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Wilma A. Dunaway | |
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| Born | July 1, 1944 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Tennessee |
| Occupation | Educator |
Wilma A. Dunaway (born July 1, 1944) is Professor of Sociology in the Government and International Affairs Program at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (also called Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, Virginia.
Dunaway earned her bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tennessee. [1] [2] She received a fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation to complete her dissertation about the integration of antebellum Appalachia into global capitalism.
Since 1999, she taught as an associate professor at Virginia Tech. [1] She was named a "professor emerita" in 2015. [1]
Dunaway's research interests include international political economy, world-systems analysis, racial, and ethnic conflict, comparative slavery studies, Native American studies, Appalachian Studies, radical feminist perspectives on women’s work, and qualitative research methodologies. [1] [3]
According to Virginia Tech's 2005 announcement of the Joseph Campbell prize, Dunaway's academic accomplishments were summarized:
She is a widely recognized scholar of African-American slavery, Appalachian studies, and world-systems analysis. Her research focuses on eliminating historical silences about people who have been peripheralized by race, class, or gender. She teaches graduate courses on comparative social movements, development and global change, gender and development, and international political economy. [2]
Dunaway published four revisionist monographs about pre-Civil War Appalachia, and that work has been recognized through two Weatherford Awards (1996, 2003) for her work about Southern Appalachia. [4] In addition, she has edited two books that offer revisions and extensions of world-systems analysis.[ citation needed ]
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