Amitra A. Wall is the assistant dean of intellectual foundations and first-year programs and an associate professor of sociology at SUNY Buffalo State. She earned her doctorate in sociology from Texas Woman’s University in 1999. When she joined the..
Amitra A. Wall is the assistant dean of intellectual foundations and first-year programs and an associate professor of sociology at SUNY Buffalo State. She earned her doctorate in sociology from Texas Woman’s University in 1999. When she joined the SUNY Buffalo State faculty in 2000, she coordinated the woman’s studies interdisciplinary minor program. In 2010, she was certified as an applied sociologist by national and international colleagues from the Association for Applied and Clinical and Sociology. In 2011, she received SUNY’s Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Recent publications include a co-authored piece of “Using Fun in the Classroom: An Exploratory Study of Instructors’ Hesitations and Motivations” (Journal of Statistics Education March 2013), a co-edited sociology reader, Voices in Sociology (Cognella 2011), and a co-edited reader, Baggage Claims: Attitudes and Skills to Pack for College for first-year students (Cognella 2014).
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