Curriculum Vitae of
Louis Kendall Palmer, III
 
Department of Sociology
105 Fidelity St.
CB # 3210
Apartment B-23
University of North Carolina
Carrboro, NC 27510
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
(919) 969-8387
(919) 962-1007
Email:  lpalmer@email.unc.edu
 
Interests

Sociological Theory, Democracy and Democratization, Eastern Europe, Ethnicity and Nationalism, Social Movements and Collective Behavior, Media and the Public Sphere
 

Education
 
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. 
 
1994 
 
Master of Humanities, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 
 
1991 A.B. (Cum Laude) in Economics, Duke University, Durham, NC. 
 

Publications

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.

Presentations

 
1999 

 

“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. 
 
2000 
 
 
“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.
 
Employment
 
1998 - pres 
 
Prepared and taught three sections of Sociological Theory and three sections of American Society  
 
1996 
 
Research assistant, Adolescent Health Project, performed qualitative analysis of junior and high school environments. 
 
1995-1996 
 
Teaching Assistant for upper-level sociology course, “Conflict and Bargaining.” 
 
1994-1995 
 
Math Teacher, International American School, Warsaw, Poland. 
 
1993-1994 Research Assistant, Office of International Education, University of Richmond.
 
Honors and Awards
 
 
2000 
 
 
Accepted to participate in UNESCO – MOST, International Comparative Programmes in the Social Sciences, June 20 – 25, 2000, Sofia, Bulgaria. 
 
1997-1998 
 
NSF Democracy Fellowship, awarded by University Center for International Studies, University of North Carolina. 
 
1996-1997 
 
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, awarded by Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, University of North Carolina.
 
Memberships
 
 
1995 - pres American Sociological Association