Dr. Paul Luebke

Author of ‘Tar Heel Politics’ to Speak at Lenoir-Rhyne

Dr. Paul Luebke, associate professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and author of the book “Tar Heel Politics,” will speak at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 1 at Lenoir-Rhyne’s Belk Centrum, located at 628 7^th Ave. Place, N.E.

Luebke is also a member of the N.C. House. He will speak on the topic “Enduring Themes in N.C. Politics.” The talk is free and open to the public. Luebke’s speech is being held in conjunction with the development of a new honor society on campus, Pi Gamma Mu, the International Honorary Society of the Social Sciences.

Luebke earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1975 and was a graduate student at the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. He received a bachelor’s degree from Valparaiso University in 1966, and also studied at Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey.

Luebke has served in the N.C. House, representing District 30 in Durham, from 1991 to the present. He has been a member of the UNC-G faculty since 1982. Luebke has also taught at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and at Tougaloo College in Mississippi.

He first published the book “Tar Heel Politics: Myths and Realities” in 1990. An updated edition, “Tar Heel Politics 2000,” was published in 1998.

He has been a member of the N.C. Partnership for Children since 1993 and formerly served on the N.C. Rail Council. In 1994, he was named Scholar-Activist of the Year by the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. He is married and has two children.

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