Amara Anderson
Amara Anderson is the Coordinator in the Honors Program, where she supports the HP in event planning, marketing and communications, and financial processing. Prior to her role in the HP, she served as the Marketing and Events Coordinator in the Office of Undergraduate Education from 2021 - 2023 and as an Administrative Professional II in OUE from 2020 - 2021. Amara is a graduate of Georgia Tech, having earned a BS in Literature, Media, and Communication in 2019. As an undergraduate student, she assisted the iGniTe Summer Launch Program with event planning and assessment. Amara enjoys reading, crocheting, and playing video games.
Amy D'Unger
PhD, Duke University, 1999
Dr. D'Unger's CV
Dr. D'Unger is a sociologist with interests in the areas of race, class, and gender; inequality; social policy; social control and eugenics; and crime. Her previous research has looked at the impact of neighborhood social disorganization, peer networks, family structures, and school ties on delinquency and crime over the life course.
She is currently researching the role of eugenic (involuntary) sterilization in the South as a tool of informal social control, particularly during the Civil Rights Movement. Dr. D'Unger has published in such journals as the American Journal of Sociology, the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and the Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice on topics such as criminal careers, gender and offending, and feminist criminological theory.
Dr. D'Unger has been recognized for excellence in academic advising by both Georgia Tech and the National Academic Advising Association, and has won teaching awards from both the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and Georgia Tech. She is the past chair of the Division on Women and Crime of the American Society of Criminology.
- Ph.D. in Sociology, Duke University
- Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies
- M.A. (with Distinction) in Sociology, Duke University
- B.A. in Sociology, College of William and Mary
- B.A. in English, College of William and Mary
Distinctions:
- Geoffrey G. Eichholz Faculty Teaching Award, 2021.
- Hesburgh Award Faculty Teaching Fellow, 2021.
- Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching Class of 1934 CIOS Teaching Award, 2020.
- Chancellors Learning Scholar, 2019 - 2020.
- Class of 1934 Undergraduate Educator Award, 2017.
- Ivan Allen College Teacher of the Year, 2016.
- Sarah Hall Award, Division on Women and Crime, American Society of Criminology, 2014.
- Outstanding Advisor, Faculty, Region IV, NACADA, 2012.
- Outstanding Advisor, Faculty, National Certificate of Merit, NACADA, 2011.
- Faculty Advisor of the Year, Georgia Tech, 2010.
Lauren Evans
In May 2014, Lauren B. Evans completed her M.A. after successfully defending her thesis—a collection of nonfiction essays exploring the relationship between society and popular culture. Lauren is a Contributing Editor for Palaver, an interdisciplinary academic journal, and some of her essays can be found in past issues there. Other interests include writing fiction, reading anything she can find, watching sports, and doing whatever her beagle Lucy commands.
