Delores Aldridge

Professor,Grace Towns Hamilton Professor of Sociology and African American Studies
Department of Sociology
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322

Telephone: 404-727-0534
FAX: 404-727-0534
E-MAIL: daldri2@emory.edu

OFFICE: 228 Tarbutton Hall

Curriculum Vitae (PDF format)

Degree: Ph.D., Purdue University, 1971

General Research Area: Grace Towns Hamilton Professor of Sociology and African American Studies; African American culture, intergroup relations, race, gender, families, stratification. A past president of national organizations on four separate occasions and one of the leading

Current Research: Africana theory, black male-female relations; women in the labor market; cultural democracy and engendering in higher education.

Selected Publications: Africana Theory: Philosophical Perspectives and Theoretical Paradigms, forthcoming , Washington State University Press, 2007; "Race, Gender, and Africana Theorizing," Africana Studies: A Review of Social Science Research, 2006; "African American Women Since the Second World War: Perspectives on Gender and Race," A Companion to African American History, Blackwell Publishing, 2005; Out of the Revolution: The Development of Africana Studies, (Co-Editor) Lexington Books, 2000; Focusing: Black Male-Female Relationships, Third World Press, 1995; "On Matters of Race and Culture," Sociological Focus, 2001; "Black Women and the New World Order: Toward a Fit in the Economic Marketplace," in Latinas and African American Women at Work, 1999.