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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. An Introduction to W. E. B. Du Bois. (Contract signed with Routledge. Delivery expected August 2021) Earl Wright II. 2020. Jim Crow Sociology: The Black and Southern Roots of American Sociology. Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati Press. Earl Wright II. 2015. The First American School of Sociology: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory. Routledge / Ashgate Publishing Company. BOOKS (Edited Volume) (* Denotes graduate student) Earl Wright II, *Keri Eason, *Anthony Stone Jr., and *Kierra Toney (Eds.). 2020. The Sociology of Hip Hop. San Diego: Cognella Academic Publishing. Earl Wright and Thomas C. Calhoun (Eds). 2016. What to Expect and How to Respond: Success and Distress in Academia. Rowman and Littlefield. Earl Wright II and Edward Wallace (Eds.). 2015. The Ashgate Research Companion to Black Sociology: Contemporary Issues and Future Directions. Ashgate Publishing Company Sandra L. Barnes, Zandria Robinson and Earl Wright II (Eds.). 2014. Re-Positioning Race: Prophetic Research in a Post-Racial Obama Age. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. August 17, 2021 REFEREED PUBLICATIONS (* Denotes graduate student) *Marcus Brooks and Earl Wright II. 2020. “Augustus Granville Dill: A Case Study in the Conceptualization of a Black Public Sociology.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *Daniels, Kalasia S. and Earl Wright II. 2018. “An Earnest Desire for the Truth Despite Its Possible Unpleasantness: A Comparative Analysis of the Atlanta University Publications and American Journal of Sociology, 1895-1917.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 4(1):35-48. Earl Wright II. 2014. “W. E. B. Du Bois, Howard Odum and the Sociological Ghetto.” Sociological Spectrum 34(5): 453-468. Earl Wright II. 2012. “Why, Where and How to Infuse the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory into the Sociology Curriculum.” Teaching Sociology 40: 257-270. *Gordon, Jr, Clarence L., *Andonnia Maiben and Earl Wright II. 2010. “The Damnation of Hip Hop: A Critique of Hip Hop through the Lens of W. E. B. Du Bois” International Journal of Africana Studies 16(1): 62-76. REPRINTED *Gordon, Jr, Clarence L., *Andonnia Maiben and Earl Wright II. 2017. “The Damnation of Hip Hop: A Critique of Hip Hop through the Lens of W. E. B. Du Bois” in Higher Learning: Hip Hop in the Ivory Tower. Black Classic Press. Wright II, Earl. 2010. “The Tradition of Sociology at Fisk University” Journal of African American Studies 14(1): 44-60. Wright II, Earl. 2009. “Beyond W. E. B. Du Bois: A Note on Some of the Lesser Known Members of the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory” Sociological Spectrum 29(6): 700-717. Wright II, Earl. 2008. “Deferred Legacy!: The Continued Marginalization of the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory” Sociology Compass 2(1): 195-207. Wright II, Earl and Thomas C. Calhoun. 2006. “Jim Crow Sociology: Toward An Understanding of the Origin and Principles of Black Sociology Via the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory” Sociological Focus 39(1):1-18. Wright II, Earl. 2006. “W. E. B. Du Bois and the Atlanta University Studies on the Negro, Revisited.” Journal of African American Studies 9(4): 3-17. REPRINTED Wright II, Earl. 2010. “W. E. B. Du Bois and the Atlanta University Studies on the Negro, Revisited.” Pp. 75-89 in W. E. B. Du Bois, edited by Reiland Rabaka. Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishers. August 17, 2021 Wright II, Earl. 2005. “W. E. B. Du Bois and the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory.” Sociation Today - The Official Journal of The North Carolina Sociological Association: A Refereed Web- Based Publication, Volume 3(1) http://www.ncsociology.org/sociationtoday/v31/outline5.htm REPRINTED Wright II, Earl. 2010. “W. E. B. Du Bois and the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory.” Pp. 93-100 in W. E. B. Du Bois by Reiland Rabaka. Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishers. Wright II, Earl. 002. “The Atlanta Sociological Laboratory, 1896-1924: A Historical Account of the First American School of Sociology.” Western Journal of Black Studies 26(3):165-174. Battle, Juan and Earl Wright II. 2002. “W. E. B. Du Bois’s Talented Tenth: A Quantitative Assessment.” Journal of Black Studies 32(6):654-672. Wright II, Earl. 2002. “Why Black People Tend To Shout!: An Earnest Attempt To Explain the Sociological Negation of the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory Despite Its Possible Unpleasantness.” Sociological Spectrum 22(3):325-361. Wright II, Earl. 2002. “Using The Master’s Tools: Atlanta University and American Sociology, 1896-1924.” Sociological Spectrum 22(1):15-39. Wright II, Earl and Thomas C. Calhoun. 2001. “From the Common Thug to the Local Businessman: An Exploration into an Urban African American Barbershop.” Deviant Behavior 22(3): 267-288. Stephens, Ronald J. and Earl Wright II. 2000. “Beyond Bitches, Niggers, and Ho’s: Some Suggestions for Including Rap Music as a Qualitative Data Source.” Race and Society 3(1):23- 40. Parker, Keith D., Earl Wright II, and Jennifer Wingren. 1999. “Fear of Crime Among African American Males in Two American Cities: A Multivariate Analysis.” Challenge: A Journal of Research on African American Men 10:51-60. Wright II, Earl. 1998. “More Than Just a Haircut: Sociability Within the Urban African American Barbershop.” Challenge: A Journal of Research on African American Men 9:1-13. BOOK CHAPTERS Earl Wright II. FORTHCOMING. “The HBCU Roots of American Sociology.” In The Oxford Handbook of W. E. B. Du Bois, edited by Aldon Morris, Walter Allen, Cheryl Johnson-Odim, Dan S. Green, Marcus Hunter, Karida Brown and Michael Schwartz. Earl Wright II and Edward V. Wallace. 2015. “Black Sociology: Toward A 22nd Century Agenda.” Pp. 1-10 in The Ashgate Research Companion to Black Sociology: Contemporary Issues and Future Directions, edited by Earl Wright II and Edward V. Wallace. August 17, 2021 Earl Wright II. 2014. “Am I My Brother’s Keeper: W. E. B. Du Bois’ New Talented Tenth.” Pp. 49-67 in Re-Positioning Race: Prophetic Research in a Post-Racial Obama Age, edited by Sandra L. Barnes, Zandria Robinson and Earl Wright II Wright II, Earl. 2014. “Notes from a Former Homophobe: An Introspective Narrative on the Development of Masculinity of an Urban African American Male.” Pp. 7-17 in Hyper Sexual- Hyper Masculine?: Gender, Race and Sexuality in the Identities of Contemporary Black Men, edited by Brittany Slatton and Kamesha Spates. Boulder, Colorado: Paradigm Publishers. ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES Wright II, Earl. 2009. “W. E. B. Du Bois.” Encyclopedia of African American Education. Sage Publications. (15 manuscript pages) Wright II, Earl. 2007. “American Sociology.” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition. New York: McMillan Press. (5 manuscript pages) Wright II, Earl. 2007. “The Color Line.” Blackwell Publishers. Pp. 604-605 in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Volume II, edited by George Ritzer, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS Earl Wright II and Aldon Morris. 2021. “Introduction to the Special Issue: The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois.” Social Problems 68(2):203-206. Linders, Annulla and Earl Wright II. 2019. “Editorial.” Social Problems 66(1):1-2. Wright II, Earl. 2018. Review of The Laboratory in Sociology at Atlanta (1903). Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 4(1):160-161. Wright II, Earl. 2015. “In Memoriam: Charles Ullman “C.U.” Smith.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 1(2):1-2. Wright II, Earl. 2013. Book Review of Poor and Homeless in the Sunshine State: Down and Out in Theme Park Nation. Contemporary Sociology 42(1): 120-121. Wright II, Earl. 2010. “Atlanta: Birthplace of American Sociology,” Footnotes, American Sociological Association. Wright II, Earl and Jean Shin. 2009. “History of the Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award,” Footnotes, American Sociological Association. Wright II, Earl. 1997. “A Tale from the ‘Hood.” A book review of William Julius Wilson’s When Work Disappears: The New World of the New Urban Poor. In Center News, The Center for Research on Women, University of Memphis, Volume 15, Number 2. August 17, 2021 WORKS IN PROGRESS (* Denotes graduate student) Earl Wright II. “The History of Sociology in the United States” Earl Wright II and *Anthony J. Stone, Jr. “Black Power and Black Sociologists” HONORS and AWARDS 2019 Fellow of the Graduate School, Graduate School, University of Cincinnati, April 2019. The Fellows of The Graduate School recognizes distinguished researchers and scholars from throughout the University of Cincinnati.