Brunsma, David L.

David L. Brunsma" is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Notre Dame in 1998, focusing on the determinants of parental contact with high schools in his thesis. He has received the David Dodge Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching and a Phillip Moore Fellowship. His research interests are in the areas of race, sociology of education, sociology of culture, adolescence, social networks, and classical and contemporary theory.