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Dr. Deborah A Harris

  • Professor - Sociology

Education

Doctorate Degree

PhD in Sociology

Mississippi State University, 2007

Master's Degree

MS in Sociology

Mississippi State University, 2002

Bachelor's Degree

BA in Sociology

Mississippi State University, 2000

  • Price, Robert, Harris, Deborah A. Study Abroad Development Grant, Texas State University, $3000. (Funded: 2017). Grant.
  • Harris, Deborah (Principal), Romero, Rachel (Principal). Research Enhancement Program Grant, Institutional (Higher Ed), $16000. (Submitted: December 1, 2014, Funded: February 28, 2015 - August 1, 2015). Grant.
  • Harris, Deborah (Principal), Giuffre, Patti (Principal). Subvention Grant, Institutional (Higher Ed), $5000. (Submitted: January 1, 2014, Funded: January 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015). Grant.
  • Harris, Deborah A, Giuffre, Patti. Subvention Costs for Taking the Heat (book by Deborah Harris and Patti Giuffre), Texas State University, $5000. (Funded: January 1, 2014 - January 1, 2015). Grant.
  • Harris, Deborah (Principal). Social Networks among Low-income Women: The Effects on Economic Mobility / Research Enhancement Program Grant, Texas State University, Institutional (Higher Ed), $8000. (Submitted: 2008). Grant.
  • Harris, D. A., & Romero, R. (2019). Race, Four Farms, and a City: Color Blindness and the Austin, TX Commercial Farm Debate. Humanity and Society, 43(3), 227–249. https://doi.org/10.1177/0160597618814880
  • Romero, R., & Harris, D. A. (2019). Who Speaks For (and Feeds) the Community?: Competing Definitions of “Community” in the Austin, TX Urban Farm Debate. City & Community, 18(4), 1162–1180. https://doi.org/10.1111/cico.12416
  • Harris, D. A. (2017). Just the ‘Typical College Diet’: How College Students Use Life Stages to Neutralize Stigma from Unhealthy Eating. Symbolic Interaction, 40(4), 523-540.
  • Harris, D., & Giuffre, P. (2015). Taking the Heat: Women Chefs and Gender Inequality in the Professional Kitchen. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
  • Harris, D., Harris, W., & Fondren, K. (2015). Everybody Eats: Using Hunger Banquets to Teach about Issues of Global Hunger and Inequality. Teaching Sociology.
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi Honor Society Favorite Professor, Alpha Chi Honor Society. 2024
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Dean’s Excellence Award in Service, 2023, College of Liberal Arts, Texas State University. 2023
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Distinction Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2020. 2020
  • Award / Honor Recipient: 2016 Outstanding Women's Studies Scholar award (co-awarded w/ Patti Giuffre), Multicultural and Gender Studies, TX State University. January 1, 2016 - December 1, 2016
  • Award / Honor Recipient: 2013 Outstanding Women's Studies Scholar award, Multicultural and Gender Studies, TX State University. January 1, 2013 - December 1, 2013
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  1. Member

    Sociology Scholarship and Awards Committee

  2. Member

    Student Outreach and Support Committee

  3. University Mentor

    Mentor to Rachel Romero

  4. Member

    Student Learning Outcomes Sub-Committee

  5. Member

    Graduate Steering Committee

  6. Member

    Graduate studies committee, Texas State Department of Sociology

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