Wanda Rushing is Associate Professor of Sociology. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee in 1998. Her primary research interests include the political economy of development, racial and social inequality, and globalization in the American South.  She is the author of a new book,Memphis and the Paradox of Place: Globalization in the American South, published in 2009 by The University of North Carolina Press. ( http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=1634)

Dr. Rushing has served as the Director of Women's and Gender Studies since 2007.  She is a faculty affiliate with the Center for Research on Women.  Dr. Rushing was selected as a faculty fellow in the 2004-2005 Technology Fellowship Program sponsored by the Advanced Learning Center at the University of Memphis. In 2006, she received the Alma Bucovaz Award for urban service and research.

Dr. Rushing has published articles on the Cold War and racial politics, empowerment zones and enterprise communities, gender and education, and leisure and social capital.  She teaches courses on Cities in Change, Racial Inequality, Globalization and Social Change, and Sociological Theory. She was Associate Editor of The Journal of Oromo Studies, an African Studies Journal, 1996-2000, and now serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Poverty.

For additional information see http://wandarushing.com

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