Wilma Dunaway

Wilma A. Dunaway (born July 1, 1944) is Professor Emerita of Sociology in the Government and International Affairs Program at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (also called Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, Virginia.

Biography Dunaway earned her bachelor's, master's and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tennessee. She received a fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation to complete her dissertation about the integration of antebellum Appalachia into global capitalism.

Since 1999, she taught as an associate professor at Virginia Tech. In addition, she has edited two books that offer revisions and extensions of world-systems analysis.

Awards 1996, W. D. Weatherford Award, Appalachian Center, Berea College, for The First American Frontier 2005. The Joseph Campbell Prize in Ethnography, Sarah Lawrence College. Included honorary doctorate

Selected works Books Southern Laboring Women: Race, Class and Gender Conflict in Antebellum Appalachia. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming. Slavery in the American Mountain South. Cambridge University Press, 2003. The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation. Cambridge University Press, 2003. Crises and Resistance in the 21st Century World-System. Praeger Press, 2003. New Theoretical Directions for the 21st Century World-System. Praeger Press, 2003. The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860. University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Articles Dunaway, W. A. (2001). The double register of history: Situating the forgotten woman and her household in capitalist commodity chains. journal of world-systems research, 2-29. Dunaway, W. A. (2014). Bringing Commodity Chain Analysis Back to Its World-Systems Roots: Rediscovering Women s Work and Households. Journal of World-Systems Research, 64–81. Dunaway, W. A., & Clelland, D. A. (2017). Moving toward theory for the 21st century: The centrality of nonwestern semiperipheries to world ethnic/racial inequality. Journal of World-Systems Research, 23(2), 399–464.