David L. Brunsma

David L. Brunsma is a professor in the Virginia Tech Department of Sociology.  His research interests include sociology of race and ethnicity, (multi)racial identity, sociology of culture, and  human rights.

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.