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Kalasia Ojeh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political, Social and Cultural Sciences at Kean University, where she teaches Methods of Social Research, American Ethnic and Racial Groups, and Statistics. As a Black sociologist and scholar-activist, her work challenges race-neutral ideologies in sociology through centering theories developed by and for people of African descent.
She holds a PhD from the University of Cincinnati, an MA from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a BA from Franklin & Marshall College. Her research focuses on sociology of race and racism, status attainment, and the historiography of Black scholarship within sociological canon.
Dr. Ojeh's current book project, A (Re)Introduction to Du Bois (co-authored with Earl Wright II), establishes Du Boisian Sociology as the study of race-centered social patterns impacting societal structure. Her publications analyze the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory's pragmatic methodologies and contrast early Black sociological contributions with mainstream journals like the American Journal of Sociology.
Her recent work trends emphasize reclaiming Black intellectual heritage in sociology, examining race as a social construction, and critiquing exclusionary practices in academic historiography through historical comparative analysis and theoretical reclamation.
