What to Expect and How to Respond: Distress and Success in Academia

Earl Wright II is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Cincinnati and the author of groundbreaking works on the contributions of W. E. B. Du Bois and the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory to American sociology. He is also the past president of the Association of Black Sociologists and Mid-South Sociological Association. Thomas C. Calhoun is Associate Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs and Professor of Sociology at Jackson State University and he has published extensively in the area of deviance. He is the recipient of the Aida Tomeh Outstanding Teaching Award and J. Milton Yinger Distinguished Career Award from the North Central Sociological Association; the A. Wade Smith Outstanding Teaching Award and the James E. Blackwell Distinguished Career Award from the Association of Black Sociologists; and is past president of the Association of Black Sociologists, Mid-South Sociological Association and North Central Sociological Association.