Kara McGhee

312 Middlebush Hall www.karamcg.weebly.com

University of Missouri karamcghee@gmail.com
Columbia, MO 65211

Employment
Mizzou Online, University of Missouri 2013-present
Developer and Grader for Soc2200 Social Inequalities Online Self-Paced 2013-2017
Grader for Soc3310 Social Psychology Online Self-paced 2016-2017

Sociology Department, University of Missouri 2009-present

Autonomous Teaching 2013-2017
SOC1000: Introduction to Sociology - SOC1000H: Honors Introduction to Sociology -
SOC2200: Social Inequalities (16wk online) - SOC2300: Self and Society - SOC3100 Theories of Society -
SOC3200: Class, Status, & Power - SOC3310: Social Psychology
Teaching Assistantships 2009-2013
SOC1000: Introduction to Sociology - PS1050: Introduction to Peace Studies -
SOC2200: Social Inequalities - SOC2950: Social Research - SOC3255: Youth in Todays World -
SOC3400: Politics of the Media - SOC3430: Sociology of Sport - SOC3600: Criminology -
SOC4970: Senior Seminar

Total Person Program, Mizzou Athletics, University of Missouri 2011-2012

Tutor and Mentor

Walgreens, Conway, AR 2007-2009

Assistant Manager

Education
In progress - Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology May 2018
University of MissouriColumbia
Dissertation: Ethnography of an American Country Club
Advisor: Rebecca R. Scott

Master of Arts in Sociology December 2011

University of MissouriColumbia
Project Title: "Exclusion v. Diversity, the Country Clubs Dilemma: Meaning and Identity in a White Elite Space

Bachelor of Science in Public Relations May 2009

Honors Minor in Interdisciplinary Studies
University of Central Arkansas
Cum Laude

Research Interests
Culture, identity, symbolic interaction - mass communication - demography, gender, race, class - space, place, political
economy - institutions and organizations.

Blog Posts
Poverty in Suburbia: The Rise of the Outer City Poor. Sociological Images blog, editors Gwen Sharp and Lisa Wade,
The Society Pages University of Minnesota and W.W. Norton & Co, June 21, 2013.
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/06/21/poverty-in-suburbia-the-rise-of-the-outer-city-poor/

Ding Dong The New Deals Dead: Poverty Expands to Suburbs. theWILD Magazine, editor Blaine Skrainka. June 12,
2013. http://thewildmagazine.com/blog/ding-dong-the-new-deals-dead-poverty-expands-to-suburbs/

Unnatural Disaster in the Natural State. theWILD Magazine, editor Blaine Skrainka. April 6, 2013.
http://thewildmagazine.com/blog/unnatural-disaster-in-the-natural-state/
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MUPD Takes Violence Against Women Seriously, Gets Laughed at by Student Body. Mizzou Feminist Collective
blog, editor Jes Hodgson. December 8, 2012. http://mizzoufeministcollective.wordpress.com/

Presentations
Country Clubs as Deviant Communities: Noes on the Management of a Spoiled Identity. Presented by Kara McGhee at
the 78th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, March 2016, Chicago, IL.

Studentification Without Students. Presented by Andrew Bisto, Curtis Edwards, Andrew Fisher, Kara McGhee at the 76th
Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, April 2014, Omaha, NE.

Ivory Tower Apathy and Critical Advocacy Research. Presented by Kara E. McGhee, Andrew Bisto, Curtis Edwards,
Andrew Fisher at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, April 2014, Omaha, NE.

Respectability: The Choreography of the Everyday. Presented by Kara E. McGhee at the 76th Annual Meeting of the
Midwest Sociological Society, April 2014, Omaha, NE.

Academia and Community Activism: Research and Practice Presented by Kara McGhee keynote speaker of the 25 th
Annual Sociology Undergraduate Symposium, February 2014, Henderson State University Arkadelphia, AR

Grad School or Nah? Presented by Kara McGhee sponsored by the University of Central Arkansas Sociology Department
and UCA Sociology Club, February 2014, Conway, AR

Exclusion v. Diversity, the Country Clubs Dilemma: Meaning and Identity in a White Elite Space Presented by Kara
McGhee at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, March 2012, Minneapolis, MN.

Awards
University of Missouri Department of Black Studies James S. Rollins Memorial Slavery
Atonement Endowment, received May 2013 Dissertation Research Support

University of Missouri Department of Sociology Graduate Research Award Program,

received May 2013 Dissertation Research Support

Mizzou Athletics Softball Honorary Coach Spring 2013

Student-athletes nominate influential instructors

Professional Organizations
Midwest Sociological Society

Professional Development
Sociology Department Colloquium Committee 2014-2015
Graduate Student Faculty Meeting Representative Fall 2012
Tenure Review Committee Graduate Student Representative for Dr. Rebecca Scott 2011
Graduate Student Panel for Senior Seminar Undergraduates 2010-2011