Elizabeth Cherry
(Curriculum
Vitae) Elizabeth Cherry joined the graduate program
at the University of Georgia in 2001. She received
her B.A. in Sociology and French at the University
of North Carolina at Wilmington in 1999, and completed
her M.A. in Sociology at the University of Georgia
in 2003. Her areas of specialization are culture
and social movements.
Ms. Cherry is currently completing her dissertation on the animal rights movements in France and the United States. In this ethnographic project, she examines how activists choose their strategies and tactics, and how the cultures within which they work both impede and enable those choices.
Selected Honors, Grants, Awards
2007 - 2008. Dissertation Completion Grant. University of Georgia.
2006 - 2007. Chateaubriand Fellowship, French Embassy of the United States.
2005. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. University of Georgia.
Selected Publications
Cherry, Elizabeth. 2006. Veganism as a Cultural Movement: A Relational Approach. Social Movement Studies 5(2): 155-170.
Cherry, Elizabeth and James M. Jasper. 2007. "Violence Toward Animals." In Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict (Vol. Two), edited by Lester Kurtz. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Contact Information
Department of Sociology
405 Baldwin Hall
Athens, GA 30602-1611
706-542-3227 (office)
706-542-4320 (fax)
lcherry@uga.edu
