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Holly McCammon

Holly McCammon earned her B.A. degree in Psychology at Purdue University (1982) and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology at Indiana University (1986, 1990).  She joined the sociology faculty at Vanderbilt upon completion of her Ph.D., rising through the ranks from Assistant Professor to Professor. 

As Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, McCammon works with Dean Richard McCarty on graduate education in the College of Arts and Science.

In addition to her duties as Associate Dean, McCammon teaches a course each fall in the Department of Sociology on social movements.  She is also chair-elect of the American Sociological Association’s Collective Behavior and Social Movement section and has sat on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, and Contemporary Sociology.  In addition, she served as Deputy Editor of the journal, Work and Occupations.  In 2003, she received a American Association of University Women Postdoctoral Fellowship and in 1998 won the Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics. 

McCammon’s research focuses on women’s nineteenth- and twentieth-century political mobilizations in the U.S. to broaden women’s legal rights, including voting rights, the right to own property, and the right to sit on juries.  She has published numerous articles in journals such as the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Mobilization, and The Sociological Quarterly, and her work has been reprinted in a number of edited volumes.  In addition, she has held grants from the National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Labor.  Much of her research has involved training and mentoring graduate students in the Department of Sociology. 

She and her husband, John, have two children.