Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Raymond Gunn
B.A., Hunter College, 1984; M.A., Long Island University, 1997; Ph.D., The University of Pennsylvania
Raymond Gunn is an Instructor iin Sociology and Anthropology at The College of Wooster where he joined the faculty in 2006. His primary areas of research are race and academic achievement, urban education, urban sociology, urban ethnography, social inequality, teaching writing in the discipline, and African American males in school and society.
Gunn earned his B.A. from Hunter College (1984) and his M.A. from Long Island University (1997). He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. His recent publications include “Inner-City Schoolboy Life,” published in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
A member of the American Sociological Association, the American Education Research Association (Division G, Social Context of Education), and Phi Delta Kappa, Gunn has received several fellowships, including the Gertrude and Otto Pollak Summer Research Fellowship and the Spencer Foundation Pre-Dissertation Fellowship for Research in Urban Education, both from the University of Pennsylvania.
Courses Taught:
- Education in Sociocultural Context
- Introduction to Sociology
- Race and Ethnicity
- Sociology of the Black Experience
e-mail: rgunn@wooster.edu