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Bio
Mary Larue Scherer is a first year graduate student in residence. Her interests include the manufacture of culture and political ideology, the production of hegemonic discourses of urban and rural communities, and the reproduction of Western colonial race/gender/class subject formations and policy in the U.S. She hopes to conduct sociological research in these areas with a public sociology focus. For her undergraduate senior thesis, Mary conducted a case study of development, gentrification and representation in Asheville, North Carolina (published in Sociation Today, Fall 2007). Mary is a member of the American Sociological Association and the Southern Sociological Society. She currently serves on the department's Social Committee.
Education
2006 B.A. In Sociology and Anthropology from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC
Research
Scherer, M. L. 2007. “Building a Bohemian Boom Town: Constructing the 'Creative Class' in Asheville, North Carolina.” Sociation Today, Vol. 5, no. 2.
Teaching
TA experience:
Sociology 105: The Self, Society and Interpersonal Relations: Fall 2008.
