5/5/09 May awarded Fellowship at Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute

Reuben A. Buford May

• Reuben A. Buford May, associate professor of sociology, was awarded a fellowship at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University for the fall 2009.
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• The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, at Harvard University, is the nation’s oldest research center dedicated to the study of the history, culture, and social institutions of Africans and African Americans.

May awarded Fellowship at Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute

Reuben A. Buford May, associate professor of sociology, was awarded a fellowship at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. May will be in residence at Harvard University for the fall 2009 semester for his project "Race, Class, Culture and Urban Social Space.”

The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, at Harvard University, is the nation’s oldest research center dedicated to the study of the history, culture, and social institutions of Africans and African Americans. The Institute awards up to 20 fellowships annually in a wide variety of fields related to African and African American Studies. The Du Bois Institute’s Fellows Program allows scholars to pursue their research while interacting with other visiting scholars at Harvard.

May received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and his research interests include sociology of sport, race and culture, and urban ethnography. His recent publications include, Talking at Trena’s: Everyday Conversations at an African American Tavern (New York University Press, 2001) and Living Through the Hoop: High School Basketball, Race, and the American Dream (New York University Press, 2008) which was a co-winner of the 2008, Book of the Year Award, from the Association for Humanist Sociology. May is currently working on a book-length manuscript that uses the case of the downtown party scene in Athens, Georgia to examine how race and culture influence interactional dynamics across categories of space users.

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