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Dr. Marlese Durr appointed to the ASA's Editorial Board of Contemporary Sociology
Dr. Marlese Durr has been appointed to a 2 year term from January 2018 - 2020 to serve on the ASA's Editorial Board of Contemporary Sociology Contemporary Sociology publishes reviews and critical discussions of recent works in sociology and in related disciplines that merit the attention of
Originally founded as a branch campus of The Ohio State University and Miami University, Wright State became an independent institution in 1967.

In November 1995, the eyes of the world came to Wright State University’s backyard. U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher and chief envoy Richard Holbrooke brought the leaders of Serbia (Slobodan Milosevic), Croatia (Franjo Tudjman), and Bosnia and Herzegovina (Alija …

Sheila Skimmerhorn, a two-time Wright State graduate, was the first student to register for classes at the university in 1964.
History professor Drew Swanson returned to his alma mater the University of Georgia to lecture on the Georgia gold rush.
Kailah Ware, who graduated from Wright State with a degree in motion pictures, created “One Degree of Separation,” a mix-media art installation celebrating Cincinnati.
The four Fish sisters were highly involved in campus life as Wright State students in the 1970s.

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