Wilma A. Dunaway (born July 1, 1944) is Professor of

Sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...

in the Government and International Affairs Program at

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(also called Virginia Tech),

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Biography

Dunaway earned her bachelor's, master's and Ph.D. degrees from the

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. She received a fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation to complete her dissertation about the integration of

antebellum Antebellum, Latin for "before war", may refer to: United States history * Antebellum South, the pre-American Civil War period in the Southern United States ** Antebellum Georgia ** Antebellum South Carolina ** Antebellum Virginia * Antebellum ar ...

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into global capitalism. Since 1999, she taught as an associate professor at Virginia Tech. She was named a "professor emerita" in 2015. Dunaway's research interests include international political economy, world-systems analysis,

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and

ethnic conflict An ethnic conflict is a conflict between two or more contending ethnic groups. While the source of the conflict may be political, social, economic or religious, the individuals in conflict must expressly fight for their ethnic group's positi ...

, comparative

slavery Slavery and enslavement are both the state and the condition of being a slave—someone forbidden to quit one's service for an enslaver, and who is treated by the enslaver as property. Slavery typically involves slaves being made to perf ...

studies, Native American studies,

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, radical feminist perspectives on women’s work, and

qualitative research Qualitative research is a type of research that aims to gather and analyse non-numerical (descriptive) data in order to gain an understanding of individuals' social reality, including understanding their attitudes, beliefs, and motivation. This ...

methodologies. According to Virginia Tech's 2005 announcement of the Joseph Campbell prize, Dunaway's academic accomplishments were summarized:

She is a widely recognized scholar of African-American slavery, Appalachian studies, and world-systems analysis. Her research focuses on eliminating historical silences about people who have been peripheralized by race, class, or gender. She teaches graduate courses on comparative social movements, development and global change, gender and development, and international political economy.

Dunaway published four revisionist monographs about pre-Civil War Appalachia, and that work has been recognized through two Weatherford Awards (1996, 2003) for her work about Southern Appalachia. In addition, she has edited two books that offer revisions and extensions of

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Awards

* 1996, W. D. Weatherford Award, Appalachian Center,

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, for ''The First American Frontier'' * 2005. The Joseph Campbell Prize in Ethnography,

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. Included honorary doctorate

Selected works

Books

* ''Southern Laboring Women: Race, Class and Gender Conflict in Antebellum Appalachia''. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming. * ''Slavery in the American Mountain South''. Cambridge University Press, 2003. * ''The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation''. Cambridge University Press, 2003. * ''Crises and Resistance in the 21st Century World-System''. Praeger Press, 2003. * ''New Theoretical Directions for the 21st Century World-System''. Praeger Press, 2003. * ''The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860''. University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Articles

* Dunaway, W. A. (2001). The double register of history: Situating the forgotten woman and her household in capitalist commodity chains. ''journal of world-systems research'', 2-29. * Dunaway, W. A. (2014). Bringing Commodity Chain Analysis Back to Its World-Systems Roots: Rediscovering Women s Work and Households. ''Journal of World-Systems Research'', 64-81. * Dunaway, W. A., & Clelland, D. A. (2017). Moving toward theory for the 21st century: The centrality of nonwestern semiperipheries to world ethnic/racial inequality. ''Journal of World-Systems Research'', ''23''(2), 399-464.

References

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