Dr. Matthew Ward
Associate Professor
Bio
Matthew Ward is an Associate Professor of Sociology. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Arizona and a B.A. in Sociology and Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His past and current research lies at the intersection of race and ethnicity, social control, and social movements. He is currently investigating the enduring influence of slavery and free African American communities on modern social control practices, notably policing and incarceration. This work uses quantitative methods and draws heavily on Southern and Northeastern antebellum history. His publications can be found in outlets such as Social Forces, Social Problems, and Sociology of Race & Ethnicity.
Find my papers here: 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
- Slavery's Legacy of White Carceral Advantage in the South, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 2024, https://doi.org/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
- Seeing Beyond Black and White to Understand Anti-Latinx Crimes of Bias, Latino Studies (Accepted),
- 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, 2022, 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, https://doi.org/10.1177/0731121416655994
- Rethinking Social Movement Micromobilization: Multi-Stage Theory and the Role of Social Ties, Current Sociology, 2016, https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392116634818
- 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
- Mobilizing 'Minutemen': Predicting Public Support for Anti-Immigration Activism in the United States, Sociological Research Online, 2013, https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.3141
- American Sociological Association
- Southern Sociological Society
- American Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
- Social Science History Association