Dr. Corra is currently Associate Professor of Sociology at East Carolina University.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina in 2002 and served as instructor of sociology there for a year (2002-03). He has been a member of the ECU faculty since the fall of 2003.

Dr. Corra’s work has generally focused on three related areas of interests: sociological social psychology (focusing on power and status structures and small group processes), race, ethnic, gender and class inequalities (broadly defined) and their intersections, and the racial/ethnic context within which transnational migration occurs. Within these broad intellectual orientations, Dr. Corra’s research focuses on using theoretically grounded research (where theory guides research and research tests theory) to understand fundamental social processes like power and status dynamics in groups. He currently teaches introductory sociology, principles of sociology, racial and cultural minorities, social inequality, and small group processes. He teaches both face-to-face and online courses.

Dr. Corra has published in several peer-reviewed scholarly journals, including Sociological Theory, Sociological Perspectives, the Canadian Journal of Sociology, Social Science Quarterly, Journal of Family Issues, and Ethnic and Migration Studies. He has also presented his research at several professional conferences, including those sponsored by the American Sociological Association, the Southern Sociological Society, and the Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences. He is currently studying racial, ethnic and gender dynamics in bargaining and exchange and collaborating with colleagues on work assessing trends in racial attitudes in the United States. He has received both internal and external funding for his research, including support from the National Science Foundation.