Guest lecture by Dr. Deborah Warnock as part of the BMBF-funded BiFam research project at the Department of Social Sciences.

Dr. Deborah Warnock is the director of the McNair Scholarship Program at VTSU Castleton. She holds a Ph.D. and a master’s degree in sociology from the University of Washington, as well as a bachelor’s degree in psychology and German studies from Vassar College. Before joining VTSU, Dr. Warnock was director of the Educational Opportunity Program at SUNY Schenectady. She has also served as an instructor in sociology at Bennington College, SUNY Cortland, and Skidmore College. Dr. Warnock takes pride in supporting first-generation students and students from low-income backgrounds, as she herself comes from a similar background.

In this lecture, Deborah Warnock will provide an overview of her research on first-generation and working-class scholars. She will elaborate on her work regarding emerging themes in the autoethnographic literature on working-class scholars and explain how these themes have (or have not) evolved over time.
She will also discuss the work of the American Sociological Association’s Task Force on First-Generation and Working-Class Academics in Sociology, which she co-founded. Additionally, she will present findings from our mixed-methods study and explain the extent to which social class influences mobility, success, and belonging within the professorial ranks.
Finally, she will address the visibility of social class within the academic world.

No registration is required.