Elizabeth Kelly

Dr. E. Brooke Kelly has been a Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke since 2004. She teaches introductory sociology courses as well as classes on inequalities, poverty, gender and family. Her research focuses on public sociology, poverty and social inequality.

Dr. Kelly has collaborated with researchers across the Southeast to examine food insecurity among college students and is the co-editor of Food and Poverty: Food Insecurity and Food Sovereignty among America’s Poor. She enjoys working with students and community partners on community-based research projects, an approach highlighted in her more recent co-edited volume, the Routledge International Handbook of Public Sociology.

She has also served as a fellow and research affiliate of the Rural Policy Research Institute’s Rural Poverty Center, which supported her work on rural low-income mothers’ efforts to attain and maintain paid employment. As a graduate student at Michigan State University, Dr. Kelly worked as a research assistant on Rural Families Speak, a multi-state longitudinal project focused on the well-being of rural low-income families.