Download NOMINEE`S NAME: Wanda Rushing PRESENT POSITION

NOMINEE’S NAME: Wanda Rushing
PRESENT POSITION: Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Memphis
Director of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of
Memphis
DEGREES: Ph.D., University of Tennessee Knoxville
M.A., University of North Carolina Greensboro
B.A., University of North Carolina Greensboro
THREE REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS:
Rushing, Wanda. 2009. Memphis and the Paradox of Place: Globalization in the
American South. The University of North Carolina Press.
Rushing, Wanda (ed.) Urbanization, Volume 15. The New Encyclopedia of Southern
Culture. The University of North Carolina Press. (forthcoming 2010).
Rushing, Wanda. 2004. “Globalization and the Paradoxes of Place: Poverty and Power
in Memphis.” City and Community:1:65-81.
SSS ACTIVITIES:
Member of SSS since 1981, active member since 1991.
Membership Committee, 1997-1998
Chair, Committee on the Status of Women, 2002-2004
Program Committee, 2006-2007
Presider/Discussant, 2005-2007
Presenter many times
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
I am a member of The American Sociological Association, Sociologists for Women in
Society, and the Southern Historical Association. On campus, I chair the University
Appeals Committee for Judicial and Ethical Affairs. I am a faculty affiliate with the
Center for Research on Women, and I am an affiliate of the Women’s and Gender Studies
program.