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Angel Adams Parham is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, serving as Associate Director of the Program of Political and Social Thought and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. She holds a B.A. in Sociology from Yale University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on historical sociology, particularly the transformation of race and racialization in New Orleans, and she actively engages in public-facing scholarship to integrate Black writers and history into K-12 education.
- Education:
- B.A., Sociology, Yale University
- M.S. and Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Her research interests include comparative-historical sociology of race, social history, and the intersection of race, memory, and civic life. Her book American Routes: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race (2017) received multiple prestigious awards. She is currently working on a manuscript titled Reckoning and Reconciliation: On Race and Memory in Civic Life.
Parham co-founded Nyansa Classical Community to provide curricula fostering moral imagination and critical thinking. She serves on editorial boards for Cambridge Studies in Historical Sociology and the forthcoming Principia: A Journal of Classical Education.
- Awards:
- Allan Sharlin Memorial Book Award (2018)
- Barrington Moore Book Award (2018)
- Thomas & Znaniecki Best Book Award Honorable Mention (2018)
