Dr. Cameron Lippard

Appalachian State University’s Dr. Cameron Lippard is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research interests encompass racism in the South, Latino immigration and Syrian refugee resettlement in North Carolina, and the sociology of war. He is the author of “Building Inequality: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration in the Atlanta Construction Industry” (2008) and co-editor of “Race and Racism in the United States: An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic,4 Volumes” (2014) and “Being Brown in Dixie: Race, Ethnicity, and Latino Immigration in the New South” (2011). He is frequent presenter at colleges and universities across the Southeast.

Lippard grew up in Watauga County, North Carolina, and worked for a nonprofit mediation center in Boone after graduating from Appalachian State University. He later pursued his master’s degree and Ph.D. from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, where he became more keenly aware of the influx of Latino immigrants and the discrimination they often face. Upon returning to Watauga County, he has engaged with local nonprofits, such as the Community Care Clinic and local VFWs, which informs and influences his research and teaching. Lippard also researches the sociological aspects of the craft beer, moonshine and coffee industries and is working on books related to each.

Areas of expertise

• Latino incorporation into the American South
• Latino barriers to health care
• Nativism and racism in post-race America
• Immigration
• Syrian refugee resettlement
• Sociology of war
• Impacts of war on veterans
• Racism