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Dr. Earl Smith
Emeritus
Rubin Professor of American Ethnic Studies and Sociology
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC 27109
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Education
Ph D, University of Connecticut, 1984
Major: Social Anthropology/Sociology
Dissertation Title: Evolution of Nairobi, Kenya
Professional Positions
(Emeritus): Rubin Distinguished Professor and Director, American Ethnic Studies, WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY (August 1996)
Professor of Sociology, WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY (August 1996 )
Past positions held by Dr. Smith:
1.Chairman, Department of Sociology, Wake Forest University (1997-2005)
(Graduate Faculty, Wake Forest University 1997-2011)
2. Dean, Division of Social Sciences, Pacific Lutheran University (1994-1996)
3. Chairman, Department of Sociology, Pacific Lutheran University (1992-1994)
4. Professor of Sociology, Pacific Lutheran University (with tenure) (1992-1996)
5. Chairman, Department of Comparative American Cultures, Washington State University
(1988-1992)
6. Assistant to Full Professor of Sociology, Washington State University (tenured 1987)
7. Graduate Faculty, Washington State University (1984-1992)
Military
United States Air Force. (August 1964 - September 1968).
HONORS AND AWARDS:
2015Invited Keynote Address. University of South Carolina, College Sport Research
Institute – TITLE: “Conference Realignment and African American Female Student Athletes”
2015. Invited Keynote Address. El Pueblo History Museum
Pueblo, Colorado TITLE: “Prison Industrial Complex.” (March)
2010Invited Keynote Address. Northern Michigan State University. Program: Uniting Neighbors in the Experience of Diversity (UNITED). “Diversity in Sports Allows for its Success.” September 13th
2010Invited Keynote Address. Colorado State University @ Pueblo. “Sport and Education: Climbing the Ladder of Success.” October 22nd
2010 Invited Address. Winston-Salem State University. “Race, Wrongful Conviction & Exoneration.” WSSU Undergraduate Research Symposium, February 11, 2010
2008 Outstanding Book Award (Race, Sport and the American Dream), North
American Society for Sociology of Sport
2008-09 Arthur A. Sio Distinguished Professor of Community and Diversity,
COLGATE UNIVERSITY (sabbatical leave)
2007Innovative Teaching Award, for the course Social Stratification in the New/Old South, Teaching and Learning Center, Wake Forest University, February.
2006Recipient of the 1stMartin Luther King Building the Dream Award. Presented by Wake Forest University and Winston-Salem State University @ Martin Luther King Celebration, Winston-Salem, NC.
2004Invited Lecture: 7th Annual Hubert McNeil Poteat Lecture: “The Modern World System: Academics and Athletics in the New Millennium.” March 18th. WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
RESEARCH
Books
Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery. 2016. Gender, Power & Violence.
(Rowman & Littlefield)
Smith, E. and Angela J. Hattery. 2012. African American Families Today: Myths and
Realities (Rowman & Littlefield)
Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery. 2012. The Social Dynamics of Family Violence
(Westview Press)
Smith, E. and Hattery, A.J. 2010. Prisoner Re-entry and Social Capital. Latham, MD:
Lexington Books
Smith, Earl. (ed) 2010. Sociology of Sport and Social Theory. Champagne, Il.: Human
Kinetics.
Smith, Earl. 2014; 2009; 2007. Race, Sport and the American Dream. Durham, NC: Carolina AcademicPress.
Smith, Earl. 2009. Interracial Relationships in the 21st Century. Durham, NC: Carolina
Academic Press. (with Angela J. Hattery)
Smith, Earl. 2009. Interracial Intimacies: An Examination of Powerful Men and Their
Relationships Across the Color Line. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press
(with Angela J. Hattery)
Hattery, A. J., Embrick, D. G., Smith, E. 2008. (Ed.). Globalization and America: Race, Human Rights, and Inequality. Latham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery. 2007 African American Families. Thousand Oaks,
CA: Sage Publishers.
Smith, Earl and Joyce Tang (ed). 1996. Women and Minorities in American Professions.
Albany, New York: SUNY Press.
