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Department
of Sociology
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105
Fidelity St.
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CB
# 3210
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Apartment
B-23
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University
of North Carolina
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Carrboro,
NC 27510
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Chapel
Hill, NC 27599
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(919)
969-8387
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(919)
962-1007
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Email:
lpalmer@email.unc.edu
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Sociological Theory, Democracy and Democratization, Eastern Europe,
Ethnicity and Nationalism, Social Movements and Collective Behavior, Media
and the Public Sphere
| 1995- | Doctoral candidate. Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. |
| Master’s Thesis: “The Structure of Anarchy: A Network
Exploration of a Web Community”, December, 1999 at UNC-Chapel Hill.
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| 1994
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Master of Humanities, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA
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| 1991 | A.B. (Cum Laude) in Economics, Duke University, Durham, NC. |
| 1998 | “Barriers to Democratization and Democratic Political Culture: The Case of Poland” Journal of Social Sciences. |
| 1998 | Review of Key Ideas in Sociology by Peter Kivisto. Sociological Analysis 1:2. |
| 1999
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“The Structure of Anarchy: Political Ideology and Organization
on the World Wide Web.” Presented at the International Sunbelt Social
Network Conference in Charleston, SC, February, 1999.
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| 2000
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“Public Betrayals and Private Portrayals: Activist Intentions in Tension on the WWW.” accepted for presentation in regular session on Technology, Computers and Society at the American Sociological Association annual meeting in Washington, D.C., August, 2000. |
| 1998 - pres
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Prepared and taught three sections of Sociological
Theory and three sections of American
Society
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| 1996
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Research assistant, Adolescent Health Project, performed qualitative
analysis of junior and high school environments.
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| 1995-1996
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Teaching Assistant for upper-level sociology course, “Conflict and
Bargaining.”
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| 1994-1995
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Math Teacher, International American School, Warsaw, Poland.
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| 1993-1994 | Research Assistant, Office of International Education, University of Richmond. |
| 2000
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Accepted to participate in UNESCO – MOST, International
Comparative Programmes in the Social Sciences, June 20 – 25, 2000,
Sofia, Bulgaria.
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| 1997-1998
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NSF Democracy
Fellowship, awarded by University Center for International Studies,
University of North Carolina.
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| 1996-1997
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Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, awarded by Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, University of North Carolina. |
| 1995 - pres | American Sociological Association |