Dr. Earl Wright II
Professor * Public Intellectual * Social Justice Activist
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EARL WRIGHT II
Department of Africana Studies
University of Cincinnati
3612 French Hall
(513) 556-3933 Telephone
(859) 356-0747 Fax
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
September 2010 Associate Professor
to Present Department of Africana Studies
University of Cincinnati
September 2006 - Chairperson and Associate Professor
August 2010 Department of Sociology
Texas Southern University
January 2005 - Associate Professor
August 2006 Department of Sociology
Fisk University
August 2000 - Assistant Professor,
December 2004 Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Central Florida
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Nebraska,Sociology, Lincoln, Nebraska, August, 2000. Dissertation: Atlanta University and American Sociology, 1896-1917: An Earnest Desire for the Truth Despite Its Possible Unpleasantness
M.A., University of Memphis,Sociology, Memphis, Tennessee, May, 1997. Thesis: More Than Just A Haircut: An Ethnographic Study of an Urban African American Barbershop
B.A., University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, August, 1994. Major: History, Minor: Black Studies
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Research: Teaching:
Historical Sociology Qualitative Research Methods
Race and Ethnicity Race, Class, and Gender
Urban Sociology Sex/Gender
Courses Taught:
Afrocentric Studies (Graduate); Black Experiences; Introduction to Ethnic Studies; Introduction to Sociology; Nationality and Race Relations; Practicum/Internship (Graduate & Undergraduate); Qualitative Research Methods (Graduate); Race and Ethnic Minorities in the United States; Race and Ethnicity (Graduate); Race, Class, and Gender (Graduate); Social Problems; Sociological Theory; Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois; Urban Sociology (Graduate & Undergraduate); and Women in Contemporary Society
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS (click link to view articles)
Gordon, Jr, Clarence L., Andonnia Maiben and Earl Wright II. 2010. “The Damnation of Hip Hop: A Critique of Hip Hop Through the Lens of W. E. B. Du Bois” International Journal of Africana Studies 16(1): 62-76.
Wright II, Earl. 2010. "The Tradition of Sociology at Fisk University" Journal of African American Studies 14(1): 44-60.
Wright II, Earl. 2009. “Beyond W. E. B. Du Bois: A Note on Some of the Lesser Known Members of the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory” Sociological Spectrum 29(6): 700-717.
Wright II, Earl. 2008. “Deferred Legacy!: The Continued Marginalization of the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory” Sociology Compass 2(1): 195-207.
Wright II, Earl and Thomas C. Calhoun. 2006. “Jim Crow Sociology: Toward An Understanding of the Origin and Principles of Black Sociology Via the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory” Sociological Focus 39(1):1-18.
Wright II, Earl. 2006. “W. E. B. Du Bois and the Atlanta University Studies on the Negro, Revisited.” Journal of African American Studies 9(4): 3-17.
REPRINT - Wright II, Earl. 2010. “W. E. B. Du Bois and the Atlanta University Studies on the Negro, Revisited.” Pp. 75-89 in W. E. B. Du Bois, edited by Reiland Rabaka. Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishers.
Wright II, Earl. 2005. “W. E. B. Du Bois and the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory.” Sociation Today - The Official Journal of The North Carolina Sociological Association: A Refereed Web-Based Publication, Volume 3(1) http://www.ncsociology.org/sociationtoday/v31/outline5.htm
REPRINT - Wright II, Earl. 2010. “W. E. B. Du Bois and the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory.” Pp. 93-100 in W. E. B. Du Bois by Reiland Rabaka. Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishers.
Wright II, Earl. 2002. “The Atlanta Sociological Laboratory, 1896-1924: A Historical Account of the First American School of Sociology.” Western Journal of Black Studies 26(3):165-174.
Battle, Juan and Earl Wright II. 2002. “W. E. B. Du Bois’s Talented Tenth: A Quantitative Assessment.” Journal of Black Studies 32(6):654-672.
Wright II, Earl. 2002. “Why Black People Tend To Shout!: An Earnest Attempt To Explain the Sociological Negation of the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory Despite Its Possible Unpleasantness.” Sociological Spectrum 22(3):325-361.
Wright II, Earl. 2002. “Using The Master’s Tools: Atlanta University and American Sociology, 1896-1924.” Sociological Spectrum 22(1):15-39.
Wright II, Earl and Thomas C. Calhoun. 2001. “From the Common Thug to the Local Businessman: An Exploration into an Urban African American Barbershop.” Deviant Behavior 22(3): 267-288.
Stephens, Ronald J. and Earl Wright II. 2000. “Beyond Bitches, Niggers, and Ho’s: Some Suggestions for Including Rap Music as a Qualitative Data Source.” Race and Society 3(1):23-40.
Parker, Keith D., Earl Wright II, and Jennifer Wingren. 1999. “Fear of Crime Among African American Males in Two American Cities: A Multivariate Analysis.” Challenge: A Journal of Research on African American Men 10:51-60.
Wright II, Earl. 1998. “More Than Just a Haircut: Sociability Within the Urban African American Barbershop.” Challenge: A Journal of Research on African American Men 9:1-13.
GRANT
Wright II, Earl. “Uncovering the Origins of Black Sociology: Atlanta, Tuskegee, Fisk & Howard,” Office of Enhanced Research, Texas Southern University, January 2008 ($15,544.01 Funded)
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Wright II, Earl. 2010. “W. E. B. Du Bois.” Encyclopedia of African American Education. New York: SAGE Publications. (15 manuscript pages)
Wright II, Earl. 2007. “American Sociology.” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition. New York: McMillan Pres. (5 manuscript pages)
Wright II, Earl. 2007. “The Color Line.” Blackwell Publishers. Pp. 604-605 in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Volume II, edited by George Ritzer, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Wright II, Earl. 2010. “Atlanta: Birthplace of American Sociology,” Footnotes, American Sociological Association.
Wright II, Earl and Jean Shin. 2009. “History of the Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award,” Footnotes, American Sociological Association.
Wright II, Earl. 1997. “A Tale from the ‘Hood.” A book review of William Julius Wilson’s When Work Disappears: The New World of the New Urban Poor. In Center News, The Center for Research on Women, University of Memphis , Volume 15, Number 2.
WORK(S) UNDER REVIEW
Earl Wright II. “W. E. B. Du Bois, Howard W. Odum and Sociology of the South”
Earl Wright II. “Why, Where and How to Infuse the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory Into the Sociology Curriculum”
Sandra L. Barnes, Zandria F. Robinson and Earl Wright II. Re-Positioning Race: Prophetic Research in a Post-Racial Obama Age
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Earl Wright II. W. E. B. Du Bois and the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory, 1895-1920
MANUSCRIPT REVIEWER FOR
The Historian (2007); Challenge: A Journal of Research on African American Men (2007); Sociology Compass (2007); Sociological Quarterly (2007); Sociological Spectrum (2007 & 2003); Sociological Perspectives (2006); American Sociological Review (2005); Sociological Inquiry (2005 & 2004); Race & Society (2004); Social Forces (2004); Journal of Social Science Research (2004); and Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (2004 & 2003)
Member of Editorial Boards:
1) Challenge: A Journal of Research on African American Men (2005 – Present)
2) Journal of African American Studies (2005 – Present)
3) Sociology Compass (2006 – Present)