Book Chapters
Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery. 2015. “Conference Realignment and the Demise of
the Academic Mission.” Pp. 219-230 in Eddie Comeaux (ed), Introduction to
Intercollegiate Athletics. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery. 2013. “Venus and Serena Williams: Traversing the
Barriers of the Country Club World.” Pp. 72-91 in Joel Rosen and David Ogden
(ed), Writing The Female Athlete: Sport, Gender, and the Construction of
Reputation. University Press of Mississippi
Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery. 2013. “Family.” Pp. 149-158 in Brunsma, David, Keri
Smith and Brian Gran (ed)., The Handbook of Sociology and Human Rights.
Boulder, CO.: Paradigm Publishers
Smith, Earl and Angela Hattery, 2012, “Private Prisons and the Growth of Prison
Populations,” Pp. 241-254 Chapter 12 in Price, Bryon and John Charles Morris
(ed), PrisonPrivation: The Many Facets of a Controversial Industry, Volume I:
The Environment of Private Prisons. NY: Praeger
Smith, Earl and Angela Hattery. 2012. “Health, Nutrition, Access to Healthy Food and
Well-Being among African Americans.” Pp. 47-59 in A. Lemelle (ed.), Handbook
of African American Health: Social and Behavioral Interventions. New York: Springer Publications
Earl Smith and Angela J. Hattery. 2011. “College Sports: It’s All About The Money.” Pp.
233-262 in Steven Best and Anthony Nocella (Ed.), The Global Industrial
Complex. Lexington Books.
Smith, Earl. 2010. “Race, Class, and Gender Theory: Violence Against Women in the
Institution of Sport.” Chapter 10 in E. Smith (ed), Sociology of Sport and Social
Theory (Human Kinetics Publishers)
Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery and E. Staurowsky. 2008, “They Play Like Girls:
Gender Equity in NCAA Sports.” The Journal for the Study of Sports and Athletes
in Education, 1(3), 249–272.
Hattery, A. J., Smith, E.(2010). Duke Lacrosse: An Exploration of Race, Class, Power,
and Privilege. Pp.158-173. In Brian Lapman and Sandra Spickard Prettyman
(Ed.), Thinking Critically about Sport. Latham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Hattery, Angela J. and Earl Smith. 2010. W.E.B. Du Bois and 'The Damnation of
Women': an essay on Africana anti-sexist critical social theory, in W.E.B. Du BOIS. Edited by Reiland Rabaka (PP. 275-284). London: Ashgate Press.
Hattery, A. J., Smith, E. 2008. Rights of Prisoners. In Judith Blau, David Brunsma, Alberto Moncada and Catherine Zimmer (Ed.),The Rogue State. (pp. 173-185). New York, NY: Paradigm.
Smith, E., Hattery, A. J. 2008. The Globalization of the U. S. Prison Industrial Complex. In Angela Hattery, David Embrick and Earl Smith (Ed.), Globalization and America: Race, Human Rights, and Inequality. (pp. 247-266). Latham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Smith, E., Hattery, A. J. 2007. Looking Toward the Future---Developing a Shared Community. African American Community: The Dynamics of Race, Class, Gender and Community Sports. In Dana D. Brooks and Ronald Althouse (Ed.) Diversity and Social Justice in College Sports, (pp. 379-405). Morgantown, West Virginia: West Virginia University Press.
Hattery, A. J., Smith, E. 2006. Teaching Public Sociologies. In Judith Blau and Keri Iyall Smith (Ed.) Public Sociologies Reader. (pp. 265-280) Latham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Smith, E., Hattery, A. J. 2006. Athletes, Role-Models and Criminals: What Do We Make of this Tripartite Mess? In Brian Lampman and Sandra Spickard Prettyman (Ed.), Changing the Game: Thinking Critically about Sport. (pp. 214-225). Latham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Smith, Earl. 2004. The African American Student Athlete. In Charles Ross (ed.), Race
and Sport: The Struggle for Equality on and off the Field. (pp. 121-145). Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi.
Smith, Earl. 2000. Incivility and Basketball. In Kenneth Shropshire (ed.), Basketball Jones: America Above the Rim. (pp. 123-150). NY: NYU Press.
GUEST EDITOR
Journal for the Study of Sports and Athletes in Education
Volume 4 Number 2 summer 2010
Also Contributor: “Violence in SportsWorld.” Pp. 5-11.
