Sean Elias
Lecturer
PhD, Candidate, Texas A&M University
Hyer 203
214-768-4937
Curriculum Vitae


selias@smu.edu

Research and Teaching Interests

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Power, Theory, Comparative Historical, Political and Cultural Sociology, African American Studies

Current Research

My research empirically demonstrates many forms of racial discrimination in US society (economic, political, cultural, academic…) and elevates the theoretical importance of race in studies of social psychology, human relations and organizations, and macro institutions and power structures.  I am also interested in exploring ways race is theoretically constructed in social sciences, with particular interest in developing a race-based theoretical understanding of power, the subject of my dissertation-in-progress.

Selected Publications

Elias, Sean.  Forthcoming.  "Investigating the Aspen Elite."  Contexts 7(4):.
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Elias, Sean. Forthcoming. “Racism, Origins and Patterns.” Encyclopedia of Human Rights. Dave Forsythe, editor. Oxford University Press

Feagin, Joe, Sean Elias, and Jennifer Mueller. Forthcoming. “Social Justice and Critical Public Sociology.” Handbook of Public Sociology. Vincent Jeffries, editor. Rowman and Littlefield.


Elias, Sean.  2008.  “Allen Toussaint.”  African American National Biography. W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Editors-in-Chief. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Elias, Sean.  2006. “W.E.B. Du Bois’s Position in Sociological Theory.”  Perspectives, 28(4).
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Recognitions

  • Academic Recognition Scholarship. Department of Sociology at Texas A&M University. 2005/2006, 2007/2008

  • Outstanding Distinguished Citizen Award. Brazos Valley African American Museum. Bryan, Texas. 2006