Interim Director and Associate Director, Honors Program
Amy D'Unger serves as the Interim Director and Associate Director for the Honors Program. Amy holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Sociology and a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies from Duke University, and B.A.s in English and Sociology from the College of William and Mary. She joined the Honors Program as Associate Director in 2022 and previously served as the Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies in the School of History and Sociology in Ivan Allen College at Georgia Tech.
As Associate Director of the Honors Program (HP), Dr. D'Unger collaborates in leading the HP, its current operations and future development. She is charged with planning the HP curriculum, conducting program assessment, supervising the HP staff and planning the budget, providing academic advising to HP students, and managing all communications and development efforts. She also serves as the chief liaison to HP faculty and to units across campus that support the HP, including the Registrar's Office, Office of Undergraduate Admission, and Office of Housing and Residence Life.
Dr. D'Unger has been recognized for excellence in academic advising by both Georgia Tech and the National Academic Advising Association, and has won teaching awards from both the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and Georgia Tech. She is the past chair of the Division on Women and Crime of the American Society of Criminology and has published in such journals as the American Journal of Sociology, the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and the Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice on topics such as criminal careers, gender and offending, and feminist criminological theory. Her current research focuses on involuntary sterilization in Georgia from 1937 - 1970.