Wilma A. Dunaway
Professor Emerita
School of Public & International Affairs
Career Goals & Debates
Academically, I am unusual because I have undertaken both global and regional (Appalachian) research. Peers have viewed me as a maverick because I challenged the established hegemonic viewpoints in areas like Appalachian Studies, Cherokee studies, slavery studies, women's studies and world-systems analysis. I have taken a Braudelian approach to examine "history from the bottom up," prioritizing the search for the voices of "peoples and women without history." I am also an unusual academic in that I had a professional activist career prior to earning my doctorate degree. Though cutting edge, several of my books and articles have received academic awards. For overviews, see:
"My Journey: Appalachia, Civil Rights Activism and Revisionist Scholarship." Distinguished Alumna Award Lecture, University of Tennessee, Department of Sociology, (13 April 2015). Also see news report
“Revisionist with a Cause: Interview with Wilma Dunaway.” Appalachian Journal 31 (Winter/Spring 2004).
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Books Dissertation Appalachian Studies Revisionist View of Cherokee History, 1500-1850
Taking a World Perspective on Race & Ethnicity Revisionist Slavery Research
Decentering Theory about Women & Their Households
Book: Survey of Development Theories World-Systems Analysis & Global Inequality
Social Movements & Resistance Environmental History
Presentations & Lectures Research Methodologies
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Monographs
Wilma A. Dunaway and M. Cecilia Macabuac. 2022. Where Shrimp Eat Better than People: Globalized Fisheries, Nutritional Unequal Exchange and Asian Hunger. Leiden: Brill, Open Access at https://brill.com/display/title/63262
Women, Work and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Slavery in the American Mountain South (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860 (University of North Carolina Press, 1996)
Unpublished Why Is the World Polarized? A Survey of Theories of Development before 1990
Edited Books
Gendered Commodity Chains: Seeing Women's Work and Households in Global Production (Stanford University Press, 2013)
Crises and Resistance in the 21st Century World-System (Praeger Press 2003)
New Theoretical Directions for the 21st Century World-System (Praeger Press 2003)
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