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Kim Ebert serves as the Associate Head and Director of Undergraduate Programs in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University. Her research focuses on race, ethnicity, immigration, and political sociology, with a particular emphasis on collective action, social movements, and urban communities. She investigates how institutions and organizations legitimize exclusionary policies, particularly in contexts of privatized immigration control and symbolic boundary maintenance.
Ebert’s expertise intersects interdisciplinary fields such as Africana Studies and graduate-level sociology training. She leads funded research projects like the NSF-funded Legitimating Strategies in Privatized Immigration Control (2019–2021), totaling $119,056. Her work explores media representation of immigration policies, organizational dynamics in racially conservative groups, and immigrant civic engagement in both traditional and emerging destination cities.
Her research outputs highlight themes of ideological flexibility among extremist groups, the role of media in shaping public perception, and the interplay between demographic changes and policy outcomes. Ebert’s contributions bridge sociological theory with applied analysis of contemporary social justice issues.
