Great Britain.” Humanity and Society 27:1:30-49. 2004 Rushing, Wanda. “Globalization and the Paradoxes of Place: Poverty and Power in Memphis.” City and Community3:1:65-81. 2011 Winters, Lisa, Wanda Rushing, Martin Levin, and Troy Blanchard. “Deindustrialization, Class, and Adolescents: Changing Gender Attitudes in Middletown.” Sociology Mind 1:3:114-120. Forthcoming Smiley, Kevin, Wanda Rushing, and Michele Scott. “Behind a Bicycling Boom: Governance, Cultural Change and Place Character in Memphis, Tennesee.” Urban Studies. Forthcoming Scott, Michele and Wanda Rushing. “Barbecue Tofu and the Most Southern Food on Earth.” Arkansas Review. ARTICLES (Invited) 2009 Rushing, Wanda. “Memphis, the Delta, and a Progressive Sense of Place.” Business Perspectives, vol. 20, no.1 (Summer/Fall), pp. 52-55. 2009 Rushing, Wanda. “Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology.” Southern Spaces. August 28. http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2009/rushing/1a.htm ARTICLES (in progress) (student names listed in bold) 5 “School Segregation and its Discontents” by Wanda Rushing. Urban Education (R&R) BOOK CHAPTERS (student names listed in bold) 2002 Rushing, Wanda. “Did You Hear What That White Woman Said? Speaking for Change and Chance in Memphis, Tennessee.” In, The Quality and Quantity of Contact between African Americans and Whites on College Campuses, edited by Robert Moore, published by University Press of America, a division of Rowman & Littlefield. 2005 Rushing, Wanda and Zandria Robinson. “Beyond the Veil: Black and White Perspectives on Teaching about Racial Inequality.” In, African Americans and Whites: Changing Relationships on College Campuses, edited by Robert Moore, published by University Press of America. Forthcoming Rushing, Wanda. “Memphis and Durable Inequality.” In, The Dynamics of School District Consolidation: Race, Economics and the Politics of Educational Change, eds. John Amis and Paul Wright. The University of Tennessee Press (under contract). BOOK CHAPTERS (invited) 2014 Rushing, Wanda. “We’re Going to Graceland: Globalization and the Reimagining of Memphis,”in Sounds and the City: Popular Music, Place, and Globalization, eds. Brett Lashua, Stephen Wagg and Karl Spracklen. (Aldershot: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). 2015 Rushing, Wanda. “Region.” Critical Terms for Southern Studies, eds. Jennifer Rae Greeson and Scott Romine (Athens: The University of Georgia Press, forthcoming). ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES 2009 “Poverty.” Pp. 223-227 in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, vol. 12 Gender, edited by Ted Ownby and Nancy Bercaw. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 2010 “Urbanization, Growth and Diversity.” Pp. 1-15 in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, vol. 15 Urbanization, edited by Wanda Rushing. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 6 “Church of God in Christ and Annual Convocation.” Co-authored with Katherine A. Warren. Pp. 195-197 in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, vol. 15 Urbanization, edited by Wanda Rushing. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. “White Flight.”
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