Wilma A. Dunaway
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Wilma A. Dunaway
Professor Emerita of Sociology, Government and International Affairs Program, College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Virginia Tech
Dr. Wilma A. Dunaway received her bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees from the University of Tennessee. Her 1994 dissertation, The Incorporation of Southern Appalachia into the Capitalist Economy, 1700-1860, was directed by Dr. John Gaventa and received the distinguished dissertation award from the American Sociological Association. She was an assistant professor of sociology at Colorado State before moving to Virginia Tech in 1999 where she was a professor of sociology in the government and international affairs program in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies. In 1996, she received the Weatherford Award for her book, The First American Frontier and in 2005 she received the Joseph Campbell Prize in ethnography from Sarah Lawrence College.
Education
Ph.D. 1994 University of Tennessee – Knoxville.
Interest Area
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
Honors
Joseph Campbell Prize in Ethnography (2005)
Weatherford Award (1996)
Publications
Monographs
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Wilma A. Dunaway and M. Cecilia Macabuac. 2022. Where Shrimp Eat Better than People: Globalized Fisheries, Nutritional Unequal Exchange and Asian Hunger. Leiden: Brill, Open Access at https://brill.com/display/title/63262
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Women, Work and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
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The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
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Slavery in the American Mountain South (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
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The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860 (University of North Carolina Press, 1996)
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Why Is the World Polarized? A Survey of Theories of Development before 1990 (Unpublished )
Edited Books
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Gendered Commodity Chains: Seeing Women’s Work and Households in Global Production (Stanford University Press, 2013)
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Crises and Resistance in the 21st Century World-System (Praeger Press 2003)
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New Theoretical Directions for the 21st Century World-System (Praeger Press 2003)