Sociology Department, University of Georgia

Dr. E. M. Beck

(Curriculum Vitae) Dr. E. M. Beck, Professor of Sociology, is a Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor. He has been at the University of Georgia since 1976 and received a Ph.D.in Sociology from the University of Tennessee in 1972. His specialty areas include race discrimination and racial violence, poverty and inequality; sociology of labor markets, industrial sociology; qualitative methods and statistics, simultaneous equations models bayesian estimation and inference. Dr. Beck's current research involves the relationship between social and economic inequalities and violence toward blacks in the American South.

Selected Honors, Awards, and Grants

2006. Distinguished Lectureship Award, Southern Sociological Society.

2005. Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Georgia.

1999. Recipient of the William A. Owens Creative Research Award, University of Georgia.

1996. Winner of the Mid-South Sociological Association's Best Book Award for A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882-1930.

1992. Winner of the Social Science History Association President's Book Award for A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882-1930.

Selected Publications

Beck, E. M. and Timothy Clark. 2002. "Strangers, Community Miscreants, or Locals: Who Were the Black Victims of Mob Violence?" Historical Methods:1-6.

Tolnay, Stewart Emory and E. M. Beck. 1995. A festival of violence : an analysis of Southern lynchings, 1882-1930. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Beck, E. M. and Stewart Emory Tolnay. 1990. "The Killing Fields of the Deep South: The Market for Competition and the Lynching of Blacks, 1882-1930." American Sociological Review:526-539.

Tolbert, Charles, Patric Horan, and E. M. Beck. 1980. "The Structure of Economic Segmentation: A Dual Economy Approach." American Journal of Sociology 85.

Beck, E. M., Patrick Horan, and Charles Tolbert. 1978. "Stratification in a Dual Economy: A Sectoral Model of Earning Determination." American Sociological Review 43:704-720.

Contact Information

Department of Sociology
217B Baldwin Hall
Athens, GA 30602-1611
706-542-3193 (office)
706-542-4320 (fax)
wbeck@uga.edu

 

University of Georgia Department of Sociology

Location:

113 Baldwin Hall Athens, GA 30602-1611

Phone:

706 542 2421

Fax:

706 542 4320

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