Refereed Journal Articles
Smith, Earl, Angela J. Hattery and Timothy McGettigan. 2014. “Racism: A Virulent but
Curable Social Disease.”Theory in Action, Vol. 7, No. 3 - July 31, 2014
Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery. (2011). “Race Relations Theories: Implications for Sport Management” Journal of Sport Management, 25 107-117.
Smith, Earl. (2010). “African American Men and the Prison Industrial Complex.” Western Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 34, No. 4, Pp. 387-398.
Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery. (2010). “Race, Wrongful Conviction & Exoneration.” Journal of African American Studies, Vol. 15, No. 1, 74-94.
Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery.(2010). “Cultural Contradictions in the South.”
Mississippi Quarterly Vol 63 (2): 145-166.
Smith, E. (2008). African American Men and Intimate Partner Violence. Journal of African American Studies, 12(2), 156-179.
Hattery, A. J., Smith, E. (2008). A Tool for Racial Segregation and Labor Exploitation.Race, Gender and Class 15(2):79-97.
Hattery, A. J., Smith, E., Staurowsky, E. (2008). They Play Like Girls:Gender Equity in NCAA Sports.The Journal for the Study of Sports and Athletes in Education, 1(3), 249–272.
Smith, E., Hattery, A. J. (2007). If We Build It They Will Come: The Relationship Between Private Prisons, Incarceration Rates, and Prison Industries in the US. Societies Without Borders, 2(2), 276-92.
Hattery, A. J., Smith, E. (2007). On Violence Against Women: Exchange with Richard Felson. Contexts, 6(1), 5-6.
Hattery, A. J., Smith, E. (2007). Social Stratification in the New/Old South: The Influences of Racial Segregation on Social Class in the Deep South. Journal of Poverty Research 11(1), 55-81.
Smith, E., Hattery, A. J. (2006). Hey Stud: Race, Sex, and Sports. Journal of Sexuality and Culture, 10(2): 3-32.
Smith, Earl. (2004).The End of the Reign: Department Chair No More. In Walter
Gmelch and John Schuh (ed.), The LifeCycle of a Department Chair.
(pp. 85-92). New Directions for Higher Education, NO. 126. Jossey-Bass Publishers.
Book Reviews
2015CHOICE book review: Harkness, Geoffrey. Chicago hustle and flow: gangs,
gangsta rap, and social class. Minnesota
2013 CHOICE book review: Dyck, Noel. Fields of play: ethnography of
children's sports. University of Toronto Press
2011CHOICE book review: George Sage. Globalizing sport: how organizations, corporations, media, and politics are changing sports. Paradigm Publishers.
2010Smith, Earl. Review of The New Plantation: Black Athletes, College Sports,
and Predominantly White NCAA Institutions. By Billy Hawkins. Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics, 2010, 3, iv-vi iv,
2010CHOICE book review: Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New Press.
2009CHOICE book review: Richard Alba. Blurring the Color Line: The New Chance for a More Integrated America. Harvard University Press.
2009CHOICE book review: David Ward. Alcatraz: the gangster years. Gene Kassebaum. University of California Press.
2009Taliaferro: Breaking Barriers from the NFL Draft to the Ivory Tower
Indiana Magazine of History, VOL. 104, No. 4, pp. 306-307.
2008CHOICE book review: Saito, Leland T. The politics of exclusion: the failure of race-neutral policies in urban America.
Miscellaneous
Guest Editor: Sociation Today, Special issue on Social Capital, Spring 2011
Hattery, A. J., Smith, E. (2008). Dred Scott, White Supremacy and African American Civil Rights In William A. Darity (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences(pp. 445-447). Farmington Hill, MI: Thomson Gale, Inc.
Smith, E., Hattery, A. J. (2007). Violence in Extreme Sports. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Company.
Smith, E., Hattery, A. J. (2006). “The Prison Industrial Complex.”Sociation Today, 4(2).
Hattery, A. J., Smith, E. (2005). William Edward Burghardt Du Bois and the Concepts of Race, Class and Gender. Sociation Today, 3 (1).
Smith, E., Hattery, A. J. (2005). Commercialization in Sports In David Levinson and Karen Christensen (Ed.), (pp. 347-351). Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Company.
