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
