Regina Werum

Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322

Telephone: 404-727-7514
FAX: 404-727-7514
E-MAIL: rwerum@emory.edu

OFFICE: 204 Tarbutton Hall

Curriculum Vitae (PDF format)

Degree: Ph.D., Indiana University, 1995

General Research Area: race and gender stratification in education, comparative international educational inequality, social movements.

Current Research: race and gender stratification in vocational education; comparative international educational inequality; gay rights mobilization.

Selected Publications:

Simon Cheng, Leslie Martin, and Regina Werum. Forthcoming (2007). "Adult Social Capital and Track Placement of Ethnic Groups in Germany." American Journal of Education.

Werum, Regina and Lauren Rauscher. 2006. "How Status Competition Complicates Institutional Explanations of Higher Educational Expansion: A Caribbean Case Study." Pp. 239-280 in Alexander Wiseman and David P. Baker (eds.). The Impact of Comparative Education Research on Institutional Theory. New York: Elsevier Press.

Werum, Regina and Bill Winders. 2001. "Who's 'In' and Who's 'Out': State Fragmentation and the Struggle Over Gay Rights, 1974-1999." Social Problems 48:3:386-410.

Selected Courses

• SOC 521: Graduate seminar on Social Movements
• SOC 517: Graduate seminar on Race and Ethnic Relations
• SOC 516: Graduate seminar on Schooling and Society
• SOC 247: Undergraduate course on Race and Ethnic Relations
• SOC 225: Undergraduate course on Sex and Gender