Smith, E., Hattery, A. J. (2004). Home Grown Poverty. Sociologists without Borders. sociologistswithoutborders.org
Hattery, A. J., Smith, E. (2005). Violence in Sports. In David Levinson and Karen Christensen (Ed.), (pp. 1670-1676). Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Company.
Presentations Given (Selected)
Smith, Earl. 2013. “Race, Gender and Conference Re-Alignment: Unintended Consequences.” University of Scranton, March 11th
Smith, Earl. 2013. “African American Men, Wrongful Convictions, Incarceration and…. Exoneration.” The Ohio State University, February 28th
Smith, Earl, 2012. “Race, Title IX and Intercollegiate Sports.” University of Houston,
April 6, 2012
Smith, Earl. 2012. “Conference Re-Alignment, Title IX & Race.” George Mason
University, Fe, 24th
Smith, Earl. 2012. “Race, Sport & American Dream”, Notre Dame University, February
14th
Smith, Earl. 2011. “Athletic Industrial Complex: Race & Ethnicity”. Northern Illinois University, October
Smith, E., (2010) "Sport and Education: Climbing the Ladder of Success," Native Americans, Sport and Access to the American Dream, Colorado State University, Pueblo, CO, Academic, State, Invited. (October)
Smith, E. (2010), "UNITY Through Sport, The Challenges of the 21st Century," Annual UNITY Conference, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI, Academic, National, Invited. (September).
Mitchell, E., Smith, E. (2010), "Social Stratification in the American South - using technology to enhance service learning," TRI-IT conference, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC, Academic, State, Invited. (March 31).
Smith, Earl. (2009). “The Athletic Industrial Complex.” Symposium on Graduation, Greed and Genetics:Race and Sports. Sponsored by the Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality (RNREI), Duke University Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences. October 29, 2009.
Smith, Earl. (2009). “Race, Wrongful Convictions and Exoneration.” Sio Symposium, Colgate University, April 21.
Smith, E. (Presenter & Author), "African American Men and the Prison Industrial Complex," University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina. (February 11, 2009).
Hattery, A. J. (Presenter & Author), Smith, E. (Presenter & Author), "Pedagogies for teaching about social stratification," Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, Boston, MA. (August 2008).
Smith, E. (Presenter & Author), Hattery, A. J. (Presenter & Author), "African American Men and IPV," Annual Meeting, American Men's Studies Association, Winston-Salem, NC. (April 2008).
Smith, E. (Presenter & Author) Hattery, A. J. (Presenter & Author). "Intimate Partner Violence in inter and intra-racial relationships," Annual Meeting, Southern Women's Studies Association, Charlotte, NC. (April 2008).
Smith, E. (Presenter & Author), Hattery, A. J. (Presenter & Author). "New Developments in the Research on Intimate Partner Violence," R.W. Connel Symposium, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC. (April 2008).
Smith, E. (Presenter & Author), Hattery, A. J. (Presenter & Author). "African American Families and the Impact of Incarceration," Social Science Division Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC. (March 2008).
Smith, E. (Presenter & Author), Hattery, A. J. (Presenter & Author), "African American Families and the Impact of Incarceration," Annual Meeting, Southern Sociological Society, Richmond, VA. (March 2008).
Smith, E. (Presenter & Author), Hattery, A. J. (Presenter & Author). "Intimate Partner Violence in interracial and intraracial relationships," Annual Meeting, Southern Sociological Society, Richmond, VA. (March 2008).
Smith, E. (Presenter & Author), Hattery, A. J. (Presenter & Author). "African American Men and Incarceration: Collateral Damage," Sociology Department, UNC-Charlotte, Charlotte, NC. (February 2008).
Smith, E. (Presenter & Author), Hattery, A. J. (Presenter & Author). Black History Month Speaker Series, "Social Stratification in the DEEP SOUTH," Kilpatrick Stockton Law Firm, Winston-Salem, NC. (February 2008).
Smith, E. (Presenter & Author), Hattery, A. J. (Presenter & Author). "Burning Issues Facing African American Families Today," Sociology and Anthropology, Women's Studies, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY. (November 2007).
