https://www.mary-collierwilks.com/home daily 1.0 2025-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f56746157b115113802e9b6/1d237665-8c01-485d-be06-d9af61547b97/DSCF8991.jpg Home - I am currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. My research centers meaning-making and power dynamics in international organizations. I am particularly interested in how international development and foreign aid are encountered in people’s everyday lives, and the meanings, divisions, and struggles that arise from such encounters. I am a former Fulbright Scholar, Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow, and I’ve received grants from the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the America-Japan Society, and the Center for Khmer Studies. I recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. My work is published in Social Problems, Gender & Society, Socio-Economic Review, Sociology of Development, Gender, Work, & Organization, and Contexts. My first peer reviewed journal article, “Activist, Entrepreneur, or Caretaker?: Negotiating Varieties of Women in Development” won the ASA Section on Sex & Gender’s Sally Hacker Best Graduate Student Paper Award in 2019. My most recent article, “The Logic of Patronage: Relational Work in Cambodian International Nongovernmental Organizations” won the ASA’s Granovetter Award for Best Article in Economic Sociology in 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f56746157b115113802e9b6/979374ba-3f8c-4483-a04e-3ca86b8c2f73/Screenshot+2025-08-06+at+12.44.57%E2%80%AFPM.png https://www.mary-collierwilks.com/publications daily 0.75 2024-09-08 https://www.mary-collierwilks.com/teaching daily 0.75 2024-09-08 https://www.mary-collierwilks.com/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2024-09-08