Stephen C. Poulson

Stephen C. Poulson was born in Chattanooga, TN but spent much of his early childhood in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia and later in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He attended James Madison University (BS Political Science), Florida State University (MA International Affairs) and Virginia Tech (PhD in Sociology). He is currently a Professor of Sociology at James Madison University where he studies social movements and social violence during civil conflict. He has also written about the sociology of lifestyle sport, particularly mountain biking and triathlon. Most recently he completed "Racism on Campus: A Visual History of Prominent Virginia Colleges and Howard University" which will be published by Routledge Press in September 2021. The study uses material from institutional yearbooks as visual evidence of past structural racism at prominent Virginia colleges.

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