Wanda Rushing
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Wanda Rushing
Professor Emerita, Department of Sociology, The University of Memphis
Dr. Wanda Rushing received her doctoral degree from the University of Tennessee in 1998. Her dissertation, Mediated Inequality: The Role of Governmental, Business, and Scientific Elites in Public Education, was directed by Dr. Asafa Jalata. She served on the sociology faculty at the University of Memphis, where she was named Dunavant University Professor and is now Professor Emerita. In 2016, she was elected and served as President of Sociologists for Women in Society. The author of Memphis and the Paradox of Place (University of North Carolina Press), she received the UTK College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Research award in 2010 and sits on the Dean’s Advisory Board.
Education
Ph.D. 1998 University of Tennessee – Knoxville.
Interest Area
Urban Sociology, Racial Inequality, Women in the South, Globalization and Social Change, and Sociological Theory
Publications
Books
Published by the University of North Carolina Press, 2009The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 15: Urbanization, edited by Wanda Rushing
Published by the University of North Carolina Press, 2010
Articles (selected)
Rushing, Wanda. 2019. “Sunbelt.” The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies, edited by Anthony M. Orum.
Rushing, Wanda. 2019. Review of “Race, Place, and Memory: Deep Currents in Wilmington, North Carolina. By Margaret M. Mulrooney.” The Journal of American History, (March): pp. 1050-1051.
Rushing, Wanda. 2018. “Viewpoints: Setting the Record Straight on Confederate Monuments.” Contexts, Vol. 18, Issue 1, pp.18-20.
Rushing, Wanda. 2017. “No Place for a Feminist: Intersectionality and the Problem South.” Gender & Society 31:3:293-309.
Rushing, Wanda. 2017. “School Segregation and its Discontents:Chaos and Community in Post-Civil Rights Memphis.” Urban Education 52:1:3-31.
Smiley, Kevin, Wanda Rushing, and Michele Scott. 2016. “Behind a Bicycling Boom: Governance, Cultural Change and Place Character in Memphis, Tennessee.” Urban Studies 53:1:193-209.
Book Chapters
Rushing, Wanda. 2016. “Region.” Keywords for Southern Studies, eds. Jennifer Rae Greeson and Scott Romine (Athens: The University of Georgia Press).Rushing, Wanda. 2014. “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.