Dr. Matthew Ward
Professor
Bio
I am a Professor of Sociology with a Ph.D. from the Univ. of Arizona and a B.A. in Sociology and Political Science from UNC-Chapel Hill. My research sits at the intersection of race and ethnicity, social control, and social movements. My recent work examines how early systems of racial exploitation endure, how they are resisted, and how their consequences continue to shape American society. With Dr. Karen Kozlowski, I am currently studying the long-term impact of slavery on Southern education. This work is supported by USM’s Aubrey Keith Lucas and Ella Ginn Lucas Endowment for Faculty Excellence and a Visiting Scholar Fellowship from Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition. Recent publications appear in Social Forces, Social Problems, and Sociology of Race & Ethnicity.
https://southernmiss.academia.edu/MatthewWard
- PHD - University of Arizona (2013)
SSGS 401 - Data Analysis and Statistics in the Social Sciences
SOC 428 - Sociological Theory and Senior Capstone
SOC 101 - Understanding Society: Introduction to Sociology
SOC 355 - Social Movements and Collective Behavior
- Seeing Beyond Black and White to Understand Anti-Latinx Crimes of Bias, Latino Studies, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-024-00456-4
- Slavery’s Legacy of White Carceral Advantage in the South, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 2024, 10.1177/23326492231207009
- Legacies of Resistance and Resilience: Antebellum Free African Americans and Contemporary Minority Social Control in the Northeast, Social Forces, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soad062
- The Legacy of Slavery and Contemporary Racial Disparities in Arrest Rates, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 2022, 10.1177/23326492221082066
- Enduring Consequences of Dehumanizing Institutions: Slavery and Contemporary Minority Social Control in the U.S. Northeast and South, Social Problems, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spac021
- Agency and Resilience along the Arizona- Sonora Border: How Unauthorized Migrants Become Aware of and Resist Contemporary U.S. Nativist Mobilization, Social Problems, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spx028
- Opportunity, Resources, and Threat: Explaining Local Nativist Organizing in the United States, Sociological Perspectives, 2017, 10.1177/0731121416655994
- Rethinking social movement micromobilization: Multi-stage theory and the role of social ties, Current Sociology, 2016, 10.1177/0011392116634818
- Know Your Enemy: How Unauthorized Repatriated Migrants Learn About and Perceive Anti-immigrant Mobilization in the United States, Migration Letters, 2015, https://migrationletters.com/index.php/ml/article/view/248
- They Say Bad Things Come in Threes: How Economic, Political and Cultural Shifts Facilitated Contemporary Anti-Immigration Activism in the United States, Journal of Historical Sociology, 2014, https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12024
- American Sociological Association
- Southern Sociological Society
- American Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
- Social Science History Association