Dustin Avent-Holt

Associate Professor

Dustin Avent-Holt

Associate Professor

Academic Appointment(s)

Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Department of Social Sciences

Education

  • Ph.D., Sociology University of Massachusetts at, 2012

  • MS, Sociology North Carolina State Universit, 2005

  • BA, Sociology Georgia State University, 2003

Awards & Honors

  • Center for Social Science Research Fellowship Center for Social Science Research, 2021

  • Louis K. Bell Research Award Augusta University, 2020

  • Max Weber Book Award Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section, American Sociological Association, 2020

  • Outstanding Book Award Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section, American Sociological Association, 2020

  • Faculty Award for Excellence in Research Pamplin College, 2019

Courses Taught Most Recent Academic Year

  • HONR 3900H

    Honors: Breaking Boundaries
  • SOCI 4950

    Selected Topics: Economy & Society: Pandemics
  • SOCI 3380

    Sociological Theory

Teaching Interests

Social Stratification and Inequalities
Sociology of Work and Organizations
Economic Sociology
Political Sociology
Sociological Theory

Scholarship

Selected Recent Publications

  • Review of Rent-Seekers, Profits, Wages, and Inequality: The Top 20% by Péter Mihályi and Iván Szelényi, 2020
    Book Review
  • Rising Between Workplace Inequalities in High Income Countries., 2020
    Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Occupations, Workplaces, or Jobs?: An Exploration of Stratification Contexts Using Administrative Data across Five Countries, 2020
    Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Occupational Status and Organizations: Variation in Occupational Hierarchies across Swedish Workplaces, 2020
    Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • The Relationship between Community-Level Internet Use and Mental Health, 2019
    Journal Article, Academic Journal

Research Interests

Social Stratification and Inequalities
Sociology of Work and Organizations
Economic Sociology
Political Sociology
Sociological Theory

Department Service

  • Sociology Curriculum Committee 2013 - Present

    Role: Committee Member
  • Faculty Recruitment Committee 2017 - 2017

    Role: Committee Member
  • Faculty Recruitment Committee 2016 - 2016

    Role: Committee Member
  • Retention, Progress, and Graduation ad-hoc Committee 2015 - 2016

    Role: Committee Member
  • Faculty Recruitment Committee, Department of Sociology, Criminal Justice, & Social Work, Georgia Regents University 2013 - 2015

College Service

  • Faculty Research and Development Committee 2021 - Present

    Role: Committee Member
  • Advisory Board of the Social Science Research Center 2018 - 2021

    Role: Committee Member
  • Ad-Hoc By-Laws Review Committee, Pamplin College 2021 - 2021

    Role: Committee Member

University Service

  • Advisory Committee, Center for Undergraduate Research and Scholarship 2021 - Present

    Role: Committee Member
  • Institutional Review Board B-Social Science 2017 - Present

    Role: Committee Member
  • Intramural Grants Program 2021 - 2021

    Role: Grant Proposal Reviewer, Internal
  • Intramural Grants Program 2020

    Role: Grant Proposal Reviewer, Internal
  • AU Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity 2019 - 2019

    Role: Grant Proposal Reviewer, Internal

Professional Service

  • Committee on the Profession, Southern Sociological Society 2020 - Present

    Role: Member
  • Socio-Economic Review 2020 - Present

    Role: Editorial Review Board Member
  • Work in Progress, Public Sociology blog of the American Sociological Association 2019 - Present

    Role: Editor, Associate Editor
  • Max Weber Best Book Award, OOW, ASA - 2021

    Role: Committee Member
  • Outstanding Book Award, IPM, ASA - 2021

Public Service

  • Newton County Public Schools 2017 - 2017

    Role: Guest Speaker