Smith, E. (Presenter & Author), Hattery, A. J. (Presenter & Author). "Violence in Interracial Relationships: A Race, Class & Gender Analysis," Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, New York, NY. (August 2007).
Hattery, A. J. (Presenter & Author), Smith, E. (Presenter & Author), "Interracial IPV," Psychology Department, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC. (April 2007).
Smith, E. (Presenter & Author), Hattery, A. J. (Presenter & Author. "Soldiering for Citizenship," Symposium on Citizenship,Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC. (April 2007).
Smith, E. (Presenter & Author), Hattery, A. J. (Presenter & Author), "African American Elite in Atlanta," Annual Meeting, Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, GA. (March 2007).
Smith, E. (Presenter & Author), Hattery, A. J. (Presenter & Author). "Race, Class, and Gender: Violence in Interracial Relationships," Annual Meeting, Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, PA. (March 2007).
Hattery, A. J. (Presenter & Author), Smith, E. (Presenter & Author), "They Play Like Girls: Title IX and College Sports," Girls & Women Rock: Celebrating 35 Years of Sport & Title IX Conference, Cleveland, OH. (March 2007).
Smith, E. (Presenter & Author), Hattery, A. J. (Presenter & Author). "African American Families: Issues of Health, Wealth, and Violence," Keynote Address, Sociology Department, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA. (September 2006).
Smith, E. (Presenter & Author), Hattery, A. J. (Presenter & Author). "Sexual Abuse and Pathways to Intimate Partner Violence for African American and White Women," Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, Montreal, QB. (August 2006).
Hattery, A. J., Smith, E., "Wealth, Class & Contemporary African American Civil Society," Babcock School of Management, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC. (June 2006).
Smith, E. (Presenter & Author), Hattery, A. J. (Presenter & Author). Annual Meeting, "African American Male Student Athletes: Overrepresentation at Division 1A Colleges and Universities and in Deviant and Criminal Behavior," The Drake Group, Indianapolis, IN. (March 2006).
Hattery, A. J. (Presenter & Author), Smith, E. (Presenter & Author), "The Racialization of American Prisons: The Prison Industrial," Annual Meeting, North Carolina Sociological Association, Durham, NC. (February 2006).
Smith, E. (Presenter & Author), Hattery, A. J. (Presenter & Author). “From Georgia to Guantanamo:, "African American Civil Society & The Prison Industrial," Conference on Race, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity – University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill, NC. (February 2006).
Hattery, A. J. (Presenter & Author), Smith, E. (Presenter & Author), "Dirty Little Secret: Intimate Partner violence in African American Civil Society," Annual Meeting, North Carolina Library Association, Winston-Salem, NC. (September 2005).
Smith, E. (Presenter & Author),Hattery, A. J. (Presenter & Author). "The Dirty Little Secret, IPV among African American men and women.," Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA. (August 2005).
Hattery, A. J. (Presenter & Author), Smith, E. (Presenter & Author), "Social Stratification in the New/Old South: The Influences of Racial Segregation on Social Class in the Deep South," Annual Meeting, Southern Sociological Society, Charlotte, NC. (April 2005).
Smith, E. (Presenter & Author), Hattery, A. J. (Presenter & Author). "OVERREPRESENTATION of AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENT ATHLETES in DIVISION 1A SPORT PROGRAMS: Route to Success or a System of Cordoning Off?" From Jack Johnson to Marion Jones, Sport Conference, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY. (January 2005).
Hattery, A. J. (Presenter & Author), Smith, E. (Presenter & Author), "Dirty Little Secret: Intimate Partner Violence in the African American Community," Midwinter Meeting, Sociologists for Women in Society, Miami, FL. (January 2005).
Smith, E. (Presenter & Author),Hattery, A. J. (Presenter & Author). "Cultural Contradictions in the Southern Mode of Segregation: Black Tits, White only Water Fountains, Bad Blood, and the Transmission of Semen," Annual Meeting, Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, GA. (April 2004).
Smith, E. (Presenter & Author), Hattery, A. J. (Presenter & Author). "Intimate Partner Violence in the African American Community: A Race-Class-Gender Approach," Bi-Annual Meeting, Trapped by Poverty, Trapped by Violence, Austin, TX. (October 2003).