Contact: Harriet Laird

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Greg Dunaway, Mississippi State’s dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named to the same position in West Virginia University’s Eberly College of Arts and Sciences.

Effective March 31, 2016, Dunaway will lead WVU’s largest college, employing more than 435 faculty and offering 36 undergraduate majors and 32 graduate programs.

Prior to his 2013 appointment as dean of MSU’s College of Arts and Sciences, Dunaway was this unit’s associate dean from 2011-2012. As dean, he oversaw 23 academic programs in 14 departments.

Former head of the university’s sociology department and Thomas Bailey Professor of Sociology, he was a developer of the state’s only criminology degree program.

He also served MSU as a research fellow in the Social Science Research Center. His research focus areas at MSU have centered around the examination of social factors associated with crime and delinquency; trends, inequality, and crime and justice; and criminal justice policy.

Dunaway holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Loyola University in Baltimore, Maryland, and a master’s and doctoral degree in the same field from the University of Cincinnati.