#  Sabrina Pendergrass 

 

 



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 (Sociology, May 2010)  
*Thesis Title:* Making Moves: Place, Culture, and Stratification in African American Reverse Migration to the Urban South  
*Committee:* Michèle Lamont (chair), William Julius Wilson, and Prudence Carter  
*Initial Placement:* Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, Duke University  
*Current Position:* [Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Carter G. Woodson Institute of African American and African Studies, University of Virginia](http://sociology.virginia.edu/people/faculty/sabrina-pendergrass)

 Sabrina Pendergrass is Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. She specializes in race, inequality, internal migration, culture, and regionalism. Sabrina earned her A.B. in Sociology with High Honors and a Certificate in African American Studies from Princeton University, and she obtained her Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University. She was formerly a Doctoral Fellow in Harvard’s Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy and a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow at Duke University.



 

 

 





 

 

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