David L. Brunsma

David L. Brunsma is a professor in the Virginia Tech Department of Sociology.  His research interests include racial identity, race and ethnicity, human rights, public sociology, sociology of culture, sociology of education, critical race theory, social psychology, educational reform, school uniforms, and symbolic interactionism.

Brunsma is the recipient of multiple awards in his field, including the Founder’s Award for Scholarship and Service of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities in 2020, the E. Gordon Ericksen Award for Outstanding Graduate Faculty in 2013, and the W.E.B. DuBois Award from Sociologists Without Borders in 2008. He and his coauthors also received an honorable mention for the Gordon Hirabyashi Human Rights Book Award for The Handbook of Sociology and Human Rights, for which he was an editor in 2014.

Prior to joining the faculty at Virginia Tech in 2011, Brunsma taught at the University of Missouri–Columbia, where he was involved in the Black Studies Program. He holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Notre Dame.