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CONTACT INFORMATION

  1. Mail: PO Box 400162, 108 Minor Hall, Charlottesville, VA 22904

  2. E-mail: sabrinapendergrass@virginia.edu

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

  1. University of Virginia

  2. Associate Professor, Department of African American and African Studies, 2023-

  3. Assistant Professor, Department of African American and African Studies, 2019-2023

  4. Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Department of

  5.   African American and African Studies, 2012-2019

  6. Duke University

  7. Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow, 2010-2012

Research Areas

  1. Race and Ethnicity, Internal Migration, Stratification, Place, Cultural Sociology

EDUCATION

  1. Ph.D. in Sociology, Harvard University, May 2010

  2.         Doctoral Fellow, Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy,

  3.         John F. Kennedy School of Government.

  4. A.M. in Sociology, Harvard University, June 2006

  5. A.B. in Sociology with High Honors, Princeton University, June 2002

  6.         Certificate in African American Studies

HONORS

  1. 2010 Exemplary Diversity Dissertation Award from the National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan

  2. 2010 Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the Poverty, Class, and Inequality Section of the Society for the Study of Social Problems for “Making Moves: Social Stratification and the Socioeconomic and Symbolic Dimensions of Black Reverse Migration to the South”

  3. 2010 Second Prize Graduate Student Paper Award from the Association of Black Sociologists for “Making Moves: Social Stratification and the Socioeconomic and Symbolic Dimensions of Black Reverse Migration to the South”

  4. 2005  President’s Award for Achievement in Instructional Technology, Harvard University

  5. 2002 Lisa N. Bryant Memorial Award, Department of Sociology, Princeton University

  6. 2002 First Prize Undergraduate Teaching Module Award, Sociometrics Corporation

  7. 2001 First Prize Undergraduate Paper Award from the Association of Black Sociologists for “The Origins of Intra-Racial Skin Color Prejudice: A Critical Review”

GRANTS

  1. 2018 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for Candace N. Miller, “Race, Entrepreneurship, and Urban Revitalization,” $11,781.

  2. 2015-2016 UVA Sesquicentennial Sabbatical Fellowship, half salary

  3. 2015 UVA Faculty Summer Stipend, $5000

  4. 2013-2014 John T. Casteen III Faculty Fellowship in Ethics, University of Virginia, $7000

  5. 2012-2013 Excellence in Diversity Fellowship, University of Virginia, $1000

  6. 2009-2010 Graduate Society Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard University

  7. 2005, 2008 Research Seed Grant, Harvard University Center for American Political Studies, $1000

  8. 2003-2010 National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education Research Traineeship (IGERT) with the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

  1. Pendergrass, Sabrina. 2017. “No Longer ‘Bound for the Promised Land’: African Americans’ Religious Experiences in the Reversal of the Great Migration.” Race and Social Problems. 9(1): 19-28.

  2. Pendergrass, Sabrina. 2013. “Routing Black Migration to the Urban US South: Social Class and Sources of Social Capital in the Destination Selection Process.”  Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 39: 1441-1459.

  3. Pendergrass, Sabrina. 2013. “Perceptions of Race and Region in the Black Reverse Migration to the South.” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race. 10:155-178.  (pdf)

  4. Pachucki, Mark, Sabrina Pendergrass, and Michele Lamont. 2007.  “Boundary Processes: Recent Theoretical Developments and New Contributions.”  Poetics.  35: 331-351.  (pdf)

Encyclopedia Entries

  1. Lamont, Michele, Sabrina Pendergrass, and Mark Pachucki.  2015.  “Symbolic Boundaries.”  International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition.

  2. Pendergrass, Sabrina.  2008.  “Migration of African Americans.”  Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society.  Ed. Richard Schaefer.  Sage Publications.

  3. Pendergrass, Sabrina.  2008.  “Claude M. Steele” African American National Biography.  Eds. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham.  Oxford University Press.

WORK IN PROGRESS

  1. Pendergrass, Sabrina.  Book-length manuscript about the black reverse migration.  (under contract with Oxford University Press)

RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS (recent)

  1. 2020. (Cancelled due to COVID-19 Pandemic). “Why Are Blacks Moving South?” Invited Lecture. Center for African American Urban Studies and Economy. Carnegie Mellon University.

  2. 2019 “‘We Have to Get Out of Here’: Examining Reasons for Recent Black Migration to the South.” UVA Community Psychology Workshop. November. University of Virginia. Charlottesville, VA.

  3. 2019 “Geographies of Race and Religion.” Panelist at the Spirit in the Dark Symposium. March. Religion, Race, and Democracy Lab. University of Virginia. Charlottesville, VA.

  4. 2019. Invited Skype Q&A, “The Black Reverse Migration.” American Communities Course, Rutgers University-Camden.

  5. 2017 “The African American Great Migration Reverses Course: A Conversation between Sabrina Pendergrass and Joe William Trotter.” November. Carter G. Woodson Institute. University of Virginia. Charlottesville, VA.

  6. 2015 “African American Migration and the South.” Invited Talk. April. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities’ South Atlantic Seminar. Charlottesville, VA.

