Candace May began our graduate program in Fall, 2004, and hit the ground running. She finished her M.A. in two years and did such a quality M.A. thesis that she was able to publish an article from it [May, C.K. 2008. "Drug Courts: A Social Capital Perspective." Sociological Inquiry. 78(4):513-35]. She completed our program in 2006 and then joined the PhD program at Colorado State University (CSU) that Fall. She completed her dissertation, "Visibility, Legitimacy, and Power: A North Carolina Fishing Community and Governance of the Commons," in August 2011. She has worked as a research assistant on a K-12 science education enhancement project funded by the National Science Foundation as well as for the International Food Policy Research Institute under contract for the production of two papers on violent conflict and natural resources. She also was a sociology instructor at CSU and served as a sabbatical-replacement instructor for our department in Spring 2013. She now has a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Child and Family Studies at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. In addition to teaching, she is conducting research on coastal restoration in the Gulf following the BP disaster, with a focus on how the disaster affected local livelihoods.
