George Weddington
Assistant Professor
Education:
Ph.D, Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, 2022
Research Interests:
Race & Ethnicity, Organizational Sociology, Social MovementsResearch Statement:
My research interests focus on struggles for racial justice and racial domination in the United States in the 20th and 21st century. I use historical sociological methods to uncover processes of mobilization and counter-mobilization in Black social movements. My current research project attempts to uncover early 20th century strategies and ideologies undergirding the NAACP’s efforts to end lynching and racial violence and to uncover archival questions that unsettle contemporary theories around social movement emergence.
Recent/Select Publications:
Weddington, George. “Racial Change and Black Movement Emergence: A Case from the Black Lives Movement." Mobilization: An International Quarterly 26, no. 4 (2021): 443-455.
Murphy, Michael Warren, George Weddington, and A. J. Rio-Glick. "Black ecology and critical environmental justice." Environmental Justice 14, no. 6 (2021): 393-397.
Weddington, George. "Political ontology and race research: A response to “critical race theory, afro-pessimism, and racial progress narratives”." Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 5, no. 2 (2019): 278-288.