  7. 2015 “Race and Reverse Migration: What Black Newcomers to Charlotte, NC Think about Racism in the South.” Invited Lecture. Davidson College. Davidson, NC.

  8. 2014 “The Black Reverse Migration to the South: Dilemmas of Race and Region.” Invited Lecture to the Black Lives in the New South Speaker Series. April. Virginia Tech. Blacksburg, VA.

  9. 2014 “Meanings of Opportunity in the Black Reverse Migration to the South.” Presentation to the Southern Sociological Society conference. April. Charlotte, NC.

  10. 2014 “African American Migration and the South: Cross-Disciplinary Possibilities for the 21st Century.” Invited Panelist at the Transforming New South Identities Symposium. University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture. February. Oxford, MS.

  11. 2012 “Routing Black Migration to the U.S. South: The Role of Social Class and Social Capital.” Mini-Conference of the American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Development Section. October. Charlottesville, VA

  12. 2012 “Still Warmer Suns: African Americans Return to the South,” Invited Panelist.  UNC Global American South symposium.  April. Chapel Hill, NC

  13. 2012 “Mason-Dixon Dilemmas: How Blacks Experience Race and Region in the Reverse Migration to the South,” Presentation to the Southern Sociological Society conference.  March.  New Orleans, LA.

  14. 2012 “Mason-Dixon Dilemmas:  Crossing Regional Boundaries of Race in the Black Reverse Migration to the Urban South,” Invited presentation to the Black Migration symposium.  February. Vanderbilt University. Nashville, TN.

  15. 2011  “The Boundary-work of Internal Migration,”  Invited roundtable presentation for the Culture Section’s Symbolic Boundaries Network at the American Sociological Association conference. August. Las Vegas, NV.

  16. 2011 “Routing Black Migration to the U.S. South: Social Class and Sources of Social Capital in the Destination Selection Process,” Presentation to the Association of Black Sociologists conference. August. Las Vegas, NV.

  17. 2011 “Perceptions of Race and Regional Boundaries in the Black Migration to the South,” Presentation to the Duke University Sociology Colloquium. April. Durham, NC.

OTHER PRESENTATIONS (recent)

  1. 2021. Panelist. “Explorations: Race, Equity, and Justice.” Wahoo Welcomes: First-Year Orientation Session. August. University of Virginia.

  2. 2020. Guest Lecture, “Systemic Racism, Stress, and Health,” The Racial Life of COVID-19 course. Department of African American and African Studies. October. University of Virginia.

  3. 2018. Panelist, “Applying for Postdocs: Graduate Student Professional Development Workshop.” Department of Sociology. September. University of Virginia.

  4. 2018 Guest Critic, “Author Meets Critics Session: Break Beats in the Bronx by Joseph Ewoodzie.” Southern Sociological Society Conference. April. New Orleans, LA.

  5. 2018 Moderator, “Diversity and the Disciplines.” University of Virginia’s Diverse Disciplines, Inclusive Institutions Symposium. March. Charlottesville, VA.

  6. 2018 Panelist, “Race and the Rhetoric of ‘Merit’ in U.S. Immigration Discourse,” Currents in Conversation on Race, Racism, and Immigration. Carter G. Woodson Institute. University of Virginia. January. Charlottesville, VA.

  7. 2017 Panelist. “Days on the Lawn,” Undergraduate Admissions Office, University of Virginia. March. Charlottesville, VA.

  8. 2016 Panelist, “Teaching the Sociology of Race and Ethics,” Institute for Practical Ethics in Public Life Conference. University of Virginia. September. Charlottesville, VA.

  9. 2015 Moderator, “Black Alumni Authors’ Panel,” Black Alumni Weekend. University of Virginia. April. Charlottesville, VA.

  10. 2015. Facilitator, “Diversity Research for Social Change,” SEEDS at Curry School of Education Research Conference. University of Virginia. March. Charlottesville, VA.

  11. 2015 Panelist, “Beginning a Career in Research,” Undergraduate Student Opportunities in Academic Research Program. University of Virginia. March. Charlottesville, VA.

  12. 2014 Panelist, “Race Relations in America: Post-Ferguson,” Darden Business School. University of Virginia. September. Charlottesville, Virginia.

  13. 2014 Panelist, “UVA for First-Year Students,” Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Tau Theta Chapter. University of Virginia. September. Charlottesville, Virginia.

  14. 2014 Keynote Speaker, Commencement Ceremony for the Carter G. Woodson Institute. May. University of Virginia.

  15. 2013 Panelist “Commemorating the 1963 March on Washington,” Community Commemoration Sponsored by the Carter G. Woodson Institute.  August. University of Virginia.

  16. 2013 “Writing Rites: Professional Development Session for Graduate Students,” Invited Panelist. Association of Black Sociologists Conference. August. New York, NY.

  17. 2013 “Scandalous: Race, Sex, and Politics in the Age of Olivia Pope,” Invited Panelist. Carter G. Woodson Institute. University of Virginia. April.

  18. 2013 “Relationship with the Self: The Search for Identity,” Invited Keynote Speaker. Black Student Association’s Ladies’ Soiree. University of Virginia. April.

  19. 2013 “The Color of Money: Race and Economic Inequalities,” Invited Workshop. Social Justice in Action Leadership Institute. Longwood University. February. Farmville, VA.

  20. 2013 Keynote Speaker. Harambee II Celebration. Office of African American Affairs. University of Virginia. January. Charlottesville, VA.

  21. 2012 “Echoes of Their Eyes Were Watching God in the Black Reverse Migration,” Invited Panelist. 75th Anniversary of Celebration of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. University of Virginia. Charlottesville, VA.

ADVISING AND TEACHING

Dissertation Chair

    1 Student, Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Virginia.

Dissertation Committee Member (completed)

    3 Students, Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Virginia.

    1 Student, Ph.D. in Religious Studies, University of Virginia.

Undergraduate Thesis Advisor

    2 Students, African American and African Studies, University of Virginia.

    3 Students, Program on Political and Social Thought, University of Virginia.

Courses

  1. University of Virginia

  2. African American and African Studies

  3. The Souls of Black Folk. (Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021)

  4. Social Science Perspectives on African American and African Studies (Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2016), Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2020)

  5. Race, Culture, and Inequality (Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021)

  6. Sociology

  7. Systems of Inequality (Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Fall 2018)

  8. Sociology of African American Communities (Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2016, Spring 2018, Spring 2019)

  9. Race and Ethics in Society (Spring 2014, Spring 2015)

  10. Qualitative Approaches to African American Religiosity - Directed Graduate Reading (Spring 2014)

  11. Selected Readings in Culture and Inequality - Directed Graduate Reading (Spring 2015)

  12. Duke University

  13. Ethnographic Field Methods, Part II, teaching assistant (Spring 2012)

  14. Harvard University

  15. Intermediate Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences, teaching assistant (Spring 2006)

  16. Paradigms for Social Inquiry, teaching assistant (Spring 2005)

  17. Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences, teaching assistant (Fall 2005)

  18. Culture, Power, and Inequality, teaching assistant (Fall 2004)   

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

  1. 2019-present. Director of the Distinguished Majors Program in African American and African Studies, University of Virginia.

  2. 2019-present. Chair, Curriculum Committee, Department of African American and African Studies. University of Virginia.

  3. 2020-2021. Co-Chair, Faculty Search Committee, Race and Health in the US and/or African Diaspora, Department of African American and African Studies, University of Virginia.

  4. 2020. Subcommittee on Faculty Hiring Proposals, Department of African American and African Studies. University of Virginia.

  5. 2018-2019 Peer Evaluation Committee. Department of African American and African Studies. University of Virginia.

  6. 2017-2019 Curriculum Committee, Carter G. Woodson Institute, University of Virginia.

  7. 2016-2017 Faculty Search Committee, Media Studies Department Hire in African American Media, University of Virginia.

  8. 2016-2017 Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Virginia.

  9. 2016-2017 Curriculum Committee, Carter G. Woodson Institute, University of Virginia.

  10. 2014-2015 Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Virginia.

  11. 2013-2014 Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship Selection Committee, Carter G. Woodson Institute, University of Virginia.

  12. 2013-2014 Faculty Search Committee, Carter G. Woodson Institute/Sociology/History/Economics/Politics, University of Virginia.

  13. 2013-2014 Colloquium Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Virginia.

  14. 2012-2013 Undergraduate Studies Committee, University of Virginia.

  15. 2009-2012 Website Developer, Resources for Qualitative Social Science at Harvard,” with Michele Lamont and Rakesh Khurana http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/qualitative

  16. 2004-2006 Presidential Instructional Technology Fellow.  Harvard Instructional Computing Group and the Office of the President

  17. 2004-2005 Junior Faculty Search Committee, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

  18. 2003-2004 Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

  19. 2002-2006 Website Developer, Sociology Graduate Student Organization

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

  1. Reviewer: Cambridge University Press, University of California Press, American Journal of Sociology, Poetics, City and Society, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Socio-Economic Review, Social Currents.

  2. 2014-2015 Member, Article Award Committee for the American Sociological Association’s Race, Gender, and Class Section

  3. 2013, 2014 Session Presider, Sociology of Culture and Thematic panels at the American Sociological Association Annual Meetings

  4. 2004-2005 Graduate Student Representative, Executive Committee of the Association of Black Sociologists

  5. 2005 Graduate Student Assistant, “Workshop on Interdisciplinary Standards for Systematic Qualitative Research.” Conveners: Professor Michele Lamont and Patricia White. National Science Foundation. Washington, DC. May 2005.

MEDIA COVERAGE

  1. Hill, Sam and Hank Gilman. 2020. “Why Population Shifts from Red States to Blue States...” Newsweek July 23.

  2. Veney, Cassandra. 2020. “From Red to Blue: The Importance of the Black Vote...” The Elephant November 30.

  3. Semuels, Alana. “Reverse Migration Might Turn Georgia Blue.” The Atlantic. May 23, 2018.

  4. Allen, Reniqua. “It’s Time to Admit That America Will Never Really Include Black America.” Quartz.com. July 22, 